For an hour today I successfully unglued my eyes from multiple screens of live London Olympics streams to watch a documentary from Coca-Cola about the making of their Olympics song “Anywhere In The World” by producer/guitarist/DJ-wonderchild Mark Ronson and hip-hop/soul/pop/grime amalgam Katy B.

Coca-Cola is no stranger to capitalizing on a good worldwide sport competition – you might remember their utter takeover of the last World Cup with K’naan’s track “Wavin’ Flag.”

For their attempt this year, Coca-Cola + Ronson flew around the globe to record several Olympic hopefuls in the action of their sport – a boxer’s shouts as she kicks her opponent, an archer’s arrow as it thuds into the bullseye, a runner’s heartbeat as she speeds on the track, etc.  The recorded bits were then mixed with the typical Ronson synths and constructed into an instrumental for melody-maven Katy B to write over.

The resulting track – “Anywhere In The World” is a sonic assault about the universal language of sport + music.  Definitely worthy of the gold [sporting pun].

Check out the full documentary about the truly incredible process of recording the track:

Coke Olympics, ‘Beat 2012 Documentary’ from Somesuch & Co. on Vimeo.

– ANH