Open Your Mind
U.S.U.R.A.
1993
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
Genre
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A first-release date was not established in the available metadata.
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About U.S.U.R.A.
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
U.S.U.R.A. was an Italian electronic dance project associated with Time Records and producers Walter Cremonini and Alessandro Gilardi. The label places it within the early success of its Italian Style imprint. Open Your Mind combined a sampled film phrase with elements of Simple Minds' New Gold Dream, becoming the project's best-known recording.
Artist background sources
Usura - NTS artist biography
Read attributed Italian project biography and Open Your Mind sample construction. Unrelated track-list items on the page are not used. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Time Records - official label history
Read Italian Style history explicitly naming U.S.U.R.A. among the imprint's early successes. This is not A+ or the unrelated Usura act. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Open Your Mind by U.S.U.R.A. is included for 1993 on the basis of the cited chart-associated source. This establishes the annual connection, not the circumstances in which the song was written. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
UK top-ten singles in 1993 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
Other appearances and versions
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Not classified - no adequate editorial basis in this pass
UK top-ten singles in 1993 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
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