Tag: David Cain
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RC 388: Autumn – Everything Must Go
We say hello and wave goodbye to summer, holidays and camping, Autumn is here and so we have a autumnal podcast about change and endings with mashups from virtual camping with PDS Mix’s Mashup Summer Camp, and actual camping with music and chat relating to Jaunt 4 where I was walking along the Jurassic Coast.…
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RC 311: The Crow Wished Every Thing Was Black / Hallowexit
“As the air to a bird of the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. The crow wish’d every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.” William Blake. From the dark satanic mills to Hallowexit B-Day, 25 years of Dog Man Star and the original nutters. Autumn leaves and…
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RIP David Cain
Sad to hear of the death yesterday of composer David Cain of BBC Radiophonic Workshop fame. Here’s October from his famous ‘The Seasons’ album with poetry from Ronald Duncan which you might have heard via Trunk Records or 6Music – especially Jarvis Cocker’s show who played every month on his show for a year.
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Petition to the BBC to release Delia Derbyshire’s music
Amazing that Delia Derbyshire’s music has been hidden away for so long…her work has had the odd compilation appearance but unlike the others in the Radiophonic Workshop she’s never had officially an album of her own, a box set or ‘best of’ of her massive back catalogue. She’s arguably the most famous Radiophonic workshop via…
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RC 189: Shuffle Little Children feat DJ Charles IV
(image created in part by Data Bending – like Circuit Bending or Data Moshing but taking the data of an image file and hacking it about to create interesting errors 😉 Time to let the machines run the show, so this is DJ Charles IV (my iPod) choosing the playlist for this show, with a…
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Radiophonic Month at 3 blogs (Amor Dei found)
Three blogs, ‘Toys and Techniques’, ‘A Sound Awareness’ and Unman-Wittering devoted the whole of May as ‘Radiophonic Month‘ and have been posting all kinds of Radiophonic extremely rare gems such as the David Cain Seasons album that Jarvis Cocker has been err ‘rinsing’ on his excellent 6Music show and more importantly for me Amor Dei…