Just heard this excellent introduction to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with a few rare tracks I’d not even heard via Other Side Of The Tracks from pirate radio station Free Radio Santa Cruz. It came around randomly while I was ripping my copy of the Four Albums from The Radiophonic Workshop – yes I succumbed, can’t really afford it but I’ve had these albums mostly on dodgy vinyl rip forever – and in the case of The Changes and Stone Tape I’ve never heard before outside the TV broadcasts.
Anyway I’m liking these radio shows which you can download via Archive.org – I wish I’d heard the folk horror one, it’s like looking in a dark mirror before we did ours and my Wicker Man shows, but I think we had some modern hauntology choices that weren’t in theirs and talked more about the films and music. But that’s the problem with that genre there is a very small pool of original works to feature. Thankfully Radiophonics has hundreds of undiscovered gems out there!
The giallo, 80’s dark electro – what we call disco noir here – and acid western shows look interesting too, as does the one featuring Švankmajer-soundtracking Czech composer Zdeněk Liška.
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