Tag: BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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Happy Birthday Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Radiophonic Workshop is 60 today, and the remaining members of the Workshop have posted this video to celebrate. It features a new track by Paddy Kingsland calles Radiophonic, and comes with some news – the back catalogue will be re-released on vinyl and CD, and a 60th box set with unreleased music. And, most…
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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reaches 40
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet where on 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th March 1978 a radio program went…
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RIP Dudley Simpson
A message on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop facebook group sadly told me that composer Dudley Simpson died over the weekend. He was mostly famous for providing music for Doctor Who and the theme music for Tomorrow’s People, but also theme music for Ascent of Man and Blake’s 7. He was 95, a good innings, but…
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Russian Electronics – ANS
A random comment about KLF’s Space using some music from Solaris lead me to this, Musical Offering which is an album of Russian electronica circa 1971. Created on a machine called the ANS (Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin) synthesiser created by Evgeny Murzin, a photo-electric machine but sounds way before it’s time (apparently created between 1937 and…
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Radiophonic Podcasts
Here are a couple of Radiophonic podcasts/mixes I’ve been listening to – first is Attic Podcast #6 which they recently reposted, which is a good introduction with tracks from Maddalena Fagandini, Daphne Oram, John Baker and of course Delia Derbyshire all the way through to Glynis Jones, Malcolm Clarke, Peter Howell and Elizabeth Parker. As…
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BBC Records mix & Vendetta Tapes
It’s been a Radiophonic sort of day, courtesy of Ian Fondue – starting with listening to John Baker’s Vendetta Tapes – it took me a long time to get around to this. I especially like Orbit and Lively Mind which I’ve never heard before, and bought again the COI Pavillion and Man Alive UFO cue…