Tag: Electronic music
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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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Everybody in the Place
Not sure how long this will be up, but this is a great documentary on youth culture and the rave scene by artist Jeremy Deller. It’s not your usual documentary either, just showing some dancing people in an hanger and then clips of angry news reports – Jeremy is filmed doing a talk to a…
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The New Radiophonics
Look Mum No Computer is an Insane hybrid of 1990’s ‘Get Stuffed’ meets Thomas Dolby, BigClive and Secret Life of Machines Tim Hunkin* but with a more musical (circuit) bent. From the circuit bent electronic Wonder Wonder bible to the demented Furby Organ, lots of insane projects, but it’s his self-built modular synth that to…
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RC 302: Re:direction
302: A temporary (re)direction to a new Radio Clash! A very geeky rocking episode with new hiphop from Epic Beard Men and Pete Cannon & Dr Syntax, reggae from Koffee and Rankin Roger (RIP), a Kurt mashup and rocking out with Japanese idol groups and Metal Marble Madness, some heavenly tracks, classic sample funk and…
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Malcolm Clarke on the Radiophonic Workshop
Malcolm Clarke was a composer and engineer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composing the music for many Doctor Who series. Apparently he wrote about the Workshop and his career for a thesis on interactive CD format (remember them?) and his son Ollie with Ray White has wisely converted and adapted the format for the web…
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PSSU Fearless & Avery
Something that slipped out late last year, PSSU – Richard Fearless and man of the moment Daniel Avery – is some really tripped out techno, very deep and hypnotic. Reminds me of some of the classic bleep/hypnotic techno coming out of Warp and Detroit around 1990-1992. Interestingly the video for me also reminds of that…