Description
The reissue of the 1968 BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s hugely influential 10th anniversary album, featuring
remastered early electronic works of John Baker, David Cain and Delia Derbyshire.
Widely regarded as a major influence on the development of electronic music worldwide, BBC Radiophonic Music is
a compilation of short works, often composed as intros to various radio or television programs. Conceived in a time
when analogue sampling meant hours of slicing tape with razor blades, BBC Radiophonic Music is brimming with
zippy themes, unsettling atmospherics, riffs, loops, clicks and beeps. Insanely catchy yet deeply sinister, this is
‘collage music’, produced, according to Desmond Briscoe of BBC Radiophonic Workshop, “with the intention of
entertaining rather than informing”.
This is an essential album for analogue and TV theme obsessives, and anyone with an interest in contemporary
electronica; mysterious, eccentric and celestial, it is a celebration of one of the UK's most treasured and unique
institutions.
Tracklist
Side A
- Radio Sheffield – David Cain
- Radio Nottingham – John Baker
- Boys and Girls – John Baker
- Mattachin – Delia Derbyshire
- Pot au Feu – Delia Derbyshire
- Time and Tune – John Baker
- Tomorrow’s World – John Baker
- Reading Your Letters – John Baker
- Blue Veils and Golden Sands – Delia Derbyshire
- The Missing Jewel – John Baker
- Artbeat – David Cain
- Fresh Start – John Baker
- Christmas Commercial – John Baker
- Sea Sports – John Baker
- The Delian Mode – Delia Derbyshire
Side B
- The Frogs Wooing – John Baker
- Milky Way – John Baker
- Structures – John Baker
- New Worlds – John Baker
- Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO – Delia Derbyshire
- Festival Time – John Baker
- The Chase – John Baker
- Towards Tomorrow – Delia Derbyshire
- Quiz Time – John Baker
- P.I.G.S. – John Baker
- Autumn and Winter – David Cain
- Door to Door – Delia Derbyshire
- Factors – John Baker
- War of the Worlds – David Cain
- Crossbeat – David Cain
- Air – Delia Derbyshire
