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BBC Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Radiophonic Music
Remastered from the original tapes onto 180gram audiophile vinyl! The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, set up in 1958, was originally created as a sound effects unit for BBC Radio and TV programs. Pioneering new forms of drama during the late 1950s and early 60s demanded innovative and original use of music and sound.The art of what became known as sounddesign began in the cramped undergroundstudiosof the Radiophonic Workshop at the BBC Maida Vale complex in London. Their early explorations into sound drew on the principles of musique concrete, early tape manipulation techniques and primitive oscillators and tone circuits built by technicians at the workshop. As technology developed and the synthesizer, tape technology, computers and early digital sampling emerged the Radiophonic Workshop maintained an their position at the leading edge of electronic music and sound design. The vast body of work that emerged between 1960 and 1997 has influenced generations of musicians both within electronica and more widely in the Rock, Progressive and Pop field. Groundbreaking work such as Delia’ Darbyshire’s 1963 Doctor Who Theme (still the high water mark of experimental music), sound effects albums, works of early electronica and popular favourites such as Blake’s 7 and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy have ensured the RWS a place at electronica’s top table. From the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Vangelis to Orbital, The Chemical Brothers and beyond, their legacy lives on in the sounds and textures of so much contemporary music. But it isn’t just musicians who have drawn on their work.
Music On Vinyl
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Four Albums 1968 - 1978 [RSD20]
This is an exclusive release for Record Store Day 2020 - Drop 1. Available online from 6:00pm on Saturday 29th August, strictly one per customer.
A special collection of the 4 main RWS CDs + 2 rare and collectable bonus discs one featuring the Stone Tape, the other features Changes.These have never been available on CD before! All 6 CD are in card wallets, and a booklet, all within a box. BBC Radiophonic Music is the first compilation of music released by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.It featured music by three of the Workshop's most prominent composers, John Baker, David Cain, and Delia Derbyshire.The album was originally released by BBC Radio Enterprises in 1968 to coincide with the Workshop's 10th anniversary, and later re-released in 1971 on the BBC Records label. -- Fourth Dimension is a 1973 BBC Records release featuring recordings created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Paddy Kingsland.Although it was credited to "The BBC Radiophonic Workshop" it was the work of Kingsland alone, and was the first album of Workshop music to feature only one artist.It features theme tunes used by BBC radio and television. -- The Radiophonic Workshop is a 1975 compilation album by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, similar in concept to the earlier BBC Radiophonic Music of 1971.The album featured a variety of work demonstrating many of the various techniques the Workshop used.Unlike its predecessor though, it was far more synthesiser orientated. -- Through A Glass Darkly is a 1978 album by Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.It featured six original instrumental compositions including "Through A Glass Darkly - A Lyrical Adventure", a 19-minute track which took up the whole of the first side of the record.Much of the music on the album leaned far more towards the prog rock of the 1970s than the previous output by the Radiophonic Workshop.
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RSD 2020
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