BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21 (1979 BBC Import Vinyl LP Clean Playtested REC 354)

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IMPORT (UK)

STEREO & MONO TRACKS

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Album Title: BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21

Featuring: Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb, Richard Yeoman-Clark, Peter Howell, Malcolm Clarke, Desmond Briscoe, Dick Mills, Jimmy Burnett, Phil Young, Maddalena Fagandini, Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, John Baker, Tony Askew, Deith Salmon, Dudley Simpson

Catalogue Number: REC 354

Year/Record Company: 1979 BBC Records

1 LP – Stereo & Mono - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This import LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: excellent

Shine: almost all

Scratches: a few feather

Label Wear: minimal (completely readable)                                                                                      

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: very light

LP Sound: near mint (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: very minimal

Jacket Condition: very good+ (glossy, completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: very light (no splits, no tape, spine is completely readable)

Back Ring Wear: minimal

Front Ring Wear: very light

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: none

Sleeve Type: blank sleeve

Sleeve Wear: very light

Cover: Chris Hopper, Jack Levy

Liner Notes

The Radiophonic Workshop in the early days was less often asked to provide pieces to stand on their own than to create atmosphere and sounds to be incorporated into complete productions.  The work was undertaken on very primitive equipment and with a multifarious selection of sound sources including an old piano frame, a water cistern, an enormous selection of bottles, just about anything that would make an interesting noise.  In those days there were no synthesizers or multi-track machines.  Tape manipulation and editing were the main techniques used and several layers of sound could only be created by recording each one on a different tape and playing them all together, all the while hoping that the tape machines would stay n synchronization.

The people involved ensured that the Department not only survived but grew in size and reputation, each generation of composers building on the work of those who had left, and each adding their unique creative contribution…

Brian Hodgson of the Radiophonic Workshop

Side One (mono):

Covers the period from 1958-1971, all tracks are Mono and as far as possible are copies of the original masters.  We have resisted the temptation to clean up tracks, so they exist in their original form – tape hiss, crackles, warts and all – and the listener should be able to detect a quality change over the first side as equipment was gradually improved (starting about 1962) as high quality tape recorders came into use a the Workshop.

Desmond Briscoe - "Quatermass and the Pit"

Dick Mills - "Major Bloodnock's Stomach" (from The Goon Show)

Desmond Briscoe - "Outside"

Phil Young - "Science and Industry"

Phil Young - "The Artist Speaks"

Phil Young - "The Splendour That Was Rome"

Maddalena Fagandini - "Interval Signal"

Desmond Briscoe - "Phra The Phoenician"

Desmond Briscoe - "Stick Up"

Maddalena Fagandini - "Interval Signal" (reworked as "Time Beat")

Maddalena Fagandini - "Ideal Home Exhibition"

Delia Derbyshire - "Time On Our Hands"

Delia Derbyshire - "Arabic Science and Industry"

Maddalena Fagandini - "The Chem Lab Mystery"

Delia Derbyshire - "Know Your Car"

Delia Derbyshire - "Doctor Who"

Brian Hodgson - "TARDIS"

John Baker - "Choice"

John Baker - "Hardluck Hall"

Delia Derbyshire - "Talk Out"

Delia Derbyshire - "Science and Health"

Tony Askew - "Secrets of the Chasm"

Keith Salmon - "Westminster At Work"

Delia Derbyshire - "A New View Of Politics"

Delia Derbyshire - "Environmental Studies"

Delia Derbyshire - "Chronicle"

Delia Derbyshire - "Great Zoos of the World"

Dudley Simpson - "Minds Of Evil" (from "The Mind of Evil")

Side Two (stereo):

A cross section of more recent material and shows how modern technology in the form of synthesizers and multi-track recorders has made a considerable difference both I the quality and the complexity of our work

Dick Mills - "Fanfare"

Paddy Kingsland - "Broken Biscuit Club"

Roger Limb - "The Plunderers"

Richard Yeoman-Clark - "Mysterioso" (from Blake's 7)

Peter Howell - "Greenwich Chorus"

Malcolm Clarke - "Hurdy Gurdy"

Dick Mills - "Martian March Past"

Paddy Kingsland - "A Whisper From Space"

Roger Limb - "Swirley"

Peter Howell - "Merry Go Round"

Malcolm Clarke - "BBC2 Serial"

Roger Limb - "Quirky"

Paddy Kingsland - "Newton"

Peter Howell - "The Secret War"

Dick Mills - "Thomas The Rhymer"

Malcolm Clarke - "Contact"

Roger Limb - "For Love Or Money"

BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21 is a compilation by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to celebrate their 21st anniversary in 1979. It was compiled as an overview of their work both old and new, showcasing the changes in the Workshop as they developed from backroom sound effects suppliers for BBC Radio to full-fledged in-house music composers for the whole of the corporation. It demonstrates the move from the musique concrète and tape-manipulation techniques used in the early days, to the synthesizer works of the 1970s. The first side of the album consisted of material from 1958 to 1971, covering their early work creating jingles, sound-effects and some incidental music. This side includes the first material by Workshop founder Desmond Briscoe to be commercially released, as well as sound effects from The Goon Show, Maddalena Fagandini's interval signal that later became "Time Beat", some of Delia Derbyshire's experimental work and the pilot episode version of the Doctor Who theme music. The second side of the record covered the period between 1971–1979, including Richard Yeoman-Clark material from popular BBC series Blake's 7 and Peter Howell's vocoder heavy "Greenwich Chorus" theme for The Body in Question. (source: Wikipedia)

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