Here I am, pleased that I have a much better database than I had previously. I’ve removed a load of silly guesswork on where records should be. I’ve fixed a plain wrong pair from Mike’s Collection. I still need to add all the new ones I’ve found, assuming they are real, to really get all …
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In the last post I’d extracted 1720 unique catalogue numbers from the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and pasted them into Excel. As well as deduplicating the list I ran quick sort to begin the process of matching up what was in the catalogue with what I had in my list. Spot D Mistake I …
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Welcome to the third part of the third, well, part of Discographic Workshop. We’re still knee-deep in Doctor Who and this post is about the non-musical releases on the BBC Enterprises record labels. We’re starting with Doctor Who Sound Effects, of course, and there’s a story disc too – Genesis of The Daleks. Dick Mills …
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Death Is Not The End Two years ago I wrote a long post about BBC Records’ sound effects albums, and no.13 in particular. I wanted to put Death & Horror Sound Effects in context as well as telling as much of its story as I could. Now, here’s another long post about Death and Horror. …
After a brief introduction to Regular Expressions last time it’s time to actually scan the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and turn it into a text file. Happily, I had already photographed this whole thing in early 2022. That taught me that the OCR task was not at all easy and I put it to …
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What does this mean to you? The EC and NH are prefixes for Sound Effects Centre catalogue numbers, so that’s a clue. The capital letters are a complete alphabet minus the letters I and O, which is another. Expressed Purpose This is a regular expression. You don’t come across them in everyday programmes like MS …
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Here’s a case study on a BBC Sound Effects record that’s on Discogs with an interesting* note. This is EC 19F, Motor Car: Ford Cortina 1600. https://www.discogs.com/release/7598199-No-Artist-Motor-Car-Ford-Cortina-1600 My interest is aroused by this note about a note. “Notes on paper sleeve from pressing plant which state “PU58, JOB 27422, 150 pressings, 4-3-75” Field recordings made …
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Late on in the collating (see previous post) I noticed these two copies of EC 91C – English Church Bells – had different matrix numbers. And I had to sit down to absorb this information. I was rocked back on my heels by this because it means an assumption I had about dating these records …
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The SFX 7” adventure has been on hiatus. I was making steady progress on the automatic cropping of the labels, but hit a bit of a wall with the many things I needed to do basically daunting me a bit, whereupon I lost momentum. Then I got busy on other things and I’ve been needing …
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But I Digress… Discursive Workshop is a spin-off series of blog posts from the main Discographic Workshop series. Discographic refers to discs released with Radiophonic Workshop material and the Discursive series refers to non-disc material that wasn’t released as such. It’s really a place where I can let fly with any other ephemera or just …
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