Selection Box – The Sleeve Notes Although I’ve been keeping a review of BBC Christmas releases updated here, I haven’t covered all the bits and bobs I included in the Selection Box mix. I’ve also noticed that Mixcloud has stopped showing the tracklist before you listen, which makes it hard to see what’s in store. …
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Discographic Workshop Part 3B – The World of Doctor Who
Introduction This second part of a review of releases related to Doctor Who (DW) at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (RWS) on the BBC Records label is all (and I do mean “all”) about probably the most obscure release in that category. ‘The World of Doctor Who’ is on the flip-side of another obscurity, rendering it …
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An Error of Catalogues
Although it mostly settled down in the 1970s, the early days of BBC Radio Enterprises releases are remarkable for the erratic and confusing way in which they numbered their releases. Esoteric, arcane and of minimal value to all but a devoted few, I have, nevertheless, gone to the trouble of working out what the ‘H.A.T. …
Discographic Workshop Part 3A – Doctor Who Theme (RESL 11)
Doctor Who We (ahem) materialise into the third part (and half-way point) of a thorough review of all the BBC Records (& Tapes) releases featuring the Radiophonic Workshop. Previous parts have taken an in-depth look at the compilation albums and the solo LPs. This part is all about the Workshop’s many dealings with The Doctor …
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Discographic Workshop Part 2C – More Solo Albums
Welcome to the third and final post in Part 2 of Discographic Workshop, which is dedicated to the solo albums of the Radiophonic Workshop. And, for want of a better place to put it, there’s also our first single. Through A Glass Darkly “When you’re working from scratch there’s nothing’s worse than having the whole …
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BBC Records Christmas Selection Box (of Delights)
Before I start, I must make you aware that there is already a run-down of Christmas related BBC Records available from the estimable Tim Worthington http://timworthington.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/christmas-with-bbc-records-and-tapes.html Tim’s book of BBC Records’ singles ‘Top of the Box‘ is essential reading and he is working on a follow-up covering of all the LPs! However, Tim’s review was …
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Discographic Workshop Part 2B – Fourth Dimension
John Baker and Paddy Kingsland getting to grips with the Delaware The Space Between Blog Posts Take Another Listen Play Your Test Cards, Right? Test Card Tricks Test Card Monte (or Find The Girl On The Test Card) Jack, Queen, King(sland) Playing The Last Hand Into The Fourth Dimension Hot Potato The Baker’s Apprentice The …
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Discographic Workshop Part 2 A – Solo Albums
Part 2A Welcome to part 2 of an exhausting exhaustive review of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s releases on the BBC Enterprises vinyl and cassette labels. Part 2 covers solo LPs and I’ve included some production credits here too. Well, they had to go somewhere. This is Part 2 ‘A’ because it became too long to …
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Discographic Workshop Part 1 – Radiophonic Compilations
Introduction BBC Radiophonic Music The Radiophonic Workshop BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21 The Soundhouse Coda Sources Introduction – Leader tape If you hunt around the UK’s second-hand retailers looking for interesting old records, what do you hope will turn up? If you’ve been at it for a while you will probably have a long list of …
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Run-in groove
Welcome, to the revamped blog. There used to be some tedious stuff about JavaScript and PHP here. Pretty soon I will start adding posts about the Radiophonic Workshop’s appearances on the BBC labels. These posts are a series I’m calling Discographic Workshop. Maybe I’ll keep that title for other posts. What comes after that? I …