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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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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Specially Created Commission Impossibles From time to time the BBC Sound Effects Centre (SEC) would commission sound effects for their ever-growing catalogue from their colleagues, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (RWS). In most cases, these were sounds it was not possible to capture in or outside a studio. The weather was a prime target. Being naturally …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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