Various Artists – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21

In 1958 the BBC Radiophonic Workshop opened with the aim to enhance in the main, drama output on the Third Programme (now Radio 3) following the development of new electronic music techniques emanating from Europe. Their work expanded across the BBC to take in TV drama (especially sci-fi), schools programmes and themes. The latter being their most celebrated and well known work, Delia Derbyshire’s treatment of Ron Grainer’s theme for Doctor Who. This collection, originally released by BBC Records in 1979 to celebrate 21 years of the workshop appears for the first time in its full original form on CD. From The Goons (Bloodnocks Stomach) to the Interval Signal to Doctor Who and Great Zoos Of The World this is a fascinating chronicle of some of the most innovative music ever made. These ground-breaking compositions providing a major influence on music from The Beatles and Pink Floyd and onwards into the contemporary world of Aphex Twin, Orbital and The Chemical Brothers. “The Radiophonic Workshop, I loved all that, it fascinated me, and still does”. – Paul McCartney.  Pre Order now from Silva Screen Records as a CD or MP3 download.  This record is out from April 22nd 2016

Track listing

CD Album (SILCD1503)
1. Desmond Briscoe – Quatermass & the Pit (Effects)
2. Dick Mills – Bloodnok’s Stomach
3. Desmond Briscoe – Outside
4. Phil Young – Science and Industry
5. Phil Young – The Artist Speaks
6. Phil Young – The Splendour That Was Rome
7. Maddalena Fagandini – Interval Signal
8. Desmond Briscoe – Phra the Phoenician
9. Desmond Briscoe – Full Circle – The Stick Up
10. Maddalena Fagandini – Time Beat
11. Maddalena Fagandini – Ideal Home Exhibition
12. Delia Derbyshire – Time On Our Hands
13. Delia Derbyshire – Arabic Science and Industry
14. Maddalena Fagandini – The Chem Lab Mystery
15. Delia Derbyshire – Know Your Car (Get Out and Get Under)
16. Delia Derbyshire – Dr. Who
17. Brian Hodgson – TARDIS
18. John Baker – Choice
19. John Baker – Hard Luck Hall
20. Delia Derbyshire – Talk Out
21. Delia Derbyshire – Science and Health
22. Tony Askew – Secrets of the Chasm
23. Keith Salmon – Westminster at Work
24. Delia Derbyshire – A New View of Politics
25. Delia Derbyshire – Environmental Studies
26. Delia Derbyshire – Chronicle
27. Delia Derbyshire – Great Zoos of the World
28. Dudley Simpson – Minds of Evil
29. Dick Mills – Fanfare
30. Paddy Kingsland – Broken Biscuit Club
31. Roger Limb – The Plunderers
32. Richard Yeoman-Clark – Mysterioso
33. Peter Howell – Greenwich Chorus
34. Malcolm Clarke – Hurdy Gurdy
35. Dick Mills – Martian March Past
36. Paddy Kingsland – A Whisper from Space
37. Roger Limb – Swirley
38. Peter Howell – Merry-Go-Round
39. Malcolm Clarke – BBC2 Serial
40. Roger Limb – Quirky
41. Paddy Kingsland – Newton
42. Peter Howell – The Secret War
43. Dick Mills – Thomas the Rhymer
44. Malcolm Clarke – Contact
45. Roger Limb – For Love or Money