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 This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.
I've just bought some brand new Alessandro headphones and I'm road testing 'em on this new CD on Trunk called 'The John Baker Tapes Volume One'. In case you didn't know John Baker was one third of the Radiophonic Workshop who are about the most revered electronic pioneers these days bar modern munters like Aphex Twin and Autechre. Certainly for the time Delia and co cut the electronic mustard with the futuristic sword of knob twiddling. Have you heard that experimental Delia Derbyshire dance track they've just discovered? Nuts.... Enough of that. Here's 49 tracks of BBC Themes, idents, and incidental recordings that have never been issued before (and some of them were thought to be lost!). Anyone at all into electronic music is gonna want this. You'll recognise some of these tunes (if you're old enough) as they'll have seeped into your consciousness so when you hear this for the 1st time you'll feel like you've already heard it. There's some weird dark paranoia on this.... some light bubbly 'Ghost box' style hauntology which bleeps and bloops along all nostalgically, some cheese, TV themes. pioneering electronics (think of when they were created....) and it all wraps up together to become a rather essential package. Big informative booklet inside as well so you can max geek out. Volume 2 is due in a month and there is going to be a vinyl release compiling some of tracks from each volume. The first time I heard this I fell in love with it and I reckon yous lot will as well. Brilliant!!
What the label says:
Firstly we think it’s important to note this is not a reissue, as about 90% of this rare material has not been released until now. This groundbreaking release also represent the first major retrospective of any BBC Radiophonic composer.
Coincidentally it is 50 years since the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop was started. By the early 1960s John Baker has become permanent Radiophonic staff, and one third of the holy trinity of composers (the other two being Delia Derbyshire and David Cain) working there throughout the golden 1960s and early 1970s.
The 49 cues on Volume One of this set represent the major body of important work he produced there, and most tracks until now have remained unissued. Together these tracks give an incredible, diverse and magical insight into the man and his methods of working.
Rare archive recordings here reveal his production techniques and highlight his innovative trademark sounds and humour. We have jingles, themes, stings, soundtracks and soundscapes from a wide variety of BBC TV, radio and
public information broadcasts as well as exceptionally rare cues from Radiophonic non-broadcast commissions.
Highlights for us include the proto techno opening for Dial M For Murder, the electro jazz intensities of Vendetta and the revealing Woman’s Hour Reading Your Letters archive interview. All classic stuff.
PACKAGING INFO: CD with 12 page colour booklet, complete with exceptionally rare personal photos, Workshop archive shots and more..
This is Volume 1 of a 2 CD set. Volume 2 follows in one month and brings to collectors more lost John Baker work, his soundtracks, electro adverts, insane library music and a whole lot more. A further 39 tracks in fact, the pair of CDs completing the first ever major retrospective of a Radiophonic composer. |
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