Released 1968 Length 47:29 Release date 1968 Genre Electronic music | Recorded 1962–1968 Artist BBC Radiophonic Workshop Label BBC Records | |
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BBC Radiophonic Music Fourth Dimension
(1973) Producers John Baker, David Cain, Delia Derbyshire Similar BBC Radiophonic Workshop albums, Electronic music albums | ||
BBC Radiophonic Music was the first compilation of music released by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It featured music by three of the Workshop's most prominent composers, John Baker, David Cain, and Delia Derbyshire. The album was originally released by BBC Radio Enterprises in 1968 to coincide with the Workshop's 10th anniversary and later re-relesed in 1971 on the new BBC Records label.
In 2002, the compilation was remastered by Mark Ayres, and re-released with two bonus Derbyshire songs; the original composition "Time to Go" and her version of "Happy Birthday". For the 2003 release of Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the 2002 remasters of this compilation were combined with Ayres' 2002 remasters of the 1975 compilation The Radiophonic Workshop, and the entire set was resequenced.
The music on BBC Radiophonic Music varied between incidental music and signature tunes, which had been used by various BBC programmes, as well as some radio jingles. The selection demonstrated many of the methods used by the composers at the Radiophonic Workshop, including musique concrète tape editing and their use of primitive early electronic oscillators. It featured mostly original compositions, except for Baker's arrangements of the traditional "Boys and Girls" and "The Frogs Wooing", and Derbyshire's version of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Air".
Songs
1Radio Sheffield0:42
2Radio Nottingham1:21
3Boys and Girls1:02