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The reissue of the 1968 BBC Radiophonic Workshop's hugely influential 10th anniversary album, featuring remastered early electronic works of John Baker, David Cain and Delia Derbyshire. Widely regarded as a major influence on the development of electronic music worldwide, BBC Radiophonic Music is a compilation of short works, often composed as intros to various radio or television programs. Conceived in a time when analogue sampling meant hours of slicing tape with razor blades, BBC Radiophonic Music is brimming with zippy themes, unsettling atmospherics, riffs, loops, clicks and beeps. Insanely catchy yet deeply sinister, this is 'collage music', produced, according to Desmond Briscoe of BBC Radiophonic Workshop, "with the intention of entertaining rather than informing".

This is an essential album for analogue and TV theme obsessives, and anyone with an interest in contemporary electronica; mysterious, eccentric and celestial, it is a celebration of one of the UK's most treasured and unique institutions.

Radio Sheffield - David Cain
Radio Nottingham - John Baker
Boys and Girls - John Baker
Mattachin - Delia Derbyshire
Pot Au Feu - Delia Derbyshire
Time and Tune - John Baker
Tomorrow's World - John Baker
Reading Your Letters - John Baker
Blue Veils and Golden Sands - Delia Derbyshire
The Missing Jewel - John Baker
Artbeat - David Cain
Fresh Start - John Baker
Christmas Commercial - John Baker
Sea Sports - John Baker
The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire
The Frogs Wooing - John Baker
Milky Way - John Baker
Structures - John Baker
New Worlds - John Baker
Ziwzih Ziwzih Oo-Oo-Oo - Delia Derbyshire
Festival Time - John Baker
The Chase - John Baker
Towards Tomorrow - Delia Derbyshire
Quiz Time - John Baker
P.I.G.S. - John Baker
Autumn and Winter - David Cain
Door to Door - Delia Derbyshire
Factors - John Baker
War of the Worlds - David Cain
Crossbeat - David Cain
Air - Delia Derbyshire