The Radiophonic Workshop has got to be one of the most wonderful of all the BBC's creations. Essentially, they locked a variety of nutcase jazz musicians and engineers in some dank underground office along with an assortment of random electronics and tape machines.Occasionally they would use the inevitably bizarre output as TV background music, sound effects or even theme tunes - the Dr Who theme being the most well known. They carried on happily until synthesisers and samplers got invented at which point they decided that making children cry had become too easy and called it a day.
There is far too much to say about them to fit it all in a blog so if you want to know more have a butchers at their wikipedia page or you can check out an awesome documentary called 'Alchemists of Sound' which I have taken the trouble to upload.
Well anyway, they are re-releasing what I assume is a greatest hits of the 'shop and they aren't fucking about either. Its a double CD with 68 tracks on disc 1 and 39 on disc 2 - blimey.
Its due for release on the 3rd of November and you can pre-order it now from amazon.
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