John_Baker-The_John_Baker_Tapes_Vol.1_(Rare_and_Unreleased_Workshop_Recordings_1963-1974)-2008-BCC

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2008-08-31

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Artist  : John Baker
Title   : The John Baker Tapes Vol.1 (Rare & Unreleased
	  Workshop Recordings 1963-1974)	
Genre   : Electronic
Year    : 2008
Date    : 09/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 49
Label   : Trunk Records JBH028CD
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 72:23 min
Size    : 90,3 MB


Tracklist:
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01.newstime bbc 1+2                       00:24
02.tros y gareg (main theme)              02:50
03.tros y gareg (idents)                  00:22
04.20th century focus                     02:24
05.vendetta- the ice cream man-           01:19
06.woman's hour (reading your letters)    01:47
07.many a slip                            00:58
08.look and read                          00:37
09.building the bomb                      06:26
10.au printemps                           02:28
11.big ben news theme                     00:34
12.codename                               01:03
13.decimal currency                       00:21
14.barnacle bill                          00:21
15.dial m for murder                      02:26
16.farm management                        00:31
17.radio sheffiled (news idents)          00:45
18.french science and technology          00:40
19.good morning wales (idents)            00:37
20.heavy plant crossing                   00:59
21.coi technology pavilion                09:31
22.john baker interview - radio           02:34
nottingham
23.radio nottingham idents                00:35
24.look north- newstime                   00:50
25.man alive- ufo                         01:15
26.computers in business                  00:40
27.submarines                             01:59
28.oranges and lemons (radio london)      02:37
29.orbit                                  00:48
30.places for people                      00:47
31.sling your hook                        02:28
32.suivez la piste                        00:49
33.scene (never never)                    01:40
34.diary of a madman                      03:55
35.the two o'clock spot                   00:58
36.radio london- news idents              00:26
37.the caves of steel                     03:12
38.the locusts                            00:47
39.square two                             00:30
40.the tape recorder                      01:11
41.tom tom (theme)                        00:43
42.tom tom (idents)                       00:15
43.trial (opening theme)                  00:35
44.trial (closing theme)                  01:23
45.vendetta- the sugar man                02:02
46.spin off                               00:21
47.radiophonic fx c                       00:11
48.radiophonic fx a                       00:54
49.radiophonic fx b                       00:35
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                                          72:23 min



This week Manchester University announced that it is
in possession of over 250 reels of lost Delia Derbyshire
tapes.

So far they've ony released a handful of snippets, but
among them is a track from the late 60s that seems to
prove that the girl invented Techno 40 years ago - with
a cluster of blips and rhythms that would make Aphex
Twin blush.

It was further proof, if it were needed, of the legacy and
importance of the BBC Radiophonic workshop, the collection
of innovative souls who continue to define British electronic
music to this day. John Baker was at the Radiophonic
Workshop from the beginning and was one of the core
three composers who conceived the sounds we came
to know and love. Baker's work on Doctor Who is probably
best known, but this forty-nine track disc of previously
unreleased material delves deep into his career and has
been painstakingly put together by people that truly love his
work.

Alan Gubby was contacted by Baker's brother who had
discovered over thirty reels of tape, and on hearing that
they were likely to end up in a skip Gubby spent a year
fixing them up, digitising them and preparing them for
release.
Sooner or later he realised that the task was a little too
much for him to handle solo, so musical superhero Jonny
Trunk was called in and the rest, as they say, is history.
Co-incidentally the disc has hit on the fiftieth anniversary
of the Radiophonic Workshop, so it is a fitting celebration
and has been lovingly handled by Trunk as usual with
extensive liner notes and gorgeous artwork.

The techniques pioneered by these musicians are just
astonishing. On 'Womans Hour' we can hear Baker going
into his sound process as if it were something anyone
could do, talking through the creation of rhythms from
slowing down and chopping up the sound of cider being
poured out of a bottle. This use of sound crops up again
and again as Baker takes absolutely any sound available
to him and uses his extensive musical training (he was a
well respected jazz player) to re-frame these sounds as
musical compositions.

Where Derbyshire's music often focused on the character
of the sound itself, Baker had no problem in revealing his
classically-trained roots and the hooks and catchiness of
his jingles and themes are comparable to American early
-electronic pioneer Raymond Scott. Subtle stabs and pre
-synthesizer hiccups are crafted lovingly into wordless
nursery rhymes with the greatest of ease.

Apparently Baker was at his happiest at the Radiophonic
Workshop, after which he never wrote or performed another
note so this really as a rare treat. Utterly indispensable
music yet again from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- now we've just got to wait for Volume 2, and for those
Delia Tapes to get a public airing!

Essential purchase.

http://www.trunkrecords.com/

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