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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

BBC Radiophonic Music (2022 repress)

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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, D...
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Fourth Dimension (2020 reissue)

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Paddy Kingsland was the first Radiophonic composer to see a solo release of his compositions, although he is not credited on the sleeve.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

THE RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP (2019 reissue)

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After the release of ‘BBC Radiophonic Music’ (1971), and ‘Fourth Dimension’ (1973), ‘The Radiophonic Workshop’ was the third...
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21 (2016 reissue)

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crucial pieces of sound experimentation history are on this disc – this is a veritable compendium of the weird and the wonderful that’ll make you no...
Through A Glass Darkly (Peter Howell) (2020 reissue)

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Through A Glass Darkly (Peter Howell) (2020 reissue)

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Peter Howell joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1974, coming from a career in various psychedelic folk bands, which saw him record five albums with fellow musician John Ferdinando.

He composed his first Doctor Who output in ’75 in the form of some incidental music for “Revenge of the Cybermen” and special sound for “Planet of Evil”. In 1980, he was asked by the programme’s then new producer, John Nathan-Turner, to update the iconic Doctor Who theme. The new arrangement appeared on that year’s “The Leisure Hive”, continuing to be used through Tom Baker’s remaining series as the Doctor and throughout Peter Davison’s. It was replaced during Colin Baker’s tenure in 1986 with a new version by Dominic Glynn. “Through A Glass Darkly” was released in 1978 as a standalone studio album by Howell in collaboration with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The six original instrumental compositions (one of which is 19 minutes long) flaunt a prog rock influence as well as the distinctive electronic sound of the RWS. “The Astronauts” (track 5, side 2) appeared again as a B side to the 1980 single release of his version of the Doctor Who theme.