After having read the AMM thread a few lines down, I felt compelled to put in a word for this lot, too. I bought the first "BBC Radiophonic Music" compilation a few days ago, and it's thoroughly innovative, bloopy and - most endearingly of all - playful stuff. Many of the tracks are very short miniatures recorded for local radio in the 60s, and they have a similar "Clangers-on-a-toy-planet" (thank you, JC) feel to Dieter Moebius's contributions to Cluster's "Zuckerzeit". Meanwhile, the longer, more spaced out tracks - mainly written by Delia Derbyshire - eerily foreshadow early Tangerine Dream.
There is also, apparently, a second compo of stuff recorded in the 70s, but expert opinion (i.e. the Wire) reckons it's not as good. Anyone heard it?
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