''BBC Radiophonic Music'' is the first compilation of music released by the
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television. The unit is known for its experimental and pioneering work in electroni ...
. It featured music by three of the Workshop's most prominent composers,
John Baker,
David Cain, and
Delia Derbyshire
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme ...
. The album was originally released by BBC Radio Enterprises in 1968 to coincide with the Workshop's tenth anniversary and later re-released in 1971 on the
BBC Records
BBC Records was a division of the BBC founded in 1967 to commercially exploit the corporation's output for radio and television for both educational and domestic use. The division was known as BBC Radio Enterprises (1967–1970), BBC Records ( ...
label.
In 2002, the compilation was remastered by
Mark Ayres
Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer.
Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987. As a television composer, he became known for providi ...
, and re-released with two bonus Derbyshire songs; the original composition "Time to Go" and her version of "
Happy Birthday". For the 2003 release of ''
Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop'', the 2002 remasters of this compilation were combined with Ayres' 2002 remasters of the 1975 compilation ''
The Radiophonic Workshop
''The Radiophonic Workshop'' is a 1975 compilation album by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, similar in concept to the earlier '' BBC Radiophonic Music'' of 1968. The album featured a variety of work demonstrating many of the various techniques the ...
'', and the entire set was resequenced.
The music on ''BBC Radiophonic Music'' varied between incidental music and signature tunes, which had been used by various
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. The selection demonstrated many of the methods used by the composers at the Radiophonic Workshop, including
s. It featured mostly original compositions, except for Baker's arrangements of the traditional "Boys and Girls" and "The Frogs Wooing", and Derbyshire's version of
exclusive 6-CD box set ''Four Albums 1968 - 1978''.