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Track listing

Side 1

Outer Space

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- "Sea of Mercury" # Peter Howell - "Galactic Travel" #

Brian Hodgson Brian Hodgson (born 1938) is a British television composer and sound technician. Born in Liverpool in 1938, Hodgson joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1962 where he became the original sound effects creator for the science fiction program ...

- "TARDIS take-off" #Brian Hodgson - "TARDIS land" #Dick Mills - "Space rocket take-off" #Dick Mills - "Space rocket land" #

Paddy Kingsland Paddy Kingsland (born 30 January 1947) is a composer of electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Educated at Eggar's Grammar Sch ...

- "Flying saucer land" #Paddy Kingsland - "Flying saucer take-off" #

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- "Flying saucer interior (constant run)" #Brian Hodgson - "Space ship control room atmosphere" #Brian Hodgson - "Space ship interior atmosphere" #Dick Mills - "Electric door open" #Dick Mills - "Electric door shut" #Brian Hodgson - "Laser gun, five bursts" #Brian Hodgson - "Computer" #Brian Hodgson - "Gravity generator" #

- "Time warp start, run, stop" # John Baker - "Venusian space lab." # Malcolm Clarke - "Andromedan war machine" #Dick Mills - "Space-battle"

Magic and Fantasy

Malcolm Clarke - "Dance of fire-flies" #

- "Dreaming" #Glynis Jones - "Crystal city" #Dick Mills - "Enchanted forest" #Malcolm Clarke - "Goblins lair" #Glynis Jones - "Magic carpet take-off" #Glynis Jones - "Magic carpet flight" #Glynis Jones - "Magic carpet land" #Brian Hodgson - "Magic flower grows and buds" #Roger Limb - "Magic beanstalk grows" #Dick Mills - "Star Fairies" #Malcolm Clarke - "Midsummer elves" #Malcolm Clarke - "Fairy appears" #Malcolm Clarke - "Fairy disappears" # David Cain - "Wizard flies off" #Malcolm Clarke - "Casting a spell" #Malcolm Clarke - "Magic mushroom" #Glynis Jones - "Magic bird song"

Side 2

Suspense and the Supernatural

#Delia Derbyshire - "Phantoms of darkness" #Dick Mills - "Uncanny expectation" #David Cain - "Spectres in the wind" #Malcolm Clarke - "Evil rises up" #Malcolm Clarke - "Threatening shadow" #Dick Mills - "Moments of terror" #Malcolm Clarke - "Passing shade" #Glynis Jones - "Psychic fears" #Glynis Jones - "Two terror twangs" #Glynis Jones - "Three terror bangs" #David Cain - "Terror zing" #Malcolm Clarke - "Terror glissando" #Malcolm Clarke - "'Thing' approaches" #Brian Hodgson - "Roaring monster" #Peter Howell - "Firespitting monster" #Dick Mills - "Nightmare forest" #Dick Mills - "Fiendish shrieks"

The Elements

Delia Derbyshire - "Heat haze" #Roger Limb - "Desert sands" #Delia Derbyshire - "Frozen waste" #Delia Derbyshire - "Icy peak" #David Cain - "Snow swirls" #Roger Limb - "Passing clouds" #Glynis Jones - "Starry skies" #John Baker - "Electric storm" #John Baker - "Watery depths" #John Baker - "Rising bubbles" #Glynis Jones - "Spring tide"

References

External links

mb21 Discography entry
* {{Authority control BBC Radiophonic Workshop albums 1976 albums BBC Records albums Sound effects albums