Digital Vomit Records

Check this out

especially the late-60's experimental 'dance' track

Awesome.

"Phil Hartnoll, former member of Orbital…" Say what? They broke up? Bummer! (Probably old news to you non-Yanks.)

I have to disagree with him, though; it's too cool for today's Warp. Now, 90's Warp, OK.

Old news indeed, Mitch. They broke up about four years ago.

I thought 90's Warp as well when I heard it.

ukd showed me that this morning. lovley peice - shows what a ground breaking lass she was.

Orbital played their final gig at gastonbury - twas ace.

That's what I get for being the only person I know offline who likes this kind of music.

very nice…..those old sounds make me wanna go dig up some wendy carlos, milton babbit and raymond scott…..

as for orbital, it's too bad their last two albums were total shit 'cause they were an amazing band both on disc and live, and it sorta soiled their legacy in my mind..

Huh, you mean The Altogether and the Blue Album? I really liked the Blue Album, and The Altogether was all right - probably their weakest, but still pleasant enough.

Now, you're speaking my language when you say Wendy Carlos. Sonic Seasonings is one of my all-time favorite albums - ambient music before the term even existed.

Love the fact that the "Dance track" sounds exactly like something that would have come out of Detroit in 1987. Awesome stuff. Sound On Sound had a great in depth technical article on the BBC Radiophonic workshop back in their April issue. You can read the first few bits of the article here. Annoyingly the full article isn't available for free online yet, but if you're interested in this kind of thing it's well worth picking up a back issue to read it, or paying the 99p for a PDF.

On a related note… Trunk Records have just issued two compilations of previously unreleases John Baker material, and as this is the man responsible for Radio Nottingham, this can only be good.

i want to marry delia derbyshire.

(even though i know she's dead)

But the teeth…

mmmm bite me, delia. ding dong.

But you'll get covered in………. brown.

Crassness aside, this is actually incredibly exciting news. Particularly if, as that BBC report suggests, that all the tapes are to be made publically available. I for one would happily purchase a Bach/Merzbow-style mega box-set… but I'd be even happier if they were given away for free online. As unlikely as that is.

Solypsis - get Orbital's Glastonbury album - it's essentially a best-of with crowd noises over the top, but it's also up there with Daft Punk's live albums, i.e. very very good.

Bump.

If there are any torrenters out there, the 2003 Victor Lewis-Smith-produced docu about the Radiophonic Workshop, Alchemists Of Sound, is now circulating at a much higher quality than the previously-available WMV file. It's a good 700mb, but it's an even better hour of television.

I'm trying to find an email address for David Butler now to find out what's going to happen to the tapes…