VENDETTA TAPES, by JOHN BAKER & THE BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP

VENDETTA TAPES

by JOHN BAKER & THE BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP

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Was Ist Das? You need this like a politician needs votes, its the absolute fucking bees knees. TWO THUMBS UP! Favorite track: Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 9).

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36 cues & themes created for TV & radio by the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer.

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SPECIAL 4 X CD BUNDLE
John Baker & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Vendetta Tapes
The Dandelion Set & Alan Moore - A Thousand Strands (1975 to 2015)
Various - The Delaware Road Illusory Soundtrack
Various - Rare Psych, Moogs & Brass (Music from The Sonoton Library)

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1.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 2) 00:35		buy track
2.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 3) 03:32		buy track
3.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 5) 00:24		buy track
4.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 7) 02:02		buy track
5.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 9) 00:27		buy track
6.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 15) 01:42		buy track
7.	Vendetta: The Sugar Man (cue 17) 00:30		buy track
8.	Vendetta: The Dolly Man (cue 1) 01:03		buy track
9.	Vendetta: The Dolly Man (cue 2) 02:23		buy track
10.	Vendetta: The Dolly Man (cue 3) 01:39		buy track
11.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 1) 00:35		buy track
12.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 7) 00:48		buy track
13.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 13) 00:12		buy track
14.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 15) 02:04		buy track
15.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 1a) 02:03		buy track
16.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 2a) 00:45		buy track
17.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 4a) 01:25		buy track
18.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 10a) 01:41		buy track
19.	Vendetta: The Ice Cream Man (cue 18) 01:19		buy track
20.	Vendetta: The Widow Man (cue 8) 00:26		buy track
21.	Vendetta: The Widow Man (cue 9) 00:54		buy track
22.	The Caves Of Steel (cue 1) 01:07		buy track
23.	The Caves Of Steel (cue 5) 00:20		buy track
24.	The Caves Of Steel (cue 6) 00:32		buy track
25.	The Locusts: Plagues Of Man (cue 9) 01:29	info	buy track
26.	Orbit (cue 4) 00:42		buy track
27.	The Lively Mind 00:19		buy track
28.	Suivez La Piste (cue 3) 01:41		buy track
29.	Suivez La Piste (cue 5) 00:56		buy track
30.	Suivez La Piste (cue 8) 00:47		buy track
31.	COI Technology Pavilion 09:30		buy track
32.	The Tape Recorder (cue 1) 01:09		buy track
33.	The Tape Recorder (cue 2) 00:49		buy track
34.	The Tape Recorder (cue 4) 00:18		buy track
35.	Computers In Business (cue 16) 00:48		buy track
36.	Man Alive: UFO (cue 2) 01:14		buy track

about

A brand new compilation of material by John Baker from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!

Baker ranks as one of the world’s most influential electronic musicians. His talent as a jazz pianist & ability to manipulate tiny fragments of tape into new sound is legendary. Whilst working on ‘The John Baker Tapes’ compilation for Trunk Records, producer Alan Gubby unearthed several reels of music & sound effects from the 1960’s BBC TV series ‘Vendetta’ - a mafia themed cop thriller starring Italian actor Stelio Candelli (Barbarella, Django, Planet Of The Vampires).

Baker produced tense, rhythmic & unhinged James Bond style themes for the first series in 1966 with live drums, radiophonic beats, twanging bass lines & screaming jazz solos. The music is thrilling, sleazy, deranged & very hip. Highlights from the score are presented alongside other rare & unreleased Baker tracks, digitally remastered by Mark Ayres from the radiophonic archives. Plus sleeve notes from one of the show’s original creators, screenwriter Brian Degas (Barbarella, Colditz, Danger: Diabolik).

“I’ll probably buy this, tweet about it, play it to some friends & talk about it down the pub” Ben Wheatley, Director of A Field In England, Kill List, Sightseers, High Rise. UK

“this is great – he’s the master of creating electronic music with a swing” Julian House – The Focus Group / Ghost Box. UK

"burbling electronics over cool jazz rhythms - really interesting sci-fi radiophonics with a noir edge" Glyn Bush, The Dandelion Set. UK

“sounds great, looks great - right up my street! Featuring on my blog, FB & twitter feed” Strictly Kev / DJ Food – Ninja Tune, UK

“Never heard anything like this! Proto computer sounds combined with a jazz combo” Matthias Hellwig – Jazzanova Radio Show, WDR Funkhaus Europa. GERMANY

“Incredible sounds - a neat addition to the Trunk set”
Bob, West Norwood Cassette Library / Data 70. UK

“f-ing love it!” Tim ‘Love’ Lee, Tummy Touch, USA

“Baker delivers a heavy psych sound with great drums and dark, mellow moods - a must have 60s library / OST release” Niksa Dragolin / EasyAgent, Radio Eurostar + Zbuka Radio. CROATIA

radio support: ME Raabenstein - Extended Modulation, Byte FM BERLIN, More Than Human, Chris Holt – Four Corners Quartet.

“an extraordinary dive into the archives for this new collection of John Baker cues” Project Moonbase. UK

“back in the days before there was a name for it & before there was even gear for it! Another buried treasure that can teach us "ready-made preset" producers something” Flashbaxx . GERMANY

Reviews forthcoming in The Wire & Shindig magazines + Active Listener blog

“Some freaky sounds on here - love it!”
Huw Araniego-Ellis sparehands.wordpress.com UK

“This is great Buried Treasure indeed! Play-listing”
Ennio Styles. AUSTRALIA

“weird, cinematic jazz with latin & electronic edges for the collectors”.
DJ Nova. GREECE

“Squarepusher, Venetian Snares and Aphex Twin would kill for the beats & squelches here - a visionary composer years ahead of his time” thelineofbestfit.com

“mystical & deranged - unprecedented amounts of Joe Meek / King Tubby echo - as strange & obscure as anything by Morricone. 9.5/10” popmatters.com

“extraordinary & flat-out insane music - with Stockhausian shreds of found sound rising out of the mix” drownedinsound.com

“a gleeful sense of inventing the future in Baker’s work - none of today’s revivalists open up avenues of possibility the way these strange, four-decades-old snippets do” Bob Stanley / Saint Etienne.

credits

released August 14, 2015

original sounds produced by john baker & dick mills
compilation produced by alan gubby
digitally remastered by mark ayres

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