![]() ![]() I had been carrying a video game console on my person at the time already: A Nintendo DS, which often sat in my jeans pocket uncomfortably next to my Motorola flip phone and a set of house keys. ![]() Yet it was always easy to imagine the iPhone as a platform for video games. We all realized how badly we needed one only when a lot of new needs were invented for us to have. Nobody had really imagined the extent of what the iPhone might provide, in the realm of the essential and trivial. Being able to identify the name of a song heard in passing seemed like such a simple, appealing idea that it instantly justified smartphone applications, which until then, still felt like unnecessarily complex means to check email or surf the web on the go. I think the possibilities it offered were best represented, for most people, by the mere explanation of the Shazam app. When Apple launched the iOS App Store in the summer of 2008, it radically changed our relationship to our mobile devices and, in many ways, the world itself around us. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.“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. “extraordinary & flat-out insane music - with Stockhausian shreds of found sound rising out of the mix” “mystical & deranged - unprecedented amounts of Joe Meek / King Tubby echo - as strange & obscure as anything by Morricone. “Squarepusher, Venetian Snares and Aphex Twin would kill for the beats & squelches here - a visionary composer years ahead of his time” “weird, cinematic jazz with latin & electronic edges for the collectors”. “This is great Buried Treasure indeed! Play-listing” Reviews forthcoming in The Wire & Shindig magazines + Active Listener blog “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. “an extraordinary dive into the archives for this new collection of John Baker cues” Project Moonbase. Radio support: ME Raabenstein - Extended Modulation, Byte FM BERLIN, More Than Human, Chris Holt – Four Corners Quartet. “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. “f-ing love it!” Tim ‘Love’ Lee, Tummy Touch, USA “Incredible sounds - a neat addition to the Trunk set”īob, West Norwood Cassette Library / Data 70. “Never heard anything like this! Proto computer sounds combined with a jazz combo” Matthias Hellwig – Jazzanova Radio Show, WDR Funkhaus Europa. “sounds great, looks great - right up my street! Featuring on my blog, FB & twitter feed” Strictly Kev / DJ Food – Ninja Tune, UK "burbling electronics over cool jazz rhythms - really interesting sci-fi radiophonics with a noir edge" Glyn Bush, The Dandelion Set. “this is great – he’s the master of creating electronic music with a swing” Julian House – The Focus Group / Ghost Box. “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. Plus sleeve notes from one of the show’s original creators, screenwriter Brian Degas (Barbarella, Colditz, Danger: Diabolik). Highlights from the score are presented alongside other rare & unreleased Baker tracks, digitally remastered by Mark Ayres from the radiophonic archives. The music is thrilling, sleazy, deranged & very hip. 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).īaker 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. His talent as a jazz pianist & ability to manipulate tiny fragments of tape into new sound is legendary. A brand new compilation of material by John Baker from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!īaker ranks as one of the world’s most influential electronic musicians. ![]()
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