If you don’t know of my love of Delia Derbyshire and the mostly unsung heroes of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, well then start here.

She produced and engineered the famous Dr Who theme (and if you watch the great Alchemists of Sound documentary, Ron Grainer asked  ‘Did I really write that?’ when he heard it, “Most of it” she replied, as she added a lot to his tune and was almost completely unrecognisable) and worked almost purely with tape, not synthesisers. So I’m amazed to find out via many blogs about the tapes she recorded, being catalogued by Manchester University which several excerpts the BBC has posted to hear - including a track which sounds like modern techno:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512490.stm (someone tell the developers at the BBC of this new technology, it’s called ‘embedding’, it’s all the rage at this young whippersnapper upstart called YouTube).

Amazing stuff, so I want to call for this music to be released - either on CD or publically free - Delia deserves better than stuck in some library somewhere for the odd music historian to come across and the odd clip in TV shows. Sort it out! None of the posts or articles I’ve read, with glowing remarks from many people such as Phil Hartnoll from Orbital - mention what will happen to these tapes. In fact there’s been a dire lack of re-releases of all of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop tracks apart from a double CD set a BBC Records CD (which you can now buy for 85-100 quid it was so limited!) and some Warp 10″s which are equally rare in the early 00s - and some very limited re-releases on small labels such as Electrosonic or the Tomorrow’s People OST. No wonder people don’t know about her.

Isn’t it about time there was a full retrospective compilation CD of all her work? Say a Double or Triple CD Best of - surely all these radio plays, plays, tshirts, documentaries, songs and several sites about her should indicate there is a market for that? Add these new rare tapes and you could have a beautiful tribute to one of the most talented electronic musicians this country has produced. (And ignored).

Oh and Firefox 3 can suck my balls - doesn’t work with the editor in LJ and now WP 2.6. Crap. HTML links put in manually? How, err, sweet. Bless. So RETRO. *eyeroll* Sort it out Moz-developers!

I’ve upgraded the site to Wordpress 2.6, and sadly that means the old http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/rssf… link is not working as it should - so now it should redirect nicely to:

http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/rss2/

So those of you on the old feed, can you change it? Thanks.

This does not affect those of you who subscribed via iTunes store or are using the Libsyn feed. It might affect those poor leeching websites that repurpose this blog as their own (altogether: AAAAAHHH). Also just checked and iTunes 7 PC does redirect you to the proper URL, even on existing subscriptions, so iTunes users should be OK unless you’re using some ancient version.

And depending how stoopid your podcatcher is, they should get told via the wonders of HTTP, 301 redirects and .htaccess to move along to the right feed (for the moment). But you never know…so use the new URL (which I know some of you have been using for years - the rssfeed.php was a legacy hack from when I was using autogenerated feeds from MP3s and didn’t have a blog!)

Hmm didn’t yer momma say too much candy was bad fer yer?

Well if you want a suger-sweet musical mashup candy overload they’ve posted links to 240+ mashups, mostly mashup albums over at AudioTuts - nicely including the Radio Clash Strummer and Radio Clash File compilations. Thanks! Some good mashup albums there…don’t get sick from gorging on them though!

…amidst this podfadeyness, a digital debris slipped out. And it’s to commemorate George Carlin too.

It’s only, like, 8 months late. I do intend and plan to do more.

So I give you Words (for George).

Be warned if challenging/new music, performance art/poetry and rude words offend you, don’t bother. But it’s mostly not gratuitous (how can you talk about ‘taboo’ words without using them? Answer is - you can’t).

It seems like music the book selling model is changing - Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more so with books.

So when Mr Holy13Nation recommended a book to me, The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason, it was great to see that as well as the usual Waterstones/Amazon gubbins they were using the same ‘pay what you like including $0′ model as introduced by Nine Inch Nails (no not Radiohead, they just stole that idea, and it was just a fan-gimmick cos as soon as it hit the shops the ‘free’ copies magically disappeared!).

You get the feeling that the likes of Mr Mason, BB’s Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig get it, that the future will be free electronic versions, or donation/pay what you like model, which will actually increase people buying books, CDs etc. as they’ll get a chance, as with P2P to ‘try before they buy’ - the idea that these technologies destroy the artist getting any money is ludicrous - who loses out is those with bad stale content.

It also makes sense as unlike the physical product the outlay is far far less - server space, bandwidth and setting up a paypal/ecommerce payment are far cheaper than the oil, shelf-space and outlay of a physical product. I think we will see more of this - and I’m pleasantly suprised to see a major publisher like Penguin get involved in this.

The book? Well only read the first few pages so I can’t give a review yet, but so far if you are into the sort of remix/mashup/open source and indeed YARR! pirate culture here at Radio Clash, then I think you’ll love this book. And at a nice price - one you determine.

Oh and even the book logo is Creative Commons, and available on the website, hence my ‘remix’ above.