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You’ve probably heard about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop before, though rest assured, there’s a lot more to it than Delia Derbyshire and Doctor Who. Between 1958 and 1995, all the amazingly creative people that worked in this techno-magical room were not ahead of their time but have literally drawn a path that the electronic music culture followed without question. This mix was not intended to be an archival object although all of the major composers that worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop are present in it; rather, its purpose is to tell a timeless, often dark, sometimes ludic and ironic story of ground breaking pioneer work in an infinite universe of sound.

At the beginning of the ‘90s, after the fall of the communism regime, a distinctive but blurry map of cultural capitalism took shape in Romania, with lots of intersections, exceptions and indistinct borderlines. People started to embrace the values of a new and forgotten democracy; since the censorship was no longer an important issue, a lot of Romanian musicians and bands started to extend their audio recordings to wider audiences.

From Italy, we are crossing the Alps in our Library Music digging effort and we are landing straight into the burning heart of France. Here, we encounter eccentric progressive visions, intense existentialist dialogues in jazz and quite a good amount of refreshing gallic humour. Those french sure have a good taste for timeless refrains and contagious rhythms. With a philosophical twist.

A short trajectory through Yugoslavia's popular music in the seventies and eighties, curated by Outernational Academy

Batiscaf Radio was founded because the archives of Romanian (pop) culture are buried deep into the ground, with no obvious marks where one can pay a tribute. The Batiscaf podcasts come sporadic moments of Romanian music history that used to function in parallel with the preset paths of official culture.

Classical backgrounds, funky orchestral movements, obsessive-compulsive jazz distortions, most delicious drum breaks and tape experiments. All seasoned with a distinctive Italian spice.