The team had to earn their keep with futuristic jingles and wacky noises. "We weren't composers flying our own kites," Mills says. "Any experimenting we did was always within the context of someone's programme." It was craft, not art, with an aura redolent of an amateur cobbling together Heath Robinson-like contraptions in the garden shed. "Because we're not experts," the workshop's indulgent manager, Desmond Briscoe, would say, "we don't know what we shouldn't be able to do."
Simon Reynolds über den Radiophonic Workshop, das Klanglabor der BBC das mit seinen Soundexperimenten jahrzehntelang musikalische Pionierarbeit leistete. Man höre sich nur mal diesen kürzlich entdeckten Dance-Track von Delia Derbyshire an, kaum zu glauben dass es sowas Ende der 60er gab.