The British Stereo Collective – Mystery Fields
Fair warning: this review may contain more offhand references to now-undeservedly-obscure British cult fantasy & sci-fi shows than the usual stuff I write. You have been warned.
Soundtracks for things that don’t actually exist to need a soundtrack are increasingly a favorite sub-genre of mine. What you’re getting is that particular musician or composer’s unfiltered ideas, freed from the time constraints of having to match something that actually exists in visual form. (And by the same token, such a release is also an instant demo “calling card” for the artist in question.) But Phil Heeks, the mad genius behind the British Stereo Collective moniker, does observe many time constraints on this release, because he’s emulating such past classics as BBC Radiophonic Music, which was itself kind of a publicly-released calling card for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, showing off the vast range of their radio and TV theme tunes, station identification sounders, and jingles. Everything, from the name of this musical entity down, is part of that tribute. … Read more