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Soft Machine: BBC Radio / 1971-1974

by Colin Buttimer
November 15, 2003

Soft Machine is one of a select number of musical entities to have adopted names from William S. Burroughs’ writings; others include Steely Dan and DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid. To do so in some way implies a radical agenda, an outsider view of things. Soft Machine was certainly never mainstream in its approach to jazz, exploring as it did a fusion with rock and other musics. This release brings together all four of the group’s BBC radio sessions from ...