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BBC Radio / 1971-1974

Label: Hux Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc One: 1. As If 2. Drop 3. Welcome To Frillsville 4. Fanfare/All White/MC/Drop 5. Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album 6. Hazard Profile part 1
Disc Two: 1. Sinepost 2. Down The Road 3. North Point 4. The Man Who Waved At Trains 5. Hazard Profile parts 1-4

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Article: Roads Less Travelled

The Soft Machine Turns You On

by Nic Jones
December 5, 2003

Any 'golden age' is always questionable, but in the period 1967-71 the British band Soft Machine are reckoned to have enjoyed such an age, and releases on the Cuneiform and Hux labels make the case. The band was built around keyboard player Mike Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper, and drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt. Reed player Elton Dean was ...

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Article: Album Review

Soft Machine: BBC Radio / 1971-1974

Read "BBC Radio / 1971-1974" reviewed by Colin Buttimer

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, ...

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