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01. Douglas Wood - Icicles
02. Douglas Wood - Folk Ghost (CD-only)
03. Douglas Wood - Boy On Space
04. Douglas Wood - Moon Nightclub
05. Paul Lewis - Waiting For Nina
06. Douglas Wood - Silhouettes
07. Douglas Wood - Kids Stuff
08. Douglas Wood - Soul Riff
09. Douglas Wood - Five To A Bar(CD-only)
10. Douglas Wood - Romantic Sway (CD-only)
11. James Harpham - Moving Parts
12. Ivor Raymond - Wild Cat Walk
13. Harry Pitch - Elephants Dance
14. James Harpham - Visions Of 2000AD 4
15. Eric Peters - Deformed Theme
16. P. Willsher / T. Kelly - Foggy Dock
17. P. Willsher / T. Kelly - Dangerous Voyage
18. James Harpham - VoodooTronics
19. James Asher - Cosmic Dust
20. James Asher - Liquid Gold (CD-only)
21. Frederick Judd - Sprockets (CD-only)
22. F. Afzelius - Cosmic Blues
23. Eric Peters - Planet Travel (CD-only)
24. Eric Peters - Space Service
25. Eric Peters - Freak Blues
26. Cliff Johns - Goofy
ARTIST
TITLE
G Spots
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
JBH 032CD JBH 032CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/17/2009

Subtitled: The Spacey Folk Electro-Horror Sounds of the Studio G Library. G Spots is the first-ever retrospective of Studio G, one of the smallest, but finest music libraries to come out of the UK. It was started in London, in the late 1960s by advertising man John Gale. He realized that most library music at the time was still very much "light orchestral," so he decided to change things: across 48 albums between 1969 and 1982, he made quite an extraordinary impact. With a small stable of talented and versatile musicians, Studio G produced albums covering all major library music genres: horror, pop, industrial, children, jazz, and avant-garde. Throughout production, Studio G were deliberately restricted to small budgets, so the musicians had to be creative with limited time and studio equipment to have any impact at all. The results were a stunning collection of stripped-down, simple but extremely effective compositions across a variety of genres, many employing heavy delay, reverb, echo boxes and early synthesis. G Spots begins with humble tracks with treated guitars and musical jaunts into outer space; we then move through jazz, easy-listening and oddball sounds into weird, dark and often quite unsettling future music. There are drifting synthesizer soundscapes, unsettling vocal tape-loops, even the odd bit of electro-voodoo. With music this interesting and different, it's understandable that bands like The Chemical Brothers and UNKLE have sampled some of the more obscure corners of the catalog. It will also come as no surprise that originals of the rarer Studio G albums fetch huge amounts of money when they come up for sale. In fact, it would take you years to find all these original albums, but here are the best and most interesting bits all together for the first time, which is so much easier. So welcome to G Spots, a stunning and occasionally deep collection of library music that will influence, educate and entertain.