'Looks Good, Feels Good 1' BBC Trade Test Tape 1991-92

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That's what I said after a look at one fandom article, but given that tracks will sometimes cross over libraries and the like, I'll give it a bit of my time, especially since I earlier said that Track 4 had horns that almost screamed Al Dickinson to me. Hence why I'm looking there, and Amphonic. I think the places I'll take a look at first are as such:
MML003 - Children's Moments
MML005 - Dynamic Moments
MML006 - Ragtime, Blues & Boogie Moments
MML007 - Mellow Moments
MML008 - Kaleidoscope Moments
MML011 - Groove Moments

Additionally, there are two Amphonic Music records to potentially look at:
AVF 30 - Sound Stage 30: Cutting Loose (1985)
AVF 93 - Relax (1991)

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4/24 - Updates:
I don't know how to say this stuff, really... MML was a complete dud, and AVF30 is a dud, too. Which SUCKS, because the orchestration of "60s-esque rock" fit a lot of tracks. None of them were a match. I do feel like Amphonic has the answers to our problems, though... again, it's hard to explain it, I just feel like it IS.

UPD: I was looking in the wrong place. I reckon that 1988-90 is a good place to search. Putting numbers to that, I reckon AVF 60-AVF 83 is a good place to look. I'll keep AVF 93 in mind, just to see if there was an Al Dickinson track used, but I'm not certain on that.

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4/25 Updates:
I, again, don't know who keeps a log of these now, but Amphonic was an absolute dud. Not a single album on there matches tracks. So, we are back where we started... that is to say, no clue where to look. So, I'm going to ask around here - does anybody know any other labels that the BBC was pulling tracks from at this time? We know they were pulling from Patchwork/MCT, who have been searched, and have nothing that matches here. We searched Ariston, there's nothing new to find there for this tape. Presumably, Teichiku was only used for Himiko Kikuchi tracks - though I am not opposed to looking through their BGM collection again and seeing if there is anything worth finding there. And then, I know I suggested Bruton a while back, but never got to look through it. I could go through that again.

That's all for today. I don't know where to go, but I'm not leaving this so close to completion either. Even 1 new found track would exponentially increase the amount of time that can be taken up by HQ tracks. That's the ultimate goal here.

Also, there's two tracks - New Mexico and Brass Rass, afaik - that are on Apple Music, as vocal tracks, under the names "Sweetest Love" and "All Across The World". The instrumental is the same, and the label is "DRS 1206". Doing some discogs research, that album comes to be something worked on by ANOTHER Al Dickinson, completely unrelated to the one we knew prior, and was distributed in a few places - Memory Music, Palm Records, and Harmony, to name a few. The web is deepening here...

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You're certainly determined! If I may offer my thoughts to the six unidentified tracks remaining. They don't feel like they are from a mainstream library as they don't give the sense of professional musicianship which was the hallmark of the major British libraries. The trumpet on the first track sounds like it's from an early electronic keyboard with the drums from an onboard rhythm generator. To my ears it sounds almost home-made compared to library music which hade gone before. This is true of the first and last two tracks I feel. Track four has similar characteristics but seems to follow a different country style like tracks two and three. But all six tracks have those annoying artificial trumpet sounds.

Of course I'm viewing this from a British standpoint. There are dozens more libraries particularly in the USA which tended to excel in this sort of manufactured library music though I don't know if the Beeb sourced music from them.

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You're certainly determined!

I don't see a reason to not be - my goal from the start was to, hopefully, get an entirely HQ tape - or at the very least, have no less than 2 tracks that I could say "yeah I can't find these anywhere, it's not possible to be found".

The trumpet on the first track sounds like it's from an early electronic keyboard with the drums from an onboard rhythm generator. To my ears it sounds almost home-made compared to library music which hade gone before.

I absolutely agree there, it feels a lot more home-made than anything. It honestly feels more discordant than anything else - the rest of the track, save for the trumpets, sounds like it could be an early-mid 80s production, meanwhile the trumpets firmly place it in late 80s-early 90s.

Track four has similar characteristics but seems to follow a different country style like tracks two and three. But all six tracks have those annoying artificial trumpet sounds.

As said before, I'm certain that track 3 and 4 were instrumental versions of the aforementioned two tracks. I can put them up on a mega link if you'd like, for comparison, because I'm rather certain they're an instrumental rework of the tracks.

There are dozens more libraries particularly in the USA which tended to excel in this sort of manufactured library music though I don't know if the Beeb sourced music from them.

IIRC the Beeb tried to not do such a thing after a few SESAC tapes on BBC2 (if I remember correctly, that's the only spot SESAC tracks were used on?) in the early years of that channel. However, given these tracks almost certainly made their way through Spectrum Music, or some other UK-based distributor of foreign tracks, that idea really flies out the window, doesn't it? And I do also reckon that the tracks weren't made by a US label - afaik the Beeb never sourced US-originated tracks after the SESAC tapes.

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Also, the last thing I can thing of doing is searching for those two known track names (All Across The World and Sweetest Love) online, and seeing what might show up. If there's a match, and some description says it's similar, but not the same artist recognized, I could reckon that might be another lead? Idk, I'm this close to giving up and calling it wraps.