Soft Machine / Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974
14CD + 3 x Blu-ray box set
Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974 is a new CD box set featuring English rock band Soft Machine.
This comprehensive anthology features 14 CDs and three blu-rays and covers the first half of the 1970s and the five albums (‘Third’, ‘Fourth’, ‘Fifth’, ‘Six’ and ‘Seven’) they recorded for CBS with each one newly remastered from the original quarter-inch tapes. In addition, it includes all of their existing BBC sessions (half of which are unreleased) and a generous selection of rare and previously unavailable concert recordings from Europe (UK/France/Switzerland).
Compiler Mark Powell has unearthed an entirely different set of recordings of their ‘Fifth’ album, as well as over 6 hours of superb audio-visual material gathered from European TV broadcast archives, almost all of which has never been issued before.
Highlights include Paris 1970, Brussels 1971, the complete Berliner Jazztage performance, Beat Club and the BBC TV appearances on ‘An Anatomy of Pop’ and ‘Full House’.
Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974 will be released on 30 October 2026 via Sony Music.
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Slightly all the time recordings 1970-1974 - 14CD+3blu-ray box set
Tracklisting
Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970-1974 Soft Machine /
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CD 1: “Third” – Released in June 1970
- Facelift
- Slightly All the Time
- Moon in June
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
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CD 2: London – May 1970
- Facelift
- Moon in June
- Esther’s Nose Job
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CD 3: BBC Radio Sessions – 1970
- Slightly All the Time
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Eamonn Andrews
BBC Session – 4th May 1970
- Facelift
- Esther’s Nose Job
BBC Radio 1 “In Concert” – 31st May 1970
- Virtually
- Fletcher’s Blemish
BBC Radio 1 session – 15th December 1970
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CD 4: The Promenade Concert
Royal Albert Hall 13th August 1970. Recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio Three
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Facelift
- Esther’s Nose Job
- Pig
- Orange Skin Food
- A Door Opens and Closes
- Pigling Bland
- 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
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CD 5: “Fourth” – Released in February 1971
- Teeth
- Kings and Queens
- Fletcher’s Blemish
- Virtually Part 1
- Virtually Part 2
- Virtually Part 3
- Virtually Part 4
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CD 6: BBC Radio 1 In Concert – 11th March 1971
- Blind Badger
- Neo Caliban Grides
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Eamonn Andrews
- Pigling Bland
- Kings and Queens
- Teeth
- All White
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CD 7: Gondel Filmkunsttheater, Bremen – Germany 23rd March 1971
Radio Bremen concert
- Facelift
- Virtually
- Slightly All the Time
- Fletcher’s Blemish
- Neo-Caliban Grides
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Eamonn Andrews
- All White
- Kings and Queens
- Teeth
- Pigling Bland
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CD 8: BBC Radio sessions 1971
BBC Radio 1 session – 1st June 1971
- Neo-Caliban Grides
- Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening
- Eamonn Andrews / All White
BBC Radio 1 session – 15th November 1971
- As If
- Drop
- Welcome to Frillsville
BBC Radio 1 session – 11th July 1972
- Fanfare
- All White
- M C
- Drop
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CD 9: “Fifth” – Released in July 1972
- All White
- Drop
- M C
- As If
- L B O
- Pigling Bland
- Bone
Bonus tracks: The Alternative “Fifth” Sessions
- As If
- Untitled Blow
- Pigling Bland
- (coda) Esther’s Nose Job
- All White (Take Two)
- As If
- Drum Solo
- Pigling Bland
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CD 10: BBC Radio 1 In Concert – July 1972
- Fanfare
- All White
- Slightly All the Time
- M C
- Drop
- Stumble
- B.O.
- As If
- Riff
- Gesolreut
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CD 11: “Six” – Released in February 1973
The live record:
- Fanfare
- All White
- Between
- Riff I
- 37 ½
- Gesolreut
- P.V.
- Lefty
- Stumble
- 5 from 13 (for Phil Seamen with Love & Thanks)
- Riff II
The studio record:
- The Soft Weed Factor
- Stanley Stamp’s Gibbon Album (for B.O.)
- Chloe and the Pirates
- 1983
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CD 12: “Seven” – Released in October 1973
- Nettle Bed
- Carol Ann
- Day’s Eye
- Bone Fire
- Tarabos
- I.S.
- Snodland
- Penny Hitch
- Block
- Down the Road
- The German Lesson
- The French Lesson
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CD 13: BBC Sessions 1973 – 1974
BBC Radio 1 John Peel session – 20th November 1973
- Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
- Hazard Profile (Part 1)
- Sinepost
- Down the Road
BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain session – 26th August 1974
- North Point
- The Man Who Waved at Trains
- Hazard Profile (Parts 1 – 4)
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CD 14: Montreux Festival – 4th July 1974
- Hazard Profile
- The Floating World
- Ealing Comedy
- Bundles
- Land of the Bag Snake
- Joint
- The Man Who Waved at Trains
- Peff
- The Man Who Waved at Trains (reprise)
- LBO
- Riff II
- Lefty
- Penny Hitch (coda)
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Blu-ray #1 – The Video vaults 1970 – 1971
Theatre de la Musique, Paris. 2nd March 1970. Recorded for French television
- Eamonn Andrews
- Backwards
- Mousetrap
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Facelift
- Vocal improvisation
- Esther’s Nose Job / Pigling Bland
Pop Deux 12 December 1970. The Recording of Soft Machine Fourth –
BBC TV – Anatomy of Pop 10th January 1971
- Neo-Caliban Grides
Theatre 140, Brussels 14th January 1971. Filmed for “Pop Shop” – Belgian TV
- Improvisation
- Neo-Caliban Grides
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Kings and Queens
- Teeth
- Pigling Bland
- Esther’s Nose Job (excerpt)
- ….It’s Nothing
- Mousetrap
- Noisette
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Blu-ray #2: The Video vaults 1971 – 1975
‘Beat Club’ Radio Bremen TV Session 23rd March 1971
- Neo-Caliban Grides
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- Vocal improvisation
- Eamonn Andrews / All White
Berliner Jazztage Philharmonichalle, West Berlin 7th November 1971
- Neo Caliban Grides
- Slightly All The Time
- Drop
- M C
- Out-Bloody-Rageous
- As If
- Dark Swing
- Pigling Bland
- Esther’s Nose Job (Outro)
Filmed 5th November 1972 at CBS Studios, London for “Emission Rockenstock”. Broadcast 30th January 1973 ORTF French Television
- The Soft Weed Factor
- LBO
- Gesolreut
BBC TV – FULL HOUSE 17th February 1973. Soft Machine interviews and the band perform
- Gesolreut
- Fanfare / All White
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Blu-ray #3: The Video Vaults 1973 – 1974
Soft Machine & Friends ‘Jazz Workshop’. Congresszentrum, Hamburg, Germany on May 17, 1973
- Fanfare
- All White
- Link 1
- The Soft Weed Factor
- Link 2
- 37 ½
- Link 3
- Riff
- Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
- Chloe and the Pirates
- Gesolreut
- E.P.V.
- Link 4
- Stumble
- One Across
- Riff II
Bataclan, Paris 29th May 1973. Broadcast on “Pop Deux” – French TV 30th June 1973.
- Riff / Down The Road
- Gesolreut / Chloe And The Pirates
Montreux Jazz Festival 4th July 1974
- Hazard Profile
- The Floating World
- Ealing Comedy
- Bundles
- Land of the Bag Snake
- Joint
- The Man Who Waved at Trains
- Peff
- The Man Who Waved at Trains (reprise)
- LBO
- Riff II
- Lefty
- Penny Hitch (coda)
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CD 1: “Third” – Released in June 1970

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