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The BBC website does sometimes come up with some real diamonds. This one is about Delia Derbyshire, the composer of the Dr Who theme.

Check out some previously unheard stuff including what sounds like a dance track 20 years before the genre was invented.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm

Cool.

Delia Derbyshire = the definitive Girl With Hardware.

can't stop the beats :)

cool

Great stuff

Was it this Delia that did vocals on White Noise's album An Electric Storm? This is from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, is it not?

That's really neat. Even though I liked Peter Howell's version of the Dr Who theme better :T

That 'dance track' is seriously wicked!

@mic_
Delia made the original Dr. Who theme by taking tape recordings of the "instrument" she wanted and stretching it to get the right frequency for each note. Now thats hardcore!

@xeron: It's technically impressive, but I still like Howell's version better ;)

dance music invented by a grandma!

ass kicking Oo

Just heard a compilation of BBC Radiophonic music; Delia Derbyshire, John Baker & David Cain. Mucho interesting, chiptunes 20 years prior to Amigaaa.

I also recommend BBC documentary "the Alchemics of Sound".
Any one of U maybe has "ziwzhli-ziwzhli oo-oo" ?

I tip my virtual hat to that lady !

Someone could make a demo (musicdisk?) in appreciation of her, that'd be fitting for that project mentioned towards the end of the article.

math and music <3

in remembrance of teh daleks <3

It's funny that programming a computer to do something was once considered more impressive than doing it manually. We've gotten so used to programming everything that actually doing a real physical thing seems confusing and difficult.