Delia Derbyshire

Posted by: droodzilla on 28 March 2010

Last night, Radio 4 broadcast an excellent one hour documentary about one of the pioneers of electronic music. It's available on BBC iPlayer here:

Delia

It really makes me wish someone would get their bottom in gear and issue a lavish box set of this stuff (or other recordings by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, for that matter). As far as I'm aware, this material is only available in dribs and drabs on separate CDs.
Posted on: 28 March 2010 by graham halliwell
thanks for that! Missed it, but look forward to 'listen again' later today. I have some of the BBC Workshop stuff, but I agree, a nice box set would be welcome. If you ever hear such a thing being released, please let us know.
Posted on: 28 March 2010 by BigH47
ROTF, what? Did you miss it?

Thanks for heads up, droozilla
Posted on: 28 March 2010 by graham halliwell
Interesting analysis of DD's work; especially how multi-track recordings were made before the advent of multi-track tape machines. Thanks again for the heads up. I wonder when we will get to hear some of those 300 reels of tape?
Posted on: 28 March 2010 by BigH47
What a fascinating lady and a genius of her art.
Posted on: 29 March 2010 by Guido Fawkes
Brilliant programme - Delia Derbyshire was a true genius - probably the finest composer of innovative music ever mentioned on this or any other forum - the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - if you haven't already downloaded the clips on her web site ( here) then what are you waiting for.

I cannot recommend her work highly enough - although I like lots of classical music, no classical composer comes close to mesmerising me with the sheer impact of Delia.

It is very sad that she died so young.

Thanks droodzilla for bringing my attention to this programme.
Posted on: 30 March 2010 by Guido Fawkes
A Delia catalogue of sorts - superb site IMHO.
Posted on: 31 March 2010 by Guido Fawkes


Some essential albums
Posted on: 01 April 2010 by Guido Fawkes


This is a wonderful collection and contains Blue Veils and Golden Sands and The Delian Mode.
Posted on: 02 April 2010 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by munch:
I have the Dr WHO VINYL.
Cool That should sound pretty special and should be quite valuable too.