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Delia Derbyshire the mother of electronic music
May 25, 2026 2:22 PM
OneInThePinkTwoInTheStink
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Delia Derbyshire the mother of electronic music
InablueMule
Never saw a loop setup til now. A coworker did machining on cylinders that tape was wrapped around for telephone messages.
DinosaursCameFromSpace
She created one of the most important pieces of music in existence
fskn
Here's the full video, without that huge border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsRuhCflRyg
youreathing
Her later life was quite sad. Still a fantastic pioneer.
HandoB4Javert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire
Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She worked with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including an electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
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aducksayswhat
I've been wondering how much effort you'd need to put in to get something distinct and novel out of pure instrumental sounds or zero processing/environmental effects. There's so many aspects of how something is recorded that modify it and add their own character to sound that musicians take advantage of, what would an 'ultra unplugged' song where each part was recorded in a sound dampening room have to do to be interesting
youreathing
This is the perfect music for light switch raves!
RaZeByFire
The Cheat is already grounded for that, do you want to have a go as well?
Gustave13
sound witch!
BerryButcher
since nobody is asking : what the fuck up with the teeth? methany the beginning?
Trimule
It's not as bad as it was, but even a generation or two ago "The UK Teeth" thing was very real and VERY common. You want to see some BAD teeth, look at WWII newsreels of British service men going off to war and smiling at the cameras. Even more so, the great restored WWI footage in "They Shall Never Grow Old".
somethingdark
Unfamiliar with British dentistry stereotypes?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
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RexT109
While on this subject
https://youtu.be/_PycXs9LpEM?si=ebmEv8_1IVTweN-H
yosoysoyboy
I spent the majority of the video expecting the final output to be https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bDUzMXhnMHByZzkxc2ZkaWlrc2h5OWQ0cWhnc3JtMWcyNXo4dXh5eSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Vuw9m5wXviFIQ/200w.webp
Translicious90
Those shoes she's wearing look UNCOMFORTABLE as hell
duktayp
Kraftwerk 1970 https://youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI
WilsonFisk
Love Kraftwerk, but there were many who came before them, including the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Delia was apart of.
MaybeIllDisappear
@OP thank you for sharing this, I had never heard of Derbyshire before, but now I am looking her up.
OneInThePinkTwoInTheStink
I only recently found out about her. She's great!
TheMoonBnuuy
the creepy ambient sound overlayed on this detracts from the purpose of the video
historymemesandstuff
Maybe it's to foreshadow how terrible techno music would become
Trimule
So true!
IgiveupIdontknowwhatusernametopick
frischcode
And then she made this.
BeaverOnFire
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bzRmbmljZ2plY2xydmRkcXdhZzlpbmZlaXdoMGlicGJ6eW51cmczcSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/OKIrUcZXmyGxMfxitz/200w.webp
Totallyscrewedinaustin
That's awesome! Thanks for adding what she made with the tech
yougotredonyu
That’s rad!
GoodChange
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlc2lxYzlxcW5qNTRndGNweXNjZHM3MjhqOGMyczV5eHBuMGtpN3BheSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/6RyJxMFur1r1K/giphy.mp4
frischcode
https://youtu.be/qsRuhCflRyg
bikergeek6249
Ron Grainer of BBC Radiophonics Workshop tried to get her a cowriting credit for the song. He had written the actual melody but so much of the song came from her arrangement that he felt she deserved co-credit. He was, unfortunately, unsuccessful.
ATLandNerdy
The closing of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was a tragedy and the end of an era