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For anyone interested in the origins of electronic music.

Just found this article about Delia Derbyshire's lost tapes.

One clip is very interesting in particular being a clip from the late 60s of a 'dance track'.
This was before drum machines existed or dance music.

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

Brian

Cheers Brian!

By strange co-incidence I was about to post this in separate thread;

http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/john_baker.shtml

Trunk is issuing two CDs and a vinyl LP of very rare and mostly unreleased John Baker recordings. This includes rare radiophonics, unheard home recording, electro adverts. soundtracks, some jazz and library. Wow. Yeah, wow.

The two John Baker CD albums will be released in late July (Volume One) and late August (Volume Two). On this page we now have the artwork, tracklistings and a honest and touching biography by Richard Anthony Baker, John's brother.

Please note - this groundbreaking release is the first major retrospective of a BBC Radiophonic artists. And as any super Radiophonic geek will realise, most of these cues are unreleased. Super.

There's a more constructive and informative review of it in the August issue of Wire magazine.

Wow . .cheers Brian and Rads all jolly good stuff.

That DD dance track is soooo ahead of its time. What a gal.

I read this the other day - fascinating stuff, especially that dance track. What an innovator!

The original Doctor Who theme tune still sounds like nothing else.

yeah even when played by a full blown Welsh symphony orchestra or whatever..but it's that weeeeaaahhhhhh at the beginning that still gives me that chill...