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  • salute delia _\

  • MrGodthatdied : Can I really compose future sound with ProTools? Thinking Dalia making her work with laptop is arrogant and silly, sorry. Maybe we (sound designers) should think sound that doesn't exist and can't even done with pc. _This is what Dalia did._

  • This woman would've had an orgasm if she saw today's computers with reason or pro tools installed

  • @MrGodthatdied im sorry, but i think she would have used an akai mpc 1000 today lol

  • @militaryminded85

    a fine machine, but can't beat a computer

  • @MrGodthatdied well i used reason and logic for years and i had a little go of fl studio.

    but when i got my mpc, my beats really excelled, it was so much more comfortable to make music on and the swing and time shifting is unmatched, i still use reason for FX and synth tho, mpc and pc actually work well hand in hand, i even got an akai mpk mini to see if software was better, i own an mpc2000xl and 1000 and i personaly think mpc is better but you can use mpc and pc together by midi

  • @militaryminded85

    yup agree on that, still have to get the MPC, they don't come cheap. 

  • @MrGodthatdied im telling you, save those pennies, it was the best £700 i ever spent in my whole life

  • News background music

  • genius!

  • Fresh beats

  • I'm a Kate Bush and Bjork fan. I can see the kind of people that were 'their' inspiration now!

  • Good MAG Rondo. PRFCT!

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  • She received no credit or recognition for her work. It wasn,t cricket to let women get any credit at the BBC then. Her personal life and death where a tragedy.

  • Damn thats some sh@t

  • If I had a time machine my number one priority would be to go back in time and marry her. She was just the most incredible woman.

  • AMAZING!

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  • also how John Craven's news round was done....ye you know the one...

    'doodle doodley do...digga duddley dum' (oh just youtube it, i did my best!)

  • The term Genius is often overused as a lazy approximation with which to label the seemingly very talented. In Delia’s case it does not begin to describe the impact her original mind and prescient unmatched musicality pre-empted technological innovations and sonic cultural phenomenon.

  • and so the female intellgentsia blossomed into thin air .......to live forever in a (totally hidden) world of music and art and wonderful diction

    rip delia you really were a goddess

  • Fucking ace! Aceaceace!

  • Absolutely! Just go out and buy a computer--it'll do it all for you. 'Cos this generation is SMART!!!

  • Ableton Analog Edition ;-)

  • Hahahahaha, I guess she wasn't a simple employee because those machines cost

    big money I prefer people like cluster

  • BBC four makes good video stuff!

  • too bad the radiophonic workshop is gone. the music that came from there was amazing

  • This woman was IDM before IDM existed. She would be my wife if she had better teeth...and wasn't dead.

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  • How beautiful is her voice , does that accent even exist anymore .... You did the time lords proud, rest in peace .. you groovy bird .

  • Delia was one of the founding goddesses of electronic music.

  • Women like that exists!!! (Growl she knows how to run a machine!)

  • Technical and musical artistry.

  • Delia is the most influential woman musician ever.... I have collected her work for years and even named my dog after her....

  • Quite a latency on those switches, they are probably all different too, she knows that gear well. Each note was sampled onto tape and then physically cut to form a loop and then played like this into a master, my God, would anybody have the patience to make music that way now?

  • Look like a stove ..

  • Anyone ever seen a vinyl or other type of wire reel to reel system? I saw something at an antiques place once.... still wondering what it was all a'boot.

    Aye?

  • !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    yes DJ Elektrinate's hero

  • Where is this video clip from? Is it from a documentary? If so what's the name of it?

  • @pitbullbootboy It's from a BBC documentary about the Radiophonic Workshop called "The Alchemists of Sound"

  • Thats ill!

  • analog sweetness

  • Her hands are like birds.

  • @dandyhands One of my girlfriends, a long long time ago, had magical hands like that... ;)

  • that was the real fruity loops studio.....

  • 0:57 this is song : ORBITAL - CHIME !!xd

  • @DjJohnnyB92 Good call.

  • i love her teeth, i love her voice I love all of it

  • While I agree that it's tragic how little recognition Delia got during her lifetime, it should be pointed out that *NONE* of the Radiophonic Workshop received personal credits for their work in the 1960s: They were just credited on screen as "BBC Radiophonic Workshop". Also full time BBC employees were expected to be happy with their salaries: they never got any royalties, and were rarely even given bonuses for good work (e.g. Ray Cusick, designer of the Daleks, got an extra £100!)

  • Her work is actually typical of a lot of the experimental stuf of her era, a lot of which influenced IDM. She also seemed to do it for the challenge of it, inventing new techniques and such, since she berated synthesizers for being too easy. Of course she could just've entered her 'get offa my lawn phase'. It's a shame she drank herself into oblivion after that.

  • I love this

  • @konjunktion26 hahaha ... don't know whether your sexism or your musical ignorance is funnier ... you're probably a troll anyway ... she did it at the beginning of the 60s, and she makes most electronic musicians of this millenium look pretty damned conservative ... this is with two track tape and nothing we would even recognize as a synthesizer or sampler ... and her boss in the bbc radiophonic workshop was a chick too.

  • @konjunktion26 Delia wasn't your Average Female. She wasn't interested in Petty Relationships, & Love Stories etc. She Couldn't stand all that shit. She was fanatical about Music, & thats the appeal. The Perfect Woman.. A Genius, Musician, Hard to get, RARE as they come & Invented the Dr Who theme from Scratch. But she was Still Treated like a woman. With No Respect, Royalties, Recognition or gratitude. But she Carried on in the Name of " The Art of Sound & Music".

  • @konjunktion26 I know exactly what you mean. It's a bit like that here, all the women I know are the same. They all Talk the Same. All Like the Same wank. All Drink Wine, Watch Soaps, Listen to POP shit & think they are the Bollocks. No Talent. No Creativety. No Personality. No Wants or Needs outside 'Men, Relationships, Arguments, Fashion, Money, Kids & Wine'. So I understand ur frustration.

    But Delia was an exception. she was "The REAL DEAL". Her Work even now sounds better than all else. lol

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  • @dakqyri

    congratulations you got trolled

  • great!

  • @konjunktion26 aaaah, bless your little cotton socks!

  • @konjunktion26 I really must get back to the kitchen to prepare my husband's dinner or I'll be in frightful trouble.

  • This would be a pretty expensive hobby. Is she on a submarine?

  • BEST DJ EVER

  • the first mpc

  • The BBC should be ashamed of itself for not giving this woman the recognition she deserved to the Doctor Who theme. She was a pioneer and a genius.

  • There should be fucking monuments of her on ever y street corner! Wot a visionary, and one classy woman.

  • The past is a future possibility.

  • Queen !!!

  • Oh my goddess, Delia.....your delicate fingers gently yet masterfully (mistressfully?) glide across the prepared zither of my soul. A random scrap of tape from your cutting room floor is worlds perfecter than the hairdo of the most popular laptop sooperDJ.

  • woman of my dreams!

  • sick.

    why don`t they use an mpc for this?

  • If Delia was my main gal I'd give her the illest drum beats instead of flowers

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  • Aahhh, that´s real chopping and looping! ;-)

    For real really innovative, especially for the time this video has been filmed!

  • This has Delia's voice which is most important.

  • and I thought electronic music was stared only by Robert Moog

  • DJ Derbyshire FTW!

  • Quite stunning.

  • Total GENIUS!!!!!

  • She is INCREDIBLE!! tooo short  aaahhhhgggg!!! WHAT!

  • This chick rocks!...you should hear some of the raunchy stuff she released after this when she went mental on magic mushrooms ......Her album 'splonko debonko' is an underground classic.

  • skrachin it

  • Wow, this is like the pre-curser to Ableton.

  • I LOVE Delia. Her plummy accent is beautiful. And she was such a CLEVER grrl !

  • YOU ROCKED !!!

  • Now that is Just Plain Awesome!!!!!

  • Delia Derbyshire is now trending on Twitter. Now, just how cool is that?

  • Genius!

  • where can I get audiofile, which sounds in this video? help plz =)

  • wow this is how the studio disc of ummagumma was made

  • There's a lot of money in those machines. What a resorce!

  • she was great

    and yeah totally you can see in the pompeii movie roger waters using a synth in a very delia-ish way

  • Delia Derbyshire was a fucking GENIUS ! I know thats an over used word but think about it, When she was busy hacking away finding totally new forms of music people like Hendrix and Lennon were being hailed as genius for playing guitars.

  • she worked about 200 yards up the road from lennon. small world they lived in

    Abbey road had close connections withthe bbc ( in more ways than we tend to think)

    have a sneaky suspiin that that jammy bstard 'knew' delia quite well ;->

  • Delia knew McCartney.. check out McCartney and the Avantgarde book for more details.

  • @MrMorgansgoat So true bro... So fucking true...

  • how rich is this lady

  • Not very rich at all. She didn't actually really get the credit she deserved. The woman in the video is named Delia Derbyshire. She put together Ron Gainer's theme for Dr. Who on tape back before syths and was done with electronic oscillators, tape effects and loops just like in this video. Ron Gainer actually wanted to give her half the publishing rights to the song, but the BBC wouldn't allow things like that back then.

  • @fatcatbuzz

    misogynistic bastards - the BBC !

    Does not matter if the actress portrayal is not her ...

    "Delia" created a new genre of electronic sound -

    and those BLOODY wanks couldn't appreciate the FACT !?

    SHAME ON THE BBC.

  • stick some breaks on that shit

  • I'm in love...

  • This is just great!

  • omg...really years ahead of the time!!!! really

  • what up reel jockey

  • love it! --Alyssa

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  • WOW, that's what I call a girl WAY ahead of her time!

    Funny - we never hear about these things before it's too late...

  • Dee Jay Dee Dee

  • This amazing song she is working on is called "Way Out".

    It was supposed to be for a school program, but the BBC said it was too sophisticated, so it was used in a deoderant commercial instead!

  • 65,000 views and I have to answer my own question I asked two weeks ago below!

    Delia Derbyshire's web site states "A recent Guardian article called her 'the unsung heroine of British electronic music', probably because of the way her infectious enthusiasm subtly cross-pollinated the minds of many creative people. She had exploratory encounters with Paul McCartney, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Martin, Pink Floyd, Brian Jones, Anthony Newley, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson."

  • LOL

  • Does anyone know if Roger Waters of Pink Floyd knew her or any connection?

    She did this stuff first clearly. I saw a video of him doing the exact same thing with tape loops and so on. He was messing in 69 with these electronic things to make the 73 album Dark Side of the Moon. The clip I saw of him in 69 sounds exactly like the Doctor Who theme in 63 which she composed.

    Roger must have known how she is I bet?

  • She didn't compose the Doctor Who theme, but she did arrange/produce it. Ron Grainer composed it.

  • That is correct. I leaned that after the post.

    Still it would not sound at all like it does without her though.

  • You really couldn't even get the original Dr. Who sound today with all of our modern equipment. Just listen to the new theme music (I'm not knocking it, I actually like it) and you will see it sound nothing like the original. That's because the original was done with 8 reel to reels going in to one master reel. Also, the sound effect are electronic oscillators, tape loops and tape effect, not syths. This was done long too long before syths, but you will never get that sound again.

  • Thanks for the info - I had it my head that the Dr. Who theme was the first moog synthesiser piece. Must have been an urban myth.

  • Yep, I think that is what most people think. I meant to write "not too long before syths" which came out only about a little less than a decade later. But, in order to get those sounds you had to use sound oscillators.

  • I don't think they knew each other personally, but on One Of These Days they pay tribute to Dr. Who in the middle. I think alot of musician were messing around with things like tape loops and oscillator before syths came out. Dalia Derbyshire would have been one of others working for the BBC and probably would have had just the status of working there and would have just had a low profile with that status even at the BBC. Plus, the BBC at the time was still a male dominant work place.

  • I did some research and she did teach Roger Waters and the rest of pink floyd her skills. Her web site said something like they wanted to learn everything she knew and they did.

  • That's pretty interesting. I may have to check out that website. Pink Floyd's work is tape effect oriented. I have The Body by Roger Waters and Umagumma by Pink Floyd which makes good use of the tape effects of the day. Also, the drums of A Saucerful of Secrets are a tape loop.

  • unbelievable how the bbc fucked her over....

  • I could listen to her voice all day - and all night ;-)

  • How typical of the BBC that she never received the credit she deserved until after she'd died.

  • she would be such a good dj!

  • She is WAY better than a DJ!!!

    DJ's are boring. She is making her own sounds/notes not just repeating others.

  • lot's of djs use live instrumentation / make new sounds by combining two or more songs together.

  • Sorry to lump all DJs together but the majority I find boring. There are some good ones.

  • She is up there with Luigi Russolo, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haak, Stockhausen & the Barrons. Delia is one of my favorites. Her music has a delicate weird touch I find wonderful beautiful.

    Before you credit her with starting electronic music you should study electronic music history. Americans nor Europeans invented electronic music alone. There were similar movements taking place all over the world.

    Look up Louis & Bebe Barron, Raymond Scott, Moog, Luigi Russolo, Bruce Haak, & Stockhausen.

  • There is a c in Hack.

  • You are correct Sir.

  • Is it just me or are her hands slightly mesmerizing in this video? They seem to speak for her more then her words....maybe it's the tab of acid though...

  • Now that is an analog sequencer!

  • obvious interlude:

    "MAN, DAT WOZ OLD SKOOL!"

    Now where do I get to watch the rest? Must dust off the Beeb's archive I guess...

  • Delia, you are the hottest girl imaginable.

  • sry, i hit the thumbs down by mistake, when i actually meant to hit the thumbs up. I totally agree, she was such the dream gal for every tech geek in the world. A salute to pure genius and intuition!

  • so agreed!

  • ur joking?????

  • @electro808 yeah, sexy teeth for example :S

  • @kpingvin thats just plain british

  • @electro808 I know dude, who wouldn't want a girl with an accent who's 40 years ahead of her time?

  • Techno came from the states did it??????

  • amazin

  • Amazing! Sampling and sequencing in the 60's! This predates any understanding I've had of electronic music. The lady was ahead of her time. Too bad she's gone relatively unnoticed.

  • Dat is nog eens samplen!

  • Well there you go. I thought it all started with the Aphex Twin. Amazing stuff.

  • I could have listened to beloved Delia for hours on end, but only for a minute until I would have fallen in love with her!

    Delia, the creator of electronica.

  • Them europeans love electronic music!

  • Fuckin' Genesis!!

  • She is probably the most important person in the history of electronic music, and her name is barely known. Everyone in electronic music owes this woman a great debt, her name should be canonized with the respect it deserves. Thank you Delia, for your genius and inspiration.

  • @trunkeight she was talented, yeah. particularly influental? no. go listen to terry riley or eno.

  • @beepbeeprustrust I think that she pioneered many things that many will not have known would be widely used (either musically, instrumentally or technically). Although I don't see her as widely influential in the sense of the artists you mentioned many of the works from the Radiophonic department on which sheworked on have had a bearing on the direction that electronic music has taken over the years. I was intrigued to hear that she created what was considered the first piece of electronic dance

  • @TheSaintST1 music ever. Though she didn't realise it at the time, the rhythms she created could easily be used today, certainly in alternative electronic dance music. I'd be incredibly surprised if she hasn't had any of her work sampled today.

  • @beepbeeprustrust Yeah. What's with these gits rushing to compare her to modern pop. crud music? You just know they're only doing it to be a butt.

  • @trunkeight I agree. The Radiophonic Workshop was a great influence on George Martin, without whom...

  • @trunkeight

    i am not sure about the most important but certainly no less important than any of the other greats. i mean i cant say she is any better than raymond scott or otto

    she is for sure as good.

  • Me and my buddy beat match mix from MK1200 Turntable to a old Pieoneer Real to Real It was tricky but with pratice can be done well.A Real like that can go for 1,200 easy now.

  • pis off

  • How come, that bastards like "Tungtvann" get in touch with this site...?

    Bloody diturbant idiot !

  • Haha what is the language you are speaking?

  • Jeg snakker ikke Norsk

  • she invented looping,OMG! she is the mother of hiphop!!!!!

  • that shit sounded ill though! i liked that last loop.

  • more like the mother of all modern music lol

  • LOL mother of hip hop

  • <3 <3 <3 <3

  • This is SO FUCKING COOL !! RESPECT !! (and I thought Kraftwerk were pioneres :rolleyes: )

  • so much for severed heads hahahah