Comments on: Archivist Responds: Yes, Virginia, Delia Derbyshire Really Was That Awesome

By: gladbeast

gladbeast — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:22:13 +0000

lovely piece, thank you, does anyone have the bbc play about her hooking up with sonic boom shortly before she passed, it was very sweet..

By: robin

robin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:39:51 +0000

You might want to let David Butler know I have a digital copy of the “Dance From Noah” off the EMS disk, and it does seem to be a development of the same theme that has been “discovered”. It sounds quite different with additional melodic elements.

Can’t wait to hear anything else that might come from the Derbyshire archives.

By: tim from Radio Clash

tim from Radio Clash — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:06:14 +0000

Sorry Glo Worm = Glo Spot.

Also check out Tommorrow’s People OST from Trunk, she’s on that too ;-)

P.S. I’m really surprised people think she didn’t write that track, obv they’ve not heard some of her later electronic works e.g. ‘Chromophone Band’ I think it’s called, where she uses synths and percussion in a very techno-way. Just she got bored after Electrosonic with the ubiquitous synthesiser - and hearing a lot of the 70’s output I can’t really blame her - compared to her or John Baker she’s miles ahead.

By: tim from Radio Clash

tim from Radio Clash — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:03:42 +0000

Glad to hear this - when I heard the tune I called for it to be released on my blog - I think it should be released in full (I see why not? She’s overdue the respect of a full CD set of her works - BBC? Hello?)

BTW Electrosonic isn’t out of print or I just bought the last copy on CD a week ago from Glo Worm…quite a lot of her work is floating around if you look.

I’d love to hear the PM programme piece about her - strangely I missed it thinking it was just the blog entry. Bah.

By: Graham Metcalfe

Graham Metcalfe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:41:59 +0000

BTW…whoever the artist was who did the cover did a beautiful job. Very striking.

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[...] Create Digital Music » Archivist Responds: Yes, Virginia, Delia Derbyshire Really Was That Awesome David Butler of the University of Manchester was one of two archivists who started undertaking the work of assembling a library of Derbyshire’s ground-breaking work. He writes in CDM’s comments that this is no BBC special effect: the recordings are very much real. He also clears up some of the confusion about their discovery, and offers more on the tantalizing cut “NOAH’s dance.” « How to Get the Biggest Bang for 10 Billion Bucks - WSJ.com [...]

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:00:21 +0000

Thanks for the clarification! I can’t wait to browse the archive :)

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