Early Dance Music Discovered

Saturday, July 19, 2008

This is incredible.

A hidden stash of recordings have been discovered, including a track that seems to anticipate cutting edge electronic dance music by a full 20 or 30 years.

Even more spookily, the recordings were created by Delia Derbyshire, who worked at the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in the Sixties and created the electronic sounds for the original Doctor Who theme tune. (True to the times, she didn't get any credit. That went to Ron Grainer who wrote the score.)

This newly unearthed track sounds like she jumped into the Tardis in the Nineties, travelled back to the Sixties and laid it down as a blueprint for where electronic music would end up.

Think Aphex Twin and you're half-way there. It's amazingly prescient.

Here's the story with the track embedded in it.

Here's more about Derbyshire.

Myspace here.