A pile of tapes by Delia Derbyshire — that’s Miss Blind Lemon Radiophonic Workshop herself — have shown up retrieved from her attic. Proper electronic music, from back when you needed to build the damn thing before you played it — “I think she got a bit disheartened and a bit bored with it all when the synthesizer came along and it all became a little too easy.” The tapes are being prepared for wider release.
That little snippet of Miss Derbyshires invention of IDM 20 years before Richard James et all was very tasty.
Delia Derbyshire is one of those people that I should own the complete works of..