Delia Derbyshire's dance track: "Dance from Noah" clip
David Butler comments on Create Digital Music with some more info on the mysterious Aphex-style dance track that's been dug out of the Delia Derbyshire archives. Rooting around my collection of stuff I found something which claims to be the track David mentions, seemingly off a demo record of the EMS VCS3.
It's a sweet little thing, only 54 seconds long. The driving, analogue drum machine-style beat is quickly drowned out by the piccolo-style synth line, it seems easily possible it's the same beat, or at least from the same session. I did a rough check on the tempo of each, and they're roughly in line at about 155bpm or so.
Now it ain't mine to go slinging round on the Internet, but I'm hoping it's OK to quote a tiny clip of the pertinent section, about ten seconds of the start of it.
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Dance From Noah by Delia Derbyshire
(download)
Update: Just for interest only, here's an interview with Delia by Radio Scotland in 1997. Let me assure you, we all speak like that in Coventry.
