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Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange - The Dreams

Intergalactic FM played a whole bunch of Italian soundtrack rough funk earlier on, and then dropped the temperature a million degrees by playing "Falling" from "The Dreams" by Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange. 

I thought I had the lot, all the Delia Derbyshire bits floating around the ether, but it was the first time I've heard this, sounding utterly terrifying - a series of cut-up voices talking about dreams against a minimal electronic backdrop. Vaguely reminds of the also-very-scary "I before E except after C" by Yazoo. 

It was broadcast in 1964 on The Third Programme (shit, great name for a band that - shame it's taken by, um, this), but no need for a time machine: the always great Mutant Sounds blog has the five tracks, complete with evocative AM radio buzz and hum.

Filed under  //   bbc   deliaderbyshire   electronic   music   radio   radiophonicworkshop  
Posted October 16, 2008
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Kelpe live - badass live drummin' and laptop action


Reminds me vaguely of the Fourtet/Steve Reid thing or Clark, but a lot more fun. Dunno how the drummer keeps it together without a clicktrack, must just be bloody good then. 

There's some cracking tracks on Kelpe's Myspace from a recent remix EP. It's out on vinyl, so hooray - but for extra points, when you hand over your five quid you also get a voucher for a download of all the tracks on the 12" plus some extra ones which didn't quite fit. Which seems to me to be the way to go - much as I love the black plastic I'll also want to play it on my iPod thing when I'm out and about.  

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Posted October 12, 2008
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Short Bus Radio with Speculator - electro/disco and all that

 

"On the Short Bus you will hear electronic music made with old synthesizers and drum machines, including disco (classic, italo, canadian), new wave, chicago house & acid, detroit techno stuff, freaked out weirdness, electro, a little bit of freestyle and miami bass, and the occasional guilty pleasure record.."

Lots of good stuff on this weeks' Short Bus Radio, kicking off with New Order in authentic-sounding dub, then moving through some old favourites like Bobby Womack's sublime theme for "Across 110th Street", Soft Cell's cutting "Bedsitter" - the 12" featuring the classic "do you look a mess?/do you have a hangover?" breakdown and ESG's Martin Hannett-produced "UFO" at slowed to hiphop tempo from the Ultimate Breaks and Beats LP. 

The Clash's "Mustapha Dance" was a find, being a slightly dubbed-out (and much less irritating) version of "Rock the Casbah", boosting that joyful funky-twiddly bassline that was hiding under the layers. Never been a fan of The Clash particularly, but I must investigate "Super Black Market Clash", "The Magnificent Dance" is a killer too.

Also really liked the Grackle track - been trying to find the TKeeler and Capablanca rework of "Jungle" for a while now, gives me the feeling of a warm summer drawing to a close, in place of the cold and wet one we've had. It's finally popped up in digital on zero-inch. and it's also on the Discos Capablanca Myspace.

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Posted August 27, 2008
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