Artist : Delia Derbyshire
Title : Electrosonic
Genre : Avantgarde
Year : 2006
Date : 05/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 19
Label : Glo Spot Records
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 32:22 min
Size : 43,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.quest 01:48
02.quest-fast 01:11
03.computermatic 01:18
04.frontier of knowledge 02:10
05.the pattern emerges 02:59
06.freeze frame 01:43
07.plodding power 01:54
08.busy microbes 01:46
09.liquid energy 01:56
10.liquid energy (rhythm only) 00:57
11.no man's land 01:54
12.depression 01:30
13.nightwalker 02:03
14.electrostrings 00:24
15.electrobuild 00:27
16.celestial cantabile 03:34
17.effervescence 02:05
18.the wizard's laboratory 02:09
19.shock chords 00:34
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32:22 min
Finding out there's a full album of previously unreleased
material from Delia and her Radiophonic associates would
rank as a year-high for mostly anyone working in any
respectable record shop anywhere in the world.
The first thing that hit me though was that it must be a bit
average, you know, surely it would have been found and
re-released, people would be talking about it right?
But no, this album has literally come out of nowhere and
truly is as top quality as you could possibly imagine, pipping
most other collections I've heard from the radiophonic stable
and becoming very quickly one of the diamonds of the lady's
incredible catalogue. Firstly I must tell you, my affliction
comes from Doctor Who, so I'm a sucker for even the later
period Derbyshire stuff, such as this - okay it might be more
synth-led but it's no less crushing and it's got that rich metallicnotes
sci fi glow it's almost impossible not to fall for.
She might be best known for her work with the workshop, but
while she wasn't working on BBC series Derbyshire was
moonlighting to raise extra cash and here, assisted by Brian
Hodgson and Australian mood musiccomposer Don Harper,
she put together a library record for the esteemed KPM label.
Recorded under pseudonyms and filed away this material has
rested untouched in some archive gathering dust for years, so
we can only thank the label (run by a close personal friend of the
late Derbyshire) for digging this out and treating it with so much
love - the packaging is absolutely fabulous, paying close attention
to the library music roots but also staying markedly contemporary
in look and feel, and then there's the vinyl itself - fancy heavy duty
audiophile wax and it's GREEN. don't worry vinyl fetishists, trust
me it sounds absolutely grand and I'm a stickler for these things.
So what's the music like? Well surprisingly this doesn't go the
route of small skits and re-used themes as much as most
library records do, rather this goes from the more upbeat
cuts to epic, long-format swirling numbers you would associate
with Doctor Who or other BBC sci fi shows of the era.
I've played this continuously since copies arrived on Monday
and I have to say it is easily one of the most essential releases
of the year, really illustrating everything that I love about British
early electronic blippery. I can't think of a better Christmas
present actually, and you should know that (of course) this is
crazily limited to only 500 copies worldwide.