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Delia Derbyshire’s Nightwalker
Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for Halloween – Delia Derbyshire’s Nightwalker.
Derbyshire, best known for her 1963 arrangement of Ron Grainer’s Dr Who theme, has been called “the unsung heroine of British electronic music.”
via iiishtar, via Warren Ellis
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany is a new documentary film that examines how a generation of” Krautrockers” built a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
The documentary will debut Friday October 23rd on BBC 4 at 9pm. No word on when it will be available outside the UK.
Description:
Between 1968 and 1977, bands including Neu!, Faust, Can and Kraftwerk looked beyond Anglo-American pop to create some of the most radical and original sounds ever heard in the country.
The experiments of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Cluster would give the world its first taste of electronica.
By the late Seventies, some famous English and American ears took notice as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop decamped to Germany in an attempt to tap into the Zeitgeist. Meanwhile, in a studio overlooking the Berlin Wall, Iggy and Bowie would record Low, Heroes and Lust For Life, taking the sound and feel of Krautrock to the bank and to the world at large.
David Vorhaus Analogue Electronic Music 1979
In this historical video from 1979, American-born UK synth pioneer David Vorhaus talks about two of his analogue inventions – the MANIAC analogue sequencer, and the Kaleidophon. Read more…
This video captures a historical look at the future of music – a BBC Tomorrow’s World episode that looked at the Moog modular synthesizer. Read more…
This music video, by Jonathan Beamish, is for the earliest recorded version of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart, produced as a John Peel Session for the BBC in 1979.
via jonathanbeamish:
The original band footage is a mixture of a performance video shot by the band for the single release (minus the damaged shots) and live concert excerpts from Plank, Brussels and the Apollo, Manchester. We needed to do some tricky retiming and editing to sync it up with the footage which is from completely different versions of the song.Odd to discover that much of the original performance video done for the single release wasn’t edited properly with much of the shots of the band playing not cut accurately to the audio
