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Techno in 1960
 Delia Derbyshire (1937 - 2001) is best-known for her long-uncredited contribution to the Doctor Who theme. After her death in 2001 a set of 267 tapes were found in her attic, and among them was this oddly prescient gem: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512490.stm Jul 18 08 06:41 pm Link Some other kick ass early music, this time by Beatrice Witkin and Gerhard Trede http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlKaG24CPU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5zl964 … re=related ----- Beatrice Witkin, 73; Electronic Composer Published: February 9, 1990 Beatrice Witkin, a composer of electronic music, died of complications from the flu on Wednesday at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She was 73 years old and lived in Manhattan. Beatrice Witkin, a composer of electronic music, died of complications from the flu on Wednesday at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She was 73 years old and lived in Manhattan. Mrs. Witkin was one of the first women to work in the electronic music idiom. Born in New York City, she studied with such noted composers as Roger Sessions and Stefan Wolpe, and with the pianist Edward Steuerman. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Hunter College and New York University. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h … A966958260 Jul 18 08 06:43 pm Link  The 'First Doctor' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512502.stm The original 1963 radiophonic arrangement of the Doctor Who theme is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, and Doctor Who was the first television series in the world to have a theme entirely realised through electronic means. The original theme was composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with assistance from Dick Mills. The various parts were built up by creating tape loops of an individually struck piano string and individual test oscillators and filters. The Derbyshire arrangement served, with minor edits, as the theme tune up to the end of Season 17 (1979â80). Jul 18 08 08:35 pm Link And related: Richard Dawkins has a real-life connection with Doctor Who: he is married to Lalla Ward, who was previously the wife of Tom Baker, having played the role of his assistant, Romana, in the series in the Seventies. Dawkins met her at a birthday party in 1992 for the late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy. Lalla floats in and out of Dawkinsâs vast living room and kitchen in Oxford, smiling and bearing espressos in terracotta mugs.  http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ … 331024.ece Jul 19 08 03:49 pm Link  Daphne Oram ... she laid the foundations for electro artists like the Human League and Aphex Twin http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/au … remembered Jul 23 08 08:32 pm Link Aug 08 08 12:14 am Link digital Artform wrote: WOW! Aug 08 08 12:16 am Link That's so fucking hot! Aug 08 08 12:18 am Link digital Artform wrote: I don't really play, but I used to like to try and pick this out on a guitar. Aug 08 08 12:24 am Link Paul Bryson Photography wrote: Even earlier, actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen Aug 08 08 12:31 am Link Daniel wrote: Aug 08 08 12:35 am Link digital Artform wrote: Aug 08 08 12:41 am Link Daniel wrote: Do you have a piece you like that you can link us to? Aug 08 08 12:43 am Link Stockhausen Xenakis Pade Pleatner Maderna Berio Nono Tudor Ussachevsky Dockstader Subotnick Rudin to name a few Aug 08 08 12:51 am Link digital Artform wrote: No. Too much noodling for me. I'm more into John Cage, Philip Glass, Steve Reich's Come Out, Cluster, Eno, Tangerine Dream, etc. Aug 08 08 12:53 am Link digital Artform wrote: got to love minimal techno! Aug 08 08 12:58 am Link 808 State Aug 08 08 05:22 am Link digital Artform wrote: Cabaret Voltaire Aug 08 08 09:41 am Link Daniel wrote: If you are into Cluster and Tangerine Dream you should really check out the music Conrad Schnitzler is making with MiT. Conrad decided to revive the Cluster name...this time it's Kluster with a K because he said so:-) They had a 3 cd set that just sold out...a european manufacturer bought up the last 5 copies. They are preparing to release another cd soon though. Kluster is MiT, Con and a guy named Ooy from Japan. Mic and Con also release cd's themselves. I'm partial because I'm dating MiT...lol. Aug 08 08 11:12 am Link Susi wrote: Kluster was also the spelling they used on early recordings before Conrad left and Connie Plank joined and produced the group. Klopfzeichen, Zwei-Osterei, and Erution are now available as a box set or individually, Classic stuff. Aug 08 08 11:22 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: My boyfriend knows way more about this stuff than I do...lol.. until a year ago I didn't even know who Conrad and Rodelius were. Trust me...I'm enjoying my education:-) Aug 08 08 11:27 am Link  I knew about Delia!!! zomg. *dies of happiness in this thread* please to move mah corpse when it gets smellay ^_^ Aug 08 08 11:30 am Link Susi wrote: These were the sounds of my youth...and the German scene in the late 60's and 70's was amazing. Neu!, Can, Cluster, Harmonia, Faust. Yep Aug 08 08 11:34 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: !!!!!! Aug 08 08 11:38 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: Michael too...he has alot of that stuff on vinyl...you two guys have to meet sometime:-) Aug 08 08 11:51 am Link Susi wrote: All us older hipsters have that stuff on Vinyle..or Had....I switched over to CD years ago..easier to move = ) Aug 08 08 12:08 pm Link Collin J. Rae wrote: i haz it still ^_^ Aug 08 08 12:18 pm Link Collin, next time your in Atlanta you have to meet us for a drink. The "older hipsters" have to stick together;-) Aug 08 08 12:19 pm Link Itzel wrote: I still love vinyl too. Unfotunately my collection isn't as vast as it used to be. Aug 08 08 12:20 pm Link Susi wrote: sadly, mine is all in storage. Aug 08 08 12:28 pm Link D.A.F. Aug 08 08 05:46 pm Link Bumped in honor of Dr. Who Aug 24 14 06:22 pm Link Raymond Scott. He composed/performed/recorded this in the late 50s/early 60s. That's just a sampling of his extensive pioneering electronic work. Robert Moog built devices for him based on his specs. Bob rarely knew exactly what he was building for Ray (as in, what it would be used for). Name sound familiar? He also composed this, which Carl Stalling made immortal years later by incorporating bits of it into cartoons. That's Ray at the piano in the clip. Aug 24 14 06:51 pm Link Aug 24 14 07:15 pm Link Good find!!!! Aug 24 14 07:35 pm Link kickfight wrote: OK help -- I watched, but what's scary about it? The only logo that ever scared me was THX. Holy shit dat music! Aug 24 14 07:39 pm Link SPierce Photography wrote: Don't know either. I remember that Screen Gems logo sequence appearing at the end of certain TV shows and while it didn't disturb me, I did think it was kinda odd. My take on the documentary is that it's actually a mockumentary (in other words, no actual children were ever scared or traumatized by the Screen Gems logo or its theme music). Aug 24 14 08:28 pm Link kickfight wrote: The documentary might be a mockery, but I did a bit of googling around. There is actually an entire tv tropes page of scary logos! I didn't find any scary, but there's a floating head one that's totally wtf. Aug 24 14 08:50 pm Link Aug 24 14 09:04 pm Link kickfight wrote:
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