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B-sides: Grandmothers of electronic music, Part 1--Delia Derbyshire

Music post by Briar Levit, October 27, 2009 - 6:55pm; tagged BBC, Electronic Music, Radiophonic Workshop.

 

I love electronic music—a genre that had its mainstream heyday in the 90s with a small resurgence in the form of electro-clash in the early naughts. Throughout my years listening, I've gathered quite a collection with my favorites including: Aphex Twin, Plaid, µ-Ziq, Boards of Canada, Bogdan Raczynski, Venetian Snares, Squarepusher and on. Guess how many of those musicians are women? Zero. Sure. I like Mira Calix and Ellen Alien...but they are rare in their field.

So when a friend posted a mash-up on his Facebook page featuring one of the early innovators in electronic music, who happened to also be a woman, I was intrigued.
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