'And there in their hundreds are the lads that will never be old'

[tree_and_leaf]

Ninety years ago today, the Battle of the Somme began; the details are too well known to be rehearsed here. A miserable, sad business: sorrow for all those young men, both those who never came home and for those who did, is the dominant note, I think, albeit tinged with pride at the courage shown - and horror at what humanity can do. The best and worst in our natures lies so close together.

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Delia Derbishire was a genius

[tree_and_leaf]

Am trying to remember where I found an MP3 for the First Doctor theme - I remember it was a bit of a struggle.

It's actually been quite influential on the development of electronic music - it's one of the earliest examples of 'pure' electronic music, and all done by an enthusiastic amatuer fiddling about with radio equipment (oscillators and the like) in a BBC basement in her lunchbreak.

It's wonderfully uncluttered, evocative and sounds, well, like nothing on earth, while still being melodic (as opposed to the modern arrangement, which sounds like rent-a-blockbuster). I bet it absolutely blew them away in 1963.

Tja, da kann man ja nur den FAZ-Artikel zitieren...

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"...proto-technohaft hallende Sirenenfuturität!" Na denn.

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