8 Tracks: From The Radiophonic Workshop With Hector Plimmer

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Over the past year or so South London based Hector Plimmer has been making some considerable movements within the electronic music sphere. His music is infused with tribal rhythms and incredibly rich bass, and is gaining understandable recognition.

Having appeared on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Bubblers compilation and released a stunning debut album he is fast establishing himself as one of London's most creative electronic musicians, also winning the PRS Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award. His recent Against The Clock was really something to behold.

For his 8 tracks he chose to revisit the works of the legendary Radiophonic Workshop comosers Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire.

Buy his album, Sunshine, HERE

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Delia Derbyshire/Blue Veils And Golden Sand

My favourite Delia Derbyshire track & possibly one of my favourite pieces of electronic music. Originally made for a BBC documentary on the nomadic Tuareg tribe of the Sahara desert, you can feel the heavy heat radiating from the searing oscillators & deep meandering melody.

Delia Derbyshire/Blue Veils And Golden Sand

My favourite Delia Derbyshire track & possibly one of my favourite pieces of electronic music. Originally made for a BBC documentary on the nomadic Tuareg tribe of the Sahara desert, you can feel the heavy heat radiating from the searing oscillators & deep meandering melody.
White Noise - Love Without Sound 1969

This track was made alongside David Vorhaus & fellow Radiophonic Workshop member Brian Hodgson at their collective studio; Kaleidophon Studios. Insanely ahead of its time, monotonous rhythmic clatterings & squelches accompany the eerie vocals of John Whitman to create a window into the future of what electronic music would later become.
Daphne Oram - Pulse Persephone

This track makes me feel like something is lurking somewhere just outside of my peripheries to jump out at me when I least expect it.
Daphne Oram - Purring Interlude

Daphne Oram & her cat in another dimension aided by a tape delay. Nothing more, nothing less.
Delia Derbyshire - Pot Au Feu (1968)

Techno meets Grime, 1960’s style.
Mind-bogglingly intricate, all made from recordings on reel to reel tape, elements sped up & down to change pitch & cut & pasted together again.
Daphne Oram - Bird Of Parallax

The real golden moment of this composition occurs around the 9:50 minute mark. A melody dripping in delay reminiscent of one you might hear at an Aba Shanti or Jah Shaka dance.
Delia Derbyshire - "Falling", From The Dreams (1964)

Delia embodying the anxious nightmare that woke you up in the night not long ago. made up of recordings made by Barry Bermange of Derbyshire & members of the british public & manipulated by Delia Derbyshire with haunting atmospheric background noises. This is part of a series called ‘The Dreams’ which also features themes: ‘Running’, ‘Sea’, ‘Land’ & ‘colour’. All equally terrifying.
Daphne Oram

Everything about this video is amazing. Including the top Youtube comment; “Daphne crossed knitting with being a DJ?”