The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire GIVE HER THE RECOGNITION SHE DESERVES R.I.P by GST/bobscratch published on 2022-11-22T13:34:20Z Delia Derbyshire before her time,the queen of electronic music & sampling. KNOW HER Dellia Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma (née Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire. of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry. Her father was a sheet-metal worker. She had one sibling, a sister, who died young,Dellia Derbyshire innovator of sampling & electronic music, Back in the 1960s, there was no music software available. To make the Doctor Who theme, Derbyshire recorded sounds onto physical tape – including a plucked piano string, wooden blocks and clanging metal. She then cut up the tape, adjusted the tempo and spliced it together to create the eerie futuristic music. Genre Electronic