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Listed below are comments made by superflyingnimbus between Friday, 18th July 2008 and Friday, 12th December 2008.

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IT'LL ALL BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS 12:17pm on 12 Dec 2008 It all smacks of desperation. The major labels will always sign and push middle-ground acts above the truly remarkable because they are more sales-focused than at any time in history. The broad-appeal middle-ground is a safe-bet and they want guaranteed sales. But as the middle-ground is now swamped with mediocre similar-sounding pap, people are losing interest. It's debatable what the majority of the music-buying public like more: innovation or familiarity. But even if they prefer the familiar, then as you say, they're not going to buy three similar-sounding albums in the same month. It's all symptomatic of the collapse of the music industry combined with the global downturn. At the moment all we can do is watch the slow-motion car crash and wait to see what happens.
WoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo 2:15pm on 18 Jul 2008 Fantastic to hear about the recently digitised tapes, and heart-warming that Delia is becoming a household name at last.

Autechre, mentioned in the programme, aren't a dance-orientated hard-core techno act as suggested, but a much more experimental electronic outfit, and have shown real ingenuity over the past decade in pushing their technology to make original-sounding music - in much the same way that Derbyshire did decades ago.

However, listening to a track like "Surripere" by Autechre, a track released 40 years after the Doctor Who theme, you really get a sense that Derbyshire was so far ahead of her time as to still sound fresh alongside today's cutting-edge electronic music - which is a unique and phenomenal achievement.

It's amazing that she has been so profoundly influential to a whole generation of contemporary electronic musicians that you can still hear her sound underpinning the whole scene today.

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