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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire

Kind of an amazing woman, Delia Derbyshire was an electronic music pioneer. Check out some videos of her on youtube and then discuss...

Decca Records was pretty famous for turning down acts which later became huge or otherwise important and Delia Derbyshire was one of these. She was turned down for an engineer job in 1959 for being a woman.

What if she had gone instead to Parlophone and they accepted her as an engineer? It eventually became an enormous label and was known for allowing its bigger acts to experiment. Surely electronic music would have skyrocketed further if her methods had been utilized in some of their bigger artist's more experimental records?

The question is this:

Electronic beats/backing for tracks by live bands becomes commonplace for bands by the end of the sixties, what are the effects on music in the seventies and beyond if electronic music comes this far this early?

There are no right or wrong answers. Your opinion only.

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