Sometimes this blog will just be Ziwzih Zwizih OO-OO-OO

 

"Most of the programs that I did were either in the far distant future, 

the far distant past or in the mind. "

 

 Electronic and Ambient pioneer Delia Derbyshire produced this pre-Kraftwerk, Die Antwoord-sampled marvel as a hymn for robots to sing at the end of a now lost episode of the BBC scifi anthology Out of the Unknown. According to this article on the nicely named "wikidelia", it recycles a track Derbyshire originally composed for a sex-education schools' film, rejected on the grounds that its wobbulator-induced ooh-ooh-oohs sounded "too lascivious" – and to be fair to Science and Health, now they've pointed that out, the deep chromium honeys do sound quite down to party.

 This surviving still from the show got me very excited, because I immediately recognised the robots from their later reappearance, painted white, in a hastily rustled-up, unbudgeted fifth episode of the "Dr. Who" story The Mind Robber, recalling the impression made on me by the idea that the threshold between Imagination and Reality might be a white void inexplicably patrolled by machines.*

 

 * As anyone who remembers the first episode of Time Spanner may have guessed.