Pot Au Feu

Pot Au Feu is 3 minutes and 13 seconds of "angular robot jazz crammed with incident", "a pounding, fantastically rhythmical track, unsettling enough to have a speedfreak running to get the breadknives in the kitchen"

This is three minutes and nineteen seconds of paranoia, virtually a rave track circa 1991 in its structure; a stattering, pounding teleprinter-paced bassline worthy of Timbaland as the tension builds, then a moment of chaos and crisis, an alarm-bell of a hook recalling the "panic / excitement" lines so prevalent in early 90s hardcore.
   -- Robin Carmody in Wee also have sound-houses

Delia shows how she assembles part of Pot Au Feu on four tape recorders as part of the Tomorrow's World video in 1965.

Papers

• DD124722: Manuscript for the 11/8 percussion loop featured in the above video.
• DD124753: Manuscript for the last moments of the piece ("Finnish")

Copyright

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Title: Pot Au Feu
Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Music
Creation date: 1 January 1984

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Availability

• Released on BBC Radiophonic Music in 1971.
• Released on Music from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 2003.