Did house, techno and grime music start with these women? | BBC Ideas

When an electronic music studio was established in Maida Vale, London, few at the BBC knew why it was there. But experiments in sound in that very studio completely changed how music was composed. Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire's research paved the way for electronic music - and inspired everyone from The Beatles to Aphex Twin.

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