Thanks to ISO50 for posting this amazing recording of Delia Derbyshire's utterly haunting 1964 sound collage, "Dreams," in which Derbyshire set "a collection of spliced/reassembled interviews" of people relating details about their recurring dreams (or nightmares) against her own "dissonant, often terrifying musique concrete soundbeds..." Listen alone/in the dark for the full effect.

I almost crapped myself when I took that last bit of advice to heart a moment ago. That fear soon turned to desire, though, once I started reading about Ms. Derbyshire and her illustrious career. She was one of the first electronic musicians. She co-composed the original theme song from Dr. Who. Richard D. James of Aphex Twin fame covered some of her tunes. She was a fox back in day, and had a foxy name. She was British. What more could you ask for?

You can listen to a couple of terrifying tracks after the jump. This is going on my Halloween playlist immediately. It totally trumps the "creepy sounds" tape I used to have back in the day.