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- joeytoyota, on 07/23/2008, -0/+32Great article, but slightly misleading title. There are over a hundred missing episodes of classic Doctor Who out there, and I thought one of them had been found!
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+28I loved the original Dr Who...nice!
- xerofilter, on 07/23/2008, -1/+26EXTERMINATE!!!!
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+22Is the stuff available in mp3 yet?
- steve9924, on 07/23/2008, -2/+23It really is amazing that this stuff was done in the 60's without synthesizers. That techno track is better than a lot of the electronic music I hear nowadays.
- Sicarius, on 07/23/2008, -0/+18Damn! The headline got my hopes up. For a second I thought it was referring to tapes of the episodes that the BBC lost. Still, I love that theme.
- CherrySmith123, on 07/23/2008, -1/+15cool :)
- slifty, on 07/24/2008, -0/+13Clearly she was a time traveler.
- neognostic, on 07/23/2008, -0/+13I just freaked out the people in my office by playing it real loud.
- mishu, on 07/23/2008, -0/+12For the record, she died in 2001, not 1961. RIP, what a legend! Massive influence on all electronic music.
- Sonof8Bits, on 07/23/2008, -0/+11If not, i'd be more then happy to take his/her place.
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -0/+11What's a Tape? I love the original stuff! This is a great find...
- ssquared22, on 07/23/2008, -0/+11That's a whole lot of material to go through. I hope the person that has that duty is into bleeps and bloops.
- supermanred, on 07/24/2008, -0/+10The Doctor Who theme song was way ahead of it's time. For Christ's sake, she had to mix it together by laying out the TAPE across the floor of a corridor at the BBC and tape the parts together in sequence... no Macbook Pro... no Pro Tools... no software.
It was probably one of the first true multitrack recordings featuring electronic music ever.
And to this day, one of the most memorable and enduring theme songs in movie and television. Going strong after 30 seasons... Today's Doctor Who theme is pretty much the same except it is performed by the London orchestra. - steve9924, on 07/23/2008, -0/+10I can see it from that context. It was actually fairly well known in audio circles that the audio tapes from the work on the show were missing.
I can see why the title might be misinterpreted. Wasn't meant to deceive - the sumamry under the title is quite clear I think though. - ch1x0r3r, on 07/23/2008, -0/+10Delia Derbyshire is amazing. You should check out her band's (White Noise) first album, Electric Storm. They've got some great sounds that you would not expect from the 60's.
Here's one of their more well-known songs: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=K6pTdzt7BiI - Henchman24, on 07/23/2008, -0/+8As awesome as Kraftwerk was (is), their first album wasn't until 1971, and most of their best work was mid-late 70's.
- fluidfoundation, on 07/24/2008, -0/+8Allons-y!
- Kwipper, on 07/23/2008, -1/+9Holy crap! This track was made in the 60's!? Man. Talk about being before your time.
- VacuolateTuna, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7Amazing! I've always loved that theme, and its variations...
- jbmcb, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7[The Dr. throws his hat on a Dalek eyestalk, jams a detonator on it's case, then pushes it down a hallway, waving bye to it. Dalek violently explodes.]
Dr. Who, a making a face of sudden disbelief - "My hat!!!!"
The Doctor rules them all. - Steeple, on 07/23/2008, -1/+8no, don't do that, really,don't.
- steve9924, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7....Also, it's posted in "music"
- joeytoyota, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7Yeah, I saw it on the front page and got excited, that's all.
No worries. Still really cool. - motivatedmama, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7This is really amazing considering the era. I really dig the sound of, like, drops of water plunking into a tub...or something like that.(the tecno bit)
Oh yeah, and Doctor Who was one of my childhood favs! - Jamfa, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8The beats are more reminiscent to breakcore than techno, very disjointed and more sporadic, possibly like drops of water into a bath, I absolutely love it.
- Tracon, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6bbc with the audio track mentioned
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512072.s ... - sardion2000, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6I had the same thought, all of a sudden and then have it vanish in a puff of smoke. Oh well. Those tapes will be found one day(yeah right). I have never seen the majority of the First Two doctors and that makes me sad.
- inactive, on 07/23/2008, -1/+7Took the words right out of my mouth!
- fluidfoundation, on 07/23/2008, -1/+7I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
- Glitchwerks, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5And Kraftwerk didn't really begin to define that recognizable techno sound until the very late 70's and early 80's. And pretty soon a very impressionable young brother from Detroit dropped "Clear" and that is what set it off.
- MrPingu, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5Yea.....they got my hopes up to.
*sigh* - nunofgs, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5too much info
- steve9924, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4I think that one track could be considered modern techno. It's fairly similar to a lot of minimal techno & bleep techno
- sisko2k5, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4rock the Who
- kiwiboyus, on 07/24/2008, -0/+4LOVE Dr Who!
- jaynemother, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3I can't wait for "Hamlet In Space" to come out.
- MalenfantX, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3@sardion2000:Reconstructions are available of every episode. Some only have still photos over audio recordings, but there are plenty video clips too.
- jaynemother, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Oh wait, there really is something called Hamlet In Space... But it sucks. I want a true Hamlet in Space.
- elf25, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Don't Blink - whatever you do, DON'T BLINK!
- sdubois92, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Are you my mummy
- waydee, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Finally someone that knows "techno" is a very specific style of electronic music. Thank you.
- bludragn0, on 07/23/2008, -4/+7DELETE..DELETE...
- MrPingu, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Be quite and go sit in the corner.
- supermanred, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3Same here... Im currently re-encoding my collection of 30 seasons to save space and had just finished skipping over those "lost / reconstructed" episodes and was kind of hoping someone had found the lost tapes of Troughton or Hartnell.. oh well...
- bitbytebit, on 07/24/2008, -1/+3hopefully you will get to see the REALLY good eps some day. The ones with Tom Baker at least.
- steve9924, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2oops. duuuh.
- steve9924, on 07/23/2008, -2/+4in what way?
- WNW3, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2Were they freaked out or are they just bad dancers?
- thefamousc, on 07/24/2008, -1/+3Here's a rather good remix of her work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJSdljaZadU
And an entire site of other whomixes, some not so good but all interesting.
http://whomix.trilete.net/?wmid=music -
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