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Doctor Who composer's stash of hidden tracks



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A collection of music recordings composed by the creator of the pioneering Doctor Who theme tune, which has been stashed away in an attic since the 1960s, has been unveiled for the first time. The experimental tracks were laid down by Delia Derbyshire, and include a dance track so ahead of its time Paul Hartnoll of dance group Orbital has said it could be 'coming out next week on Warp Records'.

Delia Derbyshire was employed in the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in 1963 when she was given the score for a theme tune to the new science fiction series. She turned the pages of dots into the powerful, idiosyncratic Doctor Who title music we know today - although it is the score's author, Ron Grainer, who is credited as the composer.

Listen to some of the uncovered tracks at the link.
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4 responses // Doctor Who composer's stash of hidden tracks

  • very nice
    Doctor who has such great music composed
    Chuck_st_chuck
  • I loved the old Dr. Who shows, especially the Tom Baker years. But I don't care so much for the new version out now.
    Brockie
  • If Pink Floyd found her music worthy of mixing into "One Of These Days", I'm more than just curious about this find. To say that Delia was ahead of her time is as massive an understatement as those bestowed upon Hendrix. Their ideas of the future still sound like the future.
    huntre
  • In a time before techno, a time before synthesizers and a time before stylophone, amazing that such iconic sequences could be created using nothing more than a lamp shade and a stripped down piano.
    EclecticBadger

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