Tardis Crash – A Doctor Who Middle Eight Mash-Up

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Tardis Crash CoverSo here we have my first Mash-up. It’s miles away from something as impressive as the Dean Gray American Edit, or even Alex H’s Bastard Mix Monday (which, quite frankly, is a 63 minute stroke of genius), but I’m pleasantly surprised at what I’ve put together here.

It all started with the Christmas Doctor Who episode and the ‘return’ of the middle eight in the closing theme tune. It was never there during the Eccleston years, and us fans got really upset. But lo and behold, closing out Tennant’s first full episode, it was there in all it’s Welsh National Orchestra glory. Of course there was a bloody announcer over it, so it was super-hard to make out. Cue lots of happy yet sad posts on Outpost Gallifrey.

The BBC must have been reading, as yesterday they posted a streaming version of the closing “Middle 8” version to the website. I’ll have some of that (I said, powering up the grabbing tools). And then it was a simple idea to jump from that to pushing it together with a bit of the opening music to make a full theme.

Still though, it wasn’t punchy enough. I’ve thought that throughout the Eccleston season, so I took some time to grab elements from the original 1963 Delia Derbyshire arrangement to highlight parts of the melody and tune, bring in more Tardis and ethereal noise, and generally act as a boost for the new Murray Gold arrangement.

So I’d like to present to you all my first Mash-Up. I’m calling it Tardis Crash (128K MP3 and 68 seconds in length), and the technical notes are that it’s mashup of Tardis (arrg Delia Derbyshire) with Tardis (arrg Murray Gold). Yes it’s one Song to the tune of the same song.

[audio:http://www.ewanspence.co.uk/podcast/Tardis%20Crash%20128k%20(Doctor%20Who%20Middle%20Eight%20Mash%20-%20Gold&Derbyshire).mp3]

All comments welcome. I’m pretty pleased with this (See if you can spot the extra effects lifted from 1963).