Danny Stewart

I am pleased to announce the release of version 2 of my The Eleventh Hour Doctor Who theme remix. This is a radical overhaul of the original, which has been preserved as a “TV Version” of the mix (still available from my music page and in the post below).

In addition to extending the length of the theme, I have totally redone the bassline, bringing it more in line with how I feel a proper Doctor Who bassline should sound (clear and driving). There are also a bunch more little flourishes and touches by me in there.

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UPDATE 2010-04-23: I whipped up a “Derbyshire mix” just for fun last night when I got home from work. Quick and dirty, but I like it.

I have just completed work on my take on Murray Gold’s newest rendition of the Doctor Who theme. In honor of the premiere, I have titled it The Eleventh Hour.

I began with a close recreation of Murray Gold’s version, right down to the percussion and inaccurate bassline. I then decided to drop the percussion, beefed up the bassline, and overhauled the melody with a modernized take on Delia Derbyshire’s original. I also added some backing pads and incorporated sounds from my previous Doctor Who 2010 theme.

This mix will form the foundation of a few subsequent versions I have in mind. The first new version will already be a substantial change, and should be available soon.

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I’ve been listening to Murray Gold’s latest theme a lot over the past few days, and it’s grown on me significantly since I first heard it. I actually now think it is the best version of the theme that Murray has done. That said, there are still some things that he’s gotten “wrong” about the theme, and what bothers me is that people might be learning how the theme works from Murray Gold’s versions instead of the originals. So without further ado, here is a small lesson on how the Doctor Who theme works.
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Well, I’ve certainly had some astonishing luck this weekend.

Since Friday, I’ve been in California to attend my great-grandmother’s 100th birthday. (She is, by the way, in amazing shape for being 100.) On Saturday morning, I received an email from a friend of mine telling me that he was going to attend something called WonderCon in San Francisco, where they were going to be showing the exclusive US premiere of The Eleventh Hour, weeks ahead of its debut on BBC America. My interest piqued, as totally by coincidence, I happened to be within driving range of San Francisco this weekend (and I’ve never even been here before). I got the details from him and decided that it was worth making the trip. I made the two-hour trip down to San Francisco and attended the episode’s premiere at WonderCon. It was a fantastic experience. Hundreds Doctor Who fans gathered together (some dressed up as Sylvester McCoy, Tom Baker, and David Tennant), and we all got to watch the premiere on a big screen with a personal video introduction from Matt Smith and Karen Gillan. It was an experience I was thrilled to be a part of.

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Fantastic full-length rendition of Eaglestriker’s theme now up on Whomix. We’d be lucky to get a theme this good for 2010, but I expect to be disappointed.