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PR: Doctor Who The Krotons (US release)

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  1. SILVA SCREEN RECORDS PRESENTS
    DOCTOR WHO – THE KROTONS

    The second archive release of a Doctor Who soundtrack since the Doctor Who 2005 British TV comeback, featuring a collection of 'special sounds' by British electronic composer Brian Hodgson.

    Doctor Who - The Krotons is a 4-episode Doctor Who serial, first broadcast in weekly parts from 28 December 1968 to 18 January 1969.

    Brian Hodgson was a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and worked closely with Delia Derbyshire, the seminal figure of English electronic music. As the original sound effects creator for Doctor Who he was responsible for the chilling Dalek voices and the powerhouse sound of the Tardis lifting off. Brian created the Tardis sound in 1963, running a back door key for his mother's house along the bass string of a dismembered piano and treating it electronically. The sound of the Tardis lift-off is still in use. Brian comments: "I spent a long time in planning the Tardis sound, I wanted a sound that seemed to be travelling in two directions at once; coming and going at the same time."

    The collection displays Brian’s highly innovative techniques that, together with Delia Derbyshire’s experiments in modes and tunings, became the staple of British electronica. The 1963 Doctor Who theme kicked off the Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop.

    Brain Hodgson says of his work: “I never used to call the stuff I made myself ‘music’. I was more interested in what I called the theatre of sound. I was creating atmospheres that were not conventionally music in their form. Nobody sat down to create a piece of formal electronic music, it was always a contribution to enhance a radio or television program. I think that’s what gave the Workshop its vivacity.”

    Tracklisting:


    1. Doctor Who (New Opening Theme, 1967)
    2. The Learning Hall
    3. Door Opens
    4. Entry Into The Machine
    5. TARDIS (New Landing)
    6. Wasteland Atmosphere
    7. Machine And City Theme
    8. Machine Exterior
    9. Panels Open
    10. Dispersal Unit
    11. Sting
    12. Selris' House
    13. Machine Interior
    14. Snake Bleeps Low
    15. Silver Hose (The Snake)
    16. Snake Bleeps High
    17. Teaching Machine Hums
    18. Forcefield
    19. Burning Light
    20. Birth Of A Kroton
    21. Kroton Theme
    22. Kroton Dies
    23. Link - Rising Hum
    24. Kroton Dies (Alternative)


    CD: SILCD1371
    Digital album: SILED1371
    Release date: July 16, 2013

    For more information about these recordings visit http://www.doctorwhomusic.com/, http://www.silvascreenusa.com, contact cinemediapromo@yahoo.com, or @cinemediapromo on Twitter
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 27th 2013
    You see, this is a serial I had completely forgotten (and I just saw it a few weeks ago). I had to wiki it, and even then I had trouble remembering. slant
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  3. "Special sounds" it says. Beware because I thought it was awful. Good to have a version of the title theme but that is all.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 27th 2013
    Much of the early, electronic WHO material is basically unlistenable outside the series (and sometimes even inside too). Dudley Simpson's stuff is usually decent, though.
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  5. Hoping that for every one of these releases there will be a more listenable release.
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      CommentAuthorCobweb
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2013
    Thor wrote
    Much of the early, electronic WHO material is basically unlistenable outside the series (and sometimes even inside too). Dudley Simpson's stuff is usually decent, though.


    Hi, Thor.

    Are you referring to the BBC's radiophonic workshop sound effects? Or do you mean the incidental music?

    Dick Mills created the sound effects on DOCTOR WHO for many years (probably more than any other technician who had worked on the programme).

    The incidental music by the likes of Tristram Cary or Malcolm Clarke represent early attempts at electronic ambiance via organised sounds.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2013 edited
    I mean the scores.

    I actually like Cary's experimental stuff. Clarke not so much.
    I am extremely serious.

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