This track was primarily inspired, among other pieces, by the Delaware variant of the Doctor Who theme, as well as ‘A New View of Politics’ by Delia Derbyshire. I would hope this reflects in the meandering bloops I was sure to include here. The bassline, bloops, and percussion were synthesized using a custom Surge XT patch. The melody and drone were synthesized using Dexed and its included patches, and ran through various filters including reverb and saturation, and pitch manipulation to create higher octaves.

After baking the project into fixed stems, one of the last steps was to downmix the stems to mono and apply various filters to emulate tape degredation which (in my opinion) is essential to an authentic sounding 60s-inspired Whomix.

Besides the technical aspects of creating this theme, this rearrangement of the theme runs at 70bpm. One of the primary deviations from Grainer’s original arrangement was to double each block of the bassline, so each dum-de-dum is accompanied by a sped-up dum-de-dum-dum-de-dum. This, I think, helps avoid the theme creating a sluggish impression.

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If there is any demand, I will be happy to arrange a release of the undegraded stereo versions of Radiophonic and Delian here.

Special thanks to the Radiophonic Workshop, the developers of Surge XT and Dexed, and those responsible for maintaining dwtheme.com and whomix.windbubbles.net.