Came across this whilst browsing Youtube. Someone has taken the time to recreate the iconic theme in the style of Jean Michel Jarre and tbh it is fantastic. Really captures his unique sound and if he did actually do a theme then I would hope it sounded much like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjH5tPlnV_k

God shout!

As a fan of Jean Michel Jarre, especially his early works, that's a very good riff on his style in the Oxygene/Equinoxe/Magnetic Fields era.

The same guy did one a few years ago in the style of Vangelis, but that fails to capture Vangelis's style.

It does sound like Jarre. But for the show it was very slow and boring to be honest. Still a good effort.

Heard this before, it's brilliant. I wouldn't mind at all if something like this became the actual theme for the show. Electronic but spooky, very fitting for Doctor Who. Almost like Paul McGann's first Big Finish theme.

I commented on this track on his Soundcloud account saying I liked the homage he paid to the cover of the Magnetic Fields album too using Tom's face (with Earth planets as the pupils of his eyes).
I'm a huge fan of Jean-Michel Jarre ever since hearing an older friend's Oxygene LP in the early 1980s (I remember thinking I recognise some of these tunes, usually used on science programmes), so much so, that I saved my pocket money to buy my very own copy during the summer holiday between my leaving primary school and going into high school, my very first album bought by me that was not a Christmas/birthday gift.
Since then I've collected all of his albums and about 90% of his singles/12" output.
I was 17 when I first (and a couple of same-age mates) got to see him live in 1988 at the London 'Destination Docklands' concert, it was also the first time I had been the furthest away without my parents with whom I lived with at the time in North Wales.
Since then I've been to watch him half a dozen times and I'm going again in a couple of months time as he's playing at the Jodrell Bank Radio-Telescope complex ('its the end but the moment has been prepared for') as part of the 'Blue Dot' Electronica Festival.

Good memories. I saw him at the then Man City ground, Main Road, years ago. My girl friend went with me but had to leave just as it started as it was too loud for her sensitive hearing. She ended up listening to the concert from a street outside the stadium with a family living there. She even got free cups of tea and biscuits from them!

One of my favourite tracks of his is Third Rendez-Vous.

Great stuff. Oxygenesis of the Daleks

I remember Destination Docklands as it was very VERY wet!

I thought it was worth a mention, Jean-Michel Jarre was an honourary member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop back in the day when it was operating under the BBC banner. Whether or not he still counts as one under their sans BBC title, I'm not too sure?
Stuart Maconie interviewed him last year on BBC Radio 6Music and Jarre mentioned without any prompt that the (Derbyshire) Doctor Who theme is one of his favourite pieces of British electronic music.


On the Sunday it rained. Thankfully we went to his Saturday performance (the day before) where it remained dry for the whole evening.
I remember watching the concert on TV over Christmas '88 and thinking why are they showing the rained-on Sunday concert when I distinctly remembered cameramen lugging around big TV cameras on their shoulders when I was there?
Whatever though, it was a concert that was plagued with many problems from the outset (mainly to do with the council and H&S).
Thankfully, the finished performance was spellbinding.

In that case, it perfectly captured Jarre.

Some of it pastiches his sound nicely, but the middle eight is way, way off the mark and far too twee for Jarre. If he'd been asked to do a version back in the day, I doubt he would have come up with something like this - it sure it wouldn't have the Minipops drums and would probably be much darker. His new album is out today, BTW, and is rather good!

Mine's waiting for me when I get home!

I wish Murray Gold would do a new version of the Peter Howell arrangement from the 80s - updated in a similar way to how he updated the original theme for 2005.

I just wish the new one had a drum beat or any kind of bass in it.

Not that I think there's anything wrong with Murray Gold's music (in fact, I really like it and I'm looking for any news about the series 9 soundtrack release) but it wouldn't surprise me if Chris Chibnall changed the theme music and/or brought in a new composer.

The use of one composer has helped make C21 Doctor Who feel more like a unified, continuous, ongoing story. It's something I've always enjoyed about the Star Wars movies (to date) and been a bit irritated by the lack of with the Star Trek movies, over the years.