The fact that it was especially composed for The Daleks makes this piece even more special in my opinion, there’s nothing else quite like it in terms of ambience and mood. Not only does it serve as a precursor for what lies inside but it’s almost as if it’s portraying the city itself as a character. It’s tall, imposing and forbidding nature almost serves as a warning for others to keep away, going entirely against Hartnell’s Doctor’s thirst for discovery and in doing so, leads him to come face to face with the most evil beings in the universe.
Yes! Exactly. Lately I've been thinking about the importance of Kalaan, the Dalek city. And you nailed it perfectly. All the best horrors in fiction have a main group of characters explore a foreboding place, a site that is fofbidden, someplace where a great danger lies. I know BigFinishProductions released an audio drama about it. The animated trailer for it gave Kalaan a sense of decadence, like as if the city itself was rotting away along with the Dalek corpses. You know they're dead, but you also know they live on in future stories. So using deductive reasoning, you feel as if there's something in that forgotten city still.
@@crimsondynamo615Maybe it was a stroke of luck that the Doctor landed on Skaro. Since if The Daleks went undiscovered, and if the Doctor & Co didn't have the much needed experience on how to defeat them. The wider universe could've been far less prepared against The Daleks. Or maybe if the Doctor never landed on Skaro, The Daleks just wouldn't think about leaving their homeworld. Potentially falling prey to an invading force or a unforeseen cosmic disaster, never causing any destruction beyond their local biosphere. Who knows.
@@robotx9285part of me almost thinks the latter, because the kaleds didn’t believe in life on other worlds. Course maybe in their desire of conquest they will leave. Would be an interesting what if story.
I regard this as one of the finest pieces of incidental music in the show's history. It is a masterpiece in establishing the ambience and mood of the scene, it immediately transports the viewer to an alien world, a disturbing and chilling sight. Still gives me goosenumps even now, imagine what it was like in 1963. Without it, the visuals alone wold caryr nowhere near the impact. No wonder "The Daleks" was such a tremendous success - the show's future was in doubt after a relatively lukewarm reception to "Unearthly Child" but this story guaranteed more would be made. If I had to make a comparison, I;d say the background track to "Alien" where they explore the derelict ship. Amazing when you consider that synthesisers were practically unknown, so it would all have been done with effects using tape recorders, playing stuff slower or faster, or backwards, and layering sound by recording recordings.
Garbagebinboi. I know Tristram Cary’s soundtrack was reused in a number of different episodes including The Rescue, The Daleks Master Plan, The Ark and Power of the Daleks and I know it was def used in episode 3 and episode 6.
@@maettsook I think it's a different cue of music - although very similar and equally as ambient!! See 0:41 - 0:51 on the soundtrack video on youtube "The Mutants (From "The Mutants")"
The Daleks was hard to find on VHS, I had to make do with a version recorded off UK Gold until the DVD release came out. That brings back so many memories of going to second hand video shops to try and find a rare video release...ahh happy memories!
I would hardly be surprised if this music came straight out of a very well made and developed atmospheric score from the 1990s. The fact this is 30 years earlier is truly stunning.
I generally think music throughout Hartnell’s era was pretty bad, but this song is very chilling. Just rewatched this episode recently and was caught off guard by how effectively it unnerved me
This sounds a LOT like Wendy Carlos' 'Timesteps' from 'A Clockwork Orange'. Only this was about 8 years earlier, before synthesizers were even a thing.
I could imagine an entire episode of new who just from this piece of music alone. The Tardis lands and it’s Rose and Ten that step out. But it’s all just white(not the most original concept but bare with me). There’s no music,no sound,nothing,we didn’t even here the Tardis wheeze in,it just faded onto the screen. Ten mentions the fact that their footsteps aren’t audible. They start stomping around trying to make some noise but there’s nothing. Ten starts clapping his hands but they sound more like he’s light putting his hands together. Rose cuffs her hands over her mouth and tries shouting but everything she shouts comes out in a whisper. The two at this point are a little uncomfortable,so they go for the Tardis. Ten tries to open the door but it’s not budging. He even tries the key,but it’s not working. Rose is getting impatient,but it doesn’t come off as negative,more so that she’s scared,she keeps looking behind her,like something was gonna come out. Rose shoves the Doctor aside and tries to open the door herself,her breathing has gotten more frantic. She continues to struggle with the door and the Doctor is facing the complete opposite direction from Rose and the Tardis. He’s looking into the void,much like Rose,as if something was watching them. He says Roses name and she stops struggling. The music currently playing has been gradually fading in,coming in so quietly that once Rose stops struggling you as the viewer will have realized that the music wasn’t playing before. Rose looks like she’s gonna cry. The Doctor starts mumbling,we see a close up of his face as his pupils disappear. His mumbling becomes more coherent,he’s saying peoples names,people that we should know. More specifically,people who have died,not just important characters but characters that have died on the show in general(classic series included). Rose asks the Doctor if he’s okay,trying to keep herself under control. But the Doctor doesn’t stop listing off names. He’s got a look of dread on his face before he takes a short breath and then proceeds to say that he’s a walking plague. That everyone dies around him,and then says that people he cares about suffer,he just keeps going,talking about how awful he is. Rose shakily walks up to him and tells him to stop. He doesn’t. She takes his hand,her hand quickly turns black and cracked. She yelps,tears now streaming down her cheeks. The Doctor also has tears rolling down his face but there’s no hint of pain on his face. Rose asks what this is. What there feeling,what there so scared of. The Doctor finally stops talking,his pupils returning. The Doctor squeezes Rose’s hand and the blackness and cracks spread up her arm. He says he’s sorry and Rose asks what for. The Doctor says he doesn’t know but he’s still sorry. Up ahead,WAY ahead,a black dot pops into existence. It slowly starts growing and then it’s revealed that it’s spreading rapidly and leaving cracks in its path,similar to Rose’s arm. The music is getting louder. Rose squeezes the Doctors hand harder and the darkness spreads up higher,we can see the darkness and cracks creeping up her neck. The darkness is coming in faster and faster now. The two are to scared to look away from it. The Rose in a shaky voice says ‘I love you’. The Doctor begins to stutter,clearly trying and struggling to say it back. He begins to look more and more upset as he keeps struggling to speak and the darkness gets more and more closer. We cut to a side view of the doctors face as he slowly side eyes the camera. He slowly turns his head to the camera it cuts to behind them revealing that he’s looking at Rose. The darkness and cracks have gotten worse,it’s gone up past the side of her head and has messed up her left eye. The Doctor manages to spit out another ‘I’m sorry’. We see Roses face from the side as she slowly turns her head to the camera(being the doctors pov) the darkness has now reached them moving slowly and making cracks in the ground. Rose looks at the doctor asking if he loves her to. We suddenly cut to the doctor thrashing and practically screaming in a bed and opens his eyes gasping out,his body arching up off the bed. He flops down on the bed,sweating and breathing shakily. The room is large,along with his bed,like really big. The Doctor shakily crawls out of bed,falling out of it and falling to the floor he mumbles Rose’s name. We cut to him shakily entering the console room,he’s trying to run but it looks more like he’s gonna pass out. He reaches the console and presses a button the console room brightens back up and the Doctor yelps covering his eyes as that final image of Rose flashes across the screen. We cut to Rose in a chair at her and her mom’s apartment,she’s completely fine enjoying a drink and watching the Tv. She hears the sound of the Tardis materializing and peers out her window,seeing the Tardis outside. She gets up and and head’s outside,she looked happy and excited but her expression changes when she watches him fall to his knees upon exiting the Tardis,he’s not in his traditional brown suit,but nightly wear. Rose runs down the to his aid,she tries to help him up asking if he’s alright. The Doctor looks up at her and that same image of her flashes across the screen. The Doctor yelps,forcing his hands to his head and bringing himself lower to the floor. Rose calls for her mom to come help. They bring him inside,The Doctor is forcibly keeping his eyes shut. They sit him down in a chair. Rose asks if he’s alright,again and he says he’s fine,he swears up and down that he’s fine. He just had a bad dream,he then asks for a glass of water. Jackie goes to get him some water. Rose asks if he wants to talk about it(his nightmare). The Doctor opens his eyes,without moving his head,looks at Rose and tells her that he will never,EVER,tell her,what he saw and how it felt. The way that he says it,makes it sound like Rose had just done something unforgivable.
Despite how overused this was in the Hartnell era, it's still one of the best and most haunting pieces of music composed for the show. I particularly love how it was used in the climax of 'The Rescue'.
If you like this you should check out NASAs sounds of the planets. It sounds eeriely similar, yet the NASA recordings are of planets actual electromagnetic fields. It makes ones imagination pretend Tristam Cary recorded Skaro's electromagnetic field! 😁
The fact that it was especially composed for The Daleks makes this piece even more special in my opinion, there’s nothing else quite like it in terms of ambience and mood.
Not only does it serve as a precursor for what lies inside but it’s almost as if it’s portraying the city itself as a character. It’s tall, imposing and forbidding nature almost serves as a warning for others to keep away, going entirely against Hartnell’s Doctor’s thirst for discovery and in doing so, leads him to come face to face with the most evil beings in the universe.
Yes! Exactly. Lately I've been thinking about the importance of Kalaan, the Dalek city. And you nailed it perfectly. All the best horrors in fiction have a main group of characters explore a foreboding place, a site that is fofbidden, someplace where a great danger lies. I know BigFinishProductions released an audio drama about it. The animated trailer for it gave Kalaan a sense of decadence, like as if the city itself was rotting away along with the Dalek corpses. You know they're dead, but you also know they live on in future stories. So using deductive reasoning, you feel as if there's something in that forgotten city still.
I wonder what if in another timeline the doctor listened to Ian and decided to leave Skaro, not even taking a chance to explore the city.
@@crimsondynamo615Maybe it was a stroke of luck that the Doctor landed on Skaro.
Since if The Daleks went undiscovered, and if the Doctor & Co didn't have the much needed experience on how to defeat them.
The wider universe could've been far less prepared against The Daleks.
Or maybe if the Doctor never landed on Skaro, The Daleks just wouldn't think about leaving their homeworld. Potentially falling prey to an invading force or a unforeseen cosmic disaster, never causing any destruction beyond their local biosphere.
Who knows.
@@robotx9285part of me almost thinks the latter, because the kaleds didn’t believe in life on other worlds. Course maybe in their desire of conquest they will leave. Would be an interesting what if story.
This music is the potential of all that is to come...
Such a surreal piece of music…
I regard this as one of the finest pieces of incidental music in the show's history. It is a masterpiece in establishing the ambience and mood of the scene, it immediately transports the viewer to an alien world, a disturbing and chilling sight. Still gives me goosenumps even now, imagine what it was like in 1963. Without it, the visuals alone wold caryr nowhere near the impact. No wonder "The Daleks" was such a tremendous success - the show's future was in doubt after a relatively lukewarm reception to "Unearthly Child" but this story guaranteed more would be made. If I had to make a comparison, I;d say the background track to "Alien" where they explore the derelict ship. Amazing when you consider that synthesisers were practically unknown, so it would all have been done with effects using tape recorders, playing stuff slower or faster, or backwards, and layering sound by recording recordings.
Was rewatching the animated version of Power of the Daleks and heard this in I believe either episode 3 or 4. This track is so damn chilling.
Garbagebinboi. I know Tristram Cary’s soundtrack was reused in a number of different episodes including The Rescue, The Daleks Master Plan, The Ark and Power of the Daleks and I know it was def used in episode 3 and episode 6.
I almost forgot it was also used in the Jon Pertwee story The Mutants in ‘72
@@marlowe78 think it's in episode 1 when the doctor and Jo are looking out at the planets surface from space
@@maettsook I think it's a different cue of music - although very similar and equally as ambient!! See 0:41 - 0:51 on the soundtrack video on youtube "The Mutants (From "The Mutants")"
My childhood from the 90's VHS copy! It makes the hairs on my arm stand up!
The Daleks was hard to find on VHS, I had to make do with a version recorded off UK Gold until the DVD release came out. That brings back so many memories of going to second hand video shops to try and find a rare video release...ahh happy memories!
I would hardly be surprised if this music came straight out of a very well made and developed atmospheric score from the 1990s. The fact this is 30 years earlier is truly stunning.
Whenever you heard this in a Hartnell serial you knew stuff was about to go down
I generally think music throughout Hartnell’s era was pretty bad, but this song is very chilling. Just rewatched this episode recently and was caught off guard by how effectively it unnerved me
It's truly the perfect score. Cold, menacing, industrial, mysterious, and above all else, alien - just like the Daleks.
This sounds a LOT like Wendy Carlos' 'Timesteps' from 'A Clockwork Orange'. Only this was about 8 years earlier, before synthesizers were even a thing.
Ambient af
Lovely - almost like a fog rolling across a barren waste land hiding the real dangers...
Man this is so chilling, I wonder how they made it. They didn't have all the fancy synth stuff you have today.
I could imagine an entire episode of new who just from this piece of music alone.
The Tardis lands and it’s Rose and Ten that step out. But it’s all just white(not the most original concept but bare with me). There’s no music,no sound,nothing,we didn’t even here the Tardis wheeze in,it just faded onto the screen.
Ten mentions the fact that their footsteps aren’t audible. They start stomping around trying to make some noise but there’s nothing. Ten starts clapping his hands but they sound more like he’s light putting his hands together.
Rose cuffs her hands over her mouth and tries shouting but everything she shouts comes out in a whisper.
The two at this point are a little uncomfortable,so they go for the Tardis. Ten tries to open the door but it’s not budging. He even tries the key,but it’s not working.
Rose is getting impatient,but it doesn’t come off as negative,more so that she’s scared,she keeps looking behind her,like something was gonna come out.
Rose shoves the Doctor aside and tries to open the door herself,her breathing has gotten more frantic. She continues to struggle with the door and the Doctor is facing the complete opposite direction from Rose and the Tardis.
He’s looking into the void,much like Rose,as if something was watching them. He says Roses name and she stops struggling. The music currently playing has been gradually fading in,coming in so quietly that once Rose stops struggling you as the viewer will have realized that the music wasn’t playing before.
Rose looks like she’s gonna cry. The Doctor starts mumbling,we see a close up of his face as his pupils disappear. His mumbling becomes more coherent,he’s saying peoples names,people that we should know. More specifically,people who have died,not just important characters but characters that have died on the show in general(classic series included).
Rose asks the Doctor if he’s okay,trying to keep herself under control. But the Doctor doesn’t stop listing off names. He’s got a look of dread on his face before he takes a short breath and then proceeds to say that he’s a walking plague. That everyone dies around him,and then says that people he cares about suffer,he just keeps going,talking about how awful he is. Rose shakily walks up to him and tells him to stop. He doesn’t.
She takes his hand,her hand quickly turns black and cracked. She yelps,tears now streaming down her cheeks. The Doctor also has tears rolling down his face but there’s no hint of pain on his face.
Rose asks what this is. What there feeling,what there so scared of. The Doctor finally stops talking,his pupils returning.
The Doctor squeezes Rose’s hand and the blackness and cracks spread up her arm. He says he’s sorry and Rose asks what for. The Doctor says he doesn’t know but he’s still sorry.
Up ahead,WAY ahead,a black dot pops into existence. It slowly starts growing and then it’s revealed that it’s spreading rapidly and leaving cracks in its path,similar to Rose’s arm.
The music is getting louder. Rose squeezes the Doctors hand harder and the darkness spreads up higher,we can see the darkness and cracks creeping up her neck.
The darkness is coming in faster and faster now. The two are to scared to look away from it.
The Rose in a shaky voice says ‘I love you’. The Doctor begins to stutter,clearly trying and struggling to say it back. He begins to look more and more upset as he keeps struggling to speak and the darkness gets more and more closer.
We cut to a side view of the doctors face as he slowly side eyes the camera. He slowly turns his head to the camera it cuts to behind them revealing that he’s looking at Rose. The darkness and cracks have gotten worse,it’s gone up past the side of her head and has messed up her left eye.
The Doctor manages to spit out another ‘I’m sorry’. We see Roses face from the side as she slowly turns her head to the camera(being the doctors pov) the darkness has now reached them moving slowly and making cracks in the ground.
Rose looks at the doctor asking if he loves her to.
We suddenly cut to the doctor thrashing and practically screaming in a bed and opens his eyes gasping out,his body arching up off the bed.
He flops down on the bed,sweating and breathing shakily. The room is large,along with his bed,like really big. The Doctor shakily crawls out of bed,falling out of it and falling to the floor he mumbles Rose’s name.
We cut to him shakily entering the console room,he’s trying to run but it looks more like he’s gonna pass out. He reaches the console and presses a button the console room brightens back up and the Doctor yelps covering his eyes as that final image of Rose flashes across the screen.
We cut to Rose in a chair at her and her mom’s apartment,she’s completely fine enjoying a drink and watching the Tv.
She hears the sound of the Tardis materializing and peers out her window,seeing the Tardis outside.
She gets up and and head’s outside,she looked happy and excited but her expression changes when she watches him fall to his knees upon exiting the Tardis,he’s not in his traditional brown suit,but nightly wear.
Rose runs down the to his aid,she tries to help him up asking if he’s alright. The Doctor looks up at her and that same image of her flashes across the screen. The Doctor yelps,forcing his hands to his head and bringing himself lower to the floor.
Rose calls for her mom to come help. They bring him inside,The Doctor is forcibly keeping his eyes shut.
They sit him down in a chair. Rose asks if he’s alright,again and he says he’s fine,he swears up and down that he’s fine. He just had a bad dream,he then asks for a glass of water. Jackie goes to get him some water. Rose asks if he wants to talk about it(his nightmare). The Doctor opens his eyes,without moving his head,looks at Rose and tells her that he will never,EVER,tell her,what he saw and how it felt. The way that he says it,makes it sound like Rose had just done something unforgivable.
Don't give up the day job.
Also used in the rescue
and Power of the Daleks
And the Daleks Masterplan
And The Ark
For music that gets reused so much, barely anyone talks about it.
sounds like William Basinski... but is made decades before his music
Despite how overused this was in the Hartnell era, it's still one of the best and most haunting pieces of music composed for the show. I particularly love how it was used in the climax of 'The Rescue'.
Sounds of the 60s! Music to my ears! I own a copy of the very first serial including the daleks.
That beginning buildup is just epic, in beautiful way.
I finnaly found this masterpeice
is very creepy..
like what happends inside the dalek's city
I could have sworn I heard this in Spare Parts especially with the Committee scenes.
The Committee was terrifying. I would dig to se them visualized in some way.
If you like this you should check out NASAs sounds of the planets. It sounds eeriely similar, yet the NASA recordings are of planets actual electromagnetic fields. It makes ones imagination pretend Tristam Cary recorded Skaro's electromagnetic field! 😁
Wouldn't be surpised if they had been directly inspired by those tracks.
This sounds very much like minecraft nether music
Man I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking this
It wasn't that bad-oh, or did you say "City" music?