Orbital did it well:
Whatever you're expecting, it's not this.
As a fan of the show, and what it did to advance the art of visual storytelling, learning more (and understanding less!) about the artists just makes the whole thing more interesting and more human.
[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_theme_music#:~:text....
My personal fav hockey song is Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis: https://youtu.be/2gDb_axpfeY
Yeah that's the joke, that I was naive enough to think that American sports fans would be into Dr. Who or The KLF.
Once it did indeed go to #1 in the UK, they wrote a book about how to do it, which several other artists followed and also went to #1.
It diminishes the magic of the OG, the breakbeat is lazy and out of place and it has nothing of what made Orbital good which is how their layers would interact with each other in rewarding ways.
It's a shame because I could imagine a mix working in their early 90s style like Remind from the brown album e.g. add more synth layers sympathetic with the OG mood/style getting increasingly richer and more intense and acidy until a beat starts emerging from between the layers.
By the 00s, they just spin a beat on top like a DJ. Bleugh. Not quite as hateable as the KLF's version at least.
In contrast, around the same time they put it out, Plaid put out a track named Unbank that I'm convinced was inspired by the Doctor Who theme and is imo rather fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc39YRO8HM4
I think it’s one of those tracks that really needs a big rig to come alive. Anything less than that and it can sound a little flat.
Craig Ferguson version of Orbital version.
edit: maybe it's the live version or a remix. there's a version in my inventory that definitely has that sample