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As well as writing songs for or about Doctor Who, many artists have chosen to call themselves after a character or race featured in the show. Several bands have enjoyed moderate success, though the majority of "Daleks" and "Cybermen" recorded one song and disappeared into the mists of obscurity, leaving no trail for us to follow. Compiling a discography of these works is particularly difficult owing to their rariety, and generally unrewarding for a Doctor Who fan as the music has nothing to do with the programme! But it's so fascinating that anyone thought "Brain of Morbius" would be a great name for their band that the list of commercial releases below - surely incomplete, yet already disconcertingly long - provides a brief glimpse into the network of artists influenced, if not inspired, by Doctor Who.
The Cybermen (UK, 1978-9)
The Cybermen EP 7" vinyl single, 1978 (Rockaway Records AERE 101) - Cybernetic Surgery / Where's The New Wave? // Hanging Around / I Can't Help It. --> Lyrics:
Cybernetic Surgery |
You're to Blame/It's You I Want 7" vinyl single, 1979 (Rockaway Records LUV002, engineered by Gary Lucas) --> Lyrics: You're to Blame |
This British punk band released two 7" records on their own Accrington-based Rockaway label: The Cybermen EP (1978, aka Cybernetic Surgery) and the double A-side You're to Blame/It's You I Want (1979). Their songs boast intelligent lyrics, well-performed vocal harmonies and catchy riffs, but little is known about the group besides the line-up: Ian P Dixon (Bass/Vocal), Paul Milek (Drums) and Roger Entwistle (Guitar/Vocal). Because of their name, some record dealers will attempt to charge ludicrous amounts of money for these records, but they're worth hearing should you find someone selling them at an honest price!
Drivin' along in Abbott's Town Only have one thing on my mind Keepin' my eyes upon the road I'm in the cyberwar, with my
Cybernetic Surgery Cybernetic Surgery, I Am a machine I can decree, with my Cybernetic Surgery Ain't got no legs they're in the car Ain't got no mind it's in a jar [ - ] [ - ], with my Cybernetic Surgery Cybernetic Surgery, I Am a machine I can decree, with my Cybernetic Surgery, Ah! |
It is real Or is it a dream I feel so funny I wanna scream [ - ] [ - ] [ - ] [ - ]
Drivin' along in Abbott's Town Only have one thing on my mind Keepin' my eyes upon the road I'm in the cyberwar, with my
Cybernetic Surgery Cybernetic Surgery, I Am a machine I can decree, with my Cybernetic Surgery |
You saw her last weekend "I'm with someone new" She looked over at you and then she smiled You said that you loved her She said she loved you Now it looks like she's been tellin' lies
You thought that She was different, she wasn't like the rest She was beautiful and so innocent But now it Seems she's messed you around just like a fool And now you know You're to blame
Took her to the pictures "I'm with all the crowd" Sure knew how to treat her so right Took her to the dances Music playin' loud Then you'd always walk her home at night |
Every night you lay awake Thinkin' about her Sleepless nights are full of memories You know that you will never forget her And your eyes are clouded with tears
Now you are so lonely Nothing else to do You just have to think of her and then What you did starts comin' back What she did to you Then you know you won't get fooled again
Oh yeah You're to blame
That's what I said You're to blame
You're such a fool You're to blame |
The You're to Blame single came with a "Free Info Pack", a sheet of typed and signed A4 paper that revealed that the band had been quiet since their first release (which apparently John Peel had "loved... needless to say") owing to the "unfortunate 'borrowing" of most of their equipment"! The sheet suggested a number of Things You Can Do To Help: 1. If you like the record (even if you don't) please send a letter to John Peel or any other D.J. and request the record.
2. Tell all your friends to buy a copy (direct from us at £1.00 plus a 12p stamp for post and package) or from your nearest alternative record shop.
3. Write to music papers asking for articles about us.
4. Let your next door neighbours hear it (through the walls).
5. Send us blank cheques and charitable donations!
We assume that no-one did any of them, because the band never recorded again!
Dalek I Love You (1978-83)
Dalek I formed from the remnants of a previous four-man band in Wirral, Liverpool. Dave Balfe, Stephen Brick, Alan Gill and Keith Hartley were Radio Blank, a punk group formed in 1976 and disbanded the following year. Following the split, Gill and Balfe used a drum machine in the absence of a drummer. "That was the real turning point", reflects Blafe. "we dropped ideas of trying to copy Deaf School or being commercial and did exactly what we wanted."
The first incarnation of Dalek I Love You (whose name was a combination of two favoured suggestions, The Daleks and Darling I Love You) featured Alan Gill, Dave Balfe, Chris Teepee and Dave Hughes. The group played live for a time, supporting groups such as OMD and often appearing at Eric's, an infamous live club in Liverpool that was eventually closed by the police. In 1978 Gill and Hughes recorded a demo for Pete Fulwell, the manager of Eric's. The band line-up was to change regularly, though Gill was to emerge as the core member of each incarnation. "Basically everything that Dalek did was down to Alan Gill", Paul Collister [their manager] told TME in June 2000. "A change of mood could result in the band changing line-up or even going to sleep for a few months - years".
Phonogram heard Dalek I Love You's demo and invited them to record at Rockfield Studios for their new Back Door subsidary. Unfortunately, as Collister recalled, "Dalek were pretty much the label's plaything", and regular arguments between the band and the label resulted in only a handfull of singles and an album (from sessions intended as demos); the label shortened the band's name to Dalek I, and even tried to change the chords on songs such as Freedom Fighters.
Freedom Fighters 7" vinyl single, May 1979 (Vertigo/Phonogram DALEK 1) - Freedom Fighters (a song for people not politics) / Two Chameleons. Note the unique Vertigo/DALEK subsidiary, created specially for the band. |
The World 7" vinyl single, 1979 (Vertigo/Phonogram DALEK 2) - The World / We're All Actors. Both tracks on the Freedom Fighters and The World singles were slightly extended compared to the album versions. |
Dalek I Love You (Destiny) 7" vinyl single, April 1980 (Back Door DOOR 005) - Dalek I Love You (Destiny) // Happy / This is My Uniform. This was the first of the Dalek i records to be released on the Phonogram subsidiary Back Door, created by The Blitz Brothers (aka Chris Hughes (formerly of Virgin Records) and Dave Bates (A&R manager for Phonogram)). --> Lyrics:
Dalek I Love You (Destiny) |

Compilation Thru the Back Door American 12" vinyl LP, 1980 (Polygram/Mercury SRM-1-3849) featuring "Dalek I Love You (Destiny)", "The World" and "Freedom Fighters" |
 Fanzine Notes from the Underground 6 cassette (limited distribution, hand-written sleeve notes and tipex-ed case) compiled by Kevin Leyand, 1981 - featuring "Conveyor Belt" (Live at Eric's 1978) / "You Make Me Feel Like a Fly" (home demo by Alan Gill) / "Dad on Fire" (Original Mix) / "Heartbeat" (Original Mix) |
We are looking around us now Almost concerned by what we see [ - ] Are we the only ones To realise our destiny?
Well Dalek I love you Dalek I love you We're going to save the world We're going to change your world
| What would I gain (what would I gain?) If I should make my money, sell my brain What would I see (what would I see?) Would I become a slave to a machine?
What do I hear (what do I hear?) Muzak playing ev'rywhere What do I feel (what do I feel?) Let in the air I breathe
Well Dalek I love you |
Compilation releases:
- Compilation Small Hits and Near Misses 12" vinyl LP, 1978 (Inevitable/RCA INEVLP1), featuring "Freedom Fighters (Demo)" A compilation of artists who appeared on the Inevitable label, with whom Dalek I had been expected to sign - until Phonogram snapped them up.
- Compilation Machines 12" vinyl LP, 1980 (Virgin V2177) featuring "Dalek I Love You (Destiny)
- Compilation To the Shores of Lake Placid 12" vinyl LP, 1982 (Zoo ZOO 4) featuring "A Suicide"
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It was Collister's intervention that secured the band a new deal with Warner Brothers in 1982. "Korova pushed very hard for a commercial release, paid for good producers, and good studios, put a lot into the publicity." After a break of nearly a year, Alan Gill gathered together enough friends to write and record another single, released on 12" for the first time and Back Door for the last. The 12" format was to prove popular with the next incarnation of Dalek I Love You, both to release hidden gems and experiment with extended remixes of title tracks.
Compass Kum'pas 12" vinyl LP, red picture sleeve (promotional copies in white picture sleeve) 1980 (Back Door OPEN 1) - The World / Eight Track / Destiny (Dalek I Love You) / A Suicide / The Kiss / Trapped / Two Chameleons // Freedom Fighters / You Really Got Me / Mad / Good Times / We're All Actors / Heat / Missing 15 Minutes. |
 Re-issued on LP (Fontana 836 894-1), cassette (836 894) and CD (836 894-4) in 1989, with a new sleeve design by Me Co. and CD bonus tracks - Astronauts (Have Landed on the Moon) / Happy / This is My Uniform / Heartbeat |
 First record as Dalek I Love You: Heartbeat 7" and 12" vinyl single, 1981 (Back Door DOOR 10) - Heartbeat / Astronauts (Have Landed on the Moon) (extended versions on 12") |
Reformed as a quartet, and containing many members of the original Dalek I line up, the group released a further album and several multi-format singles before splitting for good in 1983. Penny Kiley reviewed a gig at the Pyramid Club in Liverpool for Melody Maker (82.02.06) and wrote: "Dalek i have come back with a laugh. Once in the vanguard of Wirral-favoured synthesized pop (lightweight but solemn), never quite reaching the acclaim that once seemed close, they're now re-emerging with a stronger character (and more characters) and plenty of plans... On stage they're human, and not too disciplined -- the best way to be. The combination of variety and good humour made an evening of unexpected enjoyment."
Holiday in Disneyland 7" vinyl single, August 1982 (Korova KOW 25) - Holiday in Disneyland (single edit) / Masks & Licences; 12" vinyl single (KOW 25T) - Holiday in Disneyland (extended) / Masks & Licences // Heaven Was Bought for Me / Holiday in Disneyland (single edit) |
Ambition 7" and 12" vinyl single, September 1983 (Korova KOW 29/KOW 29T) - Ambition / (I Am) Hot Person / Would You Still Love Me (12" only) |
Dalek I Love You 12" vinyl LP, November 1983 (Korova KODE 7) - Holiday in Disneyland / Horrorscope / Health and Happiness / The Mouse That Roared / Dad On Fire / Ambition / Lust / 12 Hours of Blues / Sons of Sahara / Africa Express. Issued on CD in April 2007 (Rhino/Korova KODE 1016) with the bonus tracks Would You Still Love Me / These Walls We Build / Horrorscope (Instrumental Version) / Masks & Licenses / The Angel & The Clown / Heaven Was Bought for Me / 12 Hours of Blues (Dub) (previously unreleased) |
Horrorscope 7" vinyl single, 1983 (Korova KOW 31) - Horrorscope / These Walls We Build; 12" vinyl single (KOW 31T) - Horrorscope (extended) / Heep Big Pow Pow // Horrorscope (instrumental) / The Angel and the Clown |
Naïve cassette (Bopadub BOP 04) - final Dalek I Love You album, possibly not commercially available. Circa 1985. |
Dave Hughes formed a band named Godot with Keith Hartley and Martin Cooper, with Collister as their manager, and continued to work with OMD, touring as their keyboard player. The Godot EP, released independantly, is very similar to Compass Kum'pas, and is advised listening for fans of Dalek I Love You's early days. In 1985 Alan formed his own Bopadub label and began releasing cassette compilations, one of which was the Dalek I Love You album Naïve. He also contributed to the compilation Liverpool: All This and Heaven Too in the 1990s, performing under the name of Dalek I Love You for the last time.
- Compilation Liverpool: All This and Heaven Too 12" vinyl LP and CD, early 1990s (Homar HOMCD 6605) - featuring "Everything I Do", credited to Dalek I (actually an Alan Gill solo)
- Compilation New Wave - Electronic Eighties, early 1990s (Polygram 314-520-556-2) featuring "Dalek I Love You (Destiny)"
- Compilation Unearthed: Liverpool Cult Classics CD, July 2004 (Viper VIPER023CD) featuring "Freedom Fighters"
- Compilation North By North West June 2006, 2CD (Korova KODE1001) and limited edition 3CD (KODE1001L) featuring "Holiday in Disneyland"
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In 2007 Korova reissued the Dalek I Love You album on CD, coupled with bonus tracks from the singles and a lengthy sleevenote charting the history of the band. Around the same time, Collister set up www.dalekiloveyou.com, from which he began to issue mp3s of tracks from Naive, and promised rare live recordings and other exclusives. Watch this space!
The K9s (1979)
The K9s: The K9 Hassle
7" vinyl single, picture sleeve, 1979
Dog Breath WOOF 1
A. The K9 Hassle
B1. Ida Amin
B2. Sweeny Todd
Vocals - Rick Dellar
Guitar & Vocals - Greg Muden
Bass & Vocals - Iain "Sprogg" Aird
Drums - Kev Drain
In 1979 another light-hearted punk group issued The K9 Hassle on 7" vinyl, attempting to inspire the nation to "do it doggy style" with a repetative chorus spoken in a variety of accents. Cheery pop with dreadful production values, this is a smashing little novelty record. Apparently the first pressing numbered 1,000, with a rarer second pressing of 500 that came with a stamped sleeve.
Formed in 1977, the K9s were renowned for their gloriously chaotic live performances: they regularly used to come on stage wearing all sorts of strange costumes (policemen, nurses, ballerinas, holiday makers...) and frequently ended up playing their encores completely naked.
They originally started out as Rick Rodent and the Sewer Rats back in 1976 and used to be regulars at the Bones Club in Reading until it closed. After that they only gigged sporadically until mid 1978 when they split up, reforming one year later to record this single. Although the band later recorded a further 4 tracks, intended for an EP release (titled The K9's Four Skins), their money had run out, most venues refused to let them perform and the band split once again. Further details can be found at the excellent punk77.co.uk website.
The Daleks (1980)
The Daleks: OK!
7" EP, 1980
Exterminated Products EXPS 1
1. This Life
2. Rejected
3. Man of the World
Writer & Lead Vocals - Eddie 'Bear' Turtle
Drums - Woody
Vocals - Gaz
Bass - Rol
Rhythm - Dolly
Produced by Mike and Clint Fanatic
--> Lyrics: This Life
The sound of sirens fills the air, No sign of nature anywhere The sunset's covered by factory smoke, A distant voice shouts "Stop that bloke!"
Everyone's rushing in their cars to get home, Everyone's rushing to get out
I'm clutching tightly to the staircase handrail, Two men behind me are in a rush I check my wallet and sort out my change, They knock my money and it falls to the ground
Everyone's rushing to the trains to get home, Everyone's rushing to get out |
This is life in a big town, You've gotta fight to breathe in a big town, Everyone hates you in a big town, You've gotta rush to leave or be knocked down
Every night I lay in my bedsit, Too scared to leave my room, all alone I look below to the tramps on the street, The dirty sky and the holes in their feet
Everyone's rushing to stay clear, I must be mad to stay here
This is life in a big town |
The Daleks launched the label Exterminated Products in 1980 with their 3-track EP, 'OK!'. The record stickers were accidentally printed without the copyright smallprint, so each copy was released with a folded A5 slip of paper with the correct label design plus lyrics and photos on the reverse. This appears to have been their only commercial release, and it's pretty good, if unmemorable, punk rock angst.
The Dälex (1981)
The Dälex: Juvenile
7" vinyl single, picture sleeve, 1981
What's the Damage, John? DODGY 1
A. Juvenile
B1. Action Man
B2. Touched
This punk band's only known single is a part-sung, part-shouted punk track lamenting adulthood, with a jolly chorus. The track has since been collected on a bootleg compilation LP titled Teenage Treats Volume 8 (Xerox Records, limited to 100 copies) produced in 2000. Intended to collect together extremely rare punk tracks, this compilation is unfortunately about as difficult to find and sought-after as the original 45s!
--> Lyrics: Juvenille
I wanna go back to my youth today Back to the past and the fun we had I wanna go back to my youth today No cash, no worries, no tricks
Don't wanna grow up in a foreign world [ - ] Don't wanna grow up in a foreign world I wanna do less than nothin' |
Juvenile Juvenile Juvenile reaction Juvenile, oo - ee - oo So juvenile reaction: Kids rule OK! (that's right!)
I wanna go back to my [ - ] school The lessons weren't bad and the dinners cool I wanna go back to my [ - ] school [ - ] and I want one |
Thee Cybermen (1985-1998, present)
Got a Groove 7" vinyl EP (Vendetta VEND003, 1994) - Got a Groove / Heal Myself // It's All Gone / I Hate this World |
Peabrain 7" vinyl EP (Cave Records CAVE002, 1995) |
Borderbeat! 12" vinyl LP (Vendetta VEND008, December 1997) - 14 track album |
Strange and Cruel 12" vinyl LP (Alopecia WIGLP017, November 1997) - If You're Ever Gonna Say Goodbye / (You Say) I Want You / Root of all Evil / Snake Eyed Suzy / No It Isn't / She's Having a Baby / Back Again Tomorrow // Sinner Man/ Colonel Mustard / Down / Weston Rhyn / The Man With a Troubled Mind / Strange and Cruel / Snacking at the 'Y' Diner |
 Compilation Hey Mom! The Garage is on My Foot CD (Damaged Goods DAMGOOD102CD, July 1996) featuring 'Snake Eyed Susie' |
- Compilation 4 Vox Sake! 7" vinyl EP (Young Man Afraid of his Horses Y.M.A.H. 002, March 1994; EP re-issued as Vendetta VEND006 in 1996) featuring 'That Girl'
- Compilation That's Mighty Childish 12" vinyl LP (Damaged Goods, August 1996) featuring 'Tell Me Child' (Billy Childish cover)
- Compilation Let it all Hang Out! Volume One 12" vinyl LP (Alopecia WIGLP012, 1996) featuring 'The Girl You Left Behind'
- Compilation Larsen CD (Free with Larsen Magazine #11) featuring 'Don't Ask My Name'
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Thee Cybermen - another English garage-rock band to name themselves (we can only presume) after Doctor Who's Cybermen - formed in 1985, playing regular gigs but neglecting to release records until the mid to late 1990s, when they secured record deals with Vendetta Records in Portsmouth, Alopecia Records in Oxford and Cave Records in Italy. The band recorded a session for Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio One in 1997, as Mark Lamaar was a fan and had played 'That Girl' (from a compilation LP) on his own show, but finally split, after many changes of band members, the following year. The band have recently played several one-off reunion gigs, footage from which has been presented at YouTube, and are talking about recording a new album.
They recorded all their singles and EPs at Toerag Studios in London, where the (much more sucessful) White Stripes would later record their albums, and their music is pretty similar to the Stripes'. A three-piece band (with guitar, bass and drums), their thrashed-out grunge instrumentals and shouted lyrics are based on simple riffs and it's clear that their sole intention is to make a lot of noise.
Brain of Morbius (1986-2001)
The history of South London punk band Brain of Morbius has never been clear - entire volumes of Doctor Who merchandise have given them only a brief mention, and until 1999 it was thought that the Brain's only single had been Kill Your Neighbours, a rare 12" vinyl single from 1986 (Bastard Haircut MORB 1T). Their most recent label, Full Strength Records, planned to change all that. Originally pencilled for release in Summer 2000 were three compilation albums, showcasing the Brain's entire back catelogue before their new album hit the shops in early 2001; interestingly, after several years of promising the CDs as "forthcoming", Full Strength seem to have closed before they had the chance.
The first of these promised CDs was a singles, B-sides and sessions collection, featuring the singles Here Comes The Brain, Kill Your Neighbours and Your Ar**, My Face - all 80s recordings, long-since out of print. The second was a re-release of the 1993 cassette-only album, Happy Dirty, which apparently sold out before the end of that summer and was to have been remastered with the bonus track, "Mad English 2". The third was a live compilation, an expanded re-release of the 90s cassette Ar** Theatre, that was to have included rare 80s bootlegs and mid-to-late 90s sessions.
A visit to the band's official website, brainofmorbius.com, suggest that 2 of the CDs have since been made available by the band themselves, along with a new album. Quite how these are being sold isn't very clear - there's no ordering information on the site, and no stores seem to be stocking them. For the sake of completeness, details are reproduced below - but these might be promotional-only releases for all we know!
Pi**ing on the Disco Lights - When I'm Cleaning Windows /
I'm A Busy Bee and I'm Loaded /
She Brews /
Gasman /
Wylie's Women /
Wylie's Women (reprise) |
Happy Dirty cassette-only album, 1993 - The Things You Can't See /
Swimming Down the Tweed /
Ancient Briton /
Carnivores and Talent Scouts /
A Flock of Peas /
I'm Alone /
Take 'em out /
Shi**ers /
Dreaded Fore Headed /
Mad English 2 (CD bonus track) |
Butt Steamer in Hampton Unstable - Victor Ryan's Youth Quex / New Gut / Bernard's Oblong / Gonzalez / The Enemy's My Mate / Cock Foster / Happiest Day / Revel in Obesity / Written for the Violin / Red Giant / Punch Me! I'm in Swindon |
The last known commercial offering from the band was one side of a promotional 7" from Full Strength, also including a track by fellow-punkers, Diary (Limited Edition of 300 7" Vinyl, Full Strength Records #1, 1998), a tuneless, noisy rant with surreal lyrics.
--> Lyrics: Master Plan
I'll start by forming a band To become as famous as The Stylistics Enter the military secret service And specialise in ballistics Sell a super-gun to a chap called Sadam Hussein But it gets misdirected in the post And it ends up in Spain
The Spanish use it on the Portuguese And kill a lone sardine Narrowly missing a time share villa Once owned by Jack Stein Portugal retaliate with a heavily armed banana It rapes and murders in a border town Confiscates everyone's pajamas | A four seasons pizza with nuclear weapons aboard Takes off from Milan But it's intercepted by the French With a cheese'n'onion flan I stand here and raise my hand And take full responsibility for the master plan
Doesn't it feel great to walk around With Luxembourg on a plate I'll walk Into Europe, into Asia Supreme power will come When I have the copyright to Fantasia
With a gun at Paul Weller's haircut He'll crap his pants where he stands As I tell him ruthlessly "Never reform The Jam" This is a master plan We won't buy their letters If they won't buy our lamb |
The Cybermen (USA, 1988-1990, 1996)
This 5 piece band, who first released material on a compilation album in 1988, released their own compilation in 1996, uniting their three singles with a Kinks cover and a brand new track. They play bright and cheerful pop music that makes reasonable background noise, but any examination of the lyrics or melodies reveals rather low standards.
The Cybermen: The Cybermen
CD, 1996
Estrus Is Go! ESD111
1. InsideOutsideUpsideDown
2. Every Night and Day
3. Losing You
4. Someday Will Come
5. She's Raining
6. Six Million Light Years Down
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Compilation Where The Hell Are The Good Scissors 12" Vinyl, August 1988
(Man-Cub Records ManCub 001) -
featuring "Every Night And Day"
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InsideOutsideUpsideDown
7" Vinyl
(WHAAAM Records WHAAAM 002) September 1988 - "InsideOutsideUpsideDown" / "She's Raining"
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Losing You
7" Vinyl
(Get Hip Records GH 117) January 1990 - "Losing You" / "Someday Will Come"
The Cybermen (Finland, 1989-1998)
Surreal and imaginative synthpop and rock music by this Finnish group, whose discography continues to expand. Their music could be sampled at mp3.com until the site's closure in December 2003, when their own website (cybermen.org) was established instead. One of the best and most inventive pop acts on this page, the Finnish Cybermen are in another league to the English and American varieties.
The band originally started as a trio back in 1988 (with Patro on vocals & guitar, Pietu on bass and Vesku on drums). After a period of rehearsing and playing gigs in the Helsinki area they released two 7" records and, during the summer of 1990, became a quartet when Mika joined as on organist. The Cybermen phase one came to a halt at the end of 1992 when Pietu and Vesku decided to pack it in. The Cybermen phase two were ready for take-off by 1994 with new recruits Tapsa on bass, Rene on drums and Kaitsu on sax. With their self-build studios they released the Needle's Eye LP in Finland and Germany and recorded a guest single for British label Detour records. With a new bass player and after a lengthy break from touring, they released their final album in 1998.
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Paint the Subway Blue EP (Uranus URA 001) March 1989 - Carnation irl / Rosy Shades / No Mercy / Paint the Subway Blue
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House of Wax 7" (Destination Uranus DESURA 002) December 1989 - House of Wax / I'm With You
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Compilation Snap!Cracle!Pop! (Smarten-UP!) Germany 1991 - featuring "Way Out"
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New Thrill LP (DESULP 001) March 1991 - New Thrill / Love We Never Had / Bag of Tricks / Can It Be? / Tonight / Break My Heart / See You Agaian / She's Crying / The Reaper / Would You Believe? / It's Over / Out of Control
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From Beyond EP (DESURA 003) June 1992 - From Beyond / Sand of Mars / Strange Looks / Why Dontcha Like It
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Compilation For Your Long Hair Party (Aishna) Spain 1995 - featuring "Something I Want to Tell You"
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Compilation Hi Numbers (Flavor) Japan 1995 - featuring "Word" and "One Spy Too Many"
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Compilation Tomorrow's Pebbles Today (Twang!) Germany 1995 - featuring "Get to Grips"
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Compilation Far Out (Funky Ass) UK 1995 - featuring "One Spy Too Many"
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Word 7" (DRO 22) May 1995 - World / One Spy Too Many
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Compilation The Modern World - The Jam Tribute (Flavor) Japan 1996 - featuring "Tonite at Noon"
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Needle's Eye CD / double-LP (Destination Uranus DESURA 005 & Twang Records, Germany) February 1996 -Tell It Like It Is / Made Your Bed / One Spy Too Many / Dominoes / Get to Grips / Waling on the Wire / Tides of Times / Penguin Walk / Zero Gravity Mood / Afternoon in the Hideout / Placee to Be / Needle's Eye
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Element X CD (DESURA 006) September 2000 - Space Cafe / Something / The Place / Element X / Drift Away / Miracles / Tune-a-Lube / Timeslip (Part 2) / The Fuzz / Count Me Out / Translatantico / Reflections
Dalek Beach Party (1990-present)

Compilation Waaah EP
4-track promo 7" free with Waaah Magazine, also featuring Strawberry Story and Kind
(Bring On Bull Records BULL 2-0) featuring Wee Timerous Cowering Beastie (Hoots Mon) |
Exterminate! Exterminate! 12" vinyl EP, 1990
(Paul's Mum's Front Room Records PMFRR2) - Cast a Long Shadow / Lonesome Twiser // Istanbul / Ghost Train |
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Compilation The Waaah CD
25-track promo CD
(Bring On Bull Records BULL 3-0) -
featuring "Way Out West" and "Teddy Boy's Picnic Dalek"
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Rabble Rousers in Catalogue Trousers
12" Vinyl EP
(Bring On Bull Records BULL 10-0) - Exterminate Exterminate /
Link Wray / Head 'em off at the Pass / Six O'Clock Again / Mr Smith / Ramblin' Rose
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Compilation The Sound of Music CD
13-track promo CD
(Bring On Bull Records C233 CD) -
featuring "The Sound Of Music"
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Ride Again
CD Album
(Dalek Beach Party DBP CD) -
Fury / 200 Miles / Cut To The Chase / Catelogue Trousers / Slinky / Route 67 / Evil Eye / I Wanna Be Your Man / Hungarian Hoedown / Lawnmower Man / Short Circuit / Love Nests In Watford / Young Wig
Formed in 1990 and running to this day, Dalek Beach Party (Howard Sway - Drums,
Aaron C. Rescue - Guitar and
Dudley Serious - Bass) boldy side-step the demands of contemporary music to bring "4 glorious slabs of unreconstructed twang - and some nifty tunes" to your stylus. Speaking to TME in December 2000, DPB guitarist Aaron C. Rescue described the Exterminate! Exterminate! EP as "but part of our intermittent output over the past 10 years, all of which draws on such timeless icons as the MC5 and the Shadows. Our connections with Dr Who are somewhat tenuous; we chose our name for its incongruity as much as anything. However, having assumed the name, what better title for your first recording?"
The band continued to release tracks throughout the '90s, mostly on compilation vinyls and CDs offered free with Waaah Magazine. "The records and CDs were issued by them and we did several promotional gigs with bands like Screeming Custard," remembered DBP producer Vince Taylor in January 2001. "Most of the other bands were less rocky than us but we had some good times." A second EP, Rabble Rousers in Catalogue Trousers, followed shortly after Waaah's demise, and a full-length CD album, Dalek Beach Party Ride Again, was released several years ago. "We have no great political or philosophical aims (or depths)," Rescue continues, "other than to continue our sporadic recordings - with minimal regard for sophistication, subtlety and current orthodoxy."
Dr. Who (1995)
Dr. Who: Prophecy
12" Vinyl
Dance Floor Corporation DFC 256
A. Prophecy Edit '95
2. Extasia
Produced by P. Verlanzi & Dr. Who
Co-Produced by M. Sacch
Recorded at Yellow Studio
With thanks to Asia, Gloria and God
A dance record with limited availability, credited to Dr. Who. TME reviewer Steve Wilson describes it as "an electronic instrumental dance track. Quite cheesy in the way only a Euro-dance track can be (think Vonal KSZ meets Jean-Michel Jarre)." The B-side was later issued on a separate release, 'Extasia Remix', credited to Dr Who & DJ Skudero.
Dälek (1998-present)
In 1998, MC Dälek, turntable experimentalist Still and producer Oktopus unleashed their energy against mediocre, closed-minded hip-hop, but few people paid close attention. They didn't exactly make things easy for themselves by releasing their debut, Negro, Necro, Nekros, on tiny indie-rock label Gern Blandsten, but those who managed to find it were rewarded with a heady mash-up of William Burroughs samples, slinky sitars and intensely philosophical syllable practice. Mike Patton's Ipepac picked up Dälek's brilliant follow-up, From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots, exposing more potential fans to Oktopus and Still's dark and densely textured compositions and Dälek's sage meditations on language, religion and underground rap.
The artist involved was unaware of his alias' Doctor Who association until he was contacted by a curious DWM. "Round my way Doctor Who isn't the most popular thing in the world," he replied. "I didn't know anything about that sh*t til reviews started to appear and they mentioned this Doctor Who cat. I was like, 'Who the fu*k is that?' I've checked out some of this sh*t and I know the Daleks are evil robots - that's cool - but I've got to say it doesn't have anything to do with my sh*t." (DWM 280, July 1999)

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Negro Nekro Nekros CD (GERN038CD) October 1998 - Swollen Tongue Bums / Three Rocks Blessed / Images Of .44 Casings / The Untravelled Road / Praise Be The Man
- Techno Animal vs Dälek Megaton / Classical Homicide 12" vinyl single, November 2000 (OLE 483/1)
- From Filthy Tongue of Gods & Griots CD (Ipecac Recordings) August 2002 - Spiritual Healing / Speak Volumes / ...From Mole Hills / Antichristo / Hold Tight / Heads / Block Smoke Rises / Trampled Brethren / Voices Of The Ether / Forever Close My Eyes / Classical Homicide
- Kid 606 Ruin It EP (Tigerbeat) October 2002 - featuring "Ruin It, Ruin Them, Ruin Yourself Then Ruin Me" (Dälek Remix)
- Faust vs. Dälek Derbe Respect, Alder CD (Staubgold Germany) April 2004 - Imagine What We Started / Hungry for Now / Remnants / Dead Lies / Erratic Thoughts / Bullets Need Violence / Collected Twighlight / T-Electronique
- Absence CD (Ipecac Recordings) February 2005 - Distorted Prose / Asylum (Permanent Underclass) / Culture for Dollars / Absence / A Beast Caged / Koner / In Midst of Struggle / Eyes to Form Shadows / Ever Somber / Opiate the Masses
Corvin Dalek (1999-present)
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This German DJ had mixed several dance compilations before writing his first track, "Pounds And Penz", in 1999. Corvin regularly performs his set in various clubs around Europe, and the flatners deutsche mark remix of Pounds and Penz has been released on several compilations including 'Technoinvasion-Nonstop' (2CD Germany 1999) and 'Club System Vol 12' (CD Belgium 2000). Corvin's second writing effort, "Pornoground", was released as a white-label 12" alongside his own mix of Pounds And Penz (July 2000, CONVR0036). Corvin also regularly includes the Doctor Who theme in his set lists - as occasionally listed at the notorious www.wetandhard.de DJ website.
The list of records below is what we believe to be an accurate solo discography; Corvin has also released singles and albums remixing other people's work, but those are not listed here. To be honest his music doesn't appeal to us much, so we've not exactly gone to the trouble of listening to any of these - hence details might be wonky!
- Pounds and Penz 12" vinyl single, May 1999 (MFS), July 2000 (Convert) and March 2001 (Flesh)
- Pornoground 12" vinyl single, July 2000 and 2001 (Data)
- The Atheist 12" vinyl single, December 2000 (Flesh) and March 2001 (Mindstar)
- Ride Me 12" vinyl single, May 2001 (Flesh)
- Young People 12" vinyl single, 2001 (Flesh 7626)
- Crystal (feat. Bernard Summer) 12" vinyl single, October 2001 (Flesh)
- Wet and Hard anthology CD mixed by Corvin Dalek, November 2001 (Flesh)
- Real Man 12" vinyl single, July 2002 (Flesh 76166)
- I Am a Dalek (M.F.S. B0000E39MX, pictured right), December 2003 - Things to Cum / I Am a Dale / Thrill Her / Pornoground (Mr Sam's Acid Pornstar Remix) / I Like It 69 / Young People / Pounds & Pénz (Mr Sam's Moneyshot Remix) / Ménage À Trois / Freakin' Mother Father / Interlewd / Good Sex, Good Drux, Good Musik / Real Man (Jan Kessler's Rockhard Remixx) / Finger Lickin' Good / Pornoground (Eiven Major's Piledrive Remix) / Real Man (A Real Hardcore Mixx) / MTW (Manchmal Tut Es Weh) / Crystal (Hustler & Stossdämpfer's Donner & Sumner Remix)
Dalekanium (2000)
One established musician in Illinois, USA invented a side-project for himself in mid-2000 as Dalekanium, aiming to explore "the ambient, experimental, and jungle genres". Although his music was unrelated to Doctor Who, certain quotations from the series could be found hidden among the general narrative at his website. There were mp3 downloads of his work available at www.iuma.com, and his collaboration with Jehova Hates Phred was released on a 73 minute CD-R album, 'Science Does Not Remove The Terror Of The Beat', in June 2000. His own CD-R album, Prototype Mark I: Genesis (pictured left), could be downloaded from the above websites but was apparently never commercially available.
Dr Who (2000)
'Armageddon' 12" single, January 2000 (BASH041). Nothing further known.
Dr Who Dat? (2006-present)
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Dr Who Dat?: Beat Journey Double 12" vinyl LP, CD, limited edition 2CD, August 2006 Lex LEX039LP/CD/CDX
1. | Beat Rock |
2. | Braziliant Thought |
3. | Pharoah's Dream Dr. Who Dat & Capital Peoples |
4. | B-Boy Portrait in Spain |
5. | March to Viberia |
6. | Stop Calling Me |
7. | Thumpa |
8. | On The Doelow |
9. | Deep Blaque |
10. | Creepin |
11. | Memories |
12. | ASAP (Flash) |
13. | Follow |
14. | Daiya Dr. Who Dat & Capital Peoples |
15. | Kelly Drive |
16. | Ageless Daisy |
17. | Bahia Blues |
18. | Warped 45 |
LIMITED EDITION CD2
1. Rhyme Cycle Dr. Who Dat & Cee Knowledge/Stacy Epps
2. Uprising Dr. Who Dat & Shape Of Broad Minds
3. Miles Away
4. Viberian Twilight |
Dr Who Dat? - aka American Jneiro Jarel - previously worked as an MC in Houston and New York before trying his hand at music production in Philadelphia. His mixture of Bazilin, jazz, hip-hop and soul scored him some very favourable reviews when his first solo release, Beat Journey, appeared in 2006. You can meet the man himself and stay on top of future releases at myspace.com/drwhodat. He might be more versed in cult TV than he looks, but we'd wager a bet that he's the first artist to name himself after the 2005 series of Doctor Who!