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vanitashaze ([personal profile] vanitashaze) wrote2008-07-06 03:01 am
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fanmix: un cuento (a love story) [doctor who, rose/doctor & doctor/master]

1. Maybe it was the crappy quality on YouTube, or maybe I'm just missing something, but I for one was not so wildly thrilled about Journey's End. Despite some clear attempts at humor, it mostly felt like one plot device after another, quantity over quality. I suppose that with the set-up that The Stolen Earth left them with, it was a question of wrapping up a lot of threads with cheap thread (the type that breaks too hard), or tying off some with the really high-quality polyester stuff. Couldn't afford both, of course. And the Beeb is nothing but economical.

2. See? I am good at procrastination and posting my stuff all at the same time.

Before we begin, though, a quick note about the linkage of this fanmix: Normally, when I make fanmixes, I post links for each individual song, because I know that sometimes, people are just here for the music and couldn't give a damn about my fannish leanings. Then, too, are some who share my fandoms and do care about the music, but don't need another copy of "Wonderwall", or just really, really don't like Portishead. And all of this is perfectly fine, because music is music, and even if it doesn't touch you one way it will, eventually, in another.

This mix, however, is not a collection of separate songs. Like most things, it started out as something else: a Doctor fanmix. But then there was Rose, and just when I'd finished with them, a song would come screaming "Master!". Which got me thinking, really, about the usual limitations of fanmixes, their structure. Unlike fics, they're usually centered around one character, one show, one pairing, and it's good, but not real. People don't fall in love just once, and, at the risk of sounding like a Girl Scout friendship song, love doesn't detract from itself. So I tried to do something different. This mix is a love story, not two.

Which brings me back to my original point: that this mix is meant to be treated as a whole, in the order I put them in, no songs left out. This, to me, is the story of Rose and the Doctor, the Doctor and the Master, the ones he loves but loses. As well as the titles and order of the songs, here is significance, too, in the instruments. Songs for the Doctor are string quartets, or cellos: deep, resonating, layered. Rose I envisioned as the lighter, though no less beautiful, piano (with a bit of Reinette thrown in there as well); the Master, of course, is represented by drums.

...I ramble muchly. SORRY, PEOPLE, SORRY.


Zoe Keating - Exurgency
Bear McCreary - Wayward Soldier
David Byrne - Canal Life
Evanescence Piano Tribute - Taking Over Me
Bear McCreary - Passacaglia
Tori Amos - Over It [EP Version]
Final Fantasy X - To Zanarkand
Vindaloo String Quartet - Teardrop
Ehma - Court Metrage No. 5
Nobuo Uematsu - The Mystic Forest
Together We Will Live Forever - Clint Mansell
Zoe Keating - Legion [Live]
Fryderyk Chopin - Nocturne for Piano No. 20 in C
Javier Navarrete - Un Cuento (A Tale)


Zoe Keating - Frozen Angels
Vas - Ceremony of Passage
Vindaloo String Quartet - Angel


Bear McCreary - Two Funerals [Clip]


[Download]

[identity profile] odette-river.livejournal.com 2008-07-06 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
This looks makes me really, really happy. And also looks awesome! I'll be snagging, thank you. :)

[identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com 2008-07-06 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my, Zoe Keating. ♥ I really want to use her in my instrumental mix, but the sound is all wrong. :/

[identity profile] lorenluvsjeff33.livejournal.com 2008-07-06 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh, i like the idea behind this fanmix! totally snagging.

[identity profile] mariusgirl.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, I'm totally snagging this mix! I love it already, thanks for sharing!

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Snag away!

Totally loving your icon, by the way.

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Ick. I hate when that happens.

Honest to god, I think ZK is one of the most talented musicians EVAR. The first time I heard something of hers - "exurgency", I think - I listened for about thirty seconds and was totally lost. (In a good way.)

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Did you hear it on Stranger Things? When I heard it I went and bought the album straight away.
admiral: gwendolyn → odin sphere (✩smile)

[personal profile] admiral 2008-07-07 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, very interesting. Totally snagging! ♥

[identity profile] faeriemaiden.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
This looks gorgeous! Snagging!

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, someone had posted it up on [livejournal.com profile] audiography for their instrumental challenge/theme. I went to Barnes & Noble, looking for the CD, but alas, they had not even heard of her...

What's Stranger Things?

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for commenting!

[identity profile] tricki-nicki.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
This looks lovely and I'm incredibly excited to listen. Thanks for sharing!

[identity profile] boombangbing.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's an internet anthology series kind of like The Outer Limits. They use Exurgency at the beginning and end and have some footage of Keating playing the cello after the closing credits.

[identity profile] orelle-peredhil.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, snagging, thank you very much!

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

[identity profile] vanitashaze.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[identity profile] lady-moriel.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
ZOE KEATING. *love* That alone is enough to make me download.
ext_131: (snog)

[identity profile] ladyyueh.livejournal.com 2008-07-13 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. Interesting concept and I'm very curious as to how this will turn out.

Thanks!

[identity profile] gracefulfool.livejournal.com 2008-07-15 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Rose/Doctor and Doctor/Master push all my buttons - and I'm discovering you make superb mixes, so thanks again! :)

[identity profile] breakrific.livejournal.com 2008-07-17 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
This looks absolutely gorgeous and I love the idea behind the mix!
Taking the zip, thank you :)
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[personal profile] enigel 2008-07-29 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, instrumental and Doctor Who. I love when instrumental music can tell a story. Really pretty art too. Thank you for sharing!