Here's what happens when you mix Planet Earth clips with dance music

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months (no pun intended) or haven't paid your TV licence, you've undoubtedly seen that Planet Earth II has been sweeping the globe with its first-hand-view of the beautiful world we live in. Sir David Attenborough's silky tones have been guiding us through our Sunday nights alongside some furry friends and savage beasts. Hell, he even makes grass sound interesting.

What's really caught our attention though is the re-imaginings of the soundtrack for the show. Benji B's Planet Earth II Mix features the amazing documentary footage backed with tracks by Flying Lotus and Carl Craig and David Rodigan did the same with a Jungles inspired mix, featuring some classic reggae and dub cuts.

This got us thinking: there's a wealth of music just waiting to be played alongside the BBC's remarkable footage. With that in mind, we've selected a few classic clips from Planet Earth I & II and given you some tracks to mix it with. The possibilities are literally endless so when you get back to an afters this weekend, instead of drawing for that mundane tech-house mix your mate found while he was smashed, why don't you come up with your own eye-popping combinations.

Here are a few to get you started. For now Sir David will have to be put on mute but you'll thank us for that later.

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The video of this sloth looking for a mate is pretty bloody lovely isn't it? What a cute little chap. We thought a bit of disco for the critter to swim along to would be perfect and it just so happens we have a great new bit of disco. Studio Barnhus' Mount Liberation Unlimited provide the dreamy backing track for our Sloth friend.

The wolf, one of the deadliest predators on the planet, so much so that the animal's 1990 Gladiator namesake was one of the most feared athletes on primetime TV. It's a really scary beast and one that'll rip your throat out in a heartbeat. Here we see the wolves hunting a large pack of Caribou and musically there was only one track we could pair the footage with. Yep, the track from the start of Blade at the Blood Rave. Unrelenting, dark and really bloody. We're proud of this one.

Ok so this one isn't strictly dance music but fuck it, it was the first song we instantly imagined when we saw that naughty Iguana evade those villainous snakes. God those snakes were really horrible weren't they? 'Killing In The Name Of' is the ultimate anti-establishment track and the Iguana managing to escape certain death is likened to the struggle we all go through in the dystopian political landscape that is 2016. Fuck you snake.

Rage kicks in at 0.17 seconds, the snake makes the big escape at 0.59, queue greatness

Now this is one of the more striking pieces of footage from the Planet Earth collections. Birds of Paradise; beautiful birds, in paradise, it does what it says on the tin really. 'Belfast' by Orbital is without doubt one of the nicest pieces of electronic music ever created to so the match is one that's made in heaven. There's even a shot of a bird dabbing – you can't write that shit.

The title of the Planet Earth clip here is Pole Dancing Bears, if like us that's something you regularly search for on YouTube, you'll have been thrilled when this excerpt popped up. Those raunchy bears dancing to Dj Deeon 'Work This M.F' is what we'd imagine a strip-club in the wild would be like. Time this one right and you'll see what Baloo and co get up to when nobody's watching.