Which song is this?

[doop-de-doo]

Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - (S03E06) Bullet Train - YouTube

...in the background, unless I'm horribly, horribly wrong.

[saXoni]

You are not horribly horribly wrong.

[Medal|2010]

It sounded like a remix more then the original. But it's still kinda funny.

[Pvt.LHeureux]

They sound different, here's the one from PR, the one in Top Gear doesn't have the weird arabic instrument.

[Mineral]

well, alkali is a professional music artist. I don't see why it's not likely that the BBC or whatever licensed/bought this song and uses it.

[Mouthpiece]

That's the same song. You can tell by noticing the same drum pattern and the "lead" part - by that I mean the instrument which clearly can be hear from 00:25-00:30 in the original (notice how it actually starts quietly in the originals' 00:02 second, just before the "weird arabic instrument #1" solo). The only difference is that it doesn't contain the solos of two "weird arabic instruments" (first one sounds like it's wind instrument, second - stringed). The parts of the song are in same scale as PR's. Oh, and I only checked (listened) until the originals 00:40 second.

So did the autor sell his music (if that - congrats to the author) or did they steal it? That's the question here.

[Rudd]

always reminds me of Dune!

[Pvt.LHeureux]

Most of PirateX's musics are free to use so I guess that it's one of his, unless it's Alkali's.

[Adriaan]

Yeah, it's Desert Heat by PirateX. I heard Terracotta by PirateX (also in the PR soundtrack) as well on Fifth-Gear a long time ago.