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They've been described as the super-producers of drum'n'bass and their new album "Hold Your Colour", featuring a plethora of famous names, has recently been given an official release. Also - that Prodge remix.

What do y'all think?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Student favourites. Like Mr Scruff.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 November 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh, they're pretty harmless - but you've gotta admit it's good fun. Dare I say, the new Prodigy?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Nowhere NEAR the cultural impact. Nowhere near. No one outside of university campuses and sixth form colleges knows who they are or cares.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 November 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, it was only till i hosted a party the other night and some kid put it on that i heard about them. a lot of it was quite familiar. i guess i like their sound - it's very polished, but unabashed dance music.

so why are they big at uni and nowhere else? have they been doing the circuits?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

i liked Masochist and The Vault last year and a lot of it has the same kind of style (Slam, Tarantula, Terminal, Another Planet) which, yes, does sound familiar (like mampi swift?). a lot of the rest of it's too smooth for me. (have been listening to a lot of very dark and nasty dnb comps this year - Destruction Ritual, Future Beats 1-3, Black Out, Us Against The World etc and wonder why it seems to have taken this turn recently...)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 3 November 2005 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Blackeyed Peas of Drum n Bass.

― tektronica, Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha! OTM!

Still, it's harmless fun, it's catchy - I don't see the problem with it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

dreadful

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

why?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

"still grey" is the only good tune

― bubo, Thursday, 3 November 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

so shrill. the way some people think its so mind blowing -when all i can hear is lame big room dnb with nu-metal sensibilities- is especially irritating. cf. sara cox on radio1

― Barnaby (Barnaby), Thursday, 3 November 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

pendulum = Mary Ann Hobbs faves

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

eek! luckily i don't listen to radio 1 too much. don't know about the nu-metal thing though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

so the verdict is - it sounds okay but they're really uncool because students and mary ann hobbes like em.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

how does Nick know about Uni Kids music tastes, Does he flirt with 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 year old gurls all day by commenting I bet you look good on the dancefloor ;-)

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

pendulum are awesome, but they are no fresh

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

You know where I work, DJ Martian?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

pendulum are awesome, but they are no fresh

I'd say that's where I stand. That said I'm a bit sick of all this feeble d'n'b that's been coming out for a long time and I just want something to bounce around to with cheeky basslines and they provide that very well.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

i think there's a lot less space between something like, say, sileni and dj fresh than a lot of people are willing to accept. (as that mike paradinas mix kind of proved.)

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

what mix is that strongo?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

the 'Watermelon Thievery' by Paradinas:
1 fracture/neptune-colemanism (outsider)
2 equinox-acid rain (breakage 47th century remix) (inperspective)
3 breakage-so vain (bassbin)
4 southstar/miracle-omega amen (intasounds)
5 bizzy b-afraid of the dark (planet µ)
6 breakage-bring back (bassbin)
7 bizzy b-darkside (planet µ)
8 capone-neck back (test)
9 manix-hardcore junglism (total science rmx) (reinforced)
10 potential bad boy-girls town (three lions)
11 shy fx-power of ra (ebony)
12 fresh bc-sausage dog (charge)
13 rudeboylicious-murdera (rudeboylicious)
14 mason-ruff, rugged & raw (freak)
15 fresh-dead man walking (valve)
16 fresh-da licks (breakbeat kaos)
17 pendulum-another planet (breakbeat kaos)
18 rob the builder-can you fix it? (up yours)
19 sileni-twitchy droid leg (offshore)
20 bad company-grunge3 (dieselboy,kaos & karl K remix) (human)
21 fresh-tomb raider (dogs on acid)
22 midiman-drop the bass (signal)
23 dillinja-twist em out (fresh remix) (trouble on vinyl)

really good, if you can find it on slsk

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I've never quite understand why the barrier between Techno/House and Drum'n'Bass seems so totally rigid and uncrossable.

― login name (fandango), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

tempo, i guess. i think we've talked about this before. obviously in terms of the actual sounds they use there's often no difference at all.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Photek tried

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Teebee also

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh, I've found mixing d'n'b into techno/house/trance/whatever a fairly simple affair. I think it's been the case for a long time that when people go out to see a dj they ask "so what music is it?" and they expect an answer like "deep hard trance" and if the dj plays any non-deep-hard trance they get annoyed. Dunno about you, but whatever happened to the early 90s "it's all dance music, innit?" ethos?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Photek, Teebee and, how 'bout Zinc's try at crossover, "Faster"?? derd.

― tektronica, Friday, 4 November 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Heheh,I am so behind the curve that I am still a sucker for this album. And Blood Sugar was great. Also I like Mr Scruff.

― Fat Penne (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 10 November 2008 10:10 (sixteen years ago)

I saw them on Jools on Friday.

When exactly did they turn into the Alarm?

― A suit to remember at Montague Moss (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 10 November 2008 10:26 (sixteen years ago)

I liked that as well (the Pendulum track, not The Alarm, although I'm sure I have a couple of their tracks squirreled away somewhere).
And tomorrow I will be reviewing a Muse album from a couple of years ago.

― Fat Penne (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 10 November 2008 11:42 (sixteen years ago)

Their remix of Voodoo People is fatness. Most other stuff ranges from meh to outright crap.

― chap, Monday, 10 November 2008 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

vintage DJ Martian upthread

― restraint and blindness (Just got offed), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

last year i heard 15 minutes of the first pendulum album and couldn't take it anymore, so why is it am i enjoying the Qemists album so much?
same style .. but just without all the pseudo-new-age-ufo crap ..
mike patton and wiley approve of qemists so i guess that's got to count for something.
I would do a "Qemists vs Pendulum" thread, but suspect no-one would care, and in a few days/weeks/months its very likely neither will i.
but for this week, Qemists are the in yer face album of the moment.

― mark e, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

So a ton of UK types from here have been complaining about them on Twitter. Or sorta not, depending, thus our own Dorian Lynskey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jun/03/pendulum-sound-youth

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 June 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

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― mutual can man (Schlafsack), Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

different pendulum?

― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

oh i guess not

― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

EVERY
SINGLE
SONG

― mutual can man (Schlafsack), Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

I mean I like Pendulum but seriously

― mutual can man (Schlafsack), Sunday, 13 February 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

God I can't stand these guys now. Tarantula was okay, but grrr...!

― dentarthurdent (dog latin), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g61brCepGVE

― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Monday, 14 February 2011 16:26 (fourteen years ago)

^ love that song

― Most women do not like atheism.(8)(9)(10) (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 06:55 (fourteen years ago)

Wasn't there another drum & bass act called Pendulum in the 90s? I remember liking some of their songs, they had an album with a duck on the cover. I guess they have nothing to do with this Pendulum?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 08:56 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, different Pendulum.

― Most women do not like atheism.(8)(9)(10) (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 08:59 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah, this the Pendulum I was thinking of:

http://www.discogs.com/Pendulum-Creature-Feature/master/160033

IIRC correctly they were Australian too? And apparently there was also a third Australian electronic act called Pendulum back in the 1990s. Kinda confusing.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 09:02 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

pouring one out...
http://thequietus.com/articles/09093-pendulum-split

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:02 (thirteen years ago)

http://jesters.com/acatalog/A_kpuc106.jpg

― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 13:43 (thirteen years ago)

no, it's all on laptops now

― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

Looking at that photo, Pendulum has six members?! How can an electronic music act have so many members? What do they all do?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:12 (thirteen years ago)

Chop out lines for each other.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:38 (thirteen years ago)

How can an electronic music act have so many members? What do they all do?

Drums, guitar, bass & b. vox, DJ and two singers, one of whom also plays keys and produces.

― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:42 (thirteen years ago)

Ah okay, so they're like rock band after all? I've only heard a few mid-00s tracks by them that were instrumental d&b, so I wondered how it took 6 people to produce them.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:29 (thirteen years ago)

Even The Prodigy had room for only 3 extra people besides the producer.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:32 (thirteen years ago)

Ah okay, so they're like rock band after all?

Oh you!

Anyway - I understand they started off as a duo and as they found they were accumulating a more rock-ish audience they started adding members. But seriously Tuomas, it's not like an electronic act with more than 2 members is a revelation these days is it?

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

Also, I think having lots of members meant they could split up and do live shows all around the world simultaneously or something; a bit like that big Transformer made up of lots of little Transformers, but with live shows.

― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:30 (thirteen years ago)

I don't think that's the case - they were doing "DJ sets" as the original duo plus MC a couple of years ago, and have now just slimmed down to the duo and are making brostep

― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Thursday, 21 June 2012 00:39 (thirteen years ago)

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