I just grabbed Michael Jackson's Dangerous album out of the shelf and went for a drive... It's an awesome recording. And really blew me away, I hadnt listened to it in a couple of years. I drove around every street near my house as I couldnt bring myself to go home till the disc finished.

I'm about to do some big CD shopping soon, so what good quality recordings do you guys know/use to test out ur systems or for general listening.

I used to listen to mp3's all the time and just use CD's to tune. But with the new headunit and new splits/tweets i just want to hear good quality music wherever I go. So I find myself moving away from the mp3's which are becoming worse the more I listen to them.

I listened to this from thedifference and had to buy it
The Eagles - Hell Freezes over (I bought the DVD)

Some other ones that are in the house/car -
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Sheffield labs
Alpine F1 - First Encounters
The Great fantasy

Genre is irrelevent, what are some quality cd's you guys have?

Peace

Tim

anything by Nick Skitz, some reason has a lot of Bass kick and rumble and a high sample rate..
other then that I use Bass Mekaniks 5 for Testing..
Pandisc have alot out there for the Bass Heads ( Self confessed)
Dj Lazz : Journey Into Bass , I don't know what it is but I love the Bass Sweeps that this CD has.. a Thorough Test from the Highs to the Gut rumbling lows..( Caution Pandisc and DJ Lazz contains Bass Frequencies that can destroy your equipment Use caution when listening)

Click Link for a Demo of DJ Lazz's Journey into Bass... http://www.emusic.com/album/10598/10598391.html

That is his Single, I have the Whole Album...

Pandisc for all your Bass needs http://www.pandisc.com/homepage.cfm

Like Your Subs and want to work them out http://www.bassmekanik.com/

MJ pretty much went downhill after Dangerous!! :D


fyi Top Gear 2005 did a reader survey on best driving songs.
(no idea what the result is, haven't had time to watch the whole latest series yet)

to try n tune mine i use alpine's highway one cd

dire straits is another good one
so is the IASCA cd, if you can find this let me know so i can get another copy.

Genre is irrelevent, what are some quality cd's you guys have?

Peace

Tim

Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon Is Over
Moonspell - Darkness And Hope

Matthius

To test my bass out, I'd just put on any Lil Jon track.

For SQ, I find that Shania Twain's music is fantastic, her voice is so clear, and there's still a bit of bass in her music to keep you pumped. Keep in mind, you do look like a homosexual (not that theres anything wrong with that) driving around with it.

I also got a lot of ballads - love and power ballads.

I agree that Dangerous is an awesome sounding album - i found the HIStory collection to be of similar quality and has some great sounding tracks. (so punchy and awesome rhythmic drive)

I just recently bought an Album called Fishermans Woman by Emiliana Torrini... It has a wonderful warm lush feel to it and gorgeous intimate close mic vocals... Not much in the way of bass but sounds awesome when i crank it up at home (where my real HIFI is!)

Any Tracey Chapman or Joan Armatrading CD tends to be well mastered and sound awesome on a quality setup (just beg you to keep turning up the volume) Although the earlier Albums are a little bass heavy (which most people love) - but if your system plays tight and clean they are thouroughly enjoyable

If You like Dark Side of the Moon check out anything released by Alan Parsons (or the Alan Parsons Project) - he was the sound engineer at Abbey Road for the Pink Ffloyd Album

If you enjoy classical music Phillips Eloquence and Deutsche Grammaphone releases are excellent value for moeny and well mastered (and the cannon fire in the 1812 overture is AMAZING on a high end setup... you cant beat a full orchestra for an incredibly dynamic range of music)

The earlier versions of Cafe Del Mar are great - up to about volume 7 think were all mixed by Jose Padillia and are gems for loungy chillout music

If you dig Hip Hop and like French check out any MC Solaar album - theyre awesome! Great attack, a good test for timing, image and plenty of deep lows

Dianna Krall- The girl in the other room is a stunning album

KD lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel - Simply: Breathtaking!

Hope this helps

DUDES... Seriously, you gotta get your hands on Perth band Pendulum's CD featuring "Fasten your seatbelts" as heard on JJJ.

Seriously wicked techno that will rock you WILD !!!!!

It's new, riddled with bass and set to be the new hit Techno CD for the year.

My Fav track is "Tarantula" :D

mm, anything from dire straits is very very well recorded! has just about everything.


perfect circle i found wasn't too badly recorded. Gives your midbass a good workout...i saw a cd called maximum bass or somthing when i was at work on saturday. im not game enuf to play it in teh store, coz it has course language, but yeh...that would definately be one to consider if u want to fry some DD :P

dire straits- the grestest hits i think it was- but kinda too old for my liking
perfect circle- (everything, coz i like 'em)
tool- amenia
pink flloyd
tracy chapman
gorillaz- demon days
tracy chapman- odyssey

i find all legit cds are really good coz i'm scungy:P

any original chemical brothers disc's
they use some awsome samples that u canr hear on sh1tty radios, sounds that u never have heard when u listen to them on a decent stereo

War of the Worlds (original) not the Tom Cruise version!

It's something different, but awesome never the less

Agreed MJ's albums are fantastic for testing the tonal balance + clarity of any system; it can really open up your ears to the finer sounds in music, if you are used to listening to poor quality MP3s most of the time.

Other albums I have found to be excellent include:

- Dave Seaman: Renaissance Desire
- Deep Dish: Yoshiesque
- LSG: Volume 2

i always find the foo fighters sound like sh*t on my system, so maybe a good way of testing a decent setup?

and cant go past a bit of beethoven for highs and lows and inbetweens :)
or try moonlight sonata...such an awesome song! theres a version going around with a bit of rain and thunder at the start, sounds really good :)
might be able 2 pick it up on a cheap classical cd, check the bargain bins! lol but it is a good song! or i can give u a torrent, dunno what quality the mp3 is tho.

or or or the forrest gump suite...that is a really good song!

and 4 anyone that feels like knocking me 4 liking classical music, u can bugger off! i went 2 a musical high school, so was fed classical music from years 8-12!

Man that is a Killer album - Jeff Waynes Musical Version of War of the Worlds!

I have that on double cd and double record! :D

If you find anything mastered by Jo Hanszch then it'll be a good quality CD.

Your all gonna flame me as being a lil try hard punk kiddy butttttttttt im gonna say it none the less. The last Used CD In Love and Death has been recorded in very high quality running through my boston splits its awesome to hear the champagne glass shrill coming out of the tweeters (All that Ive Got) and you can hear all little additions in songs which you just cant hear with normal computer/stereo speakers.

Man that is a Killer album - Jeff Waynes Musical Version of War of the Worlds!

I have that on double cd and double record! :D

I have it on double cd, picked it up real cheap.

I also just bought the double disc remix album aswell: "Jeff Waynes Musical Version of The War of the Worlds - ULLAdubULLA The Remix Album"

Occasionally I like to crank Regurgitator - Unit... not only an awesome sound, but an awesome album.... if you like that sort of thing of course :D

I like Ultra Sonic.. nothing like Driving Hardcore Beats of up to 180 BPM to test the Woofers and 6x9's not good for Testing subs, beats are a bit quick..
They are usually High Quality Recordings too..
Nothing Beats Money For Nothing by Dire Straits, the searing Guitars nice Drum beats very pleasurable at High Volume or at Low Volume..

I have found Fallen by Evanesence to be an exceptional recording. Very clear, well engineered etc.

A must have for any audio enthusiast's CD collection. Turn up very loud and enjoy it.

hmmm, evanesensensce and norah jones i find are good for imaging, but the highs are CRAZZY, I can't stand them from my tweeters....way too sharp for my liking. anyway, yeh, i don't dare turn it up without hearing protection!

Yeah Money is one of the top SQ songs around. I saw a chart of the top 10, but seem to have lost it.
I agree with Diana Krall, also listen to Evanescence and love Cafe Del Mar Volume 7, have also got volume 8 on cd but not as great as 7 imo. I've got the rest on mp3.

Does anyone have Lateralus by Tool in HDCD, I was thinking of buying that, I've heard good things, but never heard the whole album.

And same with A perfect circle I've never been into that music but want to expand my horizons a bit. I find it doesnt matter what genre, if its a quality recording I'll always learn to love it.

Peace

Tim

even the wiggles? gay asian pop?

lol gay asian pop...

And YES! if the wiggles got some HDCD's down I'd be all over them :doubt:

Korn - Untouchables

apparently spent around $2millionUS to produce

Faithless is always a great one Tim. Very clear, awesome bass at the start of one of the tracks on their 'best of' album (so run it with low volume first)

Andrea Bochelli (sp?) is great for male vocals. Most incredible sound engineering I have ever heard. If you can get a DVD-A copy of Romanza and run it down to 96KHz CD (or DVD source from the car) then it is just awesome. Expect tweeters to die a nasty death!

Chemicals from an original disc are good. It's always amazed by how Good nightcub systems reproduce those discs. Up the mids for the Chems though.

Depends what you like. Stay away from overdriven rock (foo Fighters) or vocoder'd dance.

Love Story (Tim Deluxe Long Mix) by Layo and Bushwhacka! is always a fave of mine.

gay asian pop?


Eeks starting a band!
:D :redface:

Yeh huge faithless fan, I've got their special edition disc from outrospective which is really nice.

Saw them in concert last time they were in Melbourne.

Also a big fan of anything Ministry (in terms of music)

Pure Euphoria (digitally mixed by Matt Darey) isnt too bad for SQ, but I want to get my hands on some Noom. Anyone know where you can get Dark side of the Noom in Vic? Meant to be an awesome SQ techno disk (yes apparently there is such a thing ;))

If you think MJ has some interesting production quality try Ryuichi Sakamoto sometime - the Master of pop production quality and very much (poorly) copied. Track down the old 'Beauty' album in the $5 bin and play the track 'A Pile of Time' cranked... guaranteed to melt your sub-woofer! Pic Below...

David Sylvian as well (protege of Sakamoto's) - try the 'Everything and Nothing' twinset, David Bowie's 'Let's Dance' and the harder to get 'Tonite' are both great played very loud (big, BIG BAND backings). In recent stuff - Anthony Callea's album isn't half bad either when you crank it up and there are some new dance mixes of his out as well which doof doof surprisingly well for an 'Idol'.

Andrea Bochelli (sp?) is great for male vocals. Most incredible sound engineering I have ever heard. If you can get a DVD-A copy of Romanza and run it down to 96KHz CD (or DVD source from the car) then it is just awesome. Expect tweeters to die a nasty death!

I have the cd, and love turning it up LOUD. Sounds great! Love drving up next to boguns trying to pump out panel rattling doofdoof from cheap speakers and drowning them out with some Andrea!! Provides me with entertainment! :bowrofl:

Evanesence is another one of my favorites though up loud my baffles start groaning. I NEED to make my mdf ones :(

Nothing like a bit of beethoven to test the overall clarity and quality (not volume) of a system though, with a whole range of sperate refined instruments coming out cystal clear.

Eeks starting a band!
:D :redface:

damnit, you weren't supposed to tell anybody!

I'll have to reconsider your application then :shock:

yeh, Noom apparently has a good reputation...goodluck finding it though :badgrin: then again...techno :doubt:

Love my techno and omg Love my Trance... Just listening to Tiesto's in search of sunrise 4 : latin america.

Mmmm...

Hey If I get a chance I may be able to draw up a template into a word document to make the flat mdf baffles. They are seriously easy to make, I can make em in like 30 minutes now.

since alot of peeps listen to classical, has anyone had a good listen to some of Kenny G's music. The saxaphone really tests the boundries for the stage, so does pan pipe music.

And yeah gotta love stopping next to a car load of bogans with mozart or vivaldi playing, or anything classical, just gotta make sure the windows down a bit when you do it :badgrin:

Love my techno and omg Love my Trance... Just listening to Tiesto's in search of sunrise 4 : latin america.

Mmmm...

Hey If I get a chance I may be able to draw up a template into a word document to make the flat mdf baffles. They are seriously easy to make, I can make em in like 30 minutes now.


yes yes, here here. havent had much testing to do, but i really liked tiestos athens olympic album one. loved it. and MOS Trance nation does the trick for me too, along with trance arena and sktizmix

since alot of peeps listen to classical, has anyone had a good listen to some of Kenny G's music. The saxaphone really tests the boundries for the stage, so does pan pipe music.

And yeah gotta love stopping next to a car load of bogans with mozart or vivaldi playing, or anything classical, just gotta make sure the windows down a bit when you do it :badgrin:

hahaha, Kenny G!!! I had that playing the other day. This dude in a riced up civic was looking at me all weird too.

If were driving around with bananna fone, happy days or the chicken dance or something, what would be GOLD! :D

Aphex Twin..

four letters... ACDC... ok, so i'll get flamed for being a bogan... but if you can get an album with good quality recording, cant think of the best one right now, some of those stadium rock intros and solos go off! think the start of shook me all night long...

Aphex Twin..

oh...oh no...i dont call that music!! its just a jumble up of synthisizzseruszer notes n stuff

better off listening to musique concrete or something :P

anyways, i'll stop posting....i ph33r the lead pipe...also known as banstick

oh...oh no...i dont call that music!! its just a jumble up of synthisizzseruszer notes n stuff

better off listening to musique concrete or something :P

I havent listened to his stuff in like 5 years, so it could have gone down the drain.

Could also try a band called Wumpscut. Album: Emybrodead

Its Gothic Industrial, so i doubt many people would like it. (its a pretty dark album)

I like my Bass, DJ Lazz has Bass so low that all you can here and feel is port noise... regardless of whether it is a 6 inch Ported PC Subwoofer or a 18 inch MTX so low it goes straight through you Guarenteed to make Even stock car audio sound good..

Kenny G??? Possibly if you like great sounding Elevator music!

Bass Apocalypse 2 has a Cool Bass overdoesed Remix of " Baby Got Back" Nothing like a track like that to show off the Booty in your trunk...

so bain i guess you like slipknot, muvayne, chaimara etc etc.

only like 1 song from 1 group there

slipknot - before i forget

besides that, happy hardcore usually sounds pretty clear, as well as rammstein.


goooooooooo rammstein!

so bain i guess you like slipknot, muvayne, chaimara etc etc.

only like 1 song from 1 group there

slipknot - before i forget

besides that, happy hardcore usually sounds pretty clear, as well as rammstein.


goooooooooo rammstein!
Nah i hate slipknot, manufactured phonies.

I like all kinds of music - dance, hiphop, trance, house, underground, rock, pop, metal, industrial etc etc, but my favourites are mainly dark unheard of gothic industrial bands. The lyrics in most of those songs strike a chord with me.

Nah i hate slipknot, manufactured phonies.

I like all kinds of music - dance, hiphop, trance, house, underground, rock, pop, metal, industrial etc etc, but my favourites are mainly dark unheard of gothic industrial bands. The lyrics in most of those songs strike a chord with me.

I hate any Band who's lead singer has to scream inaudibly !!

If I want an Audible screamer, no one beats Jimmy Barnes !

If you guys want to listen to real grassroots trance (early 90s), check out anything by Oliver Lieb/LSG/Paragliders/Spicelab, Humate, Mikerobenics, Cosmic Baby/Energy52, Emmanuel Top, Union Jack, Sven Vath. It's a shame that they don't write music like this anymore!

For SQ, I find that Shania Twain's music is fantastic, her voice is so clear, and there's still a bit of bass in her music to keep you pumped. Keep in mind, you do look like a homosexual (not that theres anything wrong with that) driving around with it.

I also got a lot of ballads - love and power ballads.

actually, that reminds me. Sort of along the same lines.....Dido - Life For Rent, the whole CD, is a great cd!

how about metallica - s&m? would b good 2 crank out some metallica, plus u've got full orchestra with it? the double cd is pretty awesome (well, imo neways!) and u wont feel odd cranking out, or buying, a classical cd. would make a good test for the speakers as u have full on metallica, plus the highs and lows of the orchestra...good combination!

just bought Gatecrasher-Classics...... 3 cd set....... great..... just great.... old school classics...... love it

yeah and Diana Krall - girl in the other room....... also great for SQ

how about metallica - s&m? would b good 2 crank out some metallica, plus u've got full orchestra with it? the double cd is pretty awesome (well, imo neways!) and u wont feel odd cranking out, or buying, a classical cd. would make a good test for the speakers as u have full on metallica, plus the highs and lows of the orchestra...good combination!
Enter Sandman is pretty good song to test the system out...


Some of the GateCrasher Trance mix's have good low end..

oh and tim..... i've got a Dean Martin cd: Dino - The Best of Dean Martin...... i'll burn it for you....... everytime i hear the trumpets, it sends shivers down my spine..... mmmmm SQ :D

Sounds good... Oh and burn me Nubreed. In fact burn me whatever u can be bothered burning me, will give you the blanks next time I see you :)

*** 5am... just finished making and installing my angled pods :)
7 hours straight... Took longer than expected...

Off cruizing to test em out... Took pics... WIll get em up wen i get some time free...

*tired

Tim

love the Punk, emo, scremo, soft rock and ska music

But sadly I think im alone on that one :(

Placebo and jack johnson are a couple more that sound pretty good on a high end system

four letters... ACDC... ok, so i'll get flamed for being a bogan... but if you can get an album with good quality recording, cant think of the best one right now, some of those stadium rock intros and solos go off! think the start of shook me all night long...

AC/DC ROCK!!!!! :D

AC/DC ROCK!!!!! :D
2nd that motion.

oh and tim..... i've got a Dean Martin cd: Dino - The Best of Dean Martin...... i'll burn it for you....... everytime i hear the trumpets, it sends shivers down my spine..... mmmmm SQ :D

Thats just plain sad.. Thats like a 13 Year Old admitting he likes Nana Miskouri or Demmis Rousos..Eeewww ...

Tim .. I want Shots of those Pods...

DUDES... Seriously, you gotta get your hands on Perth band Pendulum's CD featuring "Fasten your seatbelts" as heard on JJJ.

Seriously wicked techno that will rock you WILD !!!!!

It's new, riddled with bass and set to be the new hit Techno CD for the year.

My Fav track is "Tarantula" :D

I have been trying to fond an album of theirs in stores but not luck. The only track i have heard from theirs is "Spiral" it kicks ass.

Thats just plain sad.. Thats like a 13 Year Old admitting he likes Nana Miskouri or Demmis Rousos..Eeewww ...


what we live in is called the world. and in this world, there are many people. now these people have different tastes...... see where im going?

sorry that i dont have jimmy barnes blaring from my system, or some overrated teeny bopping commercial "techno" or "dance", or some overdone 80's black rap group attracting ALL the b*tches.....

tell you what..... get out of your comfort zone for a bit and *gasps* try something new for once..... you may like it, and it may even open your narrow little mind (but not too much tho.... we dont want all the cobwebs blown out) :D

what we live in is called the world. and in this world, there are many people. now these people have different tastes...... see where im going?

sorry that i dont have jimmy barnes blaring from my system, or some overrated teeny bopping commercial "techno" or "dance", or some overdone 80's black rap group attracting ALL the b*tches.....

tell you what..... get out of your comfort zone for a bit and *gasps* try something new for once..... you may like it, and it may even open your narrow little mind (but not too much tho.... we dont want all the cobwebs blown out) :D



:stoopid: well said!

Thats just plain sad.. Thats like a 13 Year Old admitting he likes Nana Miskouri or Demmis Rousos..Eeewww ...

Tim .. I want Shots of those Pods...

And you're the 26yo listening to:


"1. Party Non-Stop By Ultra Sonic ( has a Wicked Bass Drop, typical Happy Hardcore)
2.Bidibodi Bidibu by Bubbles (The Track in Super Troopers where that Porsche Driver is hammering it along)
3.Heres Jonny by Hocus Pocus...(Oldy but a Goody)
4. Knock on Wood by Safri Duo
5. Equador by Sash
6.Adelante by Sash
7.Blue by Eiffel 65 (Extended Remix
8.Rebel Yell by Scooter
9 Fire by Scooter
10.Despina Vandi by Gia (Only if you do not mind Greek Words)
11. Monochrome by Beat_bizarre
12.Love you more by Dj Paul Elstak
13 Hamster Dance (Remix) has some good Bass sweeps
14 Right in the Night by Jam and Spoon
15.Alice who the..... is Alice by the Steppers (a really good fast paced Song)"

:bowrofl:

Thats just plain sad.. Thats like a 13 Year Old admitting he likes Nana Miskouri or Demmis Rousos..Eeewww ...

Tim .. I want Shots of those Pods...


been listning to guido hatzis have we?

he rocks :D

what we live in is called the world. and in this world, there are many people. now these people have different tastes...... see where im going?

sorry that i dont have jimmy barnes blaring from my system, or some overrated teeny bopping commercial "techno" or "dance", or some overdone 80's black rap group attracting ALL the b*tches.....



ROFL, do you realise what you just did?

Hey at least my tracklist was from my Era of Music...
Dean Martin is something my folks play just to tick me off..

As for the Nana Miskouri, What can I say my parents torment me musically...

Besides nobody Complains when " Blue" gets Cranked loud but they sure as hell do when " Thats Amore' does....

Besides I was going to add The Macarena by 2 locos in the room but that song stinks like Stilton....

DUDES... Seriously, you gotta get your hands on Perth band Pendulum's CD featuring "Fasten your seatbelts" as heard on JJJ.

Seriously wicked techno that will rock you WILD !!!!!

It's new, riddled with bass and set to be the new hit Techno CD for the year.

My Fav track is "Tarantula" :D
the CD is called Hold Your Colour

the song hold your colour is kickass too... so it tarantula:P

Quality Drum and Bass!:D

I've found Michael Buble's latest one (cant hink of the name :redface: ) to be really well recorded with excellent vocals and a range of different instruments. Comes in real handy for setup & testing. Any Van Morrison album is also pretty good for testing, the later releases are better quality than some of the original stuff though. Couldnt live without my bass mekaniks discs though, nearly 1hr worth of sines, sweeps and pink noise :D:D:D

Daily driving though I'm listening heaps to Jamiroquai's new album Dynamite, its awesome! I'm also really digging MOS - Chillout Sessions 7 and Foo Fighters In Your Honour (disc two - accoustic).

PS if anyone has a copy of the Focal or Alpine test discs hook a brother up! Been trying to get hold of them for agesssss!

what we live in is called the world. and in this world, there are many people. now these people have different tastes...... see where im going?

sorry that i dont have jimmy barnes blaring from my system, or some overrated teeny bopping commercial "techno" or "dance", or some overdone 80's black rap group attracting ALL the b*tches.....

tell you what..... get out of your comfort zone for a bit and *gasps* try something new for once..... you may like it, and it may even open your narrow little mind (but not too much tho.... we dont want all the cobwebs blown out) :D
Wow Jon, i read that and thought.. "did i post that?" Had to double check to make sure it was someone else. Almost the same writing style too.

BTW...I agree 100%..

PS if anyone has a copy of the Focal or Alpine test discs hook a brother up! Been trying to get hold of them for agesssss!


the alpine cd, would that be HIGHWAY ONE.

the alpine cd, would that be HIGHWAY ONE.


Thats the one! I think the Focal one is called FIRST ENCOUNTER. Both are SQ reference discs that I beleive are no longer produced. If you have a copy please PM me :D:D

Matt

Besides nobody Complains when " Blue" gets Cranked loud but they sure as hell do when " Thats Amore' does....


i reckon id rather listen to dean martin than that blue song!! lol

Alpine have First Encounter
Sheffield Labs / Autosound 2000 disc is 'My Disc'
I've got a couple of other Sheffield labs discs too.

They dont make First Encounter anymore.

Hey tim have you heard the highway one cd?. :thumbsup: I believe many years ago it was used for sq aswell. It has 15 music tracks, 20hz-20khz test track, zero bit track and a couple of others i'm unsure of (freq wise). Found it really good for staging as theres a coincidence stereo mic track on it,

Wouldnt mind getting my hands on the iasca cd cant remember what it was called though, it had I A S C A across the front and other words aswell. Any1 know this cd??

havent heard highway 1. But I have all the test tracks you could think of. Sweeps, pink noise, white noise, resonance tests, drum staging, voice staging, phase checks etc.

Not sure what the iasca disc is, when I find any I usually grab em asap

PS if anyone has a copy of the Focal or Alpine test discs hook a brother up! Been trying to get hold of them for agesssss!

My favorite track on the Focal cd is the "bulb smash" sound effect....

Did you manage to find a copy yet?

iirc IASCA is international auto sound competition assosciation. used to be the bench mark for all sound offs. thats going back about 5 or 6 years though

havent heard highway 1. But I have all the test tracks you could think of. Sweeps, pink noise, white noise, resonance tests, drum staging, voice staging, phase checks etc.

Not sure what the iasca disc is, when I find any I usually grab em asap


wouldnt mind some copies of those test tracks you have, as they say the more the merrier.

I'll be down QLD way around MM05 time, probably going to get some of my discs to alan. We will see how it goes. Im staying at Hotel Ibis from the 25th Sept for a week.

sweet!! see you when you get here.

My favorite track on the Focal cd is the "bulb smash" sound effect....

Did you manage to find a copy yet?

Got Highway One organised but not the Focal on, u have a PM :)

DUDES... Seriously, you gotta get your hands on Perth band Pendulum's CD featuring "Fasten your seatbelts" as heard on JJJ.

Seriously wicked techno that will rock you WILD !!!!!

It's new, riddled with bass and set to be the new hit Techno CD for the year.

My Fav track is "Tarantula" :D

hehe... pendulum is drum n bass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass), not techno.
drum n bass = 170-180bpm with a breakbeat
techno = 130-140bpm with a 4/4 beat

glad you liken it though, dnb is very under appreciated. pendulum are pushing the more commercial side of dnb but there's a lot of very quality producers out there if you are willing to do a bit of digging.
if you like pendulum stuff head over to http://osiris.bur.st and dl a couple of my mixes and have a listen.. you will prolly like the suburban alert mix
here's a direct link to it (http://osiris.bur.st/djosiris-suburban_alert.mp3)
:)


I have been trying to fond an album of theirs in stores but not luck. The only track i have heard from theirs is "Spiral" it kicks ass.
that's the first track on my mix :)

hehe... pendulum is drum n bass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass), not techno.
drum n bass = 170-180bpm with a breakbeat
techno = 130-140bpm with a 4/4 beat

glad you liken it though, dnb is very under appreciated. pendulum are pushing the more commercial side of dnb but there's a lot of very quality producers out there if you are willing to do a bit of digging.
if you like pendulum stuff head over to http://osiris.bur.st and dl a couple of my mixes and have a listen.. you will prolly like the suburban alert mix
here's a direct link to it (http://osiris.bur.st/djosiris-suburban_alert.mp3)
:)


that's the first track on my mix :)

Most people classify any type of electronic music as "techno," it's sad really.

Most people classify any type of electronic music as "techno," it's sad really.
yeh i figured... but the more people i can educate about it the better :cool:

hehe... pendulum is drum n bass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass), not techno.
drum n bass = 170-180bpm with a breakbeat
techno = 130-140bpm with a 4/4 beat

Wow!!! That's good to know. I really like drum n bass music then... Does that classify "squarepusher" and "Photek" as Drum n Bass then? I love their work as well...

Wow!!! That's good to know. I really like drum n bass music then... Does that classify "squarepusher" and "Photek" as Drum n Bass then? I love their work as well...
squarepusher can be classified as drum n bass although it's very experimental drum n bass and he uses lots of jazz elements as well. you won't hear it on a dancefloor anywhere
photek mainly makes drum n bass.. although i'm pretty sure he has also produced some house and hip/hop recently. :D

other sick dnb artists are subfocus, noisia, chris su, concord dawn, dieselboy, the list goes on

http://www.dogsonacid.com/mixes/ is prolly a good place to start to download some mixes.

Thanx!! Hey... I also wanna get more stuff from "Supersonic"... But no one knows of them... They did the theme for the TV series "White Collar Blue"(a sh1t TV show that got scrapped)... What happened 2 those blokes?