luke.thompson wrote: Tarantula? Hold Your Colour? Girl on fire? Blood Sugar? SLAM? Voodoo People? Streamline? Fasten your seatbelt? all A1 tunes and much better than hardcore underground DnB, which btw is "underground" because few people actually enjoy listening to it....
As a working dj i could not agree more with your coment. i get asked for underground stuff all the time. some of which are great songs but can't play because not a lot of people would like. hence the people who slag of pop music well pop music is short for popular music! well said luke
luke.thompson wrote: If u think vault is Pendys best song you need to seriously work out some stuff....
Tarantula? Hold Your Colour? Girl on fire? Blood Sugar? SLAM? Voodoo People? Streamline? Fasten your seatbelt? all A1 tunes and much better than hardcore underground DnB, which btw is "underground" because few people actually enjoy listening to it....
I don't think that comment makes total sense. Just because a particular style of music is "underground" it isn't like that because hardly anyone likes it.
It's mainly down to the fact that scenes like DNB have no corportate sponsorships, and therefore is a selfsustained industry - people going out and buying tunes means the producers have enough money to live on and make more tunes.
Also, the degree to which people consider "Vault" Pendulum's best tune is only a matter of opinon - Vault is in a different league to all those other tunes you just mentioned, mainly because it was totally experimental and believe it or not the first tune they ever made - and it worked! All comes down to opinon anyways.
I would personally say that when Vault came out and I heard it on the radio I was loving it - but Sub Focus has been closely compared to Pendulum over the years and IMO is very underated. But again, that's another opinon.
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Dude, get in touch with the Pugwash team (e-mail Fraggy and he'll pass it on) - I'll be surprised if they can't find something for you to get your teeth properly into!
Once elections hell is over, everyone should have a bit more free time to sort their sheezay out and hopefully we'll be able to get more content like this onto the website.
"Vault is in a different league to all those other tunes you just mentioned, mainly because it was totally experimenta"
True but surely a song like "Hold Your colour" is equally experiemental through mixing guitars in to the fray? Quite frankly i have heard no DnB that sounds anything like Pendy in terms of style, Will check out this Sub Focus tho.
The point about Pendulum, is that they are a High impact name with a proven track record that will consider playing venues other than main lines. They have a series of Hit tunes that the MAJORITY of people recognise and enjoy and besides that ARE INCREDABLE LIVE - both to listen tobut to Watch, something many DJs can only dream of.
True that many Djs hit the Pier for Breakneck but thats like saying: "Because Reading's on that Download is not worth considering.".
Djs playing at Breakneck get a fraction of the money they would on a set where they were headlining soley....
Subfocus is definately worth checking out, I herd Andy C Double drop Special place with pendulums another planet and it worked so so well. The problem with getting decent DJs at the union is the sound system,its no way near at the level of the pier's,at least from what I can tell,although im no expert.In an ideal world the union would book dillinja and get him to bring the valve soundsystem but I doubt that'll ever happen.
LOL - Valve down at the union would be awesome but it would hurt too many people's ears!
Problem is aswell is I kind of think that Valve would probably only come down if it was a proper promoter. Leeds etc have been fortunate enough to get it down to their union but they have a much bigger reputation for putting on dnb events that work, hense the appeal for dj's to play there and Valve to take the system down.
@ Luke - definately check Sub Focus out. He's been closely linked to Pendulum because they've both been around the same lenght of time. Pendulum's sound is totally unique, and that's partly contributed to their success. But I prefer Sub Focus because he's one guy and the mixdowns of his tracks are the best in the business - probably better than the top sound engineers.
A live element could be good at the union, and London Elektricity could also be someone I would get the ents crew to look at. They too are a live dnb band and have been around for years, plus they're more "liquid" and that seems to be the only style of dnb that appeals to a union crowd in the days before Pendulum.
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