Pendulum
 

What do u think of them?

I think that the "Hold You Colour" LP was probably one of the most prominent selling drum and bass albums that came out ever. IT was ill, alot of sick tracks like "girl in fire" and "slam" but i didn't care for "Another Planet" a year or so back, im not into the clownstep.

a band i keep hearing the name but not checked out.. will do soon!

a great trio, making big things happen :hphones:

They were phenomenal at Reading Festival and I got annihilated
it was the most chaotic set of the entire weekend and that's including Rage

it was amazing

YouTube - Pendulum - Crowd Shot (Reading Festival 2008)

camera turns the right way after 22 seconds

1:02 is when it gets good

I like the first album although it is horrendously commercial. The less said about this years release 'In Silico' the better.

I love their first album, their 2nd is very bad.

In Silico has 'Showdown' 'Granite' and 'Propane Nightmares' which are all solid tracks

and great live

Have you heard of London Elektricity? As commercial as Pendulum but not quite as in your face. 'Billion Dollar Gravy' is a class DnB album (takes a little to kick in):

Hmm, from what I heard of their earlier stuff it didn't sound too bad, didn't really intrest me that much either. As for the newest stuff, to me it sounds kinda played out. There's some catchy hooks and stuff, but I just think they're a little boring. I've been hearing bad things about their live shows too.

Edit: That London Elektricity song is very nice.

SubPop said it best, their earlier stuff was better.. their lastest cd "In Silico" I gave each song a listen and never listened too it again.

And its somewhat true their earlier stuff was commerical it was still good and was not known to the masses. I bet I could ask anyone right now who isnt into electronical who Pendulum is and they'd say they didnt know or sounds like a metal band.

ehh. Pendulum has been around for awhile now. I used to love their stuff but it has been a little cheesy as of late. Still Grey and Voyager are still classic tunes though.

I just saw the live show in ATL and I wasn't very impressed. They stopped playing after most of the songs which I really wouldn't expect from a DnB act. I was pretty disappointed. I may have been extra disappointed because I had just seen The Mars Volta and they absolutely destroyed it. The Mars Volta played NON STOP for over a hour.

i'm just happy there IS a world-class d&b band. sorry i missed them when they came thru baltimore a couple months ago. hope i can catch them next time!

http://community.middlebury.edu/~fsw...R-Pendulum.jpg

Should have stayed as that.

drum and bass is really going south in my opinion... it's a genre that has closed its eyes to experimentation IMO... it's like if your tracks don't sound just so, they won't be liked by anybody

I agree with doni on that one, but when it comes to pendulum...they have the kind of sound DnB lovers dislike, at least what i can tell...everyone I talk to say that they are overrated and over played...the scene for DnB isn't as big where i live but it sure has a mentionable following..you never really hear pendulum played in the clubs here. But I sure love Hold your Colour. Great Group IMO

Pendulum turned Jump-Up into pop music.
I'm still pissed about it.

If I hear Propane Nightmares one more time I'm going to scream.

quotedoni;570417]drum and bass is really going south in my opinion... it's a genre that has closed its eyes to experimentation IMO... it's like if your tracks don't sound just so, they won't be liked by anybody[/QUOTE]

:banghead: You obviously dont know anything about DnB,you just have to look at all the sub genres of DnB,From atmospheric right through to neurofunk.So producers such as Noisia,spor,High contrast,subfocus,Dirtyphonics,Break,Calibre,Serum ,Dan miracle and the countless others ect...are all producing and re-releasing all same old formulas???.Maybe if the people who like to pass judgement on the DnB/jungle scene so quickley could take a couple of mins out of their busy schedule of Annie Spac/Pissy sell out/Pendulum listening and find out a little bit more,then they would realise that DnB is a global music which has been around for the last 16 yrs and is getting stronger and more experimental/versatile by the day.

Amen, brother. (pun intended, and only true D&B heads would get it. :D)

Also, I'm not impressed with the route Pendulum have taken. I used to like them when they first started releasing. Not so much now. They've brought Jump-up into the spot-light but they've done it in by making it compatible with mainstream pop rock. I don't respect that kind of move. Do good things for a name, but don't change it. That's what I say. Still, most of the D&B noobs out there will categorize Pendulum's crap as "all of D&B" because it's most of what they've heard and not even realize what else is out there. I don't have a problem with Jump-up, but for sure these people need to be learnin' about Neurofunk, Techstep, Ragga Jungle, Atmo, etc.. because these are all true-to-form evolutions of early Jungle/Drum&Bass. Integration was never a part of Jungle/D&B and it never should be. It was always about breaking the mold and being different as a genre.
I'm all for progress in the genre, but when we start having a hard time differentiating from D&B and new Linkin' Park songs without vocals, we gotta stop.

I just typed all that crap to agree with you and expand on a specific pet peeve I've been nursing.

Read and learn noobs,Excactly what he said x1000

Could get some stick for this but I really like Pendulum including their newer stuff. I think that they created a fairly unique sound (please correct me if I'm wrong) and as long as they sound different to whatever is out there, then I'll continue to like them. I only really dip my toes into D&B with High Contrast, Sub Focus etc. so I'm not the most qualified person in that respect

I know that they've gone away from their roots so I can see why many D&B heads would turn against them, much like Tiesto and his new stuff. Then again, I don't really see them as a D&B act right now anyway (maybe it's the rock vibe) but more of a normal group with their own sound.

I also saw them live earlier in the year and only one word can describe it...epic! I enjoyed them more than The Prodigy and I never thought I would say that

not a fan of pendulum. pendulum is to d'n'b what chase & status are to dubstep (even though they made some d'n'b as well)

I also like pendulum quite a bit, especially songs like tarantula, hold your colour, and pendulum's remix of voodoo people. I think that regardless of whether you like pendulum's move towards the mainstream, their popularity will introduce people to dnb and help the genre grow. I know I had never really listened to dnb before pendulum and now im looking up more dnb artists and songs.

I think the problem arises when mainstream integration leads to a genre being so watered down and ripped apart to make it compatible and accessible by the mainstream audience that the music many people are listening to isn't even recognizable as its true form, and the roots of where it began are lost under layers and layers of bullshit.
I can respect it as a gateway, but if the producers go that route because they're following a subgenre's success story into the mainstream, then there won't be anything real left for people to discover after using that gateway.
It's potentially a gateway to nowhere, and the city left in the background is maintained by fewer and fewer citizens until there's nothing left at all.

The genre had it's heyday in the late 90's/early 00's with dedicated labels such as Moving Shadow pushing the genre as far as they could with easily affordable compilations (either 99p or £1.99p) that still failed to capture a major audience despite a major push via the inclusion of EZ Rollers who appeared prominently in the film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' .

The genre has evolved into 'Liquid Drum N Bass' which is a catch all for commercial beats that incorporate Dance music. Despite the efforts of a few artists, DnB is yet another casualty of an ever evolving scene that hasn't produced enough lasting albums to sustain it, although Roni Size is still eminently listenable.

The scene could be compared to Dubstep, which unfortunately has burned itself out already. Part of the problem is an international audience not Au Fait with the 'Dub' element.

LTJ Bukem is still an artist that should be heard outside of the confines of genre labels with his signature 'Kick Bass Drum' a very influential part of underground Dance music.

LTJ Bukem's Logical Progession series of albums are still staples of Dance music in my eyes:

Never really liked their older stuff, I'm not a jump up fan at all, and their new stuff is god awful. I'm more into my liquid tbh, and I'll always love jungle. LTJ bukem is great, and I'm a big fan of alot of Hospital stuff, medschool have been on roll lately, sick music was a great comp, not listened to future sound of russia yet.

And you've just gotta love danny byrd.



The VIP mix of shockout is great too.

Yep, it doesn't get much better than his Supersized CD, sooo many strong songs on there. Hospital rarely fails.


About Pendulum...all I can do is echo everyone else with, "I really liked Hold Your Colour, but not so much In Silica."

I do remember though, listening to Grooveriders radio show when In Silica came out. He was talking about all the DnB purists telling him how much they hated pendulum, and the way they were commercializing DnB. I can't remember it word for word or anything, but he sounded pretty upset about it and went something like, "Pendulum has created some of the biggest dnb tunes to come out recently, and have introduced so many people to the scene...Pendulum can do whatever they want...so you people can shut UP...just shuuuuut UP."

It sounded better the way he said it, but that was the jist of it. He made some really good points in his little rant.
On the other hand, what Freebase Dali said a couple posts up is very true as well, so /shrug

Just thought it was sorta interesting that one of the biggest figures in DnB would take that side of the argument.

Pendulum = Seksi drum and bass. I've seen them live twice, they made me want to make love to the speakers. 'Nuff said. In Silico may be mainstream but it's still appealing to me, as I'm not fussed that they became bigger. It means they come to see us more!

It's just different when you fall in love with something many years ago, and it grows up to become something you can't stand.
Not Pendulum in specific, as I was into drum & bass long before Pendulum arrived on the scene, but the general tendency for a genre to be right in its prime when you fall in love with it, then see it eventually fall to bits. I guess the most painful thing about it is that eventually, no one will make the kind of music you really dig, so you're kind of left back with just the things that are already there... and with no hope for anything new.

Pendulum did have some good stuff. I just don't like where they went with their talents.
But I guess you can leave all the old heads behind when you know you got a new niche to carve out of the mainstream, along with all the fans you'll gain.
It just won't be the same, true head fans. And usually the mainstream fans will be the first one to ditch when something new comes along and shines nicer, glitters more, and distracts them long enough.

So you think there's no-one making good dnb at the moment?

Oh no, there is.
I just don't think Pendulum is one of them.

I never thought they were much good, they were boring average jump up, and i've never been much of a jump up fan, now they're like, electronic rock(?) maybe, I don't know, not a fan of that either.

I see what you're saying. When I first got into the drum and bass scene it was very underground, and very good and heavy music. But dumb little teeny bopper first years started crashing the scene the moment any of the songs of artists went mainstream. It no longer has it's edge. But damn dnb festivals are amazing!

I absolutely LOVE Pendulum

Guess they have a new album coming out this year, with this being the first single:

That sounds pretty mint disel, I'd get fucked up to that.

Yeah it's not half bad huh? Not the best I've heard, but the intro is pretty sick and the middle from like 2:05-3:10 is pretty sweet as well. I'm actually interested to give the full album a listen when it comes.

They are so good! I like their cover of Calvin Harris' Im not alone.

Where's the 'like' button?

Bit of a fusion between new and old (: