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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Hey I like techno! I find a lot of pop and R&B too slow and I am SICK of classic rock, cock rock, caterwauling pop, sad alterna-chicks, angry alterna-chicks, the lot of it.
Like an earlier poster, I like to mix up the techno/electronica/whatever you call it with Latin and some other genres that have a pretty fast beat. Even gospel! Here are some of my workout favorites:
Jean-Michel Jarre, Oxygene parts ii and iv
Chemical Brothers, Racing the Tide
Juliet, Avalon (I don't know what genre you call this)
(Various groups do this one) Mas Que Nada
MFSB/TSOP
A Fifth of Beethoven
(A lot of groups do this one ) Sway (Marimba Rhythm)
Chicane--Saltwater
Southern Culture on the Skids -- Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu, Haw River Stomp, you get the idea
Shpongle--Dorset Perception
Ozomatli -- (Who Discovered) America
Crusaders -- Put It Where You Want It
Rev. Ernest Davis Jr.'s Wilmington Chester Mass Choir -- Hosanna
Hallucinogen -- Alpha Centauri
Overclocked Remix -- Fortuna Favors the Funk (this is some site where they take the music from old video games and remix it)
. . . Buzzcocks!
.....probably just me, but i'm finding that "broken beat" (lordy i hate these categories/labels) does the trick.....new sector movements, jazzanova, bugz in the attic.....also jazzy drum&bass along the lines of danny byrd and london elektricity....
I just read your article about the unfounded dislike of Journey. Now you heap hate on Techno/House/Trance.
I listen to a mix of pop, techno, and rock while I work out (which I do a lot), but I find that most gyms place classic rock. I have no issue with with classic rock while I'm working on the car or driving an old pick-up... I *personally* don't like it while I run.
Nike has taken on the "music while you work out" thing with all they've got, and they have a huge number of mixes to offer to match with their Nike+ system. ( http://nikeplus.nike.com ). They even paid LCD Soundsystem to build the 45:33 or whatever its called. From the look of it, they've thought about what people want to work out to. Sure, some of it is "new enlightened" music like the Presets, Cut Copy, the New Pornographers, etc... but a majority of it is still driving electronic music spanning from LCD Soundsystem and Crystal Method to the Benassi Bro.'s.
I think they've spent some time looking into what people would workout to, if they could. I didn't see Journey anywhere ;)
The last gym I tried out (on a one-week trial pass) played Fox News on five TV screens in front of the cardio equipment. Needless to say, I did not join.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
