okay, i've had just about enough of this.

i don't mind when people aren't particularly fond of our tracks - with every tune we make i go through different stages of loving it and hating it, so i can empathise with pretty much every comment made so far.

the only comments i don't get are the ones saying "we've sold out"...

i define "selling out" as not only making music for profit, but also making ANYTHING you don't really want to make for ANY reason (including fame, pleasing fans, staying true to a genre, or un-necessarily repeating yourself out of fear of progression).

the only way i think i could have really "sold myself out" is if i had made any more tracks that sounded like vault / another planet / still grey etc. those tunes are cool for what they are, but i've moved on in both my musical taste / influences, and my ambitions for this group...if you want to blame anyone for our change in direction, blame led zeppelin, the shadows, the surf coasters, dead kennedys, dick dale, howlin wolf, weather report, tool, in flames, herb alpert, underoath and all the other stuff i've been listening to instead of drum and bass.

we have fended the vultures off this project so much that it would probably fill a novel if i tried to explain it all. all i'll say is - i wanted to make every single thing we've ever put out. call us "shit" or "clownstep" or photoshop gareth as much as you like - but saying "we sold out" is talking out your ass. i never wanted to make straight up dnb - it was never on the cards.

oh, and by the way - i'm not sure if drum and bass is dead or dying (i've been in the studio / on tour too long to tell) - however, if your genre was flimsy enough to be knocked over by ONE SINGLE RECORDING ARTIST who happened to - god forbid - sell some fucking records for the first time in about 5/6 years, then i'm glad it was us that got to drive the final stake through its stale pig shit heart - and good riddance. wake me up when your genre is making something that people outside the scene think is worth listening to again.

Just SOME of the big tunes of 2007. Doesn't look like a dead genre to me. I just listed like 50 big tunes easily. Pick ANY other genre and list 50 of its biggest tunes of 2007 and compare the list.

Absolute Zero & Subphonics - The Code (SKC remix)
Noisia - Facade VIP
Commix - Be True
Tribe Of Issachar - Wardance (Serial Killaz Remix)
Demo & Cease - Ladies Night
Xample - Lowdown
Hazard - Busted
Matrix & Futurebound - Coast to Coast
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Cold Turkey
Culture Shock - Asteroids
Fresh - Steam
ShockOne - Don't You Know
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Harder
Commix - Satellite Type 2
Ram Trilogy - Screamer (Shimon Remix)
Monoman - Dirty Games (G Dub Too Damn Dirty)
TC - Game Over
Noisia & Mayhem - Exodus
Sub Focus - Druggy
Chase & Status - Dumpling Riddim
Calyx & Teebee - The Divide
Ant Miles & Andy C - All Systems Go
Brookes Brothers - Mistakes
The Qemists - Stompbox
Logistics - Colourwheel
Sigma - All Blue
NuTone feat Natalie Williams - System (Matrix & Futurebound remix)
Friction & K-Tee - Megatron
Break - Let It Happen
Spor - 1Up
Calyx & Teebee - Warrior
Chase & Status - Disco
Culture Shock & Brookes Brothers - Rework
Commix - Electric
G Dub - Beast City
J Majik & Wickaman - Rollin It
Misanthrop - Viperfish
Chase & Status - Sell Me Your Soul
Baron - Endless Summer
ShockOne - Shock Resistance
Culture Shock - Vice Chase
Die & Clipz - Number One
Mr. L - Back To Your Roots (Friction & K-Tee remix)
Fresh - Scream
Matrix & Futurebound - Rat Trap
Benny Page - Battlefield
Terravita - Quantam Physics
J Majik & Wickaman - Crazy World
High Contrast - If We Ever
Clipz - Push It Up
Xample - Deeper Underground
Distorted Minds & DJ Hazard - Super Drunk
Phetsta - The Bloodening


If you guys are done with DnB for whatever reasons, you sure would save yourselves a lot of headaches by just coming out and saying "we're going in a different direction. DnB has been great to us, but we're moving on." But you guys keep clinging to DnB. You guys keep coming back to these boards, you or "pendulumHQ" let us know about every single/radio play/move you make, you're releasing a DnB remix on your first single of your new album, and you're still having people like Noisia and Sub Focus support you on tour.

When you saw Sub Focus at the show on Thursday in Bournemouth what did you say to him? "Ez Nick. How's the new album coming along in that stale pig shit genre you're in"?

I don't blame you guys for being pissed. You've been slagged off left and right in these forums, and I'm surprised it took you this long to crack However, slagging off friends of yours in the genre with statements like that just to get back at some forum posters shows a serious lack of respect for a lot of people who have played your tunes all over the world and helped you reach the stage you're now at.

As if it couldn't get worse, Dillinja's remix was played.. and my God I take it all back! Granite is the best song ever... well at least compared to this ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT!

oh, and by the way - i'm not sure if drum and bass is dead or dying (i've been in the studio / on tour too long to tell) - however, if your genre was flimsy enough to be knocked over by ONE SINGLE RECORDING ARTIST who happened to - god forbid - sell some fucking records for the first time in about 5/6 years, then i'm glad it was us that got to drive the final stake through its stale pig shit heart - and good riddance. wake me up when your genre is making something that people outside the scene think is worth listening to again.

To be fair to Pendulum, that paragraph is pretty similar to what Liam said about the Rave scene after he was accused of killing it with 'Charly'.

i am actually surprised as to how very basic the Dillinja remix of granite is sounding. its like he hasn't really bothered at all. then again my opinion is based on a 1.23 clip of it.

I seriously don't understand "fans" sometimes. It's the same thing that happened during when FOTL came out and Prodigy was #1 all around the world. For some strange unknown reason... fans don't want their favorite artists to become popular. People don't want them to be able to pay the bills. They want to see them struggle. They'd rather see them homeless. All so this elitist "fan" can namedrop this underground band in front of their friends and get a "who?" reaction. Once their friends or siblings or neighbors pick up on it, selling out immediatly gets thrown around everywhere. Whether or not said band changed themselves to sell more records is irrelevant. The fact they've sold some records and sold out stadiums makes them a sell out. I've seem it time and time again, especially in electronic genres. Is it jealousy? Envy? Pride? Elitism? Fuck if I know. I do know it's one thing though... sad.