Tuesday 12 August 2014

Upside Down

Well it's been a very, very long time since I posted here. Partly because no matter what I do I seem to be permanently injured and haven't run regularly for a very long time. Also I really liked the Epitonic thing, with all those free downloads and  they removed the ability to download lists of tracks together. I had written a little app that downloaded the zips once a month. It was just too much work to download everything one by one. Still nowadays I am I am guessing most people have Spotify or something like that.

I just discovered the band Cobra Killer and they are so good I wanted to tell someone. They are from Berlin and they sound like Berlin makes you feel. The song Upside Down The Building is about 184bpm, or 92 how ever you want to count. Hope you don't find it too upside down of me to recomment running music, when I am not running.


 

2 comments:

  1. Hi Nicole,

    Sorry to hear you're injured a lot. I moved over to more minimalist running a couple of years ago. I must admit it took a while for my calves and achilles to get used to it.
    I do a lot of core strength and leg strength work and I'm a lot less injured nowadays. At least we have access to good osteopaths and kinesiotherapists in France!


    I'm always on the look out for music around 180bpm. I need to tag my mp3 collection with bpm at some point.

    As for spotify I'm not overly impressed with their running mixes. I need variety, not just dance tracks, and also I don't want to have to rely on a good 3G connection as where I live it's not that good.

    Get well soon!
    Phil

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