Blood Sugar / Axel Grinder

Blood Sugar / Axel Grinder

Pendulum [Breakbeat Kaos]

7 August, 2007 | 3.33PM

• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive
• Filed under: Music Recommendations: breakbeat kaos

‘Blood Sugar’ is the standard Pendulum affair – 200Hz-boosted kick/snare combos with LFO Reeces making out high-pitch melodies on top of deep sine waves and distorted mid-range basses.

It’s a nice catchy track but we can’t help feeling that we’ve heard this all before in Pendulum classics like ‘Another Planet’. 

The bassline reminds us a bit of ‘Screamer’ by Ram Trilogy too – which can’t be a bad thing!

Whatever the case, ‘Blood Sugar’ works well in a rave, so if you’re a Pendulum freak this makes for essential listening, but for the more discerning, choosier DJ perhaps it’s best to wait for their next dub-plate.

‘Axel Grinder’ is some dirty shit.

The break that leads into its drop runs in a triplet formation; and drum & bass producers will know that Pendulum haven’t broken out this little production trick for some time.

As far as the drop goes – it has the brooding menace of Digital and Spirit’s ‘Phantom Force’; the maniacal repetition of Universal Project’s ‘Vessel’ and is wrapped up unmistakably in Pendulum’s perfect production.


Rookie producers avert your ears – the serrated audio barbs in ‘Axel Grinder’ are so sharp that they’ll make you want to give up.

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