Exercise music suggestions requested

Looking for suggestions on good "techno" CD's for aerobic exercise.

depends on if you like melodic, percussive, or vocal centric... there's lots out there.

It's older stuff, but its hard to go wrong with the Tomb Raider soundtrack as a starting point. Your personal taste will make blanket suggestions unlikely to work for you. Are you looking for peppy bouncy stuff to keep you motivated, or hard driving garage grungy stuff to fuel your aggression?

It sounds like you need some 90's Dance and House music. Theres a lot of good stuff from that period.

I listen to vocal trance and electronic dance music when I'm working out. Mostly Deadmau5, Kaskade, Above & Beyond, Oceanlab, and anything else Pandora suggests from those artists and that style EDM.

In reply to t25torx:

Good choice. Plug "kyau and albert" or "kaskade" into Pandora or Spotify and get your pump on.

For a little more kick in the ass, plug in "Pendulum."

Been on a huge dnb kick lately.

The Jock Jams series of albums, especially the early ones. Classic 90's workout tunes.

Otherwise, anything you like that has energy to it.

Technical Extasy- Black Sabbath

Thrash metal is always my go to for "music to get things done by."

The faster you work, the sooner you can turn it off.

SkinnyG wrote: Thrash metal is always my go to for "music to get things done by." The faster you work, the sooner you can turn it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnn47V09Q2M

really, really loud..

I have a pandora station labeled "Dropkick Murphys" that helps me get more done than any other station.

Be warned however, listen to it while driving and you WILL get speeding tickets.

When I first started cycling with an iPod (hold your opinions, I'm fine thanks) I loaded up with hard core electronica and metal. I damn near killed myself from exertion. Over the years I've built a playlist that varies tempo some - even some slow stuff- but it's all songs that move me. For me its more about inspiration. A lot of the stuff is steady beats that match my pedal cadence but when you spend several hours on a bike it helps to mix things up.

For short power workouts you can't beat Five Finger Death Punch.

I found a disc in a bin full of CDs at a TruValue hardware store in a tiny rural town called "140-BPM" or something similar. The whole bin was full of trance/techno/EDM/etc. CDs and the tag was ~$8-each. I walked to the register to ask if it was correct, and they said I could have as many as I wanted for $1 each...apparently no too many farmers are into this stuff. So I grabbed a handful. Something like that would be perfect for you.

I'll suggest to you the same thing I do for my wife: Eye of the Tiger on infinite loop. There's no point in exercising to anything else.

The Crystal Method has a cd or whatever called something like Original Run that was released with Nike. It's not bad for it's intended purpose (running etc).

PubBurgers wrote: I'll suggest to you the same thing I do for my wife: Eye of the Tiger on infinite loop. There's no point in exercising to anything else.

yeah, but everything turns into a montage when you play that song..

I'm surprised (and a little disappointed) no one's brought this up yet:

I loved the album by Scary Kids Scaring Kids. It's emo-post-screamo type stuff, but its good. I also enjoyed listening to a band called Escape the Fate. Both are screamo with charging bass heavy riffs.

I personally cant stand low-voice groaning and crap like that. Much prefer high-voice hair metal.

Or electronica.

I'd say it depends on your musical tastes/personality. When I was a distance runner, I had equal parts country (real country, not that watered down pop E36 M3 you hear on the radio) and jock jams style hype music. The constant, slow, stable country tunes allowed me to get into the rhythm of running 10 plus miles. When I was struggling, the upbeat stuff really helped get me to the next mile until I could calm down and keep going.

I can't do any type of exercise without my iPod.

ScreaminE wrote: I can't do any type of exercise without my iPod.

I wish somebody did a GPS/MP3/Phone watch. Something you could get pre-paid minutes for emergencies, could send a text of "Emergency Here's my Location!" and had 16gb of memory for holding tunes.

When my wife runs, I'm much more comfortable knowing she has her phone with her, but she burns up data using Pandora (easily solved) and she has dropped it twice now smashing the screen. She refuses to use a running hip belt.

EDIT: Apparently Timex makes something kind of like this but it costs $400 with a $40 yearly fee for data

So how much is that iPhone that she keeps dropping worth? Runners are pretty attached to their watches, and there's a definite arms race on - no pun intended. If an all-in-one is a good idea, you'll see more of them.

slowride wrote: The Crystal Method has a cd or whatever called something like Original Run that was released with Nike. It's not bad for it's intended purpose (running etc).

Their Vegas album would probably work just as well.

My own running mix (on an iPod shuffle which is basically just a bump in the headphone cord) contains Crystal Method - but also stuff like M/A/R/R/S, ska, fun bands like Moxy Frovous - all stuff I like. But no ballads. For long runs, I'll listen to audiobooks.

Youtube links to some of these might be worthwhile... :)

Daft Punk or Rammstein always works for me.

chada75 wrote: Daft Punk or Rammstein always works for me.

Daft Punk is my first thought.

I do hard cardio to the Daft Punk station on Jango radio (streaming)

stroker wrote: Youtube links to some of these might be worthwhile... :)

Kaskade - Another Night Out

OceanLab - On a Good Day

Kaskade and Deadmau5 - I Remember

Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes

Yuri Kane - Right Back

Those are a good start.