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As a favor to someone I'm looking for very fast music -- no rock, though! (No grindcore, not interested in Earache stuff). Very, very fast music in genres other than rock, but no vocals. Thank you in advance.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

gabber should do it.

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

venetian snares is very fast

― gi66y, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

or happy hardcore (but that has vocals)

― gi66y, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Moby 'Thousand' - 1000bpm apparently

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

unrest had a few that measured at pretty high bpms..... although, that's sorta rock.
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

flamenco olé

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

if it's just a single continuous noise like a beep can that be described as speedless

― gi66y, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

There are different kinds of fast. While some techno or gabber has a very fast drum beat, it often stays stuck in the same chord for a whole song. Something like bebop, while not as fast in terms of bpm, moves very rapidly through chord changes, melodic ideas and so on. So which is actually faster? I think bebop actually requires you to listen faster, since a very fast repetitive beat is kind of trance-inducing.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Am Evil Homer"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

here's from before, Mark

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The Indonesian Monkey chant.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

right on o. nate!

ok then... how about john zorn's "spy versus spy"... or actual ornette coleman...

god, it's so hard for me to stay away from the heavy musics... i wanna say something like orthrelm... or upsilon acrux..

how about some gastr del sol?

tom ze?
m.

― msp, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Check out Henry Reser - Banjo Crackerjax on Yazoo. Insanely fast banjo player from the 20's.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: Serbian military band music.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'know, once a percussion part is sped up fast enough, it creates a hum, a tone, a solid note.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Straddling opposite sides of the as-fast-as-humanly-possible divide:

Paganini - Caprices for solo violin

Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for player piano

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The terrorcore/speedcore side of gabber, indeed. And are we talking about rhythmic speed or just any instrument played at high speeds? If so then, how ironic to mention him, Yngwie Malmsteen.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I am now going to play a selection of the fastest music ever recorded. So what did you think?

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops, the machine ate my </bad joke> tag.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

It wasn't necessary. :)

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Coltrane, Art Tatum.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 30 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

Well I will tell you. I DJ this type of genre. It is called noisecore. IT IS SO FAST IT IS AMAZING. It can get up to 1000 BPM or even faster. Is there a faster genre out there???

― Michael Jatas, Saturday, 12 July 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

phastphast songs get up to 1400 BPM

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 12 July 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

1400 bpm = 700bpm = 350bpm = 175bpm = 87.5bpm = 43.75bpm ad nauseam
it all depends how you want to big it up. i'd say some of merzbow's more loopless ambient washes or listening to drills / wheels / engines / maybe just one incredibly high frequency sine tone?

― bob snoom, Saturday, 12 July 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Johnny Violent's Burn Out has the highest bpm ever - 2,000,000, apparently. I didn't count to check.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Origin or Anaal Nathrakh have my votes for fastest bands ever. But alas, they are heavy.

Pig Destroyer ain't slow neither.

― Andy Cross, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Machines aside, drummer Mike Mangini (saw him solo live with Steve Vai, the man is simply amazing!) did 1247 bpm with his hands (single stoke, two sticks), and the record with a double bass pedal is 1407 bpm by Tim Waterson. Funny that the electronic guys are cranking their knobs up to "inhuman" levels slower than some humans.

― Ryan R. Miller, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

this is probably one for the psychology majors, but how fast can you get before the brain starts halving the speed, i.e. by only processing every other beat and hearing the rest as 8th notes? In other words, how fast is it possible to get?

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Irish jigs - zydeco - cajun - tijano - mariachi

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I think you should be interested in Earache stuff, actually.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 11 May 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Four Tet live really cranks up the old knob. He speeds an Amen break up to a single tone, and thence to a beat, which then becomes part of another Amen, et cetera. Assuming 160 bpm for the original Amen, within n repetitions of this he has reached an ASTONISHING 160^n bpm. Soon the beats are actually faster than the processor speed of his laptop! Wow - I'd like to see Mike Mangina hit GIGAHERTZ with "single stoke, two sticks"; I'll bet he can't do it however hard he cranks his knob.

― ewmy (ewmy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

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