Recording
Tarantula
Pendulum
- Released
- 2005
- Label
- Breakbeat Kaos
- On one list
- Drum and Bass
- ISRC
- GBKBH0502208
- Updated
- 2026-08-28
Analysis
10 sections, the first drop of 4 at 0:22, 7% of the way in.
- Tempo
- 172.3 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 8.7 dB
- moderate range, typical of a modern master
- Length
- 5:31
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:21Asteadybar 15
- 0:45Bpeakbar 32
- 1:32Bpeakbar 66
- 1:56Bpeakbar 84
- 2:38Cbreakdownbar 113
- 3:25Bpeakbar 147
- 4:03Bpeakbar 175
- 4:26Bpeakbar 191
- 4:50Aoutrobar 208
Drops at 0:22 (bar 16), 0:46 (bar 33), 1:34 (bar 68), 4:09 (bar 179). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:21
- Energy
- 13
- Brightness
- 25
- Density
- 84
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:24
- Energy
- 48
- Brightness
- 48
- Density
- 98
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:47
- Energy
- 96
- Brightness
- 95
- Density
- 86
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:25
- Energy
- 94
- Brightness
- 92
- Density
- 89
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 97
- Brightness
- 95
- Density
- 90
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:47
- Energy
- 50
- Brightness
- 76
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:39
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 96
- Density
- 85
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:23
- Energy
- 88
- Brightness
- 97
- Density
- 93
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:24
- Energy
- 96
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 80
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:41
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- outro
- the closing fall
Against Drum and Bass
Drops where Drum and Bass usually drops — 7% of the way in.
10 sections here; 9 is typical.
Drawn from the 13 records on our Drum and Bass list we have measured. The line over the energy curve above is that median.
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
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