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What's on your indoor training playlist?

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by dave atkinson
Wed, Mar 25, 2020 16:35
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EZ Rollers - Deathsport
Trance anthems? Dubstep? Folk music?

Mine's all drum and bass. It started when I was looking for stuff to get me through intervals, and that had a BPM that would match my cadence. stuff in the 85-95BPM range is often a bit chilled or dirgey. but double that and there's plenty of energy about.

Anyway, it started with Deathsport, because it's a) the perfect cadence for me; and b) exactly six minutes long, which was coincidentally the length of the particular interval I was struggling with at the time. And it sort of spiralled from there. I didn't really listen to much drum and bass before (except Roni Size; there's a bit of that in the mix) but I do now, especially for other mundane tasks. Painting, and sorting out Lego. That sort of thing.

What's in yours? share 'em in the comments below.

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXylNB6p8BfMV4-XVI-FWWrTsPw7oR...

Dave Atkinson

Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.

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James Warrener | 4 years ago
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As i am back on doing base miles at the moment I am back on Podcasts.

Although if you want something to work alongside a Tacx ride through some vineyards or sunflower filled fields, the Pete Tong orchestral covers of 90s dance bangers adds atmosphere. 1

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pete-Tong-with-The-Heritage-Orchestra-Classic...

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FatAndFurious | 4 years ago
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Here's my "Go To" list. "Real music" people should not click this:

https://www.deezer.com/playlist/921110555

 

 

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bike_food | 4 years ago
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Armin Van Buuren does a weekly 2 hour radio show available on all streaming services  called a state of trance, perfect sufferfest music.

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hawkinspeter | 4 years ago
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I'm not set up for indoor training, but whilst "working" from home, here's an appropriately named funky sound track for an hour:

GTA Vice City Fever 105 Full Radio Station

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IanEdward | 4 years ago
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Nice! Reminds me to dig out my Ram Trilogy stuff...

I've been stuck on Chemical Brothers for s while because that's all that was on my stereo. The euphoric tunes like Sunshine Underground give you an amazing lift right about halfway through the GCN Sweetspot workout

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Liam Cahill | 4 years ago
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TayTay is all that is needed

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dave atkinson replied to Liam Cahill | 4 years ago
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this is incorrect

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