Pendulum

Pendulum is an Australian drum and bass band founded in 2002 in Perth by Rob Swire, Gareth McGrillen, and Paul Harding.. In 2006, Pendulum's old label Breakbeat Kaos released an album containing a 2-year-old Pendulum DJ mix without their permission, resulting in group member Rob Swire later denouncing the album on public internet forum Dogs On Acid. This issue has since been resolved; DJ Fresh is included on the list of acknowledgements in the Immersion booklet, and Pendulum is now working with Breakbeat Kaos again, on the vinyl release of the singles "Witchcraft" and "The Island".. Electronic musician Goldie has criticized Pendulum's single "Granite" for being what he calls a "sh*t single", and accused the band of not acknowledging the drum and bass scene from which they came. For the band's part, in an interview with The Times Swire cited "Goldie making concept albums about space and his mum"[citation needed] (in the words of The Times reporter) as one of the reasons why he was not initially keen on the genre; he claims to have been more into “breakbeat, straight up house and hardcore” before Gareth McGrillen, who is Pendulum's bassist and was Swire's bandmate in Xygen, introduced him to "more electronic" areas of the genre. This issue has since been resolved as well, according to Gareth McGrillen in an interview on The Age....
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