So while he and McGrillen were playing in the band Xygen together, he decided to teach McGrillen how to make drum and bass tunes using only basic production software.
Both men were already fans of most forms of electronica, but only Swire knew how to create it on his laptop. The band began with Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen, two musicians who’d performed in a number of heavy metal bands between them. These guys made the quite frankly genius realisation that the aggression and intensity of a heavy metal how isn’t that far removed from the anything goes anarchy of a rave, and decided to make music that combined the two extremes as best they could.
One of the bands who genuinely get that these barriers between tribes are breaking down is a British and Australian band called Pendulum. Thanks to the advent of the MP3 and streaming age everyone listens to everything and the music actually being made is becoming more interesting, reckless and experimental as a result. We’re living in a world where genres are becoming progressively meaningless.
