Exercise Music I: Fast Music, Slow Walky

Dissatisfied with my first hour of work, I decided to pursue something a little more obviously energetic.

Infected Mushroom are arguably the most successful psychedelic trance outfit in history. I’m The Supervisor was the Israeli duo’s last straightforward psytrance album before they started indulging their rock star/breakbeat fantasies more heavily. I presumed nine tracks of uptempo psytrance (closer ‘Stretched’ being a slower number) would prove sufficient motivation to get me back on track.

I certainly felt like I was travelling at a reasonable pace. So confident was I, I even forewent looking at my watch and just presumed I was making time. An alarm I forgot to turn off, however, alerted me to the fact that I was about 15 minutes behind schedule. I nearly killed myself to make it in under 60 minutes. If it wasn’t already obvious, this kind of shit me. So much so, that I’ve decided to try and do the whole 12 kilometres tomorrow in 90 minutes.Yes, I imagine I’ll totally die in the arse.

I’ll be fucked if I’m listening to Infected Mushroom again, though.

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by Matt O'Neill

Matt O’Neill is a man who pretends to be a musician and a music journalist. He’s inexplicably enjoyed a position as Senior Writer at Street Press Australia for two years and once got minor radio play while ruining someone else’s song. He likes music that makes him feel smarter, sexier and manlier than he actually is – but his tastes are consistently complicated by his unquestioned position at the cutting edge of Smartness, Sexiness and Manliness. He endures life with a casual pose of studied disinterest and says things like ‘it’s lonely at the top’ while stealing glances at women’s breasts.

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