A few days ago I got the
Pacemaker plugin for
Winamp, which basically lets you change the
tempo,
speed and
pitch of an
mp3. After a while of playing around with the
settings, I found out that a lot of
songs sound substantially better when sped up by around
twenty percent or so, maybe moving up to
thirty percent if needs be.
After a couple of
test runs I found that some songs that were
meant to be slow (for
emotional purposes or whatever) don't sound that good when sped up.
e.g. Roads by
Portishead or
Full Circle by
Aerosmith.
In addition to this,
dance music doesn't sound that good, because if you already know the song, it sounds like it's
supposed to be that fast.
e.g. anything by
The Prodigy or
Aphex Twin
Bearing this in mind, however, if you look for
songs that
thrive on their
energy, then you're onto a winner :)
e.g. Chop Suey by
System of a Down or
Trip Like I Do by
Filter and
The Crystal Method
In short, the
track only lasts eighty percent of the time it originally did, but the
payoff of it is it seems the energy of the song is
condensed.
Download the plug in from http://www.winamp.com