songs to dive with

[angweekiong]

not excatly songs to free dive with, but what songs do you guys listen to prior to freediving, during preparation ??

[Tbird]

not sure if they are available where you live but the cafe del mar cds are very chilled.

[jpelorat]

Hi,

I listen to Pink Floyd´s "Shine on Your Crazy Diamond" during statics. The intro is very long and relaxing. I think i owe my PB to them...

To get focus to dive I´d rather something more stimulating. Something like Rick Wakeman´s "The Six Wives of Henry VIII". I can´t explain the mood i get with it.

[ggarrett]

"Silk Road" by Beautiful World

[BennyB]

I have a few, basically a lot of them i've heard on freediving clips already so they get me into that frame of mind.

Telepopmusik - Breath (Topi's 60m vid) - by far my favorite. The rest of the album is a bit iffy but this one is gold.
Chicane - No Ordinary Morning
Chicane - Saltwater
Actually most tracks off Chicane - Behind the Sun... it's a very chilled album
Air - All I Need (from Stig's 166m WR vid)
Faithless - Don't Leave
Frou Frou - Let Go
Frou Frou - Breath In. Actually a lot of tracks on the Frou Frou - Details album. These songs are scattered on the Vancouver Worlds DVD and a CAFA promo.
Hayden - Dynamite Walls. Also on the Vancouver DVD. I hear this and associate it with nice watery things.
Groove Armada - At The River
Halycon & On and On - Orbital. Now i'm not sure of the name of this, it's on the Hackers soundtrack but is called Joker by Josh Abrahams, which i'm sure is wrong. In any case it's the opening track on the Vancouver DVD, the intro is brilliant to breath up to.
Morcheeba - The Sea. Nice chilled track and the whole album is pretty good.
Portishead - Glory box.

There's my big ones but there's plenty of others as well. If you're into classical music then I would suggest Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven (1st movement only) and Dvorak's New World Symphony. I find that most classical music is hard to chill to because it is written to set off a whole range of emotions in the listener thoughout the work. Classical music is written as a story and can take you up and down a bit, instead of a continued level of chilled out..... or maybe that's just with nerds like me

Cheers,
Ben

ps does anyone know what the track is called on Peter Pederson's 200m WR vid?

[samdive]

like Benny, a lot of them are ones I have heard on freedive videos - so from Howard Jones Forgotten Origin video:

Enigma - Return to Innocence
Robert Miles - Children
Adiemus - Adiemus

I find it helps with using the music to visualise the dive that I already have seen a dive with that music behind it...

other stuff

before static - anything chilled but my current song to sing to myself on Static holds is Travis - Driftwood

before constant - this is where I get more hardcore, most of the stuff I listen to before a CW dive has a banging techno beat - preferably one that just about fits the beat of my monofin at the start of my dive. I follow that with "I am Kloot - Fear of Falling" - or "Tom Petty - Free Falling" - to remind me to stop kicking like a loony and freefall the last part!

I have made several freedive playlists on my Ipod - some are genuinely music I like listening to before diving, some are more cheesy compilations with Dive/Air/Breath in the title..... my top songs that fit in both are by a really obscure Australian singer/songwriter called David Bridie. He has four songs that fit:

Salt (I don't wanna go any Further)
Dive
Breath and
Float

all are on an album called Act of Free Choice

www.davidbridie.com.au

[immerlustig]

my favourites:

pantera--cemetry gates (from the album 101 proof)

van halen live--right here, right now

roland

[DeepThought]

Originally Posted by BennyB

ps does anyone know what the track is called on Peter Pederson's 200m WR vid?

It is from the matrix soundtrack if I remember correct.

[BennyB]

Cool, thanks Michael - i'll look it up.

Sam - did you know David Bridie was in an Aussie band called Not Drowning, Waving? Kind of funny in context... Not Drowning, Freediving

[angweekiong]

yea. songs are crucial to pre-dive! no doubts about it!
moment of peace by gregorian. its quite a nice tempo song.really get me into the relaxed mood.

hold on by good charlotte is what i normally listened to when 'm doin my static. as the song name says, HOLD ON!!!

[smellsfishy]

BennyB

Matrix Sountrack

4. Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix) - Rob D

[Amphibious]

Sevendust
Disturbed
Black Label Society
White Zombie
I Mother Earth

Anything Really hard, for some reason it mellows me out

[JPPLAY]

My favorite song at the moment for freediving is Nigo - Freediving (South Remix)
I listen to all sorts of music in the car to dives. I was introduced to ManoWar on a car trip.
I haven't entered any competitions yet so I basically just let the water sing to me.

[apnearevOlution]

i think anything indie is a good type of music to get yourself into that state of mind of relaxation.

i would give these people a try:

belle and sebastian
bright eyes
cursive
desaparecidos
deathcab for cutie
ben folds


also, i'd also say to check out;

mae
emery
copeland

any relaxing music like that is good.


i think after listening to giving it away by may i could hop into the water and swim 30meters w/ ease :O

[jome]

How about this one?

http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/ocean_men.html