Tarantula / Fasten Your Seatbelt

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"Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt"
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Single by Pendulum featuring The Freestylers and Fresh
from the album Hold Your Colour
Released27 June 2005 (UK)
Recorded2005
Genre Drum and bass
Length
  • 5:31 ("Tarantula")
  • 6:38 ("Fasten Your Seatbelt")
Label Breakbeat Kaos (BBK009A)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Pendulum featuring The Freestylers and Fresh singles chronology
"Guns at Dawn"
(2005)
"Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt"
(2005)
"Slam" / "Out Here"
(2005)

"Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt" is the fourth single by Australian drum and bass band Pendulum. It was released on 27 June 2005 by independent label Breakbeat Kaos and was their second release with the label. While "Fasten Your Seatbelt" features production from The Freestylers, "Tarantula" features production from Fresh and vocals from $pyda, together with Tenor Fly from The Freestylers. It peaked number 60 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] Both songs were included on the CD release of Hold Your Colour a month later. "Fasten Your Seatbelt" samples a line from Spider-Man 2 where Doctor Octopus is firing up the fusion reactor for the first time ("Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts"), as well as the sound the reactor made when it was being primed.

Contents

Background

The song sampled a segment from the Discovery Channel series The World's Most Feared Animals. [2] This sample was reused in Centipede.

Track listing

These are the major formats and associated track listings of single releases of "Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelts". Both tracks were written and produced by Rob Swire.

Personnel

The following people contributed to "Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt". [4]

Pendulum

Charts

"Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt" entered the UK Singles Chart on week 27, 2005. It peaked at number 60 before dropping out a week later. [1]

Chart (2005)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [1] 60
UK Dance (OCC) [5] 1

In other media

"Tarantula" can be heard in the episode seven, series two of Skins when Effy, Tony and Pandora enter to the club followed by Sid's artistic scene. It is also featured in the soundtrack for the 2008 PS3 Racing game, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. “Fasten Your Seatbelts” was played during Season 2 Episode 6 of Ideal during Moz’s party.

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References

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  2. "Knife Party's 'Centipede' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
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