The most insane song you've ever played

[Saint Louis EX]

PostalWorker made me go through this song: http://res-guild.com/sound/Nico%20Nico%20Douga%2033%20songs.mp3

This song is the most insane japanese mix song ever. 30 times more insane than Through The Fire And Flames.

It made me go through partial colour blindness but I only got second to PostalWorker. D:<

[sub7th]

This song is the most insane japanese mix song ever. 30 times more insane than Through The Fire And Flames.

Yeah, that was pretty psychotic.

Another pretty fast and fun track is Thieves by Ministry, the best version is off of their CD "In case you didn't feel like showing up"
It's kinda short compared to TTFAF and that wacky japanese techno mix, but it's still pretty fun.

[Fleshvirus]

Soundtracks from Streets of Rage 3 are pretty insane. Cycle II got me raped

[RandomVillain]

guess it was
Linde - Cold & Bland, which is some 8bit at 180bpm or such
Pendulum - Through The Loop, at which you go up in blue at the beginning while seeing a later part of the track going straight downwards right next to you which looks absolutely mad

[rjstrange]

Thanks for this thread! Now I have new songs to play ... I had no more ideas :-)

Until now my most insane song was:
Dir en grey - The final

I tried it, that was alright, but Dir en grey - Obscure is probably the hardest song I've played, though Dir en grey - Machiavellism comes pretty close. And I play exclusively as Ironmode Ninja Mono, so try those on for size.

[MrToxin]

I'd have to say Until The End of the World by Apoptygma Berzerk.  There are times where it's just this massive flood of closely-spaced blocks and thinking OHGODWHATCANIDOWITHALLTHESE.

[VooDooSoul]

Dylan & Limewax - Cleansed by nightmare

[murlough23]

I'm surprised when very poppy music creates insane tracks, usually because the drums are on overdrive and the track bounces up and down a lot while retaining a fast speed, but without being constant downhill. Vampire Weekend's "Cousins" and Barenaked Ladies' "Down to Earth" are good examples of this.

[SurfinOnBeatzzz]

To all you trance-lovers out there, you should give those two a shot:

DJ Air - Alone with me (Flutlicht Mix)
The main part in this beast is just nasty as hell...reds all over the place.

Kai Tracid - Sync Source
One of the fastest tracks i've played so far; and i've been through a bunch.

There are a lot other challenging tracks i dealt with. "Playing with lightning" by Expansion Union or "Ya Mama" by Fatboy Slim are nuts as well.

[Cadiuro]

Lemon Tree, simply because it is the most awesome song ever made.

[fisse]

its   
Ziggy X - Factor A     
on HARD!!!

[chimaeraUndying]

Not sure if someone's mentioned it already, but Silent Death. 11 minutes of silence makes AudioSurf go really psycho, apparently.

[murlough23]

Not sure if someone's mentioned it already, but Silent Death. 11 minutes of silence makes AudioSurf go really psycho, apparently.

I haven't tried this to myself, but noticed that it happened to people with John Cage's "4:33" (which features the titular amount of silence).

I figure since Audiosurf can adjust for songs ripped/recorded at quieter volumes, the intensity of the song must be determined by the maximum and minimum amplitude, and bpm's. When a song's silent or near silent, it can't determine the bpm's and just thinks its a really fast song constantly at its max volume.

Other surprisingly fast songs (due to Audiosurf guessing wrong about the bpm's, I'd imagine) are Radiohead's "Treefingers" (which is really just a bit of ambient droning) and Neko Case's "Marais la Nuit" (which is half an hour of insects chirping).

[chimaeraUndying]

I guess that makes sense, but then  why are the endings of most songs uphill - There's usually (or so I've noticed) a lack of reds and yellows compared to the rest of the song.

[murlough23]

I guess that makes sense, but then  why are the endings of most songs uphill - There's usually (or so I've noticed) a lack of reds and yellows compared to the rest of the song.

It's all relative. Silence relative to noise will generate no bricks, and even a very quiet intro that still has some sound will generate close to nothing in such songs. But silence relative to itself will interpret the areas of max amplitude as the "red" ones, I think. (Is it true silence or is there barely detectable background noise, tape hiss, etc.?)

Another interesting thing to try is to play a song with a very quiet intro (that exists as a separate track) and then play them together as a single mp3 file. The intro, played by itself, will generally have more peaks and dips and be more of an interesting ride than that same intro as part of the larger track. (I'm betting Tool's "Parabol/Parabola" would be a good test here.)