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"Tarantula" / "Fasten Your Seatbelt"
Single by Pendulum featuring The Freestylers and Fresh
from the album Hold Your Colour
Released	27 June 2005 (UK)
Recorded	2005
Genre	Drum and bass
Length	5:31 ("Tarantula") 6:38 ("Fasten Your Seatbelt")
Label	Breakbeat Kaos (BBK009A)
Songwriter(s)	Rob Swire Gareth McGrillen Dan Stein Matt Cantor Aston Harvey
Producer(s)	Pendulum Fresh The Freestylers
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. 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 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.

Background

The song sampled a segment from the Discovery Channel series The World's Most Feared Animals. 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".

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.

Certifications

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.

References

1. ^ Chart Stats - Pendulum - "Tarantula/Fasten Your Seatbelts". αCharts.us. Retrieved on 18 August 2010.
2. "Knife Party's 'Centipede' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
3. Breakbeat Kaos :: BBK009A. Discogs. Retrieved on 18 August 2010.
4. ^ Breakbeat Kaos :: BBK009SCD. Discogs. Retrieved on 20 August 2010.
5. "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
6. "British single certifications – Pendulum & Fresh Ft Spyda – Tarantula/Fasten Your Seatbelt". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 29 September 2024.

• 2005 singles
• Songs written by Rob Swire
• Pendulum (drum and bass band) songs
• 2005 songs
• Song recordings produced by DJ Fresh
• Songs written by DJ Fresh