A little music history lesson... Some of the first "music" in history was chanting. We're talking predating melody here. That music and quite a bit of early molodic music as well was around 60-70 beats per minute. It's believed that it was done that way to match the rythm of the heart. Flash forward... The reason that up-tempo music seems to give you energy is that correspondence between music rythm and heart rate. A lot of trance music is done at 130 bpm because they want a high energy reaction from the audience. Anyway, that said I'd be looking for music in the 130+ bpm range. You don't necessarily need to limit yourself to techno (or even worse one sub-genre of the techno world) to do that. There are plenty of rock, disco, dance etc... songs that are in that range. Check out... http://www.djrhythms.com/db/dbsearch.asp It's a searchable database (mostly dance/electronic though) of songs with bpm rates. If you really like the electronic sound and want to avoid more traditional music remember that there are lots of camps in the techno world, most people who responded have focused on trance and hard-core but you might like some house and big-beat stuff too. One more thing, a couple people mentioned compilations but most of those are mixed (usually by a DJ big on the rave scene), you may be hearing more of what the DJ has done to the track than the original artist when you take that approach. I've never liked compilations because of that. Have fun, Ben. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list