**** knows why they make so much noise.
Old retired couple.
Before they moved in their daughter lived there. We called her Stompy as you could hear every bloody footstep. Then her fella moved in and we were woken every Saturday morning by the sound of their bed knocking against the wall. She finally got pregnant and the Saturday morning thing stopped. She still stomped about everywhere. Baby came along and they moved out only for her folks to move in.
Nosey Tuesdays they are. Quick to complain if anyone has left their shoes outside the door or any other "infringement".
Now they baby sit for the grandchild, who unfortunately takes after its mother and stomps about the place. Oh, and there's the online dance class they do each Thursday night. Thought the ceiling was going to cave in last week.
The thuds from above cause a bassy sound for us. Can barely sit and read in the lounge due to the noise.
**** I hate living in a flat.
So, back in topic... What bassy tones can I play whilst I'm out (or in)...? A constant bass.
Turned up to 11. 😆
Low Frequency Oscillations?
gets particularly stompy around 1:40... mad shit at 3:00 😀
Dooms Night and/or Flat Eric on repeat....?
Dead Prez - Hip Hop
Do they have a garden? (some non-ground floor flats do)
Is there a local purveyor of sausages of the frozen variety?
Do you have a hammer?
Failing that General Noriegas playlist may help.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40090809
When you're out.
On loop.
On 11.
No more needed
There's usually a curb your enthusiasm scene for every occasion...
Sounds like this calls for Leftfield and "Rythm and stealth"
Banger of an album!
I'd hit em with some Duke - the aural equivalent of being waterboarded
As mentioned in the headphones thread, Moderat II - Bad Kingdom and then Therapy. Put those two on loop.
Move. Forget the cost. Just do it. I was in same position except it was a "dj" who came back from a night out and played music from 2am until 7am with his mates. Nightmare.
Feel for the OP used to have an awful neighbour upstairs at my last house. had 2 kids their house was the party house so a Tuesday 2am party was pretty normal. Thankfully im a very heavy sleeper but the few times i did complain apparently I was in the wrong for suggesting they keep it down.
Her crowning achievement was leaving her iron in the "cupboard" (aka the shower in the spareroom) which fell over turning the shower on meaning we had 2 days with no lights while we let everything dry out.
If I was you I would be reaching for some early grime, they will love it.
Don't underestimate the synth either that could make some noice high pitched noises for them.
Last time I needed to do this I played the opening of Clipping's new album, I cranked the volume and the noise it made bloody frightened me! (It worked though)
Must say, much as I used to love Portishead, our old next door neighbour used to play nothing else but their first album and the noise coming through the wall as irritating as hell.
The clipping track is the start here. Needs good speakers
My little desk speakers don't seem to be doing this justice.
What Horatio said....asap! Been there (but not in a flat) and it's really not good for mental health.
Anything by Digital Mystikz/DMZ or their solo stuff. If you have some decent subs then it will shake your house down. If you don't then you won't hear it because it is very low frequency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAf_ZztCP0&ab_channel=DubstepClassics
Move. Forget the cost. Just do it.
That's certainly the plan, but unfortunately there are a few hurdles I need to jump before doing so.
So in the meantime my plan is passive aggressive pettiness.
The couple have a strange thing of leaving shitty magazines in the entrance hall, either thinking someone else might be interested in them or take it out to the paper bin. German versions of Hello and Caravan and Camping Club type stuff. I've been making a point of dumping the whole pile in the bin for everyone to see for a while now. However last week I found some anti-corona lockdown pamphlets in the park. I've laid them on top of the new magazine bundle in the hope that the rest of the residents think that they are corona loonies.... 😁
No real suggestion other than to say this approach worked for me after 6 months fruitlessly asking our neighbour to stop their dog endlessly barking.
Solution, every time it barked I put Ibiza club classics on, turned it upto 11 and went for a run. Only took a week then peace was restored.
People like that aren’t bothered by noise. Anything you do will just make you look like an idiot.
My little desk speakers don’t seem to be doing this justice.
Ministry of Sound vol II...?
The South Koreans played Gangnam style on repeat through a PA system across the border for days apparently
Should be as annoying for anyone witj functioning ear drums
Ooh, yeah classic dubstep! And Bar9 - haven't heard that kind of thing for a while.
How about Debasser from a similar time
bit of Benga
In the words of Carl Cox 'if you really want to piss your neighbour's off, play gabber'
Search YouTube for Industrial Strength Records, should be a good starting point
I like this game
The couple have a strange thing of leaving shitty magazines in the entrance hall, either thinking someone else might be interested in them or take it out to the paper bin. German versions of Hello and Caravan and Camping Club type stuff.
Obviously that’s an invitation to swing.
You want bass?
Loadsa bass?
How about DOUBLE the amount of bass?!
https://www.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB&disable_polymer=true&rootVe=6827
Imagine this coming through the walls... if the hi-hat doesn't get you..
I’m with baboonz on this, the volume required for them to even notice will be ‘considerable’
Move house.
The most annoying and persistent?
Likewise if you’re happy to be responsible for committing this crime on someone then on your head be it...
Obviously that’s an invitation to swing.
🤮
In the words of Carl Cox ‘if you really want to piss your neighbour’s off, play gabber’
Search YouTube for Industrial Strength Records, should be a good starting point
After spending 12 hours in a Warehouse somewhere in North London around the mid 90s at a gabber free party I think its safe to say this is good advice given your requirements.
After a night of that even the noise from driving over cats eyes on the way home sounded melodic by comparison.
Konflict's Messiah, it's s slow starter but gets there
Aw, Let me hear you shake in your boots, come back to the old school back to your roots
John B up all night
People like that aren’t bothered by noise. Anything you do will just make you look like an idiot.
TBH, the few times I've done it, it usually left me feeling like an idiot (at best) too, and certainly no better off. Obviously my mistake was to stay in while said loud music was playing rather than going out.
What about this on loop for several hours
There are some proper tunes on this thread. My contribution:
Bass you say?
This has been what I've used to knock the dust off my Sub when required.
On a big system it's bowel quaking, esspecially on vinyl rarther than compressed MP3/stream that keeps all the sub-bass intact.
Apologies if they have been suggested before, pages take ages to load when populated by video links. May I respectfully suggest Black One by Sunno))), Swarth by Portal or Hatred For Mankind by Dragged Into Sunlight. Speakers against their walls or if they're above you somehow up to your ceiling. Turn UP. Walk away and thank me later.
@hatter - Love Ed Solo and Deekline etc. Some great Jungle Cakes mixes online and from Boomtown
If you have a good subwoofer - try the following.
Screeches, beeps and bleeps to annoy and then at 2.20, little bit of bass 😀
Genuinely rattled the walls of my mates house back in the day, or rather the 15" sub we hatched onto a car battery and a 600W amp did, before it went in my car.
Or a nice bit of proper sub bass (please be careful 😀 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ARbqrjdvzo
And my fave, that I still play in the car at nearly 50, and make my passengers feel sick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahCp-E15Z_Q
Why stop at one track? Treat them to a whole album:
The opener sets the tone. Though if you go down the one song route Big Black's L Dopa is only 1.40min so they'll get to know it by heart.
This on repeat should do it. Loud gets the subsonic bass at the start really going
Have suffered in the past with noisy neighbours and it is indeed frustrating.
One suggestion I've never tried but know of people who have is called the secret speaker trick. Get an old speaker of 30-40W from an old stereo. Prise the cone off but make sure the diaphragm below and the cardboard tube that moves up and down stays intact. Glue something metal on top of this tube. Place speaker somewhere in your property that is quiet but directly below their bedroom or lounge- a cupboard or back room is ideal - by screwing or propping it up against the ceiling, preferably below a joist. The metal you have glued on should be tight against the ceiling, causing the cardboard tube the move down back into the speaker, this will ensure it doesn't slap against the ceiling but put all of the energy up through the ceiling. Wire it up to a stereo and play whatever music you choose at just below the distortion level of the speaker. The sound will travel up into the rooms above. If the neighbour comes down to complain you can safely answer the door and feign ignorance as there will be very little noise in your property, you can use your TV to cover the small amount of volume that the speaker will produce. You could even say that you can hear a feint noise but can't figure out where it's coming from to really throw them off the scent.
I think the idea came from those pocket speakers you used to be able to buy that when placed on a table or other hard surface would make them turn into a crappy speaker.
If your going to do something like the above, I'd simply take the speaker out of the cabinet and attach something to the cone to bash the whatever with.
Removing the cone as above will probably just destroy the speaker really quickly as the voice coil will have little on no guidance and short on the former - basically it will wobble itself to bits or just short out and blow up.
@DougD - i was just about to post the same 😀
When i was a stoodent in the late '90s our non-stoodent neighbours used to put the same irritating RnB song on very loud about 5am ... on repeat and leave it running when they went to work.
Now, i remember thinking 'fair play' to them, but also that if they had knocked on the door sometime and explained to us what dicks we must have been, that we would have at least tried not to be such dicks.
@DezB - I’ve just been listening to that Clipping track through my headphones via my iPad, I’m gonna have to get that album now! I really like what I’m hearing, thanks for posting it. 😎
How about some nice noise music, Pharmakon perhaps? Good low end, lots of high frequency noise and tortured vocals. They will love it
Not tonight, you're not on the list
Don't do it, old people have an even greater capacity for retribution and bitterness than your good self, learned over decades of pissing people off. Plus they are clearly naturist swingers, and that could get unpleasant.
But if you must:
When I was at uni there was always one bastard that would put on Brown Paper Bag by Roni Size. Shit never ended. If they put it on twice you honestly never noticed unless you checked your watch. (gabba would make me lose it as well, I somehow tripped over Technohead the other week, it wasn't a pleasant memory)
However if they prefer classical music you could give Apocalyptica a bash. Hall of the Mountain King is a good start.
did someone say bass?
Some fine, fine suggestions above, but if youre looking to bulk out a play list to leave on while you go to the shops here's my current go-to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiOjK992bPU&ab_channel=LindemannOfficial
alpin
,,,Old retired couple....
recording of a "dry persistent cough" on repeat?
and a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones for you 🙂