Possibly the most level-headed pendulum fan I've ever known of! Most people are like "WOT DA FUK PENDULUM R SIIIIIIIIIIIIK DNB 4 LYF TARAAAANSHOOLAAAAAAHHHHHHH WHOB WHOB WHOB I LUV THAT NU 1 WIV DA GUITARZ AND AUSSIE MAN VOCALS LOL" A girl at my uni loves pendulum and when I said I didn't like them, she was like "JUST COZ DERE MAINSTREEEEEM!? YOU HATE A BAND COZ THEY BECOME FAMOUS, ITZ STUPID" No, I hate them because they don't make good music IMO. Even danny byrd agreed when he came to mine for a cuppa (no word of a lie).
Some tunes on hold your colour aren't bad, but for the most part they suck everything that's interesting out of a genre, batter it like a cod and release it into the charts. Not a fan personally, but fair enough, everyone has different tastes and i'd be a knobend if I was like "listen to bassdrive.com and you'll hear good music, AKA music I like". Bit arrogant really. God I'm contradicting myself.. aaagh!
Aaaaaaaanyway, it has to be vinyl. Once you get a nice set of decks and buy some vinyl, it'll become an obsession. It's such a nice feeling being able to physically move a song back and forth, play it at different speeds, actually see the structure of the song in the darkness of the grooves. And it's just a very simple, no-hassle way of DJing. I think MP3 and CDJ decks have their benefits, but they're a bit soulless.
But yeah, I have Numark TT1650s and a Numark DM1002MKII mixer which came to around £370 from decks.co.uk with some crappy Ion speakers and all the other stuff that comes with it. Not a high-end setup but it works well. But make sure you get direct drive turntables, and from experience try to stay away from Citronic. The DM1002MKII is a really nice little 2-band mixer. The crossfader's a bit shit on it, but I love it. And if you do get vinyl decks, please buy the masterplan part 2. It's fucking good.