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Faster is officially the new fast, (despite my earlier shout-out for slow ). How do I know this? Because now even badminton is an extreme speed sport.

I was recently contacted with a request to license We Do Supersonic for the inaugural Speedminton tournament in New Orleans. (They approached me because they'd heard of the use of that same song in a Fast Yoga competition.)

Speedminton, for those who don't know, is badminton on four-times-fast-forward. Here's how they breaknecked the game: the birdie is rubberized and it no longer has the same velocity-losing drag shape; there's no net in the game; the racquets are shaped differently; and instead of gatorade you gulp ice espresso.

But don't bother with Speedminton because it's already evolved; now there's Blackminton, which is the same as it's predecessor but is played in the dark with black lights, glowing body paint and booming music. And you don't use a racquet, you use a racket (implying noise.) And you gulp chilled Red Bull.

Oh, you're too late-- Blackmington is already passe-- it's morphed into Badassminton. Which is like it's so-five-seconds-ago precursor, except there's more more: the court is set about four feet off the ground (like for a fight in a martial-arts movie) and there's strobing LEDs on the floor (like Saturday Night Fever 2012). You gulp crack slurpees. Oh, and while you play, the audience is allowed to taser you.

Anyway, check out We Do Supersonic below, taken from the Various Chimeras CD by Shinjuku Zulu; the ragga vocal toasting is by Prince I, who also appears on much slower One Come We and Dubmarine

We Do Supersonic is available at the iTunes link HERE

Final Thought: As the song says... "Here come the future, cool like silicon Here come the future, hot like the sun"

And here's a link to a Blackminton video on (skip the intro; go to about 4:20)