Yeah, 92 makes more sense. Must have been the first one, as the city was nuts.
We’re actually not in Toronto, but my son is 11, so he doesn’t want to hear about anything his dad was into “back in the day” and think it was cool/good
Physical copies are very expensive now. My advice would be to buy it from Bleep if you just want the music.
If you haven’t heard of Bleep before, they started out as the Warp Records online store and expanded from there.
I remember being that age with my KLF and Prodigy albums (also The Orb, Orbital, Utah Saints, Altern-8 and a whole load of other stuff that I have forgotten). I hated my dad’s obscure Scottish rock bands. Five years after I left home I found myself thinking that they weren’t so bad.
What is he listening to? You could always find out who influenced them and slowly work back from there. I admit I was in my mid teens when I started doing that though.
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oh, man… you sound like you had the same playlist I had back then! that’s some great stuff.
He’s into a lot of what BPM on siriusXM plays (Martin Garrix, Marshmello, Dave Guetta, Armin van Buuren (he was really confused when we once mentioned something about Martin Van Buren), Avicii…). That’s a really great idea about trying to research their influences and see how it ties back. Maybe then he’ll let me play some of my stuff on the Sonos. (he actually kind likes some of Rave 'Til Dawn, mostly because of the number of times the F Word appears on it)
Dang, they never put it out like on a CD? I can rip it from youtube, but I will check out this Bleep thing. That is new to me. It honestly is a bit rough around the edges, a product of it’s time and Liam still finding his voice. But still pretty cool.
Also, don’t you guys forget about Fluke and Underworld and Crystal Method and Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim.
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You could start with Human Resource.
At this point it seems like it would be quicker to make a list of people who haven’t remixed Dominator.
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There was just something about watching a video from The Prodigy that made me go “holy shit that one guy looks like a FREAK!” And I was listening to them last night…and their music is STILL incredible!
That stuff is awesome, and I’m so sorry for his family and friends.
But damn, what a life.
“Liking” just for Block Rockin’ Beats, cracking tune.
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If I ever made a movie, The Private Psychedelic Reel is what would play as the camera pans out and the credits roll.
ETA -oops wrong copy paste…
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I love this tune.
And for UK readers, anyone remember Mark and The Boy Lard talking over the top of it? I seriously thought it was one of their jingles for ages…
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I’ve got just about everything Underworld’s ever done, and that live version of Rez/Cowgirl is probably my favorite thing they’ve put out, so thank you for that.
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That whole Live album, “Everything, Everything”, is fantastic.
I don’t have their newest newest stuff, but I have most of it. I even have a burnt CD of their first album, which is really nothing like what their sound turned into.
When I went to London I though about trying to visit Tomato, the design studio where the guys who make Underworld work. But I chickened out.
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They’ve been releasing lots of experiments and works in progress lately, some of which are quite lovely…
Not that it’s needed, but I’ll share my personal The Prodigy story.
I knew them since the heavy rotation of Outer Space on MTV, but wasn’t very interested in Techno at the time. Metal was more my thing at the time - as were Queen and The Beatles. I actually was very annoyed when someone gave me a mixtape back and had deleted my Waltari-vs-Beatles stuff for a collection of The Prodigy, Snap and Sven Väth.
Some time later, in a philosophy major, our prof heard someone raving (pun intended) about The Prodigy. He asked us to bring some pop music we listened to so he could a) get to know us better and b) could discuss the philosophy of musical progress with us. He had know The Prodigy already. What stuck afterwards was that he praised them as true innovators of pop. Something something has seen the future something punk might be dead but the Prodigy are heirs something something Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk something but escapism something something commercialisation something something something sell-out of art will either break them personally or break their musical progressiveness. I was like:
He assigned homework to those willing to do an extra essay to improve their grades: paired some albums of our pop selection with another genre, gave some literature suggestions and said we should review the stuff.
It was totally over my head, and I (still) have no musical education whatsoever, so I opted for literature (which was the alternative pairings, that’s another story).
But I remember one peer in class who played the piano and picked Music for the Jilted Generation vs Massive Attack’s Blue Lines vs. Wagner’s Ring cycle and actually listened to the whole Ring. After he hand handed in the essay on this, he got invited to discuss it with the prof in detail. Afterwards, he was the only person in class to be on a first name basis with him, and we all were puzzled about that. He explained they went to the music room (which had a decent sound system) and listened to everything The Prodigy had produced so far and they could get their hands on in chronological order, and got drunk over it until they agreed on an assessment of the progressive-ness of the band.
I think, retrospectively, that everyone in class learned something about the power of music and, particularly, “progress” as well as “stagnation” in pop music during this year. And The Prodigy was the starting point of this.
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Hmm, would this be the place for posting Shirehorses ‘cover songs’ or the cover songs thread itself…? Probably best left out of either.
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Least said, soonest mended, I reckon.
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Lords of Acid remembers too. Evidently the long haired kid running in this video is Keith before Prodigy. Keith and Liam later toured with Praga Khan in Japan.
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