The Prodigy New Album: C'mon Already! See Gear List!

[verve92]

Liam and Company are the Grand Slutzaroonis:
Check out this gear list.
The Prodigy .info
Please know threy have 5 yes FIVE SH101's all different colors and mods, a Monotron to go throgh the Roland Gaia and Virus Ti and an Alpha Juno 1.
Nice to know some of the gear I have is represented. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy

[frankthefunky1]

That list is mad. I can dig it. I am thoroughly jealous. Nice post

frank

[tekn0]

What about all of the vinyl and turntables they use to sample like 50% of their sounds.

[boon]

go find the sound on sound or future music article from years ago where he talks about using reason and writing the album in bed while watching moonraker. he then replaced some synth parts with an ms20 and some other stuff with and 808 and some samples and then took it all to some studio with an SSL to be mixed.

i'm sure he's still doing some variation of that.

[tonemaker]

Nice to know Behringer is good enough for the Prodigy!

[Spectral Climax]

Originally Posted by tekn0

What about all of the vinyl and turntables they use to sample like 50% of their sounds.

The Prodigy did some of the most creative sampling over the last 15-20 years... I don't know about their last album though...

[offki]

Some people might find this interesting



Pretty much takes the samples they used and recreates it with a lot of stock plugs. He has done more tunes by them as well.

[Spectral Climax]

Originally Posted by offki

Some people might find this interesting



Pretty much takes the samples they used and recreates it with a lot of stock plugs. He has done more tunes by them as well.

That guy is an "insider" or just a genious DJ... It's just unbelievable how he managed to successfully reverse engineer some parts of these tracks.

[Simonator]

I liked the stuff up to 1994.

[offki]

Originally Posted by Spectral Climax

That guy is an "insider" or just a genious DJ... It's just unbelievable how he managed to successfully reverse engineer some parts of these tracks.

Research..

Originally Posted by Simonator

I liked the stuff up to 1994.

Yeah, went downhill after. I do like them but I always thought of them of a poor mans Altern-8



You can drop that tune today and still get the same reaction as you would have well over a decade ago. Can't say the same for Prodigys more recent stuff.

*cough* loads of er...dubstep...type bass in there, you heard it here 1st Altern-8 Created Dubstep..

Interesting reading for some too..

http://www.nekozine.co.uk/prodigy/in...agapology.html

[verve92]

Maybe they will rediscover them selves like many do after few albums of shite!

[dhollmusik]

Originally Posted by Simonator

I liked the stuff up to 1994.

Aye...these 5 tracks have never been bettered before or after by anyone in electronic dance musik (Altern-8's sound has dated).


This is timeless Perfection (and chock full of Roland synths! The epic strings in Skylined are from the humble Roland U-220. The 303 is of course the lead line in Claustrophobic Sting. Junos galore elsewhere):

[offki]

Originally Posted by dhollmusik

Aye...these 5 tracks have never been bettered before or after by anyone in electronic dance musik (Altern-8's sound has dated).

*Cough* Charlie sez... :P

Funny how no-one lists that for examples of hoovers.

It's all down to opinion and taste.

TBH, I prefered:






Although, maybe this is all because the 1st time I ever DJ'ed at a club I was told I wasn't allowed to play 'Everybody In The Place' on so instead I played the bside,



And pretty much cleared the dance floor for 5 minutes, I'll never forget that..

[dhollmusik]

Everybody In The Place is dated to an era, like the Altern-8 stuff. You can hear it. Charley Says like the whole of Experience is also dated to that time. Tho' this one from that album still gives me goosepimps (more Roland U-220 strings):




No Good is very good, only after hearing it a thousand times the vocals and rather standard structure begin to wear.


We all have different tastes, tho'...I bet if this thread hangs around long enough we'll even find a member who prefers their later stuff

[offki]

What about Crazy Man above? Must have added it while you replied. I loved it at the time, no-one else did though, I'm sure that's one they would rather Forget...

[dhollmusik]

Originally Posted by offki

What about Crazy Man above? Must have added it while you replied. I loved it at the time, no-one else did though.

Yeah, e...great intro...Prodigy had some quality b-sides. This was my favourite:



Why wasn't you allowed to play Everybody in the place? Maybe you could have got away with the album version which is quite different.

[dhollmusik]

Originally Posted by dhollmusik

Yeah, e...great intro...Prodigy had some quality b-sides. This was my favourite:
[/YOUTUBE]

Correction: this was my favourite




Also Liam Howlett's live-edit of Break & Enter is something to behold:

[Simonator]

Ahh... Dholl... for once we have found some middle ground!

I got into them in the Jilted era... but soon after discovered Experience.

Every time I hear Experience it takes me back to the times bombing around country lanes in my VW Polo soon after I'd passed my driving test. I couldn't afford a 'proper' soundsystem... so I bored some holes in a plank of MDF that replaced the standard parcel shelf, then mounted into it some speaker cones that I broke out of various old 80s speaker cabs lying around in my attic, and connected them via a multi-band filter I'd found in one of the cabs.
I know next to nothing about electronics, but expected this wouldn't work as the resistence is way different from a car system... but it was a damned sight louder than the standard VW speakers at the time!




Ha!

Roughness.


Jilted is a far tighter production though and will always have a place in my heart... it was this that really dragged me from rock into dance music!!

[complex]

heavy as F**K

[Simonator]

Originally Posted by Simonator

Every time I hear Experience it takes me back to the times bombing around country lanes in my VW Polo

Got to love the bass breakdown of the album 'trip into drum'n'bass' mix of Charly-




"Little bit of bass, little bit of drum"



.

[dhollmusik]

Originally Posted by Simonator

Ahh... Dholl... for once we have found some middle ground!

every two people have a middle-ground, Simon.

Originally Posted by Simonator

Every time I hear Experience it takes me back to the times bombing around country lanes in my VW Polo soon after I'd passed my driving test. I couldn't afford a 'proper' soundsystem... so I bored some holes in a plank of MDF that replaced the standard parcel shelf, then mounted into it some speaker cones that I broke out of various old 80s speaker cabs lying around in my attic, and connected them via a multi-band filter I'd found in one of the cabs.
I know next to nothing about electronics, but expected this wouldn't work as the resistence is way different from a car system... but it was a damned sight louder than the standard VW speakers at the time!

Nice initiative! I remember that era. The XR3i + Kenwood high-end system was every young raver's fantasy car. In reality I think everyone ended up with Polos or basic Escorts with handed-down cassette players. You were not alone

Originally Posted by Simonator

Jilted is a far tighter production though and will always have a place in my heart... it was this that really dragged me from rock into dance music!!

I sort of went back. Late-80's to early-90's it was early rave and chart music. Then it was a few years of grunge, rock and heavy metal but dominated by discovering Pink Floyd...then found trance in the late-90's

[dhollmusik]

Originally Posted by complex

heavy as F**K

gaaaaaawdammit...here in Germany half of Youtube is blocked.

Which one was it?

[offki]

Originally Posted by dhollmusik

Why wasn't you allowed to play Everybody in the place? Maybe you could have got away with the album version which is quite different.

They guy after me wanted to play it and he was semi-resident, probably would have got away with it if I hadn't started talking to him as I wouldn't have found out :/ It was more out of courtesy than being told tbh. I just had the single on vinyl, this is the end of 1998 when CD players were still considered 'evil' by a lot of people so was never even considerd to take them.


Vid above:It was Thunder Live at Milton Keynes

[boon]

just blown up metal. i always liked that about them. they give you a bit of that in between everything else... like "their law" etc. i heard many a DJ drop
"their law" in the middle of a breaks/house set.. DJ Dan used to play it and scratch over it and just kill it! (in a good way). check his mix tape from 1994 "live at Future".. totally sick.

Originally Posted by complex

heavy as F**K

[Simonator]

Originally Posted by dhollmusik

In reality I think everyone ended up with Polos or basic Escorts

Ha!... my next motor was a maroon Escort estate!

For some idiotic reason, when the exhaust died, I swapped it for a 'cherry bomb' (as well as swapping the indicator lights for some clear-glass ones)... it then sounded like a meaty muscle-car... but still took 2 minutes to get from 0-60!!!

The things you do in your teens

[GeorgeHayduke]

Originally Posted by Simonator

..
Jilted is a far tighter production though and will always have a place in my heart... it was this that really dragged me from rock into dance music!!

That was the beginning for me too, I think. I had listened to a lot of synth stuff before (Oldfield etc) but never really got hooked on 'modern' electronic music, until Prodigy showed just how hard it could hit, and while playing songs (actual 'songwriting') they avoided the cheesy filler lyrics much dance music now and then suffered from.

Originally Posted by complex

heavy as F**K

I saw that tour at Roskilde, pretty high intensity set.

I always loved Prodigy's snare sound

[Niallerrity]

Originally Posted by boon

go find the sound on sound or future music article from years ago where he talks about using reason and writing the album in bed while watching moonraker. he then replaced some synth parts with an ms20 and some other stuff with and 808 and some samples and then took it all to some studio with an SSL to be mixed.

i'm sure he's still doing some variation of that.

No that was always out numbered never out gunned, usually there are other people involved in the production with Liam but he wanted to see could he produce a full album himself while in his bedroom!

Originally Posted by Simonator

I liked the stuff up to 1994.

Where were you for 97? Fat of the land is the best album ever created.

Originally Posted by verve92

Maybe they will rediscover them selves like many do after few albums of shite!

Every album they have done has been unique and diffrent. So many producers/djs just create the same shit over and over, Liam creates new stuff every album and puts a new spin on older stuff too. Thats one of the things I love, every album is diffrent!

[Niallerrity]

Also surprised nobody posted this track.

[Simonator]

Originally Posted by Niallerrity

Where were you for 97? Fat of the land is the best album ever created.

Fat of the Land was a major let down. Very cheesy.

Firestarter = wack

'I'm zany,
really zany,
I'm so zany,
just look at my hair'

Cheesy pop.

[offki]

Originally Posted by Simonator

Fat of the Land was a major let down. Very cheesy.

Firestarter = wack

'I'm zany,
really zany,
I'm so zany,
just look at my hair'

Cheesy pop.

Smack your bitch up sir?