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Average customer review:Product Description
Their classic debut, available now for the first time on vinyl. Contains original artwork.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Jericho
- Music Reach (1/2/3/4)
- Wind It Up
- Your Love [Remix]
- Hyperspeed (G-Force, Pt. 2)
- Charly [Trip Into Drum 'n' Bass Version]
- Out of Space
- Everybody in the Place [155 and Rising]
- Weather Experience
- Fire [Sunrise Version]
- Ruff in the Jungle Bizness
- Death of the Prodigy Dancers [Live]
Disc 2:
- Your Love
- Ruff in the Jungle Bizness [Uplifting Vibes Remix]
- Charly [Alley Cat Remix]
- Fire [Edit]
- We Are the Ruffest
- Weather Experience [Top Buzz Remix]
- Wind It Up [Rewound]
- G-Force (Energy Flow)
- Crazy Man
- Out of Space [Techno Underworld Remix]
- Everybody in the Place [Fairground Remix]
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #118643 in Music
- Released on: 2008-08-05
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .92 pounds
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Before music journalists were throwing around terms like "drum & bass" or jungle, the Prodigy's Liam Howlett was creating high-energy dance music by marrying sampled, pitch-shifted beats to all manner of electronic timbres. This album has it all: complicated break beats, housey piano riffs, lush analog pads, frenetic and computeresque melodies, and subsonic bass. In fact, the mélange is so dense that the material demands full attention and repeated listenings to gain a complete understanding of the rhythmic interplay. --Michael A. Massa
Review
"This album has it all: complicated break beats, housey piano riffs, lush analog pads, frenetic and computer-esque melodies, and subsonic bass" --Amazon.com
Customer Reviews
A sweet start to a long and prosperous journey
This being Liams first album, it reflects what he and the other memebers in the band were into at the time - pure, solid rave. It rocks, Out Of Space is excellent. Liam changes the mood of the track time and time again, with pretty raw edges to each change, but he gets away with it. Charly, trip into drum and bass version, has seen nearly all the original lyrics from the cat taken away, probably so people would stop giving the four hassle about being, "The Band That Killed Rave" - which we all know isn't true, no one said anything until the cash-in one hit wonders hit town. Liam Howlett did a great job mixing that one. As with all Liam's albums there is a great variety in his work, from the fairly chilled Weather Experience(in Prodigy terms anyway - indie kids take note, you'll still be blown away with it's speed and power), to the hard beats and raw lyrics in Death Of The Prodigy Dancers. This track is recorded from a live gig, and changed my idea of typical rave bands forever. That should be so though because The Prodigy was not a "Typical Rave Band". Each album has been a new step for the band, with their styles dramatically changing, but the hardness, and technical skill of the music never fluctuates. The album may have been around a few years, but for those of you who are slow to catch on, and still haven't got it, I think it's about time you did, it'll be money well worth spent! Get ready to have your mind blown!
Very entertaining and creative rave music - it's not like "Fat Of The Land" but that won't matter!
I'll admit that I got "Experience" expecting something along the lines of "The Fat Of The Land", and although it's completely different it's still very good. This is the kind of album that will grow on you - I didn't like it at all at first (because I was expecting another "Firestarter" or "Breathe"), but after a while you it grows on you. You start to appreciate the complexity and energy of the music, and it definitely has much of both. It's a rave album first and foremost, but they add so many other interesting elements to the mix that make the songs worthy of both analyzation and of your club or party mix. Rave music that's both fun and creative is indeed a rarity. Every song here is great, but none of them are necessarily memorable or strike you as instantly great like most of the songs on "The Fat Of The Land", but patient listeners won't mind. As is usual with these kinds of albums the electronic blips and bleeps defy description and thus one must simply hear it to get the picture. Overall I think it's a fascinating album that most won't like at first, but if they give it time then it will probably become one of their favorites! Absolutely recommended!
Highlights include:
the entire album!
Zany and Crazy
This is an album that you really have to listen to several times before you can really appreciate it. If all you know about Prodigy is Breathe and Firestarter, then you might be disappointed by this album because it is nothing like The Fat of the Land. However, in my mind, that is a good thing. This CD is close to 10 years old and it's still amazing the sound that Liam Howlett creates here. The first 3 tracks are the best especially Jericho and Wind It Up. By the end of the CD, the music gets darker and doesn't seem like anything from the beginning of the album. Highly recommended for fans of the techno/electronica genre. Don't be expecting a Fat of the Land, though.



