![]() Probably this won't happen soon but.there's hope. :-) ) and try to listen to this album without prejudice, I'm sure you'll love it. Obviously enough, if you listen to classical Music you'll find the Prodigy to be very irritating and completely out-of-place into an HiFi mag BUT! please open your ears and your mind for a different view (and nothing else matters. Then it isn't true that the best songs of the album are the well-known hit singles ("Firestarter" and "Smack my bitch up"), for example Climbatize, Narayan and Diesel Power are shiny pearls that make The Fat of the Land a work which is very complete and variegated too. It is a CD that you should listen many times before understanding and unveiling its inner secrets, it would be a big mistake to classify it as "stuff for charts" only.Īlso, you should know all the albums and bands cited above (at least) to be able to properly appreciate the work of Liam Howlett, clearly inspired by many other influences but still original enough to conquer a well-deserved place in the Gotha of modern Music. Samples from the Art of Noise and Skunk Anansie can be heard here and there, with also a strong taste of Scremadelica, one of the best albums from the Primal Scream.īut The Fat of the Land is something more: a spicy salad with these mentioned ingredients and with the energy of the best heavy-metal bands around, matched to a techno-progressive rhythm that can shake your listening room walls and raise your heartbeats by an impressive 50% :-) Going more specific you can tell the Damned influence (those of the early days) especially from the last track of the album, Fuel my fire, while some echoes and atmospheres from the Ozric Tentacles can be heard in the wonderful Climbatize. You can hear echoes of the Young Gods here and there during the "Fat of the Land", cleverly mixed with a taste of Sex Pistols and Damned. Some reviews on certain musical mags (even audio) classify them as "The Novelty of the '90s" while, if you know a bit of modern pop-rock history, you should be able to find pieces of Young Gods' "TV sky" '90 album, to me a landmark for rock-influenced electronic Music. I'll try to give you an idea: The Prodigy are a spicy mix of techno, trip-hop, punk, electronic music and still something else. It is rather diffucult to explain their Music, it is much better to put one of their CDs into your seedee player and press the play switch. There's no doubt that The Prodigy are one of the most famous band of these last two or three years, worldwide, and a look at the charts in the UK or in the US of A should easily confirm this statement. ![]() Since I believe it should come "First Music, then HiFi" let's take a closer look at this album, musically. ![]() No, it isn't a rare and expen$ive audiophile recording, it is a CD you can buy at your nearest records store, it is The Fat of The Land, the latest album from The Prodigy. Search no longer: here it is, brought to you by this "prodigious" non-profit HiFi magazine. The Prodigy: a "prodigious" CD for HiFi components testing and breaking-inĪre you feeling tired of all those audiophile test CDs?Ĭan you stand an ancient strings trio for no longer than 5 minutes, despite the incredible recording?Īre you searching for a CD that, at the same time, can seriously put your HiFi system on a test and break-in your loudspeakers? ![]() A strange CD for component testing and breaking-in ![]()
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