THE PRODIGY FAQ - PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING TO THIS NEWSGROUP
Deb
news:37196...@newnews.widomaker.com...
> Yes... I know the margins and all that shit are quite FUCKED!!!!!!! I'll
fix
> THEM!!!!! Once I get some more Mountain Dew INTO MY BODY!!!!!!
No problem, it's great anyway - thank you for going to all the trouble.
I'm almost tempted to ask if a note could be put at the beginning saying
that the 'newbie guide'-type part is at the END, just to ward off those
that would snivel and say they didn't read that bit because the FAQ
was too long for them to bother - you can see it happening, can't you?
There's got to be a limit to the hand-holding, though ...
Anyway, good job.
Deb
p.s. Mountain Dew? *shudder* You're a braver man than I,
Gunga Din ... ;-)
--
Deb
Always remember to pillage before you burn.
d...@radiant.net
DJ Swift
This is a resource for people wishing to know information about the popular hard-dance
band The Prodigy.
PRODIGY FAQ Compiled by Peter Thomas November 96 - April 98 and re-written for newsgroup distribution by DJ Swift April 99. An HTML version of this FAQ can be found at http://www.prodge.demon.co.uk/prodigy/faq.html and includes hyperlinks, graphics and pictures.
I. Latest happenings
A. The end of the Prodigy?
B. Anything after FOTL?
C. Ultramagnetic MCs
D. Maxim's solo album
II. The band members
A. Liam Howlett
B. Keith Flint
C. Maxim Reality
D. Leeroy Thornhill
E. Gizz Butt
F. Kieron Pepper
G. Chaz Stevens
H. Neil McLellan
I. Ziggy
J. Mike Champion
K. Sharky
L. Simone Berryman
M. Carl Miller
N. Lance Riddler
O. Phil Bent
P. Jimmy Davies
III. Their music genre
A. Techno?
B. Rave?
C. Electronica?
D. Industrial?
E. The conclusion?
IV. Releases
A. What's their first ever single?
B. UK singles/albums
C. USA singles
D. Japan
E. Australia
F. Video
G. UK rarities
H. Original productions for movie soundtracks
I. Production work for other acts
J. Computer/Console games
K. Mythical bootlegs
V. Lyrics
VI. Live
VII. Prodigy related acts
A. Remixers
B. Gizz Butt's band
VIII. Merchandise
A. Video
B. Books
IX. Prodigy on the net
A. WWW sites
B. Newsgroups
C. Mailing Lists
D. IRC
X. Feedback
A. Maintenance of the FAQ
B. Contributing to the FAQ
C. FAQ Contributors
I. Latest Happenings
A. The end of the Prodigy?
QUOTE 1: "There will be no more Prodigy albums" - Liam Howlett in Select Magazine September 1997.
QUOTE 2: "There will be no more interviews" - Liam Howlett in Select Magazine September 1997.
Liam is fed up with "everyone liking The Prodigy". He has stated many times that he would not want to see Prodigy turn into another 'Oasis'. "Everybody likes Oasis. My dad likes Oasis. I don't want to see Prodigy go that way." - "It's important for people to dislike the Prodigy"
Another reason for Liam not making any more albums is that he was under a lot of pressure to come up with FOTL.
But... An observant web-surfer pointed out the following quote from a very recent interview with Liam, on Addicted To Noise (http://www.addict.com):
"At the moment I don't want to do another album," Howlett said during an exclusive Addicted To Noise interview. "I'm not prepared to put myself through committing to another album. For the moment, this is the last album. It doesn't mean it's the end of the band. It just means for the moment, I'm not thinking that in the next year I'm gonna start a new record. I think that's just something I say just to make myself comfortable," Howlett explained. So saying "this is the last album" is really just a way of removing some fo the stress? Yeah, just have the pressure off myself," Howlett confirmed. "I don't even want to be thinking about that. So if the record companies come to me and say we should start thinking about a new album, I've told them there isn't one. I never allow myself to look ahead more than a year anyway. In the next month what I imagine we'll do is release maybe one, at the most two records off this album and do some interesting mixes, record some new material, put out some new singles. But basically not commit myself to another album. It's such a big step to do another album. Unless I feel all the steps are right, there's no point in doing one."
"The Prodigy will only end, when we stop progressing" - Liam Howlett, 1997.
B. Anything after FOTL?
-Tom Morrello from Rage Against The Machine: The latest Prodigy track One Man Army (a collaboration with Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello) can be found on the Spawn sound track album. (See releases or http://www.music.sony.com/Music/ArtistInfo/Spawn). No other members of Rage Against The Machine appear on it.
-Biohazard: A UK rock magazine states that the Prodigy are eager to collaborate with Brooklyn metal band Biohazard, having performed Breathe with them on stage, earlier this year. They have asked Liam to produce their next album.
-KoRn: Another magazine has stated that having met LA metal band KoRn during Lollopalooza, Liam will collaborate with them later in the year.
-Madonna, David Bowie & U2: All of these acts were turned down when they approached Liam for production work.
C. Ultramagnetic MC's - In order to cash-in on the success of The Prodigy tracks Smack My Bitch Up and Diesel Power (both of which utilise the vocals of rapper Kool Keith, the latter track being specially written for FOTL), a record company has released the Ultramagnetic MCs album to the UK for the first time - Critical Breakdown is the album where Liam sampled some vocals for Smack My Bitch Up and Out Of Space.
D. Maxim's solo album - Maxim Reality has finished recording his debut solo album. It is due to be released some time around early 1997. The album is full of "very dark music". Maxim said the project had been 10 years in the making. It also features some of his friends and family. The album has the provisional title of Demons and has only been heard by friends and one music journalist so far.
II. The members
A. Liam Howlett (Keyboard geezer) - Some would say "He IS the Prodigy", but Liam would disagree. Certainly, this guy does write most of the music, and leads the way. But he has stated that the Prodigy would be nothing without the other members.
As a child, Liam began listening to ska and 2-Tone music, before getting into the world of hip-hop, during his teenage years. He was so into hip-hop that he managed to join a local band called 'Cut 2 Kill', but got kicked out later on, after a disasterous record deal and friction with the other members.
After checking out a rave for the first time, Liam started afresh as a rave DJ at The Barn in Braintree. It was there he met Keith and Leeroy, and the rest is history!
Liam used to live in the Essex village of Cressing.
When the Prodigy began to take off, he and his long-term girlfriend Angela lived in the town of Braintree.
Earlier this year, Liam, along with Keith Flint, moved out of their Braintree homes, after being plagued by obsessive fans, into
converted Ł1,000,000 houses, in a rural area just a few miles away from Braintree. Their new homes are to be surrounded by a
six-foot high fence.
B. Kieth Flint (Dancer/Vocalist) - It seems that Keith was destined to be a manic dancer after all, during his childhood he used to dance in his mum's kitchen to Led Zeppelin. During a series of dead-end jobs, long-haired 'hippy' Keith was often seen dancing at local raves during the 'M25' era of dance music. After having a good time with Leeroy, at a set played by a DJ by the name of Liam Howlett, he decides to get together with Liam, Leeroy and Sharky to form a band.
For the most of his career in the Prodigy, Keith has had long dark hair (up until summer of 1995), although nowadays, he is more famous for his double-mohican hair-style which changes colours almost every week. Before this haircut, though, he did have a phase between the main two (summer - end of 95) where he had a simple short dyed punk haircut.
The tattoo on his stomach says "INFLICTED"
C. Maxim Reality (MC/Rapper) - Real name: Keith Palmer, although he is referred to as 'Keeti' by the rest of the band. It is not a good idea to call him by his real name, should you ever meet him!
The only member of the original line-up to come from a place other than Braintree. Maxim was a member of a reggae outfit ("Maxim Reality and Sheik Yan Groove") shortly before he joined The Prodigy, although he had been into numerous scenes in his native town of Peterborough, such as ska/2-Tone and hip-hop/breakdancing.
The last person to join the Prodigy for their first ever gig, the idea to have an MC was Liam's, having seen most rave outfits doing the same. Maxim was assigned to The Prodigy by former manager Ziggy. During their first gig, Liam wasn't entirely happy with the way Maxim rapped - sure, they got a rapterous reception (previous acts at the venue had been bottled off), but Liam asked Maxim to tone down the reggae-style he was used to.
Maxim's current stage image consists of a pair of 'evil' contact-lenses, a metal armour glove, a dressing gown and even a skirt!
He is currently writing a solo album which he hopes to get out before the end of year, and "some how, Leeroy will be on it".
D. Leeroy Thornhill (Tall Dancer) - As a youngster, Leeroy into punk music, thanks to his big sister's fascination with The Buzzcocks, The Clash, etc. He also went through a mod phase.
Electrician/handyman Leeroy spent his spare time at raves in Essex during the early 90s. It was here he met Keith, and the two became known as a little 'double-act', both with unique dancing styles.
He picked up his dancing skills through being a fan of James Brown and similar related acts.
Leeroy, possibly the least known member of the main four, happens to be the most crucial member to the Prodigy's existance, says Liam.
His first ever solo work - the Dreamer EP - was released back in 1996 on limited edition vinyl. The title track has since found its way to the internet, via The Earthbound Network.
He currently sports a chin-stud and is very tall indeed! He is the only member of the band who likes soccer. Although the band are Playstation addicts, Leeroy must certainly be the one with the most well-worn thumbs!
E. Gizz Butt (Live Guitarist) - Real name: Graham Butt. 'Gizz' is taken from the punk character 'Gizzard Puke' from The Kenny Everett Television Show.
The newest recruit to the Prodigy live-show, replacing former live guitarist Jimmy Davies.
Gizz is no stranger to music. Since 1980, he has been in British punk bands such as The Destructers and Wardance.
At the moment, he is currently the frontman/vocalist for his own band, Janus Stark (named after a 1970s cult boys' comic character).
Gizz, still lives in Peterborough, and knew Maxim back in the 80s. The leather jacket he wears on stage is the same one from his early punk days. During the early 90s when Gizz was 'strapped for cash', he became a guitar teacher at Stamford College.
He became enthusiastic about the Prodigy after hearing Jilted on the English Dogs' tour bus, and jumped at the chance to join when he heard from a rock journalist that Liam was auditioning for Jimmy Davies's replacement.
F. Kieron Pepper (Live Drummer) - The newest recruit to the Prodigy live show is drummer Kieron Pepper, from Chelmsford, Essex. He has blond spiky hair (not unlike Liam's!) and has been with the band since December 1997, for the UK shows.
Kieron came from the unsigned British band realtv, which split up in November. realtv (yes, always spelt in lower case!) had been going for three years and had become great mates with bands such as The Wildhearts and 3 Colours Red (a band who have befriended Gizz).
The first band he was in was Garp, which also failed to attain success.
You can see a brief shot of realtv in the video for Anthem by The Wildhearts.
Keiron is currently moonlighting as a guest sampler/programmer for fusion band No Santa, from Dublin. No Santa, including Keiron, recently supported Gizz's Janus Stark on their recent UK 1998 tour.
G. Chaz Stevens - Co-producer of the first two chart singles, recorded in his studios (CWS Studios).
H. Neil McLellan - Started off as a producer for N-Joi. Co-producer for some of the Jilted tracks. Now works with dance band Slacker.
I. 'Ziggy' - Their first ever manager, Ziggy (aka 'Captain Naughty') managed to get them their first gig at the Labyrinth in East London in 1990. The Prodigy decided to leave Ziggy around the time of Charly. He does get a mention in the credits of Charly.
J. Mike Champion - Mike Champion drew his attention to the Prodigy when they were looking for a new manager. Mike, of 'Midi Management' knew the score when it came to managing acts on the then-new acid/rave scene of the late-80's/early-90's. He had already managed top rave act N-Joi, which was founded by his brother.
It is believed that Mike has now gone off to start his own record label now.
K. 'Sharky' - The only female member to have been in the Prodigy live act.
Dancer Sharky knew Keith from the rave circuits, and just enjoyed dancing to her favourite music. This was probably the reason why she left the band early, when they won a record contract with XL.
She has been creditted with mentions in some Experience singles, and the first two albums.
L. Simone Berryman - The female session vocalist for 'Music Reach 1/2/3/4'; 'Rip Up The Sound System' and 'Ruff In The Jungle Bizness'. She was in her early teens when she recorded for the Prodigy.
At the moment, she is helping out with vocal work for a small electronic dance outfit in Essex.
M. Carl Miller - Former Prodigy Road manager Carl Miller was the co-writer for the core of Out Of Space, one of the Prodigy's most famous hits in their Experience days.
N. Lance Riddler - The session guitarist for the Jilted album and the man responsible for the recreation of the intro to Nirvana's "Very Ape" that was used in "Voodoo People." He has never joined the Prodigy on stage for a live show. Lives in Witham, Essex.
He is believed to be in a newly launched band - Genetic Source.
O. Phil Bent - The session flute-player for Voodoo People and 3 Kilos.
P. Jimmy Davies - The old guitarist (Jimmy 'Fingers' Davies, as seen on Electronic Punks video) left after Firestarter hit number one in the UK.
Jimmy is still used by Liam as the Prodigy's studio guitarist. He has now started his own band - Dead Mans Pants. He also does live guitar duties for punk/jungle/rock band PitchShifter.
III. Their music genre?
A. Techno? - Although the Prodigy certainly carry some techno elements in their music, they are not a techno band. Some techno enthusiasts frown upon them.
"We have never been a techno band" - Liam Howlett.
B. Rave? - The Prodigy did start off on the rave scene, and were recognized as 'hardcore' by the scene at that time. However, during 93/94, the rave scene started to decay, by which time, the Prodigy were already diversifying their music. They can no longer be classed a rave act.
C. Electronica? - The 'Electronica' tag was invented by the sensation-hungry American media, after poor sales from usual press favourites R.E.M., U2 and Pearl Jam. So America picked up on the hard-dance craze in Britain/Europe, and gave it it's own stupid tag. The 'Electronica' tag has been seen enveloping commercial acts like Robert Miles and Everything But The Girl, along with credible acts such as The Chemical Brothers, Orbital and Underworld. The ironic thing is that no serious fan of hard-dance music would ever use the dreaded 'Electronica' word.
"'Electronica' was a phrase invented by some a guy in an office. And when we find out who that guy is... ...we're gonna slap him." - Liam Howlett, 1997.
D. Industrial? - A lot of recent well-known Prodigy output has certainly got the elements of the Industrial genre - such as being electronic-beat-driven and an aggressive nature. However, the band certainly don't feel part of being 'industrial' - the same view of Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (possibly the most famous industrial band in existance) when asked about them.
The band do have a bit of a following from some industrial fans, but their output cannot be classed as industrial.
E. The Conclusion? - It's just too difficult to say exactly what! There's no word to describe what genres they have been through, or even the musical styles they have either created or fused together! A mild fan may say 'hard dance music', but that's just too restrictive really. Let's just say that they started up doing techno/rave anthems with hip-hip drumloops, but progressed from that, so that they now carry elements of ambient, hard-house, hip-hop, industrial, punk, acid-jazz, reggae, electro, gabba, heavy metal/rock, jungle and rap. Liam decision to have guitars in the music back in 1994 may have lost some of his original followers, but only the open-minded fans kept the faith, it also gained the Prodigy a larger alternative/indie following. Stop worrying about whether it's X music or Y music, just listen to it!
"It's just...Prodigy music!" - Liam Howlett, 1996.
IV. Releases
A. What's their first ever single? - The single is the What Evil Lurks E.P. (not Charly as some fools may tell you, that's just their first CHART single!) with four tracks (What Evil Lurks, We're Gonna Rock, Android and the original (slow hip-hop) mix of Everybody In The Place), released only on 12 inch vinyl and there are only 7,000 genunine copies in existence! The value could be anything of up to Ł200 to collectors.
Some fake vinyls of What Evil Lurks have been going around. These usually have the word 'Androids' instead of 'Android' in the tracklisting.
Record Collector magazine has recently re-valued original copies at Ł80.
By the way, just because it's rare, it doesn't mean to say it's good, the What Evil Lurks tracks are pretty low-budget and cheap efforts which sound primitive compared to Liam's current offerings! Android is probably the best track, and has been seen on some CDs (some illegal!).
B. UK singles/albums - All on XL Recordings.
**What Evil Lurks EP - Released Feb 91 - Highest Chart Position #30 in underground dance chart. Not on CD, 7" or Cassette.
What Evil Lurks
We're Gonna Rock
Android
Everybody In The Place
**Charly - Released Aug 91 - Highest Chart Position #3
12" and CD:
Charly (Alley Cat Mix)
Pandemonium
Your Love
Charly (Original Mix)
7" and Cassette:
Charly (Alley Cat Edit)
Charly (Original Mix)
**Everybody In The Place - Released Dec 92 - Highest Chart Postion #2
12":
Everybody In The Place (Fairground Remix)
Crazy Man
G-Force (Energy Flow)
Rip Up The Sound System
CD:
Everybody In The Place (Fairground Edit)
G-Force (Energy Flow)
Crazy Man
Everybody In The Place (Fairground Remix)
Some rare early editions of this CD contained:
Rip Up The Sound System
7" and Cassette:
Everybody In The Place (Fairground Edit)
G-Force (Energy Flow)
**Fire / Jericho - Released Sep 92 - Highest Chart Position #11
12":
Fire (Burning Version)
Fire (Sunrise Version)
Jericho
Jericho (Genaside II remix) by Genaside II
CD:
Fire (Edit)
Jericho
Fire (Sunrise Version)
Jericho (Genaside II remix) by Genaside II
7" and Cassette:
Fire (Edit)
Jericho
**The Prodigy Experience LP - Released Nov 92 - Highest Chart Position #12
Jericho
Music Reach 1/2/3/4
Wind It Up
Your Love (Remix)
Hyperspeed (G-Force Part 2)
Charly (Trip Into Drum And 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 at Club 92, Chicago)
**Out Of Space - Released Nov 92 - Highest Chart Position #5
12" and CD:
Out Of Space (CD contains an Edit)
Out Of Space (Techno Underworld Remix)
Ruff In The Jungle Bizzness (Uplifting Vibes Remix)
Music Reach (1/2/3/4) Live from Club 92 Chicago
7" and Cassette:
Out Of Space (Edit)
Ruff In The Jungle Bizzness (Uplifting Vibes Remix)
**Wind It Up (Rewound) - Released Mar 93 - Highest Chart Position #11
12":
Wind It Up (Rewound)
We Are The Ruffest
Weather Experience (Top Buzz Remix) by Top Buzz
CD:
Wind It Up (The Rewound Edit)
We Are The Ruffest
Weather Experience (Top Buzz Remix) by Top Buzz
Wind It Up (Rewound)
7" and Cassette:
Wind It Up (The Rewound Edit)
We Are The Ruffest
**One Love - Released Oct 93 - Highest Chart Position #8
12" and CD:
One Love (CD Contains an Edit)
Rhythm Of Life
Full Throttle
One Love (Jonny L Remix) by Jonny L
7" and Cassette:
One Love (Edit)
Full Throttle
**No Good (Start The Dance) - Released May 94 - Highest Chart Position #4
12":
No Good (Start The Dance) (Original Mix)
No Good (Start The Dance) (Bad For You Mix)
No Good (Start The Dance) (CJ's Museum Mix) by CJ Bolland
CD:
No Good (Start The Dance) (Edit)
No Good (Start The Dance) (Bad For You Mix)
No Good (Start The Dance) (CJ's Museum Mix) by CJ Bolland
No Good (Start The Dance) (Original Mix)
7" and Cassette:
No Good (Start The Dance) (Edit)
No Good (Start The Dance) (Bad For You Mix)
**Music For The Jilted Generation LP - Released Jul 94 - Highest Chart Position #1
Intro
Break And Enter
Their Law (featuring Pop Will Eat Itself)
Full Throttle
Voodoo People
Speedway (Theme From Fastlane)
The Heat (The Energy)
Poison
No Good (Start The Dance)
One Love (Edit)
The Narcotic Suite:
3 Kilos
Skylined
Claustrophobic Sting
**Voodoo People - Released Aug 94 - Highest Chart Position #13
12":
Voodoo People
Voodoo People (Haiti Island Mix)
Voodoo People (Dust Brothers Remix) by Chemical Brothers
Goa (The Heat The Energy Part 2)
CD:
Voodoo People (Edit)
Voodoo People (Dust Brothers Remix) by Chemical Brothers
Goa (The Heat The Energy Part 2)
Voodoo People (Original Mix)
Cassette:
Voodoo People (Edit)
Voodoo People (Dust Brothers Remix) by Chemical Brothers
**Poison - Released Mar 95 - Highest Chart Position #15
12" and CD:
Poison (95 EQ)
Rat Poison
Scienide
Poison (Dub Mix) By Environmental Science
Cassette:
Poison (95 EQ)
Rat Poison
Scienide
**Firestarter - Released Mar 96 - Highest Chart Position #1
12" and CD:
Firestarter (CD contains an Edit)
Firestarter (Instrumental)
Firestarter (Empirion Mix) by Empirion
Molotov Bitch
Cassette:
Firestarter (Edit)
Molotov Bitch
**Breathe - Released Nov 96 - Highest Chart Position #1
12":
Breathe (Edit)
The Trick
Breathe (Instrumental)
Their Law live at the Phoenix Festival 96
CD and Cassette:
Breathe (Edit)
Their Law live at the Phoenix Festival 96
Poison live at the Tourhout & Werchter Festival 96
The Trick
**The Fat Of The Land LP - Released Jun 97 - Highest Chart Position #1
Smack My Bitch Up
Breathe
Diesel Power
Funky Shit
Serial Thrilla
Mindfields
Narayan
Firestarter
Climbatize
Fuel My Fire
**Smack My Bitch Up - Released Nov 97 - Highest Chart Position #8
12" and CD:
Smack My Bitch Up (CD contains an edit)
No Man Army
Mindfields (Headrock Dub)
Smack My Bitch Up (DJ Hype Mix) by DJ Hype
Cassette:
Smack My Bitch Up (Edit)
No Man Army
C. USA Singles - The big difference between these and the UK singles are that the USA singles have different distributors/labels for these releases. And of course the tracklisting.
**Charly/Everybody In The Place - Elektra/XL
Charly (Beltram Says Mix) by Joey Beltram
Charly (Alley Cat Mix)
Everybody In The Place (Dance Hall Version) by Moby
Everybody In The Place (Fairground Mix)
Your Love (The Original Excursion)
G-Force (Part 1)
**Fire - Elektra/XL
Fire (Edit)
Jericho
Fire (Sunrise Version)
Jericho (Genaside II Remix) by Genaside II
Pandemonium
**Out Of Space - Elektra/XL
Out Of Space (Edit)
Out Of Space (Techno Underworld Remix)
Out Of Space (Millenium Mix)
Out Of Space (Celestial Bodies Mix)
Ruff In The Jungle Bizness (Uplifting Vibes Mix)
Jericho (Live) from Club 9
**Wind It Up - Elektra/XL
Wind It Up (The Rewound Edit)
Wind It Up (Tightly Wound) by Tony Garcia
Wind It Up (Forward Wind) by Tony Garcia
Wind It Up (Unwind) by Tony Garcia
We Are The Ruffest
Weather Experience (Top Buzz Remix) by Top Buzz
Wind It Up (Bonus Beats) by Tony Garcia
**Voodoo People - Mute/XL
Voodoo People (Edit)
Voodoo People (Chemical Brothers Remix) by Chemical Brothers
No Good (Start The Dance) (CJ's Museum Mix) by CJ Bolland
Rat Poison
Speedway (Theme From Fastlane) (Secret Knowledge Remix) by Kris Needs
Voodoo People (Haiti Island Remix)
Voodoo People (Original Mix)
**Firestarter - Mute/Maverick/Warner Bros/XL
Firestarter (Edit)
Firestarter (Empirion Mix) by Empirion
Firestarter (Instrumental)
Molotov Bitch
D. Japan
**Music For The Jilted Generation - Avex/XL
Intro
Break And Enter
Their Law (featuring Pop Will Eat Itself)
Full Throttle
Voodoo People
Speedway (Theme From Fastlane)
The Heat (The Energy)
Poison
No Good (Start The Dance)
One Love (Edit)
The Narcotic Suite:
3 Kilos
Skylined
Claustrophobic Sting
Charly (Alley Cat Mix)
Everybody In The Place (Fairground Remix)
Out Of Space (Techno Underworld Remix)
**Selected Mixes For The Jilted Generation - Avex/XL
One Love (Jonny L Remix) by Jonny L
No Good (Start The Dance) (Bad For You Mix)
No Good (Start The Dance) (CJ's Museum Mix) by CJ Bolland
Voodoo People (Dust Brothers Remix) by Chemical Brothers
Voodoo People (Haiti Island Mix)
Goa (The Heat The Energy Part 2)
Poison (Dub Mix) by Environmental Science
Rat Poison
Scienide
E. Australia
**No Good (Start The Dance) - Australian Tour EP - Sony/Columbia Dancepool
No Good (Start The Dance) (Edit)
No Good (Start The Dance) (Museum Mix)
One Love (Jonny L Remix) by Jonny L
Jericho (Genaside II Remix) by Genaside II
G-Force (Energy Flow)
F. Videos - The Prodigy have only released one video (called Electronic Punks) commercially which contains live footage, music videos up through the Jilted Era and some daft home video footage. See the video section of merchandise for details on ordering.
G. UK Rarities - In order to save space, I have only listed which Prodigy tracks are included on these compilations.
**XL Recordings Heavyweight Selection - Free magazine cassette - 93
XL RECORDINGS MIX by Liam Howlett:
Just As Long As I Got You Looney Tunes
Sweet Harmony Liquid
Let It Take Control The Flowmasters
Android The Prodigy
The Ansaphone Jonny L
**Select Future Tracks - Free magazine cassette - 94
We Eat Rhythm (Original Mix) The Prodigy
**Scienide - 12" white label - 95
Scienide
**Firestarter Promotional CD - Intended for shops only - 96
Firestarter (Edit)
Your Love
G-Force (Energy Flow)
Fire (Sunrise Version)
Out Of Space (Edit)
Wind It Up (The Rewound Edit)
Firestarter (Edit)
One Love (Edit)
No Good (Start The Dance) (Edit)
Voodoo People (Dust Brothers Remix)
Poison (95 EQ)
Firestarter (Edit)
**Minefields - Only 40 cassettes and 10 vinyls were ever printed - 96
Minefields (Edit)
Minefields (Monkey Mafia Mix) by Monkey Mafia
Headrock Beats
Minefields (Original Version)
H. Original productions for movie soundtracks - In order to save space, I have only listed which Prodigy tracks are included on these compilations.
**Spawn - The Movie - Sony/Immortal/Epic
Prodigy/Tom Morello - One Man Army
I. Production work(Remixes) for other acts
**Art Of Noise - Instruments Of Darkness (All Of Us Are One People) The Prodigy Mix
**Bugg Kann & The Plastic Jam - Made In Two Minutes (Prodigy Mix)
**Method Man - Release Yo'Delf
Prodigy Mix - Clean Version
Prodigy Mix
Prodigy Instrumental
**Dream Frequency - Take Me (The Prodigy Mix)
**Front 242 - Religion (Prodigy Bass Under Siege Mix)
Religion (Prodigy Trance U Down Mix)
**Jesus Jones - Zeroes & Ones (The Prodigy vs Jesus Jones)
**The Magi And Emanation - Everybody Say Love (Prodigy remix)
**Baby D - Casanova (Prodigy Pump Action Mix)
**The Time Frequency(aka TTF) - Retribution '93 (The Prodigy Meets TTF)
J. Computer/Console games - The Prodigy can be heard in the soundtrack to WipeOut 2097 (the sequel to WipeOut)on the Sony Playstation console, along with many other bands.
WipeOut 2097? What's that? Oh, it's known as WipeOut XL in some countries, such as the USA.
What track is it? The instrumental to Firestarter.
I haven't got a Playstation! How can I hear it? Well you can get it by doing one of the following:
*It's already available as a B-side to all Firestarter CD/Vinyl singles
*The whole soundtrack to WipeOut 2097 is available as an normal audio CD.
*You could download a Playstation emulator on your PC, if you're desparate enough.
See http://www.emudirect.com/ for more info on that.
K. Mythical bootlegs - The following 'albums' do not exist:
The Ultimate Jilted Experience
Experience Revisited
Inflicted
Beware of any website telling you otherwise.
The first two albums were set up by a webmaster of an unofficial Prodigy site in order to look credible. The tracks have been identified as obvious hoaxes by many real Prodigy fans.
The 'Inflicted' album was a hoax set up by Tobi Wood during the 'countdown' to The Fat Of The Land. Tobi was pissed off with having CD bootleg pirates ripping off his site, so he set about forging an album called Inflicted, which featured mostly real existing tracks, except for 'Salvationed Army', 'In The Beginning' and a fake 'Benny Blanco', composed (very well) by Tobi himself. Even the artwork (a briefcase full of drugs syringes) was fake.
V. Lyrics - Here are some corrections for some of the most hideously misquoted lyrics on the web.
**Break And Enter - Wrong: Break and enter - Correct: Bring it down to earth
**Diesel Power - Wrong: Blows your mind drastically, then tactically! - Correct: Blows your mind drastically fantastically!
**Hyperspeed - Wrong: Fledged out... - Correct: Let's jet out...
**Fire - Wrong: I used to bonfire weed... Correct: I used to burn callay weed...
**Music Reach 1/2/3/4 - Wrong: Make me bought a shirt! - Correct: Make me wanna shout!
**Poison - Wrong: I got the poison the rhythmical remedy - Correct: I got the pulsating rhythmical remedy
**Smack My Bitch Up - Wrong: Chase my picture - Correct: Change my pitch up
**Wind It Up - Wrong: People like some justice in the time - Correct: Equal rights and justice in this time
**Thier Law - Wrong: Fuck the law, but you can't beat the law - Correct: I'm the law and you can't beat the law
VI. Live - Go here - http://www.xl-recordings.com/artists/prodigy/prodlive.htm for up-to-date details of the Prodigy Live schedule.
VII. Prodigy Related Acts
A. Remixers - Profiles of acts that have remixed tracks for The Prodigy's UK singles:
**Chemical Brothers - Voodoo People - Acid? Dub? Trip-hop? Many genres have tried to enclose former college students Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, from the beginning of their outfit, formerly known as The Dust Brothers, although not to be confused with the real Dust Brothers. The Chem's were forced to change their name once they hit it big.
**CJ Bolland - No Good Start The Dance - Ambient-dance DJ who has also remixed for Utah Saints. CJ came into some trouble with the Prodigy themselves in 1996. Having released his first major single, Sugar Is Sweeter, it was Liam and others who couldn't help noticing that it sounded very familiar to the Prodigy's own Poison. This caused Maxim to hurl abuse at the name of CJ Bolland whenever the band played Poison during their 96 tour!
**Empirion - Firestarter - The brainchild of techno DJ Jamie Smart, who formed the band with two others on their own record label - Wanted Records. Does all their music sound like the Firestarter remix they did? I contacted Jamie Smart, and here's what he had to say:
"I would like to think our album is has a bit of a cross section of electronic beats and sounds not just like the Firestarter mix,which is a top mix if you don't mind me saying so myself, anyway be lucky keep it loud. Jamie Smart (Empirion)"
The band also have remixed for Terrorvision, China Drum and many others. They are on the internet, check out http://www.wanted.demon.co.uk
**Environmental Science - Poison - Dub remixers from London, now signed to 'Big Beat' label Skint.
**Jonny L - One Love - One man techno remixer Jonny L's style can be described as that of the German techno scene.
Jonny L is currently a labelmate of the Prodigy, having released a few singles through XL Recordings. He has also remixed for The Urban Cookie Collective.
**Genaside II - Jericho - South London jungle pioneers who come from a rough background, can claim to be the first ever act to remix the Prodigy. Their remix of Experience opener Jericho became a B-side on the Fire single.
Liam once claimed that they were the first ever jungle act, a claim which they strongly deny.
Genaside II are still making records and have remixed for Soul II Soul.
**Top Buzz - Weather Experience - DJ Top Buzz kept up a following by doing many of the circuits when the rave scene was healthy.
B. Gizz's band - Prodigy's live guitarist Gizz Butt has his own band, which he has been fronting before joining the Prodigy. They play hardcore punk music, although not in an American style like Bad Religion or Pennywise. Two other members of the band are called
Pinch and Shop, strangely enough!
Janus Stark - Gizz Butt's punk band have been recently renamed Janus Stark, after a 70s cult cartoon character. A new album is expected later in the year. Gizz is currently 'doing battle' with a London band who are also using the name Janus Stark. Lawyers are sorting out the problem.
English Dogs? - The band were formerly known as The English Dogs, although the name-change had to go ahead, as Gizz was having problems getting 'English Dogs' registered in time for their new album because of archaic British law, which dictates that the Queen must adjudicate any name with the word 'English' in it, to be registered.
VIII. Merchandise - A full colour catalogue of Prodigy merchandise is available, usually annually, to those on the Prodigy merchandise mailing list. To get yourself on the list, send your name and address to:
Prodigy Merchandise Ltd.,
P.O. Box 2292,
BRAINTREE,
Essex,
CM7 9JE
UNITED KINGDOM
A fully working on-line service (payment via credit/debit card) is expected to be launched on the official site shortly.
A. Videos - The Prodigy have only released one videotape for domestic use, it's called Electronic Punks, released in 95, and features all the promo videos from the Experience and Jilted eras (except for Fire, because "the video sucks"), live tracks, the making of
the promo video for Poison, plenty of stupid home-video footage of them clowning around and some wierd polaroid photos. Where can I get Electronic Punks? In the UK: You can order it from any HMV. Many stores of Virgin, HMV, Tower or Our Price usually stock it. Other than UK: It is available in NTSC format from http://www.cdnow.com
B. Books - There are currently 6 different books on The Prodigy in existence.
**Electronic Punks - Martin Roach - Independent Music Press - Official - Order form inside Poison CD inlay
**Exit The Underground (2 of these... Original or revised)- Lisa Verrico - Virgin Books - Unofficial - In large Virgin/HMV stores
**Firestarters - John Keaton - UFO Music Ltd - Unofficial - rare, in some HMV stores
**The Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy - Independent Music Press - Official - In many Virgin/HMV stores, also from Prodigy Merchandise
**Adventures With The Voodoo Crew - Martin James - Ebury Press - Unofficial - In many Virgin/HMV stores
IX. Prodigy on the net - Liam and Keith both slammed the internet and modern technology in an interview with MTV Europe in 1995, as they are anti-futuristic. Keith has gone as far as to say he would use an abacus just to piss people off. They certainly don't write web-sites or have e-mail addresses. They are aware of the Prodigy Underground Archive.
A. WWW Sites -
**The official site(s) -
Check out http://www.prodigy.co.uk . They have also set up mirror sites at http://www.theprodigy.co.uk and http://www.theprodigy.com.
XL Recordings, the Prodigy's native record label have recently set up their own web-site at http://www.xl-recordings.com
The Prodigy's American licensee, Maverick Records, have a web-site at http://www.maverickent.com
**Unofficial 'fan-sites' - There's loads of unofficial ones about, thanks to us fans! They're definitely worth visiting! (Check links - http://www.ubl.com and http://www.yahoo.com )
Be careful when searching on search engines. Remember that there is an internet provider in America called Prodigy, so make your search specific!
B. Newsgroups - Nearly all usenet servers carry alt.music.prodigy-the, regarded as the prime newsgroup for Prodigy information. This was started by Rafael Ackermann in July 1995. Virtually all the latest news, rumours and gossip are discussed here.
Since then, someone, unwisely decided to create alt.music.prodigy-the.lyrics - a newsgroup devoted to discussing the lyrics of The Prodigy, probably the most stupidest thing in the alt.music hierachy. Unsurprisingly, it isn't used much, and is a target for
spammers.
****************************DO'S AND DON'TS************************
******************************READ THESE***************************
Although Prodigy fans usually hold anti-censorship/pro-free-speech views, there is a certain rule of commonsense where you cannot just do as you please. There are certain things on the alt.music.prodigy-the newsgroup that we advise you not to do...
DO NOT: post binaries to the group. The newsgroup is text only - the word 'binaries' does not appear anywhere in the title, so please upload your binary to some ftpspace/webspace and give out the revalent http: or ftp: URL in a text post. That way, people can decide whether they want your file, rather than having to sit through minutes of precious download time, or even having to wade through a load of text that goes: 8932UR8DE23YW7W32U7RDYDQWJD...
Sending files to any text newsgroup is selfish, and can cause that newsgroup to be removed from some news-servers.
Even 'small' binary files have the same effect. See the General USENET FAQs for more details.
DO NOT: post a "Prodigy rules!!!" type message! The simple reason is - WE KNOW.
DO NOT: spam us. Most spams are removed by a special bot anyway.
DO NOT: respond to obvious troll-bait. If a coward has posted an anonymous message that strongly annoys you, make a complaint to the re-mailer service - find their details in the header of the anonymous post.
DO NOT: quote private e-mails, unless you have permission.
DO NOT: ask any question that has been mentioned in this FAQ! (Unless you want a more specific answer, of course)
***Abbreviations***
The 'regulars' of the newsgroup tend to use abbrevations, for bandwidth's sake (or pure lazyness -Swift). See below for a guide.
Exp = Experience, the first album.
Jilted = Music For The Jilted Generation, the second album.
FOTL = The Fat Of The Land, the third album.
WEL = What Evil Lurks EP.
EITP = Everybody In The Place.
OOS = Out Of Space.
WIU = Wind It Up - used for either the (Rewound) single or Experience track.
VP = Voodoo People.
SMBU = Smack My Bitch Up.
CB's = The Chemical Brothers.
PWEI = Pop Will Eat Itself - the 'Their Law' collaborators.
BRA = Bentley Rhythm Ace - what two of PWEI have transformed themselves into!
TOTP = Top Of The Pops - The BBC's music chart show.
ng = newsgroup.
LOL! = Laughs out loud!
AFAIK = As far as I know.
IMO = In my opinion.
IMHO = In my humble opinion.
IIRC = If I recall correctly.
altho = although.
tho = though.
thru = thru.
tix = Tickets.
C. Mailing Lists - EARTHBOUND NETWORK NEWS : Largest Prodigy news source on the net!
The biggest, busiest and best independent Prodigy-related list. Over 680
readers, and still growing. Why send your news anywhere else?
CONTRIBUTE: Contribute news to en_n...@hotmail.com
SUBSCRIBE: Send a blank e-mail to en_...@hotmail.com with the Subject line
set as: Subscribe (your e-mail address)
USUBSCRIBE: Send a blank e-mail to en_...@hotmail.com with the Subject
line set as: Unsubscribe (your e-mail address)
CHANGE: You can update your e-mail address by sending a blank e-mail to
en_...@hotmail.com with the Subject line set as: Change (old e-mail
address) to (new e-mail address).
MORE INFORMATION ON THE PRODIGY THAN ANY OTHER WEBSITE!
EN's main site : http://www.earthbound-network.com
D. IRC - The regulars of the Prodigy newsgroup meet up every Sunday at 7pm **UK time** (Its actually more like 2PM US Eastern time, whatever that is UK. - Swift) on channel #prodigy on IRCnet servers. There is also a #prodigy on EFnet servers which is sparaticly "active" every night. Please check them both out.
X. Feedback
A. FAQ Maintenance - The FAQ's 'home' is at this URL http://www.prodge.demon.co.uk/prodigy/faq.html
Feel free to have it linked from your site, or even copy it, as long as the core text is not modified/edited in any way.
The maintainer of the Prodigy FAQ is Peter Thomas and the editer of the text version you are reading now is DJ Swift. Information is collected from various sources, mainly the Prodigy newsgroup (alt.music.prodigy-the); e-mail and the media. All information is examined carefully. The html version of the FAQ is updated on the above URL at least once a month, and a text version is sent out to the Prodigy newsgroup too.
B. Contributing to the FAQ - FAQ contributions are more than welcome... Please send an e-mail to either Peter Thomas at pe...@earthbound-network.com or DJ Swift at dj_sw...@hotmail.com. We also maintain a presence on the alt.music.prodigy-the newsgroup and usually on the regular Sunday IRCnet's #prodigy channel and you can find DJ Swift at nights on the EFnet #prodigy
C. FAQ Contributors - Much love and respect to the following past and present contributors of The Prodigy FAQ... Thomas Andreassen, James Atkinson, Bryan Bellamy, Gizz Butt, Andy Dowling, Wouter Groenendijk, P A Hammond, Mike Jakeman, Jenna, Kevin Lock, Teemu K Lohenoja, Nada, Tim Olson, Georgina Ross, Sadloser, Chris Sharpe, Jamie Smart, Daniel Smith, Ben Stevens, Strawberry, Peter Thomas, DJ Swift, Llamma S Topper, Tobi Wood, Rafael Van Gorkum, Voodoo...
Thanks must also go to Rafael Ackermann for setting up the alt.music.prodigy-the newsgroup and to Daniel Cerman of the Moby Unofficial site ( http://www.moby.org ) for his co-operation.
DJ Swift
THEM!!!!! Once I get some more Mountain Dew INTO MY BODY!!!!!!
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Mike
either!
> L. Simone Berryman - The female session vocalist for 'Music Reach > 1/2/3/4'; 'Rip Up The Sound System' and 'Ruff In The Jungle Bizness'. > She was in her early teens when she recorded for the Prodigy.
> At the moment, she is helping out with vocal work for a small > electronic dance outfit in Essex.
Ah, so that's where I read that. See that Smitty? Albeit probly outdated
by now.
The Real Thing - from prodge.demon.co.uk
>> L. Simone Berryman - The female session vocalist for 'Music Reach > 1/2/3/4'; 'Rip Up The Sound System' and 'Ruff In The Jungle Bizness'. > She was in her early teens when she recorded for the Prodigy.
>> At the moment, she is helping out with vocal work for a small > electronic dance outfit in Essex.
>Ah, so that's where I read that. See that Smitty? Albeit probly outdated
>by now.
No need to point it out to Smitty. We've both spoken to one of the
guys of that small electronic dance outfit. Not heard from him in
ages, but then he is rather reclusive. I'll leave it at that.
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>No problem, it's great anyway - thank you for going to all the trouble.
Lets hope this stops all the petty arguments...
>There's got to be a limit to the hand-holding, though ...
Exactly... its like that analogy Pete gives about teaching the guy how to
fish...
>Anyway, good job.
Thank you
>p.s. Mountain Dew?
Well... I have not jolt cola...
>Gunga Din ... ;-)
Say wha?
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Chris Brewer
"Deb" <d...@NOSPAM.com> wrote:
> I'm almost tempted to ask if a note could be put at the beginning saying
> that the 'newbie guide'-type part is at the END, just to ward off those
> that would snivel and say they didn't read that bit because the FAQ
> was too long for them to bother - you can see it happening, can't you?
Or possibly put the newbie stuff at the start. It seems to be the norm for a
FAQ to put the technical Internet stuff (e.g. netiquette, Internet resources,
etc.) at the beginning, then go on to the real stuff later, just like the
Echoes FAQ for the amp-f ng.
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Deb
> In article <92441475...@news.remarQ.com>,
> "Deb" <d...@NOSPAM.com> wrote:
> > I'm almost tempted to ask if a note could be put at the beginning saying
> > that the 'newbie guide'-type part is at the END, just to ward off those
> > that would snivel and say they didn't read that bit because the FAQ
> > was too long for them to bother - you can see it happening, can't you?
>
> Or possibly put the newbie stuff at the start. It seems to be the norm for a
> FAQ to put the technical Internet stuff (e.g. netiquette, Internet resources,
> etc.) at the beginning, then go on to the real stuff later, just like the
> Echoes FAQ for the amp-f ng.
That's actually a much better idea - could that one be considered, DJ Swift?
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Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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DJ Swift
>Should be posted on a regular basis to the NG, like once a month or so.
Try once a week, with the rate of flame threads and hate mail this NG has...
Kotta
Great initiative swift, I remember there was a discussion about this a few months ago.
Should be posted on a regular basis to the NG, like once a month or so.
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Kotta
>>Should be posted on a regular basis to the NG, like once a month or so.
If it was posted once a month I think some of it would decrease.
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DJ Swift
>
>DJ Swiftski wroteski...
Hehehe... I like that...
>>>Should be posted on a regular basis to the NG, like once a month or so.
>>Try once a week, with the rate of flame threads and hate mail this NG has...
>
>If it was posted once a month I think some of it would decrease.
And once a week would decrease even more...
Chris Brewer
dj_sw...@nospam.hotmail.com (DJ Swift) wrote:
> Kotta said something like...
> >If it was posted once a month I think some of it would decrease.
> And once a week would decrease even more...
But then you'll get idiots posting messages about 'how such large posts are
being made all the time and it's just repeating the same thing over and over
and blah blah blah...'
Monthly is good. If necessary, post a mini-faq weekly.
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However, there's just no helping some people... :)
DJ Swift
>But then you'll get idiots posting messages about 'how such large posts are
>being made all the time and it's just repeating the same thing over and over
>and blah blah blah...'
>
>Monthly is good. If necessary, post a mini-faq weekly.
How about bi-weekly then...
And on another note, I've been using alt.test to try and figure out these
margins... Ive used "Read File" and simply cutting and pasting and its fucked
everytime... unless there's another way you guys can show me (wink wink), the
word wrapping will be kinda screwed and cutting off in the middle of words...
mabye, "oh well?"