This was the debut album of The Prodigy that was released in 1992 by XL Recordings. The album is truly the groups most innovative work and many of the tracks have themes running through them that are rather random, yet kinda humerous and remind some of old adverts (Charlie - "Charlie says ... Read review
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Advantages: Original, innovative, classic Prodigy Disadvantages: Some tracks are a little lengthy with much of the same stuff
This was the debut album of The Prodigy that was released in 1992 by XL Recordings. The album is truly the groups most innovative work and many of the tracks have themes running through them that are rather random, yet kinda humerous and remind some of old adverts (Charlie - "Charlie says always tell your Mummy before going off somewhere").
The tracks can be viewed as similar in places, but on the whole they all have a distinct ... ...unfamiliar sounds within their tracks does give each one a distinctive memory that you will instantly associate with.
I think that you will notice similar themes running through their second album - Music for the Jilted Generation - but there are sets of very different music from here on out for the Prodigy. The second album features swearing, thats not something I am particularly fond of in music, but apart from that the Prodigy ... more
This was the debut album of The Prodigy that was released in 1992 by XL Recordings. The album is truly the groups most innovative work and many of the tracks have themes running through them that are rather random, yet kinda humerous and remind some of old adverts (Charlie - "Charlie says always tell your Mummy before going off somewhere").
The tracks can be viewed as similar in places, but on the whole they all have a distinct difference and I find that the The Prodigy's use of unfamiliar sounds within their tracks does give each one a distinctive memory that you will instantly associate with.
I think that you will notice similar themes running through their second album - Music for the Jilted Generation - but there are sets of very different music from here on out for the Prodigy. The second album features swearing, thats not something I am particularly fond of in music, but apart from that the Prodigy have done a good job there too.
Some say that this was the Prodigy's prime and that they had slipped a bit and come away from their 'roots' as it were, but I would disagree. I think that the group showed imense ability at being able to change their style with the times because lets be honest this is a classic and it would not be a classic if all of their albums were the same!!
The album consists of 12 tracks filled with musical energy and the head nodding, steering wheel tapping addiction that has not been so prominant in other albums from this time or since in this division of music. The more 'famous' tracks included are 'Out of Space', 'Everybody in the place' and 'Fire'.
All in all this is a cracking album by the Prodigy, one which concentrates on the music rather than trying to fit lyrics in to a tune, or vice versa. A must if you like this kind of music genre - probably not one for those who enjoy a lot of easy listening, but I'd check it out anyway. The cover and cd box is nothing special - black and white with just a picture of the group on the back. The booklet is a little comical and features space-age drawings of the group members with information about what they do in the band and then a load of random babble in space age jargon.
A cool first album for the Prodigy and more have followed, but this one is the classic and most innovative out of them all.
Advantages: Brilliance, genius and originality of classic Prodigy. Disadvantages: Tends to get a tad boring in some places.
This is classic prodigy. and when i say classic i mean classic, because this does not sound like Prodigy. or should I say Prodigy's new stuff is NOT Prodigy, this is them, in their prime. All the songs have differences, and individuality, and in all their own rights, brilliance. It has classics like "Charly" and "Out Of Space", yet these songs are unknown to apparent "Prodigy fans". This song is quite comical to say the truth, many casually made ...
FreakSoulChild 12.07.2000
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Experience by The Prodigy - one of the best albums ever! I first bought this album when I was about 10 years old in the 90's. This is The Prodigy's first ever album in the dawining of the 'rave' era in the 1990's. Containing absloute classics such as 'Out Of Space', 'Everybody's In The Place' , 'Charlie' and much more.
I cannot praise this album enough, it is the catalyst that got me into electronic music. All of thetracks on it are geniously produced ... ...music and countless producers have been influenced by this.
This album covers so many genres of music including rave, techno, jungle, dub, raggae. I myself as a techno producer and DJ frequently play tracks from this in my techno mixes including techno mix cd's and techno club mixes also.
If you have an interest in any sort of electronic music - BUY THIS ALBUM NOW!!!
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seismicjab 16.07.2008
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Advantages: Still good to listen to and very original Disadvantages: Prodigys music has changed a lot since and may not be to everyones taste
This is the debut album by the prodigy and was released in November 92. This band originated from the rave scene of the early 90’s and started their career played at raves and small clubs.
Their second single, ‘Charly’ got to number 3 in the charts, this gave rave a big step into mainstream music and into the charts. This single sampled the famous saying from the children’s safety ad with the cat and the young boy saying ... ...somewhere’. After it was release many copycat type singles were released, such as ‘Trumpton’, ‘Rhubarb And Custard’ and ‘The Smarties Sesame’s Treet’. Many have said that this explosion of rave tracks into the charts ended the rave scene and as the prodigy’s single was the first of these, they were accused of killing rave.
Other singles released from this album were ‘Fire/Jericho’, ...
gh05t 13.04.2001
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Advantages: Classic Prodigy Disadvantages: More restrained style than recent albums
This is the Prodigy's debut album and is the start of a great career. This first album orignates from the late 80's rave scene. Despite these underground links the album succeeded beyond the groups expectations in the chart scene. Singles such as Your Love, Charly, Out of Space and Fire all hit the top 20 of the charts.
It is a good album, but will not appeal to some of the fans of their second two albums. This is beacuse the album is refrained ...
dan7hughes 22.09.2000
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Advantages: great fun Disadvantages: rather repetitive
This album is a classic collectors piece for anybody interested in the origins and development of dance music today. Whilst I am a bit fan of the Prodigy, I think this, their first album, really does tell of the music scene as it was in the very early 1990s. The cheesy rave lyrics, poorly sampled and stretched, are interesting to listen to just to wonder how these songs were ever really seen as vaguely 'cool'. As an album of its time it was nothing ... ...the song said to have 'killed' the rave scene: Charly. An unremarkable piece in itself, Charly involved a sampling of a public information video and was said to have triggered the beginning of the 'cheesy rave' era. Yet having listened to the other tracks on the CD, you should be in no doubt that Charly was not the worst offender. While I quite enjoy the Experience, it is definitely an album to be taken at face value: an average but in retrospect ...
anotherwiseguy 13.12.2000
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Advantages: Breakbeat at it's best ! Disadvantages: Not what The Prodigy are releasing current day, if you are into them now
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Advantages: A peak in dance music. Disadvantages: Not for those who like smiley faces and glow sticks.
dance music's finest hour, Music for the Jilted Generation.
The Prodigy's first album, "theProdigyExperience", can be said to very much a product of its time i.e. the first outpourings of rave. Messy, slightly cheesy, but full of vibrance and energy. Jilted Generation however contained all the energy, without the happy smiley face. Right from the very start a aura of menace pervades the atmosphere. "Break and Enter" is superb, a sledgehammer of a song that captures you and never lets you go. The theme of smashing the system carries on throughout the album, most obviously in the collaboration with Pop Will Eat Itself, "Their Law", and its battlecry of "F*ck em, and Their Law". "No good" must be considered one of the best dance songs ever written, and certainly the most danceable.
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Product details
Title
Experience
Performer
Prodigy (The)
Genre
Electronic
Sub Genre
UK Techno
Release Date
05/01/2004
Original Release Year
1992
Label / Distributor
XL / PIAS UK/Sony DADC
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Mixed
Format
Performer
EAN
5012093551029
Catalogue Number
XLCDM 110
Additional notes
Album Notes
The Prodigy includes: Liam Howlett.
Album Reviews
Q (12/92, p.133) - 3 Stars - Good - "..a debut album full of experimentation...demonstrates Prodigy's ability to write simple hooks and play them at mental velocity.." Entertainment Weekly (1/8/93, p. 54) - "...frenetic, hypercreative electro-jams..." - Rating: B
Titles on disc 1
1.
Jericho
2.
Music Reach 1/2/3/4
3.
Wind It Up
4.
Your Love (remix)
5.
Hyperspeed (G-Force part 2)
6.
Charly (trip into drum 'n' bass version)
7.
Out Of Space
8.
Everybody In The Place (155 And Rising)
9.
Weather Experience
10.
Fire (sunrise version)
11.
Ruff In The Jungle Bizness
12.
Death Of The Prodigy Dancers (live)
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