Experience - Prodigy (The)

Advantages: Breakbeat at it's best !
Disadvantages: Not what The Prodigy are releasing current day, if you are into them now

...... was to be an Experience or representation of the rave scene at the time, which was still developing from it's origins of acid house in the mid 80's into various branches of what was later termed as "dance music". Rave music, as a term, later became more synonymous with a branch of dance music, most notably called "old skool" today. However, everything within the dance music scene, whether it be drum & bass, hardcore, garage, funky house, trance, ...
...the rave scene. Although Experience is considered one of the oringial rave / breakbeat albums, it does include a large amount of hip-hop rhythms and provides early tell tale signs of Liam Howletts fantastic ability to fuse different styles and make it work to tremendous effect. The band where then and remain today about evolution, something evry branch of music has done since the year dot. Most of today's most successful artists have an abilityto ... Read review

Advantages: wicked cd
Disadvantages: none

this is there first of many albums and is an absolute classic everyone should own this cd it takes you back to the old skool days, you no what i mean about 1989 to about 93 the time when electronic music changed the world forever and this album was part of that non stop rave classics from the musical geniuses of the prodigy every song is as good as the one before it i would personally say hyperspeed was my favurite tune but still love the others ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing Original, Fast, Slow, High, Low all at once
Disadvantages: None

...The Prodigy were an underground dance act playing there way through england at under ground raves and clubs such as Shelly's in Stoke and Eclipse at Coventry.. the whole feel of the album from the joke song "out of space" (that takes the rise out of a rival act - Altern8 from Staffordshire, who allways wore black head to toe suits, with florescent yellow dust - masks.) to the true mood song weather experience... a mellow swooping tune, that pulls the highs and lows of the weather into an emotional rollercoaster of a song. I have had this album since it came out on plastic, and would not even contemplate not carrying it in my car cd collection!!... Read review

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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 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... Read review

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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 songs plonked on one CD, yet it is a fab CD. It tends to get a little boring once listened to over and over again...... Read review

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