Bonus Booklet.pdf

EXPERIENCE

EXPANDED

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

ANDROID

OUT OF SPACE

LIVE FROM PUKKELPOP 2005

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

Few artists or bands managed to release epoch-defining albums. To each scene there are the chosen few long

players that have taken their place in the canon of records that changed the shape of popular culture. Psychedelia

has Sgt Pepper’s…, punk has Never Mind the Bollocks…, trip hop has Blue Lines… The list is endless with each

scene, each genre and every subgenre declaring key albums as defining moments. But only a small handful actually

make it onto these lists… Like I said, very few artists or bands manage to release epoch-defining albums. And even

fewer manage two.

Welcome (back) to The Prodigy, who have released more than their share of essential, era-defining albums. None

more so than these two albums; ‘ The Prodigy Experience ’ and ‘ Music for the Jilted Generation ’ – each a perfect

summary of their time, each a signpost to brave new futures.

1992 Britain. The free party movement had evolved into the spectacular turbo-driven rave scene. The media had

turned weekend enjoyment into full-blown moral panic while the police seemed to devote much of their overtime to

chasing down these folk devil ravers. Huge events drew like-minded souls from everywhere with the promise of

hedonistic pleasure and the sense of enlightened positivity gained from a heady mix of good pills and dancing all

night to pounding, furious, breaks-driven hardcore. The air was filled with a sense of victory. In the war of the raves,

it was the ravers who seemed to be winning. And the Prodigy were there, soundtracking the battles, scoring the

victories and capturing the all round joi de vivre with their brilliantly energised singles.

It was into these defiantly grinning times that The Prodigy unleashed their debut album ‘The Prodigy Experience’ in

late November ’92 and it immediately flew in the face of that over used idiom, ‘dance bands can’t make good

albums’. In ‘Experience’, Liam Howlett and co succeeded in combining the energy of the rave with stunning and

timeless production depths. “I remember I had this idea of doing like a rave concept album”, says Liam “but in the

end I thought it was too restricting. What I wanted was a full experience, you know like you get with one of the early

Pink Floyd albums. Something for every mood but still obviously from the rave scene.” To the Prodigy fans most of

the album came as no shock, featuring as it did versions of all of their Top 5 singles to date, alongside other live

faves from the band’s already incendiary shows.

The singles appear in brilliantly reworked versions. ‘Charly’ has all but the slightest hint of the cartoon cat eliminated,

in its place sits an adrenalised hard and dark, cut up breaks version sub-titled ‘Trip into Drum and Bass Version’.

While some two years later the media would grapple with the notion that drum’n’bass was the new version of jungle,

The Prodigy had been describing the subterranean sound thus since November 1992.

Elsewhere, ‘Everybody In The Place’ takes on a fresher, more vital air about it while ‘G-Force’ is all but transformed

into a full-on hyper speed anthem going under the name ‘Hyperspeed - G-Force Pt 2’. ‘Out of Space”’ (the single

that followed the album) presents a rough neck skanking groove with a lift from Max Romeo’s classic ‘Chase the

Devil’.

If proof was needed of The Prodigy mainman Liam Howlett’s true potential, it lay in the album’s finest moment

‘Weather Report’, an almost psychedelic episode that opens with a low drone and weather forecasts before

emerging into a grandiose, yet sombre string-led refrain. The track then collapsed into a series of abstract noises

before launching a downtempo breakbeat that carried the vibe towards it’s huge, thundering climax; complete with

the full-on acid madness of a rampant 303 squelching with the intensity of a lightning bolt. A brilliant track that was

to give a huge hint as to the future of The Prodigy. A far more complex and assured sound that was moving in a

completely different direction to the route the rave scene was disappearing down.

‘Experience’ entered the charts at number 12, selling over 200,000 copies over the following weeks. As a result The

Prodigy not only successfully managed to move into the territory of the serious, long-term artist (until that point

dominated by the rock scene) but also managed to completely sidestep the fact that the days of the rave were

coming to an end.

This, of course, was Howlett’s intention. It was as much a statement of the band’s future as it was a summing up of

the rave era. In every inch of the album Howlett was playing with preconceptions of what this scene’s music should

sound like, what the scene actually was and how it should be represented. Indeed, even the album artwork

challenged the stereotyped computer-generated, multi-coloured images of the era. It’s plain black and white cover

opened up to present had drawn cartoon images of the band members - fashioned by future author of The Beach,

Alex Garland. Coming as Experience did at a time when dance artists simply didn’t release albums, Liam Howlett

had nothing from the contemporary scene to use as a standard. As a result he set his own standards, something

that would remain a feature of his work.

Released here with an extra disc of rare tracks, mixes and live versions (including ‘Android’ from the very first Prodigy

single, originally drawn from the demo Liam had sent to XL), this all new expanded Experience offers the definitive

version of the rave era’s greatest album.

EXPERIENCE

ALL TRAX WERE WRITTEN, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND RECORDED

BY LIAM HOWLETT AT EARTHBOUND STUDIOS

PUBLISHED BY EMI/VIRGIN MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD.

YOUR LOVE VOCAL SAMPLE FROM SOUND RECORDING OF SHELTER ME

BY CIRCUIT COPYRIGHT CHRYSALIS RECORDS

REMASTERED BY MIKE MARSH AT THE EXCHANGE - APRIL 2001

FUSION MUSIC MANAGEMENT : MIKE CHAMPION

ORIGINAL SLEEVE : THE UNKNOWN

EXPANDED

ALL TRAX WERE WRITTEN, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND RECORDED

BY LIAM HOWLETT AT EARTHBOUND STUDIOS

EXCEPT 1, 3, 8, 9 & 11 PRODUCED BY LIAM HOWLETT AND CHAZ STEVENS AT C.W.S. STUDIOS

TRACK 6 REMIXED BY TOP BUZZ AT SOUND ENTITY STUDIOS.

CO-PRODUCED BY TOP BUZZ AND JACK SMOOTH

TRACK 2 VOCALS BY SIMONE

TRACK 10 WRITTEN BY L. HOWLETT, C. MILLER, K.THORNTON, M. SMITH & T. RANDOLPH.

PUBLISHED BY EMI/VIRGIN MUSIC PUBLISHING / NEXT PLATEAU

TRACK 13 LIVE GUITAR - LIVE DRUMS KIERON PEPPER

SPECIAL THANKS TO SIMONE FOR HER VOCALS ON RIP UP THE SOUND SYSTEM,

MUSIC REACH 1/2/3/4 AND RUFF IN THE JUNGLE BIZNESS

RESPECT: SHADES OF RHYTHM, N-JOI, SL2, DREAM FREQUENCY, THE REBEL MC, ORBITAL,

SUNSCREEM, T.T.F., RHYTHM SECTION, SUBURBAN BASS, D-ZONE, STRICTLY UNDERGROUND,

(RESPECT ESSEX BOYS), GENASIDE II, JULZ NRG, CASPER POUND (RISING HIGH), APHEX TWIN,

TIM WESTWOOD, DEMON BOYZ, DADDY FREDDY, DJ PHYSICS, DEVIOUS D, BALDERS, DJ RAP,

RITCHIE, STEVE JOHNSON, CARL COX, SLIPMATT & LIME, MICKEY FINN, TOP BUZZ,

DAVE CALIKIS, JOEY BELTRAM, MOBY, JEFF K. (THE EDGE-DALLAS), RAY KEITH, DANNY BREAKS.

AND RESPECT TO THE NATION OF DJ’S, MICKY LYNASS (AMNESIA HOUSE), PAUL BERNSTEIN

(NEMESIS), JOHN FAIRS (REZERECTION), RAINDANCE, PERCEPTION, PURE, YIKES (RENEGADE),

SHRINE, PAUL SPRAGGON, SHARKY, RICHARD SMITH, ALL AT CRUNCH VIDEOS, GEORGE & COLIN

DALE (KISS FM), MARS FM (LOS ANGELES), RECORD REACTION (LONG BEACH), DON NELDER (THE

LIZARD LOUNGE, DALLAS), JAY, SHARON, LINDSEY, SEAN, LORD MICHAEL, EASTERN BLOC, CITY

SOUNDS, ROGER, TONY LEVINE, CARLIE (ABASHIE), JIM MONK (REGGAE SELECTION).

SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL AT XL: NICK, TIM, LEAH, RICHARD, JUDITH

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