The Prodigy

My first gig experience was with our Claire, my cousin.

She took me to see The Prodigy.

That is just amazing.

First gig.

definitely a tout one.

And I remember our Claire taking me to that, which...

Yeah, I feel like I can't imagine our Claire liking the prodigy now.

But she took me to that and it totally blew my mind.

I fought for one free play a week.

It took weeks and months to get, for example, The Prodigy, Firestarter played.

By the time they did it, it's like, dude, it's over.

It's already a hit, especially because you banned it, which helped the boys, the prodigy, greatly.

But, you know, they were slow to kind of figure stuff out.

And by the end, my heart wasn't in it.

This was after Orbital had also collaborated with him on Mortal Kombat's soundtrack.

The Prodigy also offered a song that I can't say the name of because this podcast is family friendly, so I'll call it Funky Stuff from their 1997 album The Fat of the Land, which I have on CD actually, which plays over the closing credits.

And The Prodigy visited the set during production and offered the track shortly before The Fat of the Land topped several charts and brought them fame.

So after Titanic missed the boat on its original release, Event Horizon was bumped up to being Paramount's summer release in August.

Its release, as we've established, was heavily rushed, and that includes the marketing campaign, something Paul W.S. Anderson criticised after the fact.

Best alternative album.

Bjork's Homogenic, David Bowie's Earthling, The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole, Prodigy's The Fat of the Land, and Radiohead's

OK Computer.

Um...

And now she has these tools, um, that she could use to create something and produce something that right now, at least what I read on Spotify, is getting millions of streams.

It took me back to high school or university where everybody was in love with Prodigy.

And then I think there was some story where it was like the people that you saw on stage at Prodigy were the performers.

And somebody else, it was like some nerdy white guy or something like this.

It's

Liam Howlett.

Liam Howlett's the guy behind the Prodigy.

There you go.

It just means that, you know, they're kind of overlooked a little bit.

So while artists like the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, and The Prodigy were sort of international superstars, you could say that Adam Freeland... really helped shape a different corner of electronic music, and it's one that blended breakbeats, rock, energy, techno, hip-hop, and some experimental sounds into something that's a little bit uniquely his own.

So if you listen to his stuff, it sounds a little bit different from a lot of other electronic music, including the ones that I listed just a little bit ago.

So if you've ever wondered how breakbeat evolved from an underground club sound into a globally recognized genre, well, Adam Freeland is one of the important people in that story, even though, like I suggested, he's not the most mentioned.

So We Want Your Soul is one of the defining electronic tracks of the early 2000s.

because it balanced infectious grooves with social commentary in a way that few producers attempted.

And I suppose you could say that The Prodigy did similar things, too.

You know...