Slick Chick is a 27 year-old disco-freak from Rotterdam. She started playing records about seven years ago. At the time she and her friends were throwing nonprofit parties in dirty warehouses throughout the Netherlands and beyond.
Wanneer Redevice een pionier en levende legende op het gebied van sonische experimenten uitnodigt om te komen optreden binnen de ideale setting van Studio 80 met z’n moddervette sound system, dan weet je zeker dat het voorgeschotelde geluid je niet alleen zal verrijken...
Terwijl de Sint z’n zak met pepernoten leegschudt en onze grote Kerstvriend de arrenslee weer voorrijdt, dropt Arctic Boogie vrijdag 12 december feestelijke acid en oldskool in club Innocent in Hengelo.
Loveland organiseert dit jaar het grootste Oud & Nieuw spektakel van Amsterdam. De organisatie viert de jaarwisseling in Amstelborgh onder de naam ‘Loveland NewYear’.
How The Prodigy was reclaimed from the MTV masses, media misconceptions, style wars, star systems, haircut hullabaloo, celebrity trivia, global success, International pressure, forced expectations, erupting egos, punk rock formula, claustrophobic studios and the watchful guidance of ‘those in the know’.
The Prodigy is about the beats. Always has been. From the day that Liam Howlett put together his first demo, and the subsequent 'What Evil Lurks EP', it was about the beats. His debut album 'Experience' was driven by beats, as was the follow up 'Music for the Jilted Generation'.
The Prodigy is also about punk. Electronic punk that is. A sound that The Prodigy defined with 'Poison' in 1995, refined with 'Firestarter' (the last truly great #1 single of the twentieth century) a year later and conquered the planet with on their record breaking 'The Fat of the Land' album.
By the time The Prodigy released the 'Baby's Got A Temper' single in July 2002 however, the electronic punk genre they had invented looked set to turn them into a parody of themselves. Electronic punk had become a creative straightjacket intent on stifling all forms of progression. Clearly something had to give.
'Baby's Got a Temper' may yet come to be regarded as the most important single of The Prodigy’s career though. It was a wake up call for Liam to rediscover the heartbeat that had always pulsed at the core of The Prodigy, the lifeblood that was always far more important than the rest of the bullshit; those beats.
If 'Poison' delivered the electronic punk genre and 'Firestarter' defined it as a global presence, then 'Baby's Got a Temper' killed it once and for all. And with what had become The Prodigy formula destroyed, Liam was once again able to explore.
"I wanted to make the most honest an album that totally represented what I was about." He says "I'm still drawing on the same inspirations as when I was kid, Public Enemy and The Sex Pistols . It had to be about the music. And I knew I had to get back to doing stuff for myself. I had to ask myself again what the fuck I was about. And 'Baby's Got a Temper' wasn't it."
So Liam scrapped a year's worth of new tracks ("I had about four ideas that were any good."), locked the doors on the stale atmosphere of his studio and started writing on his laptop.
The beauty of this approach was that, just like a guitarist, he could write anywhere.
"I’d find a place I'd be happy in, usually in my bedroom, usually at about midnight, usually with a couple of glasses of wine, James Bond on the DVD… you know what I mean. I was writing for the fun of writing again."
And it shows. The freedom from punky preconceptions and the mobile approach to writing has injected a new spontaneity into The Prodigy sound. Just one listen through 'Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned' and the freshness hits you. Liam has rediscovered his beats and in return delivered a set that’s dirty, sleazy, funky and ironically, far more punk than anything he’d previously recorded.
Contrary to the rumourmill, all three original band members are still together and will be taking this album live. Keith and Maxim will be back in the frame for the live shows - as they were in the beginning.
Just put their Lowlands set in the sets section, sounds really cool with the audience and all... but I don't hear much improvisation to be honest. They might as well could've played the CD and let Keith and Maxim shout over it...
Saw them the firts time in '96 and they where the shit, after that they didn't do anything new in my opinion! but thats the same for bands like the chemical bro's and Underworld!
jouw huisbelg! * ENGLISH PLEASE* your home belgian guy!
How The Prodigy was reclaimed from the MTV masses, media misconceptions, style wars, star systems, haircut hullabaloo, celebrity trivia, global success, International pressure, forced expectations, erupting egos, punk rock formula, claustrophobic studios and the watchful guidance of ‘those in the know’.
