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~~mjolnir~~ · 09-10-2024, 04:55 PM

I hate to say it, but both The Prodigy and PWEI (Pop Will Eat Itself) seem to have devolved into punk rock instead of electronic sampler breakbeat dance and rap.

I still like their old classics, but PWEI tanked really early so I only like Cure For Sanity and I don't particularly like their early work either. But it's wierd because Cure For Sanity is one of my all time favorite albums. They never matched it before or after. Their more recent rockish stuff sounds like a bunch of drunken frat boys who lost all self awareness.

With the Prodigy, they use too much distortion and are trying to sound like punk rock or something, but I'd much rather have The Prodigy Experience and all the fixins (remixes).

They used to wield wonderful synths and drum machine syncopated programming like nobody else. Their use of sampling was also astoundingly good. Like PWEI, the Prodigy sound was my all time favorite and my friends seemed to envy my remix collection of Prodigy music which they had never heard of since they knew more RnB and HipHop than Rave. But I was into the Rave and Dance and Industrial courtesy of my college buddies.

I used to be glued to their output, and to be fair Invaders Must Die was still pretty good, but I wish they'd put away the overdrive and fuzz and "i'll break your neck"-attitudes and move on.

Peace be with y'all.

I still love "Out of Space" and "1000x No!"

Everybody that's in the place, let's go let's go let's go let's BASS!!

09-10-2024, 04:55 PM	#235 (permalink)
~~mjolnir~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Sep 2024 Posts: 17	good topic I hate to say it, but both The Prodigy and PWEI (Pop Will Eat Itself) seem to have devolved into punk rock instead of electronic sampler breakbeat dance and rap. I still like their old classics, but PWEI tanked really early so I only like Cure For Sanity and I don't particularly like their early work either. But it's wierd because Cure For Sanity is one of my all time favorite albums. They never matched it before or after. Their more recent rockish stuff sounds like a bunch of drunken frat boys who lost all self awareness. With the Prodigy, they use too much distortion and are trying to sound like punk rock or something, but I'd much rather have The Prodigy Experience and all the fixins (remixes). They used to wield wonderful synths and drum machine syncopated programming like nobody else. Their use of sampling was also astoundingly good. Like PWEI, the Prodigy sound was my all time favorite and my friends seemed to envy my remix collection of Prodigy music which they had never heard of since they knew more RnB and HipHop than Rave. But I was into the Rave and Dance and Industrial courtesy of my college buddies. I used to be glued to their output, and to be fair Invaders Must Die was still pretty good, but I wish they'd put away the overdrive and fuzz and "i'll break your neck"-attitudes and move on. Peace be with y'all. I still love "Out of Space" and "1000x No!" Everybody that's in the place, let's go let's go let's go let's BASS!! Last edited by mjolnir; 09-10-2024 at 05:04 PM.