G’day my fellow Prodigy Fanboy Warriors! Here is the full article from Clash Music which was teased earlier this month. It’s an awesome read and hope you all enjoy as much as I did:
20th anniversary Spotlight special…
Fuck them, and their law, indeed. What was then could be no more. Stasis meant death, and after riding rave into the mainstream, going top-five with debut 1991 single ‘Charly’, The Prodigy knew it. Change was needed. Quickly. Time to tear up the rulebooks.
“We were in America, supporting (debut album of 1992) ‘Experience’, and we found ourselves at a bit of a crossroads,” remembers the band’s key creative core, songwriter Liam Howlett. “It was a really important time for us. To be honest, I’d reached the point where I wasn’t feeling rave anymore. We thought about whether or not to break the band up – we wondered if ‘Experience’ was all that we could do.
“I remember hearing Rage Against The Machine while in America, and feeling that, suddenly, music was opening up that little bit wider for me. It came down to me to push the music, once we’d got home. As soon as we did get back, I think the first thing I wrote was ‘Voodoo People’, or ‘Their Law’.
“I was feeling free – free of the rave BPMs, and feeling slightly rebellious against it. Rave had turned into something that we didn’t like. I remember standing on stage in Scotland, at a rave, and it just felt silly. I was like: ‘What the f*ck am I doing here? I’m not into this. It’s now so far from what it was.’ That made me want to do something different.”
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