One more interview from Liam Howlett , this time on SPIN Magazine talking about the new album, hiphop, Skrillex, Death Grips.. Interesting as always to read an interview like this.
Some of the highlights:
“….We just want to write albums when it’s time to react to something, you know what I mean? We’re not a “pushed by a record company” band. It’s kind of like, I’m guessing a major record label wouldn’t want me because I’m no good to them. I can’t be, I’m not a “writing an album on the go” kind of guy. It’s got to mean something, this record is a reaction to what’s going on, musically, around us. If you work straight through it just for the Prodigy fans and nothing else, you don’t really know what it is.”
“Yeah, man, yeah. It’s always in the back of my mind. I’m probably thinking about it all the time. As a side project or something, but with the Prodigy in full swing, there’s no time. It’s something that’s part of my culture, it’s what I grew up on. I’m always thinking, yeah, it might be time to do that.”
” I always like Death Grips. He’s exciting, and I also like more of the straight hip-hop guys, I like more of the alternative hip-hop, though. I’m a big lover of the golden age of hip-hop, Public Enemy in the late 80s, that kind of sound. That sound is one of the coolest sounds that formed the Prodigy. I’m kind of a snob when it comes to hip hop, I’m quite happy to say the last great hip hop band was the Wu-Tang, nothing after that. I love Public Enemy, I love the Wu-Tang.”
Read full interview here: http://www.spin.com/2015/04/the-prodigy-interview-new-album/