Liam Howlett on a new interview talking this time about Electronic Music festivals over US, the new album ‘The Day Is My Enemy’ and the story behind ‘Wall of Death‘ alongside forthcoming plans of the band and few more bits. This interview was published yesterday on Rolling Stone, reviewed by Christopher R. Weingaten.
Some highlights:
“It’s always a reaction to what’s going on when I write music. We’d written five tracks in 2012, and that kind of got shelved. It just didn’t feel right. But yeah, I don’t like . . . the whole EDM and electronic music scene is very commercial. It’s pop music, and to me, there has to be a band that can represent the harder edge end of electronic music, and that’s always been our job. And basically a lot of it’s live-driven. This record wasn’t written with radio in mind, it’s purely written to sit on stage.”
“….I started listening to a lot of drum ‘n’ bass again, because drum ‘n’ bass, to me, it’s always been underground. It’s always been there. If you think it’s like the one style of underground dance music that’s not disappeared. Dubstep had its moment. Drum ‘n’ bass — it was obviously big in the Nineties, then it kind of died off, but it’s always stayed really solid.”
“I’ve had a rest and I’m about to start writing again. Basically I don’t feel like I want to do any more albums because they just take too long. It takes too long to get the music out to fans, it takes too long for us. We want to do something that can turn around quicker. So what we’ve decided to do is to do EPs from now on. And I think the whole music industry and such, if you want to call it that, is changing. We’re excited about doing a four-track EP next, getting that out, and while that’s out, we have the next one prepared. It seems much more of a better way to get music information to our fans. It’s just a quicker turn around and I think that would be, for us, as a band, much better.”
You can read full interview here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-prodigy-fight-lazy-monotonous-edm-20150914?page=2