Liam Howlett

Yesterday we brought to you “Liam Howlett Guest Mix on Edge Club 94” and today we got another great mix by Liam back in 1993. Live at Capital Radio.

The track list is as follows:

01. Looney Tunes – Just As Long As I Got You
02. Liquid – Sweet Harmony
03. Flowmasters – Let It Take Control
04. The Prodigy – Android
05. Jonny L – The Anasaphone

Enjoy!

Big thanks to Kolano for sending this in via Fanboy Contact.

Liam Howlett

If you are following us on SoundCloud, you would have noticed we uploaded our first content today, Liam Howlett Guest Mix on Edge Club 94.

At the start Liam is interviewed by DJ Jeff K. They discuss the upcoming single Wind It Up and that a new track We Are The Ruffest will be on it and so on. Then Liam goes into mixing.

I’ve included the Interview/Mix and set list in the post, enjoy!

Big thanks to Kolano for sending this in via Fanboy Contact.

Here is the tracklist:

00:00-01:25 – Interview with DJ Jeff K
01:25-04:28 – Beltram & Program 2 – The Omen
04:28-07:46 – Kaotic Chemistry – Space Cakes
includes parts of 2 Bad Mice – Drum Trip II
07:46-11:17 – Underground Resistance – Fuck the Majors
11:17-13:47 – New Class A (aka Plastic Jam) – Feel The Plastic
13:47-15:48 – Clepto-Maniacs – Positive Feedback(Genaside II Remix)
15:48-19:20 – Egyptian Empire – The Horn Track
19:20-21:08 – Acen – Trip II The Moon
21:08-24:25 – The Prodigy – Everybody in the Place (155 and Rising)
24:25-27:15 – N.R.G. – I Need Your Lovin
27:15-29:34 – Directional Force – Parameter

Liam Howlett

Hello Fanboys, we’ve got a pretty neat update today.

Came across this great mix by Liam on Sunset 102 FM Radio from 1991!

I tried to find some more information behind this, however didn’t find anything. If you know anything, please let us know in the comments. However found out that Sunset 102 FM was a Manchester dance station. Seems like it was a station the lasted from 1989 to 1993.. read more about the station here.

The mix by Liam is awesome, enjoy guys!

Credit goes out to TheProdigy.RU Twitter.

Greatest Dance Act of All Time

So proud of the boys to receive this. They truly deserved it, nobody will ever come close to The Prodigy. We all always knew they were the best. Now it’s official by MIXMAG’s poll, voted by the people! Good to see them get the recognition!

The results are in! From September to December last year, you voted in your tens of thousands to decide who was the greatest dance act of all time.

The poll was embraced by fans from Birmingham to Buenos Aires – acts campaigned fiercely, heated debate ensued and all of our expectations were exceeded by your response to the poll.

And now the wait is over. Below is a list of your top twenty greatest dance acts of all time, including the all important winner.

In a closely run battle, we can now reveal that The Prodigy have emerged victorious, pipping robotic legends, Daft Punk, into second place by a very tight margin.

Keith Flint of The Prodigy commented: “To walk off a stage and feel like we smashed it – that’s the reward for us, to see the crowd react and know we’ve done what we’ve come to do. But something like this is truly voted for by the people – and essentially we are nothing without them, so it feels awesome and really respectful.”

All at Mixmag offer congratulations to The Prodigy, an act who have managed to stay as exciting as ever, over two decades on from their first gig.

The full results are published in the latest issue of Mixmag, on sale today (Thursday January 19) with comment from all the acts in the top 20. You can grab an iPad/iPhone version here.

We are sure you will have plenty say on the results of the poll, so get busy in the comment boxes below.

Scroll down to see Mixmag’s top 20 greatest dance acts of all time in full:

1. The Prodigy
2. Daft Punk
3. The Chemical Brothers
4. Faithless
5. Deadmau5
6. Plastikman
7. Underworld
8. Fatboy Slim
9. Orbital
10. Moby
11. Leftfield
12. Kraftwerk
13. Pendulum
14. Depeche Mode
15. Justice
16. Basement Jaxx
17. Groove Armada
18. The Shamen
19. Above & Beyond
20. The KLF

Source: http://www.mixmag.net/words/news/mixmags-greatest-dance-act-revealed

Skrillex

UPDATE: I can now confirm, that Skrillex is a special guest for Warriors Dance Festival. It was confirmed by The Prodigy via their newsletter.

Now don’t take our word for it. Also this is not confirmed by The Prodigy.

However, over at metalserbia.com. The current lineup for the 3rd Warriors Dance Festival is as follows:

The Prodigy, Skrillex, Jet, rhythm Nereda, Eyesburn, Lollobrigida, Petrol, Dreddup & Hype.

I personally have never heard about the other groups. Also, I think Skrillex is a highly possible act for Warriors Dance Festival.

Credit goes out to “Warrior’s Dance Festival Serbia” for the heads-up via Fanboy Facebook.

The Prodigy Experience

Hello fello Fanboys, got a great article written up by Chris Swindells from Virtual Festivals website.

Great read about Experience and so on. Thanks to Michael Botzaropoulos for the heads-up via Fanboy Contact.

The rave scene was a rabid epidemic, running unabated and wild in the summer of 1991. This free party outbreak spread with a ferocity of typhoid fever, stretching from satellite sites around the capital, infecting crowds of 50,000 or more in one night.
Back then The Prodigy were a innocent, fresh-faced four-piece, their foray into the crossover ‘rave n rock’ sound – inspired by what key man Liam Howlett saw as the Rage Against The Machine live model – were still not visible on the horizon.

Whether Howlett’s vision or the rave came first, his debut album with The Prodigy would set the fundamental building blocks for the band’s sound: breakbeat hardcore, with slabs of techno, dub-reggae and the then emerging sound of drum and bass, which became the blueprint for more than two decades of musical reverence and electric, ear-splitting live shows.

Even if a few criticised the band, labelling them ‘rave-lite’ in style, and tastemakers like Mixmag went so far as to level the scene’s demise at the door of the Essex outfit, the fact they are the only rave band to survive that era in electronic music comes at great testament to their continued relevance.

From the opening hyperbolic energy of ‘Jericho’, the tone and style of breakbeat rhythm was hard and anthemic on ‘Experience’. The samples came thick and fast, Lulu taking her turn on ‘Music Reach 1/2/3/4’ and pieces of N.W.A., James Brown and even Michael Fish interspersed in the mix that follows. Most notably Arthur Brown’s flailing proclamation, “I’m the god of hellfire, and I bring you fire!” was a raucous marker in the latter half of the album and surely a flaming forerunner to chart topping hit ‘Firestarter’. Listening back now it makes, like almost every Prodigy album, a unique, nostalgic window to that era in our musical heritage.

Howlett took centre stage on the record, his trademark bridges and big-beat breakdowns were altogether more polished than their rave band counterparts Altern 8 and N-Joi. The Prodigy had three top five hits in 1992, marking an arrival in charts that no one other rave act could come close to measuring up to.

Whether The Prodigy spread an infantilism that would ultimately be to blame for ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ making it to UK number one is irrelevant, and a cynical critque. With their follow up ‘Music For The Jilted Generation’ they would further reference and pay homage the scene further, waxing lyrical with a middle finger retort to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act in the form of ‘Their Law’. The legislation declared the gathering of people to listen to a ‘succession of repetitive beats’ illegal and would nail the raving coffin shut.

Rave aficionado and fellow critic Simon Reynolds once said their early start was “all teenage rampage and sublimely vacant insurgency”, but his predication that rave-rock would be the new punk-rock turned good. The Prodigy’s gift for galvanising rave crowds would, inevitably, spill over into legal festival crowds. From fields of 50,000 ravers in Essex, to leas of 50,000 at V Festival, Essex, the band have never been more comfortable than when rolling with the excesses and dealing the hard opiate of the masses.

When The Prodigy arrive at Donington and Download Festival 2012 this June for their only UK festival show of the year, their timing could never be more potent. After 2009’s ‘Invaders Must Die’ set them back on the high critical and commercial road, this will be show with two decades of celebrated history and, more importantly, a big bright, burning future. Something their fellow headliners Black Sabbath and Metallica are still dreaming the sandman will deliver them.

The Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One

So, most of you know about ‘The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One’ mix by Liam right?

Well, that was a result of a 1998 guest DJ appearance by Liam on Mary Anne Hobbs Breezeblock show on Radio 1.

However, the Radio 1 edit & the Dirtchamber edit are different. A few tunes did not make the cut due to permission to use. You can read more about that here.

We’ve got a link where you can listen to the original Radio 1 edit. It also includes a little interview at the beginning.

Enjoy.

Thanks to Twitter user @execaballero for the heads-up.

Zane Lowe

Liam & Keith did an interview with Zane Lowe from Radio 1, discussing plans for 2012.

Topics covered: Download Festival & new tracks being played. The location & date of Warriors Dance Festival which we reported earlier. New record to be out between Warriors Dance Festival & end of the year. This is a relief, no dubstep! Also, album title and so on.

It’s a great quick interview guys, listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG9alM9Mng8

Credit goes out to luKas for the recording.

Good times!

The Prodigy Warriors Dance Festival Logo

Information about the 3rd Warriors Dance Festival has been leaked a little early. Just before Liam & Keith sit down with Zane Lowe later today.

According to skiddle.com:

The Prodigy are proud to present the next instalment of their ‘Warrior’s Dance Festival’ at Kalemegdan Fortess in Belgrade on September 15th 2012.

Following the success of the inaugural event at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo in 2009 to the dizzy heights and rave reviews of last year’s second extravaganza at Milton Keynes Bowl, UK, the foundations have firmly been set to take the experience to Eastern Europe and to raise the bar once more for the Serbian people. Warrior’s Dance Festival, Serbia has been curated by The Prodigy and will feature an eclectic and innovative bill based around a music policy favouring heavy beats and guitars. The festival promises to provide a spectrum of entertainment and performances across three stages featuring international guests to be announced.

Credit: Evans for the heads-up & for the link on Brainkiller.

3rd Milton Keynes Festival

If you head over to the Warriors Dance Festival website. You will find a graphic showing 3 boxes.

The first box has the Japanese flag, the 2nd has the English flag. The 3rd, is empty!

So this looks like a teaser, that there will be a 3rd Warriors Dance Festival.

Who will be the lucky country? I’m hoping for Australia!

Credit goes out to Harbinger from Brainkiller.