Smack my DJ up! Techno 'treasures' Prodigy get nasty

They're the Black Sabbath of techno, the darker side. That's enough to explain how influential they are.

Do yourselves a favour and have a listen to their first album Experience (or Experience: Expanded, if you can find it!). Truly a masterpiece of an album!

“The Prodigy—what we did for electronic music—is as important culturally as Blur and Oasis,” Liam Howlett, the band’s composer and main writer, told AFP in an interview in Tokyo.

I'm not a fan of Prodigy at all. Or Oasis. But it definitely sounds like both band's Liams have the same undeserved attitude.

Typical rock music narrative. Sticking it to the man when they very much are the man.

I've been into the rave scene since the early 90s but never really into these guys. They did put on a good live show and some of their early stuff was just about OK but they very quickly became the equivalent David Guetta (from a commercial perspective) of the 90s rave scene so, as Paustovsky points out, they aren't really in a position to biatch about guys like him. They were not very popular with the people who were out raving every friday and saturday night, more with the town centre commercial clubbing crowd.

@Spanki: agree with you. But their importance is not that they were played in clubs at the time, or not. Their tracks have not the 4/4 rhythm that is mandatory in clubs (the thump-thump-thump that goes on and on the whole track). It is their concept of electronic music that makes then a benchmark in the scene. They're on the same respected league that has Orbital, The Orb. The Prodigy and said British techno/trance/ambient artists have set the grounds for the huge scene we see today.

Good on yer Spanki. I remember them doing PA's at raves and they were a bit of a novelty act. Their first 'hit' sampled a childrens health information cartoon.

Instead of dying out with all the other cheese they just adapted to the mid-nineties rock revival and worked the festival circuit. They just happen to be confusing big-selling with influential or credible.