Late 80s early 90s and the illegal raves around the M25 motorway in London😁 I'm 52 now and the whole acid house scene brought nothing but love to 20,000 strangers dancing together in a field ❤🇬🇧
Bro, takes me back!! Early 90s around the south east for me as a born and bred Hampshire hog was the nuts! Pills shrooms whatever we could get would go down the neck in an instant, I still sit and wonder how we did it and why kids don't today? Not that I would condone my children doing what we did, as yes they go raving as they call it but I sit and chuckle to myself as these youngsters today don't understand the word, culture or lifestyle of a real raver. Covered in shit at early hours off my tits back then is a far cry from them now. My daughter spends a good £50 just on an outfit to go "raving" in Leeds, and wouldn't dare think of getting messy, the youth of today ay pal One love brother and may the rave continue in my head and the distant thoughts and good times memories live on forever until I die x❤
@@telmack7838as someone in my mid twenties, I believe there’s a few factors. Social media and phones is obviously a massive one. If someone is off their face everyone will be quick to record and post on TikTok, so people don’t like to get messy. Money and cost of living as well. With the stagnation of wages in the uk job market, many people are stuck working for minimum wage or in a skilled profession for a little over minimum wage. With the current COL many people cannot afford move out and go out every weekend as they often have second jobs just to keep themselves afloat. I think big commercial raves like WHP Manchester are successful because people travel from all over the country and go as an occasional treat, rather than going out locally every weekend
The sample is from a song by Max Romeo called Chase The Devil. Max was screwed by his record company and even after having number 1 records in Jamaica was homeless and destitute. Nearly 20yrs later Liam comes across the track and his story and after the success of their second album the Prodigy bought Max Romeo a beautiful new home. Check the interview footage, Max Romeo is a VERY big fan of The Prodigy 😁
you have a link on this claim? as far as I have read that Max tried suing the prodigy for unpaid royalities (UGM and PolyGram) for $12.4m-$15m. Now that doesn't sound like a bloke who got bought a house.
@@anandmorrishe also had a turbocharged honda fireblade, that was so powerful it fecked the rolling road/Dyno. A true petrol head and a proper gentleman also
the 90s rave scene was monumental, with things like helter skeleter been the big one. it was all about love, music, dancing and a few things to help you along the 12 hr marathon :)
@ what started in the states? But my point was it was another level in the UK. We really took hold of it and pushed it like we did all music. The biggest bands in the world are from the UK we have a way on improving and evolving music and this was the same for dance.
Repect due, but that wasn't rave. The illegal free parties / warehouse rave scene in the 90's were something else. You're talking about the club scene. That's coming from a techno head, too.
You should check out the group -The Shamen - Ebeneezer goode.. it was released the same year as this in 1992, they are another British group, all about the 90s lol.
E’s were sooo good in the 90’s whatever music scene you were into they brought love and peace to all in clubs, raves, parties and gigs. The Prodigy made amazing music to push the love. ❤️. There aren’t many adults from the 90’s that didn’t do drugs but got through it and we are still here. (Although all with mortgages, kids, pets and coke habits😂).
@@luton0121 absolutely incorrect, Lennie De Ice made "we are IE" in 1989 which is the origin of Jungle and drum and bass, which by simple mathematics shows was before 90,91,92
Yeah Prodigy were Breakbeat Rave - never sped up to DnB levels, but did have a place in Hardcore Rave. XL, Metalheadz, LTJ Bukem, Speed club, Shut Up and Dance were the roots of DnB.
We are I.E. was released in 1991, and is hardcore breaks. Lost by The Gonzo, Radio Babylon by Meat Beat Manifesto, Chile of the Bass Generation by Q... all breakbeat rave tracks released in 1990. Bleeps and Breaks existed in 1989 (e.g. Funky Zulu by Moody Boys, Evolution by Candy Flip) but not hardcore breaks. Proto-hardcore existed in 1988 (e.g. Monkey Say Monkey Do by Westbam) which led to Belgian Hardcore, which led to UK hardcore, which led to jungle, which led to drum and bass.
That record will be on the wall for sure... This was *THE* album. Full stop. We survived the drugs man. It hits so hard. Chewing the inside of your face and loving every minute of it. The UK in the late 90's/early 2000's was absolutely incredible. Still here, raising a family. This takes me to another dimension....
As a 40ish yr old typical Brit, we survived the early 90s tripping off our tits EVERY week, rave, dance culture was the UK until the later 90s I discovered Tupac and my life and love of music changed forever ❤ Now 2025 2 children 2 dogs mortgage payments and I'm still here. We the British pill popping generation are a marvel and miracle to be alive, and rip to those lost along the way 🙏🏻. To all my fellow 90s raving Brits I salute you and wish you all the best in 2025 🍻 And here's to you guys B&B 🍻🍻much love and mat you have the best year ever 🍻🍻🍻 Love from the UK ❤
Why... Do I still have Miii....ckeyyyyy....fiiiiiiinnnnn the king, the king of the beats, playing on repeat most days in my head, oh that's right coz I fried all but a few brain cells in the 90s and the needle keeps jumping 😂 Fuck me, if we could go back if do it in a heartbeat, fun story I was around 14 and an older friend around 20 just shot up 💉 (I wasn't a hard gear fan) I must say, we decided we'd had enough so walked what felt like 1000 mikes from tadley to Basingstoke, got back to his flat and had some serious cravings for a quick snack. He took out his air rifle shot a pigeon, brang it in, oven on 150 (yh now I know that's weren't hot enough to cook it) chucked it in for 10mins until the feather's had fried. Plated it up and sat down ready for a quick snack wtf was was we thing? Yh we wasn't I was tripping off some shrooms I'd picked early that day and my mate was on brown n white all night long, so, as he started tucking into this uncooked bird I could see guts and internal organs pissing out of it 🤢 at that moment I was sober in an instant, stood up and left, I never see the guy again but heard he had passed away around 2015 of an overdose, not food poisoning 🤦🏻♂️ RIP Ben you guided me through my raving days and into the 2000s always remember you bro 🙏🏻 and that's just one of a thousand messed up stories 😮
Music was simply sensational in the 90s. From US hip hop & grunge to UK drum n bass, rave & indie. Everything was on the table, no boundaries to expressing your creativity. Trying not to sound old but sh*t man, we got down.
I grew up on Prodigy, since 12 yo, on Thursdays we all from school attended discotheques in youth centre that was organised for school students, if you older than 16yo, you couldn't get in. No drugs, no booze, not even cigarettes, pure fun dancing and picking up girls. Lets say just because of that, I'm 40, but I still can start a riot on a dance floor
'E-ser good, E's are good hes 'Ebeneezer goode'.. lol (i think you can tell what that's all about)😅 react to that track too by The Shamen from the same era, it went to number 1 in the UK during a drug awareness week too. 😂
Keith was dressed up in a boiler suit and mask (with vicks vapour rub attached) to rip on another group at the time called Altern-8 who dressed like that. Guess which group stood the test of time and innovation.
@@LovecraftComedy 100% spot on with your comment, Prodigy sold out. Started trying to be Pendulum and no one needs to sound like them, they're terrible.
@@tomfumOther way around, Pendulum tried to be the Prodigy. The Prodigy were headlining Rock and Metal festivals long before Pendulum became a big deal
@@amancalledjim5382 LTJ Bukem made demons theme in 91, tell me that aint drum and bass, A couple of easy examples for you- on the very same LP as out of space the prodigy had "ruff in the jungle business" why was it named that Jim ? A guy called Gerald released "king of the Jungle" in January 92, why was it called that Jim ? because the style was being called Jungle techno from at least 1990
The first batches of Ecstay that hit the early 90s killed the uks hooligan problems just like a click of a finger youd see derby hugging leicester, forest chatting to brums....brilliant t'was next level
The Prodigy were out before Drum and Bass / Jungle - originally called breakbeat style of Rave. Their beats never really sped up to the speed of DnB or Jungle that was spawned from Shut Up and Dance label & Metalheads, XL etc
"Breakbeat" Hardcore (which is what this is, but was usually just called Hardcore or Rave) started around 1990, and developed by fusing Acid House with Belgian New Beat and Techno, breaks from Hip-Hop and Funk, strings and piano lines from Classical music, and the synths from Ambient, Berlin School, New Age etc. You should check out the first two Prodigy albums - Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation. Also Ratpacks "One Step Beyond" set from Fantazia in 1992 for examples. Jungle came around from the introduction of the Jamacian Reggae/Dub soundsystem into Hardcore around 1992-1993 - originally it was called "Jungle Techno" which over time just became "Jungle." Jungle got "purified" and stripped of a lot of it's Ragga influence over time and became what is now Drum and Bass (around 1995.)
I'm nearly 55, been on stage with prodigy twice back in the early 90s through the 4 aces labyrinth Hackney and at bagleys Kings Cross I don't know how I survived the drugs but my life is just a bore compared to my life from 88-94, them yrs are the only time I've been truly happy. drum and bass and jungle killed hard-core raving hence my walking away in 94. Can't beat the system, go go with the flow. 🇬🇧✌️
A monumentaly influential and awe inspiring tune from that amazing time for hardcore (and yes it was before anyone was talking about drum and bass!!!!)
2 recomendations. 1. The MULTI award winning video for 'The Warriors Dance' and ( the B-Side of the also great One Love single) called 'Rythmn Of Life' which has one of the Prodigies greatest ever sounds....the Break beat is amazing... and to listen to when you are driving...(or e-ing lol) is just unreal!
House Acid house hard house then techno happy hardcore , then groups like the Shamen and Prodigy bought the underground scene to the masses. Jungle came just after happy hardcore got big and drum &bass spawned from jungle . As I remember I could be wrong.
@@robetprice4759wrong as fuck dude breakbeat hardcore spawned jungle then DNB came from both of them .. look it up if you don’t believe me .. acid house was late 80s then early 90s breakbeat hardcore started which spawned jungle and then DNB came form both them sounds and on the flip break beat hardcore also spawned Hardcore and happy hardcore .. break beat hardcore was a mix of break beats and 4/4 and it split into the different sounds .. Goldie was the first to pitch down the sped up 2 step patterns with time stretching which gave DNB is sound
As a kid who grew up in the 80's and 90's in the UK, this hits hard! The Prodigy were famous for being unique. You couldn't put any of their music into a specific genre. It was just The Prodigy! A genre unto themselves. They were fricking lunatics with crazy bass. The Prodigy were peak 90's. There's never been anyone like them. Legends forever. Whenever a club would play a Prodigy track you had to brace yourself for violence!
Prodigy was one of my favourites in my teens. I listened to punk and electronics, industrial and then there was Prodigy. Friend of mine had two bass rolls in the back of the car. The bass in his car by listen to Prodigy was so heavy.
I remember being in an old skool room at a slammin vinyl event and champion sound started playing and Robbie Dee going "From back when pills were 20 pound 😂
Saw these guys in the early 90s when they played a club in Athens, Greece. Years later I had a gf who would race motorbikes on a track with Keith Flint. She said he was a top bloke! Rest in peace Keith 😢
My friends and i followed the Prodigy to most of the raves in north east England 91 and most of 92. The music back then was so experimental and boy did we dance. We also asked ourselves a few years back, how the heck did we get out alive😂 The prodigy Your Love was our favourite.
So good to hear a song that played such a memorable part in the soundtrack of my youth being enjoyed and respected 30 + years later, the late 80s early 90s rave scene was our Woodstock 69 and superb as the prodigy were and still are , they represented a small part in a massive movement that created the foundations for all that followed in dance music and in my opinion not bettered , for anyone not familiar with this period in uk music history I would recommend taking the time to explore and enjoy the huge number of bands and acts that I myself along with so many good friends had the pleasure to experience 1st hand and continue to relive our euphoric memories every time we hear these tunes 👌
This group was among a hand full that laid the foundations of UK dance music. Many artists since have these to thank for where we are today. RIP Keith Flint
Huge follower of The Prodigy since 1990. Their music revolutionised the dance/rave scene globally. There are one of the only collectives to evolve from the scene into a band and still perform around the world. They appeal to those who like rock music who were closet ravers. Their productions are insane and if you have not seen them live it's a band you've got to see before you die. Check out some of their live shows.
Breakbeat/hardcore (rave scene) - morphed into Jungle with heavy Jamaican influences. This then influenced the DnB scene coming out of London / Bristol with a more polished and sophisticated sound. The Prodigy have made music encompassing all of these genres over the years. Often originating new sounds.
Prodigy definitely have their own lane!! They combine elements of a lot of dance genres. What you will notice is the sound mature from this track to ‘fat of the land’ sound and after
Possibly my greatest achievement in life was getting stage with the Prodigy in Germany in the 90s diring their "Music for a jimted generation" tour and have a dance off with the lads. Proudest moment of my life haha. Such a great time
I’m pretty sure this stuff came before drum and bass. The Prodigy were part of the UK rave scene, and in my view they absolutely perfected it on their first album. They kept innovating and they genuinely don’t have a bad album. The Fat of the Land is exceptional. Drugs are genuinely not required, although I’m pretty sure there was a bit of that going on in the 90s. Fat Boy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby is a nice bit of work too.
The 90’s was a wild decade and one that will never be repeated. This is now classed as ‘Old Skool Hardcore’, but back in 1992 it was just called Hardcore. When the hardcore scene split In 93/94 it birthed Happy Hardcore, and Jungle which the evolved into Drum n Bass. The 1991/1992 Hardcore Rave rabbit hole is a whole other thing entirely and you will find some amazing but absolutely wild records if you do. The Profigy leaned to the more commercial side, but they never sold out and they stuck to their roots as they progressed through the 90’s
The XTC kept us alive, especially the 'Love Doves' 🤣😇 Anyway, it started with Acid House, then 'Rave', which turned into 'Happy Hardcore' and then Jungle, which turned into Drum & Base. By then we're looking at around the mid 90's.
Jungle and Happy hardcore coexisted at the same time. Jungle was more edgy and darker vibes, proper moody, whilst Happy Hardcore had a more uplifting vibe, and brought 4/4 kick patterns along with the breakbeats.
Great Prodigy videos. I'm 48. Survived the 90's. Prodigy have been my favourite group since I first heard the Experience Album back in the day. That Fat Of The Land album is probably my favourite. I loved Jilted Generation, but Fat of the Land is my favourite. Every track is a gem. In my opinion, everything Prodigy does is streets above most things. Watch a live Glastonbury performance by them. 1997 was a beast. I still haven't recovered from that weekend.
This was hardcore rave early 90s style that had breakbeats and 4 to the floor elements drum and bass came a bit later and split from hardcore then hardcore went alot harder and drum and bass / jungle went its own way with half step beats but 91 to 94 was a golden era for hardcore music when it had all elements fused into it prodigy were ahead of the game always and ate true pioneers of rave music
My grandfather bought me this album on CD when I was 10 years old ❤😂 Is a great memory of him singing 'Pay close attention' 😂❤ RIP Keith 🪦 There was a genre mix of breaks and hardcore right at the beginning, hardcore jungle or something.
Great channel boys - to clarify, Prodigy initially were hardcore c. '91 - '93' (130/140 bpm), which came well before drum & bass c. 96 - 98 proper D&B - but still ongoing (160/180 bpm).
DnB was around way before Brown Paper Bag too. Nasty habits - Shadow boxing, Deep Blue - Helicopter, Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows, LTJ Bukem - Horizons, Roni Size - It’s A Jazz Thing…
This came out before Drum and Bass. Jungle was around, but the hardcore style which Oyt of Space and all of the first LP (The Prodigy Experience) had. Believe this came out in 1991. Gilted Generation was out 93/94 and Fat of the Land was out in 97, if my memory serves me correctly (i bought the first Prodigy LP in 91 as a very young teen)
in the 90's I was going to clubs in Chicago and listening to Acid House. Prodigy's sound, and pretty much all of the electronic music in that era was created using the Roland TB 303.
The scene in the uk evolved rapidity. We went from hardcore which i class this as to jungle dnb quickly. Prodigy were more crossover to the mainstream friendly. There were so many better examples of hardcore,dnb check out dance conspiracys dub wars or some justice by urban shakedown. And for dnb try dj crystals meditation. Those tunes will give u a real essence of the scene back then. Bedroom pioneers shaping music for real
I seen the Prodigy before they really were THE Prodigy....Used to get map co-ordinates for raves when I lived in London from 1987-1990... You would stand by a phone box and get map co-ordinates for the Rave... you would then work out a route and pay someone to trail you and stop half way up a single lane road because the Police constantly followed us...they would block the police cars (unmarked hahahahaha). I seen the Prodigy a few times this way...best was a broken into Warehouse around Chelsea Reach at Battersea Bridge.
We survived the drugs bc we quit while we were ahead I feel😅 As a 43y old looking back, there's no way I could be still pulling the same stuff I did back then 😅 My list of drugs is as long as the night was
Saw The Prodigy in Manchester UK just before Christmas and even though lots of their songs are from decades ago the live show is just as good as its ever been. You should definitely get to one if you can, people of all ages just having a good time
My very first rave, in the 90s, my friend got sick pretty early on in the night, not drug related ;) so i took her home. After dropping her off, i came to an intersection and it was either turn right and go home, or turn left and go back to the dance party. As i was deciding this tune came on the radio in my car, i chose left and the rest is history. Ive always credited this track for getting me into dance music because of that moment. Hahaha
Music For The Jilted Generation and Fat Of The Land both still sound so fresh 30 years on, this is the sound of the working class's in the mid 90s #RIPKeithFlint
Worth noting they also released one of the greatest FU albums with Invaders Must Die in the late 2000's, saw other groups such as Pendulem releasing straight up 90s Prodigy style tracks and literally went harder/faster and more angry just to blow them out the water and remind them who were the daddys!!!!!
I agree with others here. Late 80's and early 90's was really the pinnacle of madness and illegal raves and it was great. After that it sub divided more and more into many different styles and much more organised raves. Don't get me wrong. I loved the mid 90's acid techno and pretty much everything else going, but it never repeated the heady earlier days for pure adrenalin and excitement ❤🎉
6:15 Liam howlett came from the bboy scene, not the acid house scene. That's why the prodigy is all sampled hip hop, reggae, dub and Northern soul. That's why it sounds different
The prodigy were doing it before raves compartmentalised into specific genres, it was just rave music and the prodigy did stuff that with later eyes was lots of different sub classes of EDM
The ostrich thing is a reference to a time when Kieth was driving home on a motorway one night and was a little under the influence, shall we say, and he saw an ostrich running in the lane next to him, matching his speed. 😂
Apparently, the boys were out in their car (probably tripping balls). When a group of ostriches, which had escaped (probably emus) and ran out in front of the car. And that's why they have the ostriches in the video. It'd be interesting if anyone here could confirm it.
Im so sorry you missed it. The 90s was a great decade for music,and i mean all genres. I feel extremely lucky to been a part of this music scene from the early 90s until now at 54 years old. Glad to see you 2 enjoying this.
The guys in the masks, which you'll see in other rave era videos. They smeared the inside of them with Vicks Vapo-rub. It's an across the counter pharmacy menthol medication for a blocked nose, there's even a kids version. Combined with E though it ran pleasurable rushes through the user's body. It was a crazy time, I went to a Universe rave around the time this record came out. The drug guys would call out what they had for sale outside the gate like a market trader. It was so open.
You boys are proper ravers. Check out stay up forever, hydraulix, the liberators, d.a.v.e the drummer, shamen, sicknote, vandal, check the Bristol rave scene you will NOT be disappointed ☺️
Late 80s early 90s and the illegal raves around the M25 motorway in London😁 I'm 52 now and the whole acid house scene brought nothing but love to 20,000 strangers dancing together in a field ❤🇬🇧
Bro, takes me back!! Early 90s around the south east for me as a born and bred Hampshire hog was the nuts! Pills shrooms whatever we could get would go down the neck in an instant, I still sit and wonder how we did it and why kids don't today?
Not that I would condone my children doing what we did, as yes they go raving as they call it but I sit and chuckle to myself as these youngsters today don't understand the word, culture or lifestyle of a real raver. Covered in shit at early hours off my tits back then is a far cry from them now. My daughter spends a good £50 just on an outfit to go "raving" in Leeds, and wouldn't dare think of getting messy, the youth of today ay pal
One love brother and may the rave continue in my head and the distant thoughts and good times memories live on forever until I die x❤
Magic times man, I miss it! Dunno if I could survive it these days tbf tho 🤣
especially with most of the normal clubs you were likely to get into a fight with some drunkard , raves were the future and i loved every minute.
Some good ones up north too. The illegal scene in the countryside surrounding Blackburn, Manchester and Sheffield had some pretty epic nights.
@@telmack7838as someone in my mid twenties, I believe there’s a few factors. Social media and phones is obviously a massive one. If someone is off their face everyone will be quick to record and post on TikTok, so people don’t like to get messy. Money and cost of living as well. With the stagnation of wages in the uk job market, many people are stuck working for minimum wage or in a skilled profession for a little over minimum wage. With the current COL many people cannot afford move out and go out every weekend as they often have second jobs just to keep themselves afloat. I think big commercial raves like WHP Manchester are successful because people travel from all over the country and go as an occasional treat, rather than going out locally every weekend
The 90's kids were the last free generation.
Hell yeh 🎉
Bish bash booooosh!
Definitely 80s and 90s kids were the last of the free generation. Glad I’m this generation. Rave scene was amazing!
Definitely were unfortunately it took me to a dar dark place i only got out of 4 years ago.
@@stephenlamley541 I know a few people that unfortunately over indulged which created huge issues later on in life. Hope you’re doing well now.
90s was so good🔥
The sample is from a song by Max Romeo called Chase The Devil. Max was screwed by his record company and even after having number 1 records in Jamaica was homeless and destitute. Nearly 20yrs later Liam comes across the track and his story and after the success of their second album the Prodigy bought Max Romeo a beautiful new home.
Check the interview footage, Max Romeo is a VERY big fan of The Prodigy 😁
That's so cool. Knew the sample. Did not know the story. Thanks.
you have a link on this claim? as far as I have read that Max tried suing the prodigy for unpaid royalities (UGM and PolyGram) for $12.4m-$15m. Now that doesn't sound like a bloke who got bought a house.
Lots of reggae artist where con back in the day.
Every days a school day, thankyou. I thought it was lifted from Lee Scratch Perry.
@@acb6621 I have that on vinyl 45. 😀
RIP Keith Flint ♥️
Gone but never ever forgotten. His fire still burns 🔥🔥😢
He was one special guy. His uniqueness lives on. ❤
Saw him live twice and the prodigy once since Keith's death. That last time was poignant and Keith was missed
The maddest thing about him was he bought an TVR Speed 12, the original 1993 version. Hardly any pictures remain of it. It was absolutely mental.
@@anandmorrishe also had a turbocharged honda fireblade, that was so powerful it fecked the rolling road/Dyno. A true petrol head and a proper gentleman also
the 90s rave scene was monumental, with things like helter skeleter been the big one. it was all about love, music, dancing and a few things to help you along the 12 hr marathon :)
We were so lucky🎉
Dance scene in the UK was another level compared to the states in the 90s
im english but lets not forget it started in the states
@ what started in the states?
But my point was it was another level in the UK. We really took hold of it and pushed it like we did all music. The biggest bands in the world are from the UK we have a way on improving and evolving music and this was the same for dance.
@@Entertainment-Gaming-Grandad Detroit techno, Chicago house
Repect due, but that wasn't rave. The illegal free parties / warehouse rave scene in the 90's were something else.
You're talking about the club scene. That's coming from a techno head, too.
@@Slack-The-Ripper yes but it started in the states
I'm so jealous you're going to hear the fat of the land for the first time. The greatest album ever made!
Agreed
They've already done some songs on the channel.
Gilted Generation was better for me
It needs to be heard in full, though, not a song at a time to appreciate the mixing between songs. Narayan into Firestarter is 💯🔥🔥
Music For A Gilted Generation
You should check out the group -The Shamen - Ebeneezer goode.. it was released the same year as this in 1992, they are another British group, all about the 90s lol.
Bang on, needs to be followed by Ebenezer Goode
Altern-8
@@afghanacid beat me to it. Love that album
also has to be noted though that they are singing E's are good
It was shite
R.I.P. Keith. I'll never forget being at your funeral. Your star's still shining on us!
@@JoshGraham-u1o legend rip 🪦
E’s were sooo good in the 90’s whatever music scene you were into they brought love and peace to all in clubs, raves, parties and gigs. The Prodigy made amazing music to push the love. ❤️. There aren’t many adults from the 90’s that didn’t do drugs but got through it and we are still here. (Although all with mortgages, kids, pets and coke habits😂).
So so true 😂
So so true, spot on 😂
nah old skool rave/hardcore 90,91,92 was the place that gave birth to jungle and drum and bass
Absolutely correct
@@luton0121 absolutely incorrect, Lennie De Ice made "we are IE" in 1989 which is the origin of Jungle and drum and bass, which by simple mathematics shows was before 90,91,92
@@codenamenel again another literal breakbeat hardcore track. its not drum n bass at all, you need to check your history/ears
Yeah Prodigy were Breakbeat Rave - never sped up to DnB levels, but did have a place in Hardcore Rave. XL, Metalheadz, LTJ Bukem, Speed club, Shut Up and Dance were the roots of DnB.
We are I.E. was released in 1991, and is hardcore breaks. Lost by The Gonzo, Radio Babylon by Meat Beat Manifesto, Chile of the Bass Generation by Q... all breakbeat rave tracks released in 1990. Bleeps and Breaks existed in 1989 (e.g. Funky Zulu by Moody Boys, Evolution by Candy Flip) but not hardcore breaks. Proto-hardcore existed in 1988 (e.g. Monkey Say Monkey Do by Westbam) which led to Belgian Hardcore, which led to UK hardcore, which led to jungle, which led to drum and bass.
That record will be on the wall for sure... This was *THE* album. Full stop. We survived the drugs man. It hits so hard. Chewing the inside of your face and loving every minute of it. The UK in the late 90's/early 2000's was absolutely incredible. Still here, raising a family. This takes me to another dimension....
As a 40ish yr old typical Brit, we survived the early 90s tripping off our tits EVERY week, rave, dance culture was the UK until the later 90s I discovered Tupac and my life and love of music changed forever ❤
Now 2025 2 children 2 dogs mortgage payments and I'm still here. We the British pill popping generation are a marvel and miracle to be alive, and rip to those lost along the way 🙏🏻. To all my fellow 90s raving Brits I salute you and wish you all the best in 2025 🍻
And here's to you guys B&B 🍻🍻much love and mat you have the best year ever 🍻🍻🍻
Love from the UK ❤
I would love to hear the stories that noodle around in your brain when you’re in the shower or before you go to sleep 😂
Greatest years to rave 95 to 99, LSD, proper pills, dance all night fuck all day. 44 years old with kids grandkids, still kicking don't know how
❤
I’m 43 .. I never stopped I’m still tripping regularly now 😂
Why... Do I still have
Miii....ckeyyyyy....fiiiiiiinnnnn the king, the king of the beats, playing on repeat most days in my head, oh that's right coz I fried all but a few brain cells in the 90s and the needle keeps jumping 😂
Fuck me, if we could go back if do it in a heartbeat, fun story
I was around 14 and an older friend around 20 just shot up 💉 (I wasn't a hard gear fan) I must say, we decided we'd had enough so walked what felt like 1000 mikes from tadley to Basingstoke, got back to his flat and had some serious cravings for a quick snack. He took out his air rifle shot a pigeon, brang it in, oven on 150 (yh now I know that's weren't hot enough to cook it) chucked it in for 10mins until the feather's had fried. Plated it up and sat down ready for a quick snack wtf was was we thing? Yh we wasn't I was tripping off some shrooms I'd picked early that day and my mate was on brown n white all night long, so, as he started tucking into this uncooked bird I could see guts and internal organs pissing out of it 🤢 at that moment I was sober in an instant, stood up and left, I never see the guy again but heard he had passed away around 2015 of an overdose, not food poisoning 🤦🏻♂️ RIP Ben you guided me through my raving days and into the 2000s always remember you bro 🙏🏻 and that's just one of a thousand messed up stories 😮
SO AHEAD of their time. I am so lucky to grow up to their music. RIP Keith Flint.
One of the best bands repping the uk rave scene. R.I.P Keith 😢
90s ecstasy was on another level. Doves 🕊️
super speckled doves 😮
And Dollar's 👌
drum & bass is 36 years old, came out round the same time......i would re-do the 90a again.....best era for music...ever
Music was simply sensational in the 90s. From US hip hop & grunge to UK drum n bass, rave & indie. Everything was on the table, no boundaries to expressing your creativity. Trying not to sound old but sh*t man, we got down.
Welcome to the UK 90s scene, we survived, but boy do I miss it ❤
I grew up on Prodigy, since 12 yo, on Thursdays we all from school attended discotheques in youth centre that was organised for school students, if you older than 16yo, you couldn't get in. No drugs, no booze, not even cigarettes, pure fun dancing and picking up girls.
Lets say just because of that, I'm 40, but I still can start a riot on a dance floor
'E-ser good, E's are good hes 'Ebeneezer goode'.. lol (i think you can tell what that's all about)😅 react to that track too by The Shamen from the same era, it went to number 1 in the UK during a drug awareness week too. 😂
They denied it was about drugs until recently, maybe 2023 or 2024, obviously the nobody was surprised when admitted what it was about
Haha good call 👌 Can't imagine that getting to number 1 these days 🙃 What a time we peaked in 🤗 Got any Vera's? Lovely 🕊️×🕊️=🕺🤯😳😵💫🤪✌️
Commercial bulls*it. After the scene became very plastic.
"naughty naughty, very naughty!"
2 Bad Mice need adding to the playlist at some point cos if Bombscare & Hold It Down have never graced your lugholes you've missed OUT!!!
Space cakes, Drum Trip, and Waremouse. Also classic UK sound.
literally the last tracks I was listening to in my car!! As well as their self titled track
Yeees bombscare was a banger!
Keith was dressed up in a boiler suit and mask (with vicks vapour rub attached) to rip on another group at the time called Altern-8 who dressed like that. Guess which group stood the test of time and innovation.
Or, which group sold out and made a load of awful punk-rock shit with guitars, which Liam said he'd never do?
@@LovecraftComedy 100% spot on with your comment, Prodigy sold out. Started trying to be Pendulum and no one needs to sound like them, they're terrible.
@@tomfumOther way around, Pendulum tried to be the Prodigy. The Prodigy were headlining Rock and Metal festivals long before Pendulum became a big deal
Many Altern-8 tracks stood the test of time.
This is Breakbeat hardcore pre jungle pre drum & bass
@@amancalledjim5382 nope, there was loads of jungle/drum and bass out before this
@ in 1992? Drum & bass wasn’t actually defined till at least 94 maybe some jungle but definitely not Drum & bass .
@ valley of the shadow, Terminator, we are I.E and many more were all released as hardcore.
@@amancalledjim5382 LTJ Bukem made demons theme in 91, tell me that aint drum and bass, A couple of easy examples for you- on the very same LP as out of space the prodigy had "ruff in the jungle business" why was it named that Jim ? A guy called Gerald released "king of the Jungle" in January 92, why was it called that Jim ? because the style was being called Jungle techno from at least 1990
@ jungle isn’t drum & bass
Prodigy...bringing all fans of all genres together. Seen them live so many times and every time was insanely amazing
Saw prodigy December 2024, absolutely shook the place. Can’t wait to see them again. The 90’s were something else 😊
Early 90s rave scene was superb!!
White Doves - you loved everybody, everybody loved you, you loved yourself.
What a time to be alive. TAKE ME BACK!
My prodigy. Im an English girl. 47 years young. My youth. ❤️🫠 Love you dissecting our generation music Gen x 😤
90s. The most crazy decade in history! 😂
In Greece, you went to a club and the didn't serve drink's. Only ecstasy 😂
The first batches of Ecstay that hit the early 90s killed the uks hooligan problems just like a click of a finger youd see derby hugging leicester, forest chatting to brums....brilliant t'was next level
The Prodigy were out before Drum and Bass / Jungle - originally called breakbeat style of Rave.
Their beats never really sped up to the speed of DnB or Jungle that was spawned from Shut Up and Dance label & Metalheads, XL etc
Playing with knives
Bizarre Inc - Still in my playlist today! 😂😂
BUMP, I’m Rushing.
"Breakbeat" Hardcore (which is what this is, but was usually just called Hardcore or Rave) started around 1990, and developed by fusing Acid House with Belgian New Beat and Techno, breaks from Hip-Hop and Funk, strings and piano lines from Classical music, and the synths from Ambient, Berlin School, New Age etc. You should check out the first two Prodigy albums - Experience and Music for the Jilted Generation. Also Ratpacks "One Step Beyond" set from Fantazia in 1992 for examples.
Jungle came around from the introduction of the Jamacian Reggae/Dub soundsystem into Hardcore around 1992-1993 - originally it was called "Jungle Techno" which over time just became "Jungle." Jungle got "purified" and stripped of a lot of it's Ragga influence over time and became what is now Drum and Bass (around 1995.)
Prodigy live are something else. Glad I got to see them before Keith died. Just rocked the place form start to end
10 times with Keith but don't want to see them without him. Milton Keynes is the highlight for me.
I'm nearly 55, been on stage with prodigy twice back in the early 90s through the 4 aces labyrinth Hackney and at bagleys Kings Cross I don't know how I survived the drugs but my life is just a bore compared to my life from 88-94, them yrs are the only time I've been truly happy. drum and bass and jungle killed hard-core raving hence my walking away in 94. Can't beat the system, go go with the flow. 🇬🇧✌️
Back early 90s the drugs were banging! Speed,Acid and Ecstasy😊
When that first pill hits goosebumps
A monumentaly influential and awe inspiring tune from that amazing time for hardcore (and yes it was before anyone was talking about drum and bass!!!!)
Born in the 70's - Grew up in the 80's - Raved in the 90's :)
2 recomendations. 1. The MULTI award winning video for 'The Warriors Dance' and ( the B-Side of the also great One Love single) called 'Rythmn Of Life' which has one of the Prodigies greatest ever sounds....the Break beat is amazing... and to listen to when you are driving...(or e-ing lol) is just unreal!
Hardcore, then jungle, then drum and bass.
Acid ? Happy Hardcore ? Hardcore Jungle? Jungle Techno?
House Acid house hard house then techno happy hardcore , then groups like the Shamen and Prodigy bought the underground scene to the masses. Jungle came just after happy hardcore got big and drum &bass spawned from jungle . As I remember I could be wrong.
Sorry sunshine you got that all wrong we had acid then drum n bass then HARDCORE then happy hardcore then trance...From England
All of it stems from House and Garage.
@@robetprice4759wrong as fuck dude breakbeat hardcore spawned jungle then DNB came from both of them .. look it up if you don’t believe me .. acid house was late 80s then early 90s breakbeat hardcore started which spawned jungle and then DNB came form both them sounds and on the flip break beat hardcore also spawned Hardcore and happy hardcore .. break beat hardcore was a mix of break beats and 4/4 and it split into the different sounds .. Goldie was the first to pitch down the sped up 2 step patterns with time stretching which gave DNB is sound
As a kid who grew up in the 80's and 90's in the UK, this hits hard! The Prodigy were famous for being unique. You couldn't put any of their music into a specific genre. It was just The Prodigy! A genre unto themselves. They were fricking lunatics with crazy bass. The Prodigy were peak 90's. There's never been anyone like them. Legends forever. Whenever a club would play a Prodigy track you had to brace yourself for violence!
Aphex twin is also on a another level. Is different.
A little more chin-strokey though
Prodigy was one of my favourites in my teens. I listened to punk and electronics, industrial and then there was Prodigy. Friend of mine had two bass rolls in the back of the car. The bass in his car by listen to Prodigy was so heavy.
Here’s how it went. £3-4 hit of acid, £5 wrap of speed £15-20 E. Take one or any combination of the 3. Dance
Callys were £20 back then and they were probably the best I ever had. No need for speed or acid 😂
Great times!
mad how much we'd pay for a tab back then. they dropped to £4 in the early 2000s
That was the ideal package but your also missing bottle of poppers
I remember being in an old skool room at a slammin vinyl event and champion sound started playing and Robbie Dee going
"From back when pills were 20 pound 😂
25 quid for a brown biscuit and it was about the size of a dog biscuit hahah took some necking
Saw these guys in the early 90s when they played a club in Athens, Greece. Years later I had a gf who would race motorbikes on a track with Keith Flint. She said he was a top bloke!
Rest in peace Keith 😢
My friends and i followed the Prodigy to most of the raves in north east England 91 and most of 92. The music back then was so experimental and boy did we dance. We also asked ourselves a few years back, how the heck did we get out alive😂 The prodigy Your Love was our favourite.
So good to hear a song that played such a memorable part in the soundtrack of my youth being enjoyed and respected 30 + years later, the late 80s early 90s rave scene was our Woodstock 69 and superb as the prodigy were and still are , they represented a small part in a massive movement that created the foundations for all that followed in dance music and in my opinion not bettered , for anyone not familiar with this period in uk music history I would recommend taking the time to explore and enjoy the huge number of bands and acts that I myself along with so many good friends had the pleasure to experience 1st hand and continue to relive our euphoric memories every time we hear these tunes 👌
This group was among a hand full that laid the foundations of UK dance music. Many artists since have these to thank for where we are today. RIP Keith Flint
Huge follower of The Prodigy since 1990. Their music revolutionised the dance/rave scene globally. There are one of the only collectives to evolve from the scene into a band and still perform around the world. They appeal to those who like rock music who were closet ravers. Their productions are insane and if you have not seen them live it's a band you've got to see before you die. Check out some of their live shows.
Breakbeat/hardcore (rave scene) - morphed into Jungle with heavy Jamaican influences. This then influenced the DnB scene coming out of London / Bristol with a more polished and sophisticated sound. The Prodigy have made music encompassing all of these genres over the years. Often originating new sounds.
Their 1st album The Prodigy Experience is my fav (has this song on it as well as a lot of other dance tunes)
Wow them days... im 52 now an I'm still listening to prodigy...so do my kids😂
Prodigy definitely have their own lane!! They combine elements of a lot of dance genres. What you will notice is the sound mature from this track to ‘fat of the land’ sound and after
Listening to this makes me miss having hi-fi separates blasting this out and watching the woofers pulsate
Possibly my greatest achievement in life was getting stage with the Prodigy in Germany in the 90s diring their "Music for a jimted generation" tour and have a dance off with the lads. Proudest moment of my life haha. Such a great time
I’m pretty sure this stuff came before drum and bass. The Prodigy were part of the UK rave scene, and in my view they absolutely perfected it on their first album. They kept innovating and they genuinely don’t have a bad album. The Fat of the Land is exceptional. Drugs are genuinely not required, although I’m pretty sure there was a bit of that going on in the 90s.
Fat Boy Slim’s You’ve Come A Long Way Baby is a nice bit of work too.
You have to follow this up quickly with No Good (Start The Dance). Another absolute classic but also different!
They already did 3 mths ago, check it out!
Experience was the album that started it all for me. Blew my mind, and knowing what Liam made those tracks on is just amazing.
This is early 90s hardcore with a jungle influence. Drum n bass came later evolving out of the jungle scene.
The 90’s was a wild decade and one that will never be repeated.
This is now classed as ‘Old Skool Hardcore’, but back in 1992 it was just called Hardcore. When the hardcore scene split In 93/94 it birthed Happy Hardcore, and Jungle which the evolved into Drum n Bass.
The 1991/1992 Hardcore Rave rabbit hole is a whole other thing entirely and you will find some amazing but absolutely wild records if you do. The Profigy leaned to the more commercial side, but they never sold out and they stuck to their roots as they progressed through the 90’s
The XTC kept us alive, especially the 'Love Doves' 🤣😇 Anyway, it started with Acid House, then 'Rave', which turned into 'Happy Hardcore' and then Jungle, which turned into Drum & Base. By then we're looking at around the mid 90's.
Just hardcore at that time... happy hardcore was more like 94/95 onwards
Jungle and Happy hardcore coexisted at the same time. Jungle was more edgy and darker vibes, proper moody, whilst Happy Hardcore had a more uplifting vibe, and brought 4/4 kick patterns along with the breakbeats.
As I remember it Drum and Bass came out of Jungle, and I think this track was on the same album as Ruff in the Jungle Bizness. Around 92 at least.
Oh my oh my you found this golden nugget of a tune!!!!!!!!!! ❤ YES!!!
Drum and Bass came way after The Prodigy. I was a teenager when I was dancing around to this. Good times. ❤❤
Been a massive fan of the Prodigy since the beginning, amazing seeing them live and yeah, they can still do it with the best of them. RIP Flinty 😔🙏🏻❤️
Great Prodigy videos. I'm 48. Survived the 90's. Prodigy have been my favourite group since I first heard the Experience Album back in the day. That Fat Of The Land album is probably my favourite. I loved Jilted Generation, but Fat of the Land is my favourite. Every track is a gem. In my opinion, everything Prodigy does is streets above most things. Watch a live Glastonbury performance by them. 1997 was a beast. I still haven't recovered from that weekend.
This was hardcore rave early 90s style that had breakbeats and 4 to the floor elements drum and bass came a bit later and split from hardcore then hardcore went alot harder and drum and bass / jungle went its own way with half step beats but 91 to 94 was a golden era for hardcore music when it had all elements fused into it prodigy were ahead of the game always and ate true pioneers of rave music
My grandfather bought me this album on CD when I was 10 years old ❤😂 Is a great memory of him singing 'Pay close attention' 😂❤ RIP Keith 🪦
There was a genre mix of breaks and hardcore right at the beginning, hardcore jungle or something.
The Prodigy are fucking legends!! Saw them live for the first time in ‘91 or ‘92 at a rave in Rotterdam the Netherlands! They hit hard today!
I see them for the first and only time at the ilford island in 94 when i was 14 years old . I got into a big rave . Lol..
...it was hard, but it was a hell of the fun 😂😂😂😂
Shout out to the Eclipse Coventry ravers. What a time to be alive 🙌🏻
Great channel boys - to clarify, Prodigy initially were hardcore c. '91 - '93' (130/140 bpm), which came well before drum & bass c. 96 - 98 proper D&B - but still ongoing (160/180 bpm).
DnB was later, Roni Size - brown paper bag was 1997, I believe Out of space was 1994. Vintage Bristol vs vintage Essex boyz!
out of space was 1992 on the first album 'experience'. second album 'music for the jilted generation' came out in 94
DnB was around way before Brown Paper Bag too. Nasty habits - Shadow boxing, Deep Blue - Helicopter, Origin Unknown - Valley Of The Shadows, LTJ Bukem - Horizons, Roni Size - It’s A Jazz Thing…
This came out before Drum and Bass. Jungle was around, but the hardcore style which Oyt of Space and all of the first LP (The Prodigy Experience) had. Believe this came out in 1991. Gilted Generation was out 93/94 and Fat of the Land was out in 97, if my memory serves me correctly (i bought the first Prodigy LP in 91 as a very young teen)
@@TheMixCurator didn't come out before drum and bass at all, this was 92, there was loads of jungle and drum and bass out before it
Drum and Bass wasn’t around until the hardware to make the tunes changed in 95.
in the 90's I was going to clubs in Chicago and listening to Acid House. Prodigy's sound, and pretty much all of the electronic music in that era was created using the Roland TB 303.
Smack my tricks up was banned in england, went straight to number one. 🤔
Loved the 90’s so much, really miss that time lol 😂
The scene in the uk evolved rapidity. We went from hardcore which i class this as to jungle dnb quickly. Prodigy were more crossover to the mainstream friendly. There were so many better examples of hardcore,dnb check out dance conspiracys dub wars or some justice by urban shakedown. And for dnb try dj crystals meditation. Those tunes will give u a real essence of the scene back then. Bedroom pioneers shaping music for real
Some Justice 🙂🙃
Big tune. Couldn't believe it when I first heard it. That bass drop wrecked many car speakers
@@wardup74 it did didn't it 🙂
Facts.
I'm glad I was there. Still raving now....mainly to DnB and new school jungle!
I seen the Prodigy before they really were THE Prodigy....Used to get map co-ordinates for raves when I lived in London from 1987-1990... You would stand by a phone box and get map co-ordinates for the Rave... you would then work out a route and pay someone to trail you and stop half way up a single lane road because the Police constantly followed us...they would block the police cars (unmarked hahahahaha). I seen the Prodigy a few times this way...best was a broken into Warehouse around Chelsea Reach at Battersea Bridge.
We survived the drugs bc we quit while we were ahead I feel😅 As a 43y old looking back, there's no way I could be still pulling the same stuff I did back then 😅 My list of drugs is as long as the night was
Saw The Prodigy in Manchester UK just before Christmas and even though lots of their songs are from decades ago the live show is just as good as its ever been. You should definitely get to one if you can, people of all ages just having a good time
Prodigy are the dogs danglers!
House came out first. But these times - where 👌. Saw these guys at a warehouse with thousands of same minded people
My very first rave, in the 90s, my friend got sick pretty early on in the night, not drug related ;) so i took her home.
After dropping her off, i came to an intersection and it was either turn right and go home, or turn left and go back to the dance party.
As i was deciding this tune came on the radio in my car, i chose left and the rest is history. Ive always credited this track for getting me into dance music because of that moment. Hahaha
Music For The Jilted Generation and Fat Of The Land both still sound so fresh 30 years on, this is the sound of the working class's in the mid 90s #RIPKeithFlint
Worth noting they also released one of the greatest FU albums with Invaders Must Die in the late 2000's, saw other groups such as Pendulem releasing straight up 90s Prodigy style tracks and literally went harder/faster and more angry just to blow them out the water and remind them who were the daddys!!!!!
Few love doves back in the day raving to this beauty. What a tune
@@dango247 doves now your brining back memories my fav pill 😜 🕊️
I agree with others here. Late 80's and early 90's was really the pinnacle of madness and illegal raves and it was great. After that it sub divided more and more into many different styles and much more organised raves.
Don't get me wrong. I loved the mid 90's acid techno and pretty much everything else going, but it never repeated the heady earlier days for pure adrenalin and excitement ❤🎉
this was in the height of the rave scene in the 90's..such a good time..and yes...some d rugs was used lol
Yeah.. just a few.😅
An unspecified amount
@@Fezleysnipes Too soon lol
6:15 Liam howlett came from the bboy scene, not the acid house scene. That's why the prodigy is all sampled hip hop, reggae, dub and Northern soul.
That's why it sounds different
The prodigy were doing it before raves compartmentalised into specific genres, it was just rave music and the prodigy did stuff that with later eyes was lots of different sub classes of EDM
The ostrich thing is a reference to a time when Kieth was driving home on a motorway one night and was a little under the influence, shall we say, and he saw an ostrich running in the lane next to him, matching his speed. 😂
Mid 80,s to mid 90,s owned it.
Apparently, the boys were out in their car (probably tripping balls). When a group of ostriches, which had escaped (probably emus) and ran out in front of the car. And that's why they have the ostriches in the video. It'd be interesting if anyone here could confirm it.
UK was on fire and totally lit up in 90s its was unbelievable and as INCREDIBLE as the comments say big up 90s uk Crew
The soundtrack to my teen years. Kids today will never know how free we lived
Im so sorry you missed it. The 90s was a great decade for music,and i mean all genres. I feel extremely lucky to been a part of this music scene from the early 90s until now at 54 years old. Glad to see you 2 enjoying this.
The guys in the masks, which you'll see in other rave era videos. They smeared the inside of them with Vicks Vapo-rub. It's an across the counter pharmacy menthol medication for a blocked nose, there's even a kids version. Combined with E though it ran pleasurable rushes through the user's body.
It was a crazy time, I went to a Universe rave around the time this record came out. The drug guys would call out what they had for sale outside the gate like a market trader. It was so open.
You boys are proper ravers. Check out stay up forever, hydraulix, the liberators, d.a.v.e the drummer, shamen, sicknote, vandal, check the Bristol rave scene you will NOT be disappointed ☺️