Album
No Tourists
2018
Rare Prodigy items on sale:
- November 1992, XL-Recordings XLLP 110
- November 1992, XL-Recordings XLCD 110
- November 1992, Blow Up/Intercord, INT 845.566
- Torso Dance Records & XL-Recordings, TORSOCD 228
- November 1998, MVM 006 CD
- Other versions
Experience is the debut studio album by The Prodigy. It was first released on 28 September 1992 through XL Recordings. It peaked at No. 12 in the UK Albums Chart in October. Apart from Liam Howlett, who is responsible for all the compositions, out of the additional three members at that time, only Maxim Reality provides contribution by performing the vocals on the last track.
On 19 June 2001, an expanded edition of the album was released in the United States, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and B-sides. It was released in the United Kingdom seven years later on 4 August 2008 as Experience: Expanded, with a gold cover and two extra tracks.
Comments
Before music journalists were throwing around terms like "drum & bass" or "jungle", the Prodigy's Liam Howlett was creating high-energy dance music by marrying sampled, pitch-shifted beats to all manner of electronic timbres. This album has it all: complicated break beats, housey piano riffs, lush analog pads, frenetic and computeresque melodies, and subsonic bass. In fact, the mélange is so dense that the material demands full attention and repeated listenings to gain a complete understanding of the rhythmic interplay.
Another review: This being Liams first album, it reflects what he and the other memebers in the band were into at the time - pure, solid rave. It rocks, Out Of Space is excellent. Liam changes the mood of the track time and time again, with pretty raw edges to each change, but he gets away with it. Charly, trip into drum and bass version, has seen nearly all the original lyrics from the cat taken away, probably so people would stop giving the four hassle about being, "The Band That Killed Rave" - which we all know isn't true, no one said anything until the cash-in one hit wonders hit town. Liam Howlett did a great job mixing that one.
As with all Liam's albums there is a great variety in his work, from the fairly chilled Weather Experience(in Prodigy terms anyway - indie kids take note, you'll still be blown away with it's speed and power), to the hard beats and raw lyrics in Death Of The Prodigy Dancers. This track is recorded from a live gig, and changed my idea of typical rave bands forever. That should be so though because The Prodigy was not a "Typical Rave Band".
Related articles
- The Quietus - 27th August 2008 The Prodigy Talk To The Quietus About Experience And Jilted Generation
- BPM - 1st July 2002 Prodigy Unauthorized
- Future Music - 1st February 1993 Prodigious talent
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1991
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Music For The Jilted Generation
1994
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The Fat Of The Land
1997
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2004
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2009
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2015
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2018
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Ibiza
2015
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Wild Frontier
2015
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The Day Is My Enemy (Expanded Edition)
2015
EP
The Night Is My Friend EP
2015
Compilation
More Music For The Jilted Generation
2008
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Their Law: The Singles 1990–2005
2005
EP
The Added Fat EP
2012
Compilation
Prodigy Present: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One
1999
Compilation
The Prodigy Experience - Expanded: Remixes & B-sides
2001
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Light Up The Sky
2018
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Nasty
2015
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Back To Mine
2006
EP
Invaders Must Die EP
2009
Single
Smack My Bitch Up
1997
Single
Warrior's Dance
2009
Single
Omen
2009
EP
Baby's Got A Temper
2002
Single
Firestarter
1996
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Everybody In The Place
1991
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Fire
1992
Single
Voodoo People
1994
Single
Take Me To The Hospital
2009
Single
Girls
2004
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Breathe
1996
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Charly
1991
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Out of Space
1992
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Spitfire
2005
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WInd It Up
1993
Single
One Love
1993