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you lots just don't know that a beat cannot be any harder or bigger than fotl ones. you are all talking nonsense. it is not like you can make a _totaly_ new beat. get real, don't expect too much. liam reused the samples many times, it is just now that you lots are complaining. des, why don't you do something _new_ huh?

I have been using some very expensive equipment to EQ the radio version of BGAT to make it sound more like CD quality and i just wanna say that IT ROCKS!!! with the bass up and the hissing off this song is fucking wicked.

Don't judge till you hear a CD version, Trust me!

What did I say?
People, believe us, this track has some hidden qualitys, the actual radio-thingie is like a teaser, if you want.

The kickdrum/bass is in fact really close to Diesel Power.
Check it out, kill the high frequencies (every simple stereo should be good enough) and boost the bottom end and maybe a bit more gain for the mid's. You'll get the sound of SMBU and the rhythm of DP. Interesting. And - yeah - old.

And to some upper threads, yes, I would have liked some other beats as well, unfortunately it's the typical FOTL-bassdrum and all in all it's very familiar.
But the important bit is: We have new material.

I heard Juges excerpt and I really wonder what you all are on about? Sure it's not the complete track, but it's good.
I also thought the live-version was cooler, but the studio version has a very good bass-grounding, and sounds very full and rich. It's not typical Prodigy-mixing though. Strange.
Liam said he needed about a month to get the mix right, he maybe got caught in an ongoing uninspiration. Might happen when you mix songs you wrote yourself.
And I couldn't find any wildly used samples, most stuff are just synthies (which sometimes sound a bit unfitting or overloaded, but don't forget that they are mostly used to censor the rohypnol, so in a uncensored version it will be more straight).

Keith is ok, not good, but ok. At least, his voice isn't
distorted or anything, just a simple delay from time to time.

I promise, this track will do wonders when played in a club, the bass is perfect.

And don't judge too much from a radio version, they are mostly altered and also sent through some machines that push the sound forward and 'steal' the dynamics a bit, so it often sounds quite static.

I like it.

Okay, now stop making me anxious!
Some said it sounded like wildly around-thrown samples, what samples were that? Didn't Liam say he didn't use his record collection to build songs?
Could anyone describe it a little further please?

Thx.

I thought Funky Drummer was forbidden gradually... ;-)

I've got a few EPK promotional CDR's with Liam Howlett for instance and on there are only interviews.

How are they? Good? Informative?
Or just some label-forced shite?

is Neko center of universe ?   lol...

actually, i don't give a shit for new prodigy site... just a piece of cheap 3d shockwave stuff... no actual useful info or something... heh.. i didn't even check it all, just i have no such a powerful computer and time for "we're da prodigy, respect us, we made these realmedia loops in that site"...

lol... check liam's studio room.. there are cd's on the samplers rack with description "cd's - inspiration of new album"... lmao.... sounds like an inspiraton is a planned thing, like i just can buy some bullshit in cd store and get an inspiration for new album... poor, very poor to me... ah... who cares actually...

Zed is never happy, do what you want, in the end he'll be all sarcastic about it and mourn around like a bird you promised to go shopping with, but you refuse now... ;-)

Here goes Nr. I:
~

The Plumps would be about the only electronic artists being perfect to collaborate with for Prodge, imho. Okay, besides Massive Attack. With most others it wouldn't reach very far out I think. Might be cool, but not as weird as a collabo with a non-electric-artists like JImmy Page or someone in the likes.

Yes, that record really taught me that innovation can still be found in this genre.
Scram kicked my buttocks nearly as massive as B&E did when I first heard it. I remember having a female english DJ in the club over here, errrm, DJ Vela, right. She played about the whole record that night, and it so was a plump one!

I only heard a few tracks of this underground-album (at least I think they stem from it) and they are very very good.
Hope we get a new album soon.
They're on a cool label too, Fingerlickin', all artists being hosted there are premium class, I definitely should look around a bit again

I heard three tracks from The Streets now and honestly,
I'm not so much into this new HipHop-like stuff.
The tracks equal each other too much and it's too vocal based for my taste, I'm more the instrument-guy.

I'd like a collaboration with the Plump DJ's.

Just my 366762204 cents

No, it's that guy with this Original Pirate Material - You're listening to The Streets - hook.

A bit uninspired songwriting if you ask me, but it seems to be a good working club tune.

Right, we discovered some stuff at the samples section, including this one, which also fades from the left to the right in the foreground from time to time.
I think they're not actually sampled and 'recycled', most of seem to be just selfmade often used presets.

I found it well interesting what they stated in an interview lately, it was about this collab between the two Liams and said that, if the song won't be on AONO, it might get released on another project. Mhmm. I hope Liam goes into soundtrack-writing after the Prodigy, cause I see a good chance for him, especially when he's on that ambient/athmosphere trip.
Might perfectly fit into a film like Fight Club.
Alongside with Primal Scream ....ahhh, sweet dreams

Right, I presume it'll get a bit harder for upcoming or experimental artists to chart, since those limitations concerning single-releases came up. And as for Liam, I think you can state that you don't write for your fans as often as you want, there will akways be a certain pressure coming from the waiting fanbase, at least on a subconscious level. And what Zed wrote, that he should start over again, up untill a few days I thought this was an important Prodigy-mentality, you know. But maybe BGAT fooled me and didn't proof me wrong, maybe it was just a gaffe?
Actually, I liked the live-version of BGAT so much, because it lacked the typical FOTL-atomwar-drums, it sounded very sharp and clever in my ears. If he had stayed with that version, the overall fan-response might haven't been like "we heard this about five years ago".
I wouldn't mind if The Prodigy would loose a little bit of the power on the drums, it's not all about phat drumhits.
This energy everyone is mentioning when talking about Prodge comes more from the tight sound itself and the samples and the way Liam treats his synthesizer, mixing and maybe the arrangement. Rough or direct, but not really 'phat', is what I'd say to the (drum-)sound on Jilted. I never thought you could do something like that with a TR909 and a plate reverb.
I'd say Zed had the right formula at hand: Liam limited himself with his self-setted boundaries.

I wouldn't mind if he was to sit down, thinking about breaking new grounds again. That would of course mean no new album until 2004 or something...
Would be worth it anyway.
It's so hard to do something really earth shattering nowadays.
Let's pray that Zed & I get contracts soon... HARHARHAR