Samples used by The Prodigy.
A comprehensive list of samples that The Prodigy have used in their The Day Is My Enemy album and live shows in that era.
Sample: "How many ways can you distort the human mind"
Taken from: Brain of Blood Trailer
Sample: synth
Taken from: Brainstorm – Help Me To Believe [Rock The House, 1991]
Sample: Guitar Riffs
Taken from: Rage Against The Machine - "Bullet In The Head" (Rage Against The Machine, 1992)
Sample: Drum break
Taken from: Finnish electronic group Pepe Deluxe's "Salami Fever" from album Beatitude released 2003. This very same sample was previously used on Take Me To the Hospital also.
Sample: beat
Taken from: The Turtles - "You Baby" (You Baby, 1966)
Sample: drum loop
Taken from: Zero-G - Jungle Warfare [1995] - The Roller 162
Sample: Opening melody
Taken from: traditional Bulgarian music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8xpThKeXHo
Sample: Saxophone
Taken from: Chill Rob G - "Let The Words Flow (Acapella)" (The Court Is Now In Session / Let The Words Flow, 1989)
Sample: "Eagle Break" melodic reversed sample in the middle of song
Taken from: theme from the movie 'Where Eagles Dare', starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.
Sample: Break
Taken from: Mental Cube - "Chile Of The Bass Generation" (Chile Of The Bass Generation, 1990)
Sample: 'I need a rhythm ...' female vocal
Taken from: Jomanda - Make My Body Rock (Feel It) (Supremely Clubbed) "(Make My Body Rock (Feel It), 1988)
Sample: stab
Taken from: The Golliwogs – Fight Fire [Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968), 1998]
Sample: Guitar riff
Taken from: The Lollipop Shoppe - "You Must Be A Witch" (Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968), 1998)
Sample: finger snap
Taken from Vengeance Essential Club Sounds Vol. 1 [2006] – VEC1 Percussion 081
Sample: Vocal 'woo'
Taken from Janet Jackson – The Pleasure Principle (A Cappella) [The Pleasure Principle, 1986]
Sample: pad at the beginning and end of the track
Taken from Sylenth 1 VST, preset [392: Firefly Arp]
Sample: Scream like synth in the middle part of the song
Taken from: Intelligent Hoodlum - Arrest the President (1990)
01 May 1992 The Music Technology Magazine
The Lone Raver
01 Feb 1993 Future Music
Prodigious talent
08 Sep 1993 Hot Press
Welcome To The Techno-drome
01 Oct 1996 Sound On Sound
Liam Howlett • The Prodigy & Firestarter
24 May 1997 NME
Prodigy: Nevermind the Bollocks!
16 Aug 1997 Melody Maker
Shrink Rap
21 Jan 1999 BBC
Bands Challenged Over 60s Samples
01 Mar 1999 Select
DJ is a God
11 May 1999 Toronto Sun
Prodigy tries sex in space
15 May 1999 Toronto Sun
Decline of the Jedi Knights
19 Nov 2005 Nekozine
Interview with Liam Howlett after The Prodigy's show in Copenhagen
23 Mar 2009 Time Out Dubai
Prodigy: Track-by-track
08 May 2010 Hot Press
Leeroy Keeps Swinging
04 Dec 2012 MTV Hive
Dissecting the Prodigy: 25 Samples Behind 'The Fat of the Land'
19 Jul 2018 EXCLAIM!
The Prodigy Announce 'No Tourists' LP, Share New Song
31 Oct 2018 STACK
Q&A with The Prodigy's Liam Howlett
30 Nov 2018 The Sun
Still starting fires
25 Jan 2019 The Music
How VHS Kung Fu Movies Led To The Prodigy's Biggest Hit
31 Jan 2019 Decoded Magazine
Sampling the Sex Pistols, dissing koalas and never taking your foot off the gas: we crank the froth-o-meter up to full with The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett
05 Mar 2019 The Independent
Keith Flint death: The story behind 'Firestarter' – The Prodigy's first number one and their most famous song
27 May 2020 The Guardian
The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 8, The Prodigy – Firestarter
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