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
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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