The Day Is My Enemy

A comprehensive list of samples that The Prodigy have used in their The Day Is My Enemy album and live shows in that era.


Awol Beats

Sample: "How many ways can you distort the human mind"
Taken from: Brain of Blood Trailer


Destroy

Sample: synth
Taken from:  Brainstorm – Help Me To Believe [Rock The House, 1991]


Get Your Fight On

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.


Ibiza

Sample: beat
Taken from: The Turtles - "You Baby" (You Baby, 1966)

Sample: drum loop
Taken from: Zero-G - Jungle Warfare [1995] - The Roller 162


Medicine

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)


Nasty

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)


Rhythm Bomb

Sample: 'I need a rhythm ...&#39 female vocal
Taken from: Jomanda - Make My Body Rock (Feel It) (Supremely Clubbed) "(Make My Body Rock (Feel It), 1988)


Rebel Radio

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)


Wall of Death

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]


Wild Frontier

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)

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