Experience

The Prodigy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1992)
• Original Release Date: October 20, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000002HBA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,246 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #54 in Music > Dance & DJ > Techno > Hardcore Techno

Track Listings

1. Jericho

2. Music Reach [1/2/3/4]

3. Wind It Up

4. Your Love [Remix]

5. Hyperspeed [G-Force Part 2]

6. Charly [Trip into Drum and Bass Version][Mix]

7. Out of Space

8. Everybody in the Place [155 and Rising]

9. Weather Experience

10. Fire [Sunrise Version]

11. Ruff in the Jungle Bizness

12. Death of the Prodigy Dancers [Live]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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. --Michael A. Massa

Product Description

Their classic debut, available now for the first time on vinyl. Contains original artwork. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sweet start to a long and prosperous journey, May 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Experience (Audio CD)

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". Each album has been a new step for the band, with their styles dramatically changing, but the hardness, and technical skill of the music never fluctuates. The album may have been around a few years, but for those of you who are slow to catch on, and still haven't got it, I think it's about time you did, it'll be money well worth spent! Get ready to have your mind blown!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the newer albums, January 16, 2000

By 

Martijn Jansen (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Experience (Audio CD)

Of all the Prodigy albums, I think this is the best, Liam's brilliance in a early stage. If you listen regularly, you'll notice more and more brilliant details in the inspiring and adrenaline giving songs, which unfortunatly is found less in the newer albums. Especially listen to Jericho and Outer Space....

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very entertaining and creative rave music - it's not like "Fat Of The Land" but that won't matter!, January 21, 2006

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C. Cross - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Experience (Audio CD)

I'll admit that I got "Experience" expecting something along the lines of "The Fat Of The Land", and although it's completely different it's still very good. This is the kind of album that will grow on you - I didn't like it at all at first (because I was expecting another "Firestarter" or "Breathe"), but after a while you it grows on you. You start to appreciate the complexity and energy of the music, and it definitely has much of both. It's a rave album first and foremost, but they add so many other interesting elements to the mix that make the songs worthy of both analyzation and of your club or party mix. Rave music that's both fun and creative is indeed a rarity. Every song here is great, but none of them are necessarily memorable or strike you as instantly great like most of the songs on "The Fat Of The Land", but patient listeners won't mind. As is usual with these kinds of albums the electronic blips and bleeps defy description and thus one must simply hear it to get the picture. Overall I think it's a fascinating album that most won't like at first, but if they give it time then it will probably become one of their favorites! Absolutely recommended!

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the entire album!