Experience

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Editorial reviews

Album Description
2008 digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the British Electronica band's 1992 debut album now including a bonus disc featuring 11 additional B-sides and remixes. Led by producer/musical mastermind Liam Howlett, The Prodigy embraced Rave culture, Electronica and Rock music, creating a virtually limitless Techno canvas in which to throw their musical ideas at. Nearly every Techno/Rave band to emerge in the last decade has been influenced by The Prodigy. Experience features the singles 'Charly', 'Your Love', 'Music Reach' and 'Out Of Space'. 23 tracks. XL.

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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

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Customer reviews

review by: Irony, Bi***s! date: 2008-06-11 rating:
A little tedious...
This album should be glorious. Prodigy are herald for many reasons: The awesome Liam, Keith Flint, and Maxim, their never ending diverse ways of sound that would put hardcore techno, and the way they can make us dance. And they make us dance with breaks and drum and bass style.

There are so many spots of greatness on this album, but a lot of songs really aren't that compelling. This really has to do with the sample choices, and the beats sometimes just annoy. That's even worse for the beats, because a lot of the beats pretty much imply the same style. The main problem with that is some of the songs fail to captivate and bore you. That's because the samples sometimes used are rather forgettable. Jericho, for example. It does break away in songs, but that's why some of the songs are a hit or miss, depending on how I feel. I really only have to be in the mood for those kinds of beats, too much in the mood to care about the melodies on top. Hey, music should heigten your moods (depending on what moods you want elevated to a higher way).And to add insult to that, they are often really long and make me want to skip it.

But there is good, even awesome stuff. Out Of Space is sick. The beat kicks a load, especially with the melodies, really feels like space. And after that, they sample "I Chase the Devil". _____. Fire, this song is nuts. At 1:25, _____. And "I am the god of hellfire!". Your Love, with a cool piano sandwiched in the song, is great too. Wind It Up is another classic. This one stood out to me the first time I heard this, and it still does. Weather Experience has some good parts, the slower, laid back beat really does conjure up satellites at a weather station. Charly is great too. And everybody in The Place is a _______ classic for this group. Great sounds that sound like a pipe, these cool industrial like noise.

When I'm in the mood, it can flow quite well, though it's not one of my most common move. Kind of like a Ying-Yang thing going on. Maybe. Still, you should listen to it.

7/10

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review by: crackhead date: 2006-05-26 rating:
Outstanding
Hmm... I want to describe this album... but can't seem to find the words for it. This is the Prodigy in their rawest form. You'll notice that their other albums are all very different - but this one is my favourite. "Charly" is probably my favourite song here! I wouldn't recommend the album to EVERYBODY (i.e., rock fans), but for electronic music fans, this is paradise. Bottom line, one of the best (if not, THE best) electronic albums ever made!!!

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review by: music lover date: 2006-01-22 rating:
Very entertaining and creative rave music - it's not like "Fat Of The Land" but that won't matter!
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!

Highlights include:
the entire album!

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review by: date: 2005-03-04 rating:
Classic Dance Music CD - gets no better than this
I have been an avid fan of dance music (read house, techno, drum and bass, jungle, breakbeat, trance, happy hardcore, etc) since I was 16. I remember listening to the radio one day, 12 years ago, when I heard a song that changed my life eversince. There was something magical about that song, something that was captivating and exhilarating at the same time. The song spoke to me, even if there were no real words in it. I got a blank tape, stuck it in the stereo and pushed "record". Mesmerized, I sat there listening to the song, watching the little wheels in the tape player spin the tape. My passion for dance music started then and it has never died eversince. That song was Prodigy's Charly.


review by: Reformed Music Addict date: 2004-12-16 rating:
Experience to Another Level
Prodigy's first album was something new when it came out, Liam Howlett and the boys had made a rough high energy album with fast beats, cool samples and voice sounds mixed with beautiful melodies. The result was great, not only for dance fans but also commercially. For those that discovered Prodigy later on, this album is quite diffrent from the rest though. Most songs are more or less instrumental, the songs are rough and they have this house feeling all over them. Most remarkable is probably the choises of samples. On "Fire" they sampled Crazy World of Arthur Brown's classic "Fire", and on "Charly" they sampled a kid from a tv show. "Out Of Space" also had simular samples. "Ruff in the Jungle Bizness" showed their Jungle influnces and is diffrent from the rest. "Everybody's In the Place" is a bit simular to the later "No Good" and "Jericho" is a real energy song with awesome beats, made for the club's. other then that most songs are meliodic high energy songs you could dance to for long. A masterpiece on it's own right.

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