"Android" - The Prodigy

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The intro theme doesn't prepare you for the ponderous, buffalo-stampede beat or the crack-on-speed synth riff. It's a very simple track with some tricks to it which are obvious in retrospect but were brilliant and fresh at the time. Liam does an excellent job of melding a melodic sensibility to a brutal beat-your-mama dancefloor burner; by the time he starts messing around with filters and drum fills, you can sense the androids sneaking up behind you with pneumatic drills and murder on their diodes, and your only hope for salvation is to DANCE YOUR ASS OFF...

Plus, the patented Prodigy drop-da-beat-den-fling-it-back-at-em break in the middle is godly.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Prodigy patented that? Shouldn't they sue every electronic dance producer of the last 10 years?

oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the way he does it that makes it so distinctive; the beat drop-out gets folded into the structure of the melody and is probably the common denominator that ties together Liam's music writing style.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Glad someone likes it as much as I do. Probably the best rave tune of them all...

Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 3 March 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)


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