0529. Prodigy
Music For The Jilted Generation

One of the biggest bands in dance music and their second album. Or band - one music maker and three dancers who occasionally are let a mic. Music For The Jilted Generation was their near-international breakthrough, but while the singles Poison and Voodoo People, as well as No Good Start The Dance got heavy rotation on Euro-MTV and sold well, it only got a little whiff of the American charts.

The British rave culture's background in house makes itself noted in (among others) Full Throttle, where the dark bass of Their Law is exchanged for piano-clanking. But mainly there's big beats and hard techno with an aggressive vibe to it. And a bit better than their contemporaries, actually.

My memories of these songs are mainly from a couple of years later, while pretty drunk and dancing my shoes off at the Roskilde Festival. Good times.