The Prodigy are veterans of electronic music. They attracted different profiles of listeners - everything from punks, metalheads and rockers and of course those who were enthusiastically tripping on electronic sounds. This March, they released their sixth studio album, The Day Is My Enemy, breaking a six-year hiatus with it. They are also coming back with a tour, within the framework of which they will also stop in Vienna this November.
The group The Prodigy gave birth to the English dance scene in the early nineties. They drew attention to themselves with energetic performances and anthems such as Everybody in the Place, Out of Space and Charlie.
To their hyperactive debut Experience (1992) the album followed Music fot the Jilted Generation (1995), who hit live with tracks and genre combinations of hip-hop, electronica, dance music and rock. With hits like Voodoo People, Poison and No Good (Start the Dance) have entered ti mainstream, with the next album The Fat of the Land (1997) but also conquered it for a while. With pieces like Firestarter, Breathe and Smack My Bitch Up have created musical classics and one of those "eternal" achievements that stand firm in the collective musical consciousness. In 1997, the album reached number one in twenty-four countries, including the United States.
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Fourth studio album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004), which followed a three-year hiatus, received mixed reviews, despite the commercial success brought by hits such as Spitfire, Girls and Hotride. Because of the rocker elements and not exactly the technomaniac beats, many thought that it was the band's final farewell to techno guerillas and techno in general.
Fifth studio album Invaders Must Die (2009) was welcome to get the band back on track; with pieces Omen, Warrior's Dance, Take Me to the Hospital and Invader Must Die have revived a bit of that exciting garage break from their "most raver" album, Music for the Jilted Generation, as well as that rock glitter and electro noise of their most famous album, The Fat of the Land.
2015 brings a new album - The Day Is My Enemy. The group announced the sixth studio album as a kind of criticism of today's "EDM elite", which turns the electronic dance scene into self-parody.
More information:
theprodigy.com
