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MUSIC FOR THE JILTED GENERATION One Love 'One Love' was originally released as 'Earthbound I' and 'Earthbound II' as 12" white labels but three months later 'One Love' was released commercially. The white labels were a massive success and they were well praised by DJs all over the dance scene but when 'One Love' was relesed as a commercial single the undergrond respect of the song had gained disappeared. Liam: "I felt 'One Love' was perhaps the first time that we had really pioneered and moved on substantially from where we had originated." Liam: "'One Love' was quite big jump. It was more of a housey tune, less breakbeats." Liam: "This is a trancy more mellower sound for the Prodigy. I like the way Jonny L changes the bassline under the vocal. It has quite a good European club vibe to it." Juliana Mix is actually same as the Edit. It just has a different title on the Japanese single. Rhythm Of Life Full Throttle Uses a sample from the film 'Star Wars'. Liam had to cut 'Full Throttle' to the album 'Music For The Jildet Generation', because CD can only hold 79 minutes of music. To avoid coryright problems Liam changed the Star Wars sample. No Good (Start The Dance) Liam originally slowed No Good from 150 bpm to 130 bpm for the US release but he didn't like it and so returned it to its original speed. Vocals are sampled from 'No Good For Me' performed by Kelly Charles. Originally the song was titled only as 'Start The Dance'. Liam: "A harder mix, putting a slightly more club feel into the track. I really like the section towards the end where the whole pitch of the track changes and changes." A remix by CJ Bolland. Liam: "This mix is from the master of the acid sound. He has totally re-worked the whole track taking some of the original sounds and then totally disguising them to build into a hard acid trance journey." Intro Words are taken from the film 'The Lawnower Man'. Break & Enter Contains a vocal sample from Baby D's 'Casanova'. This live recording was recorded by Radio One and it was available on Select magazines freebie cassette 'Unheard Plaesures'. Their Law (featuring Pop Will Eat Itself) Liam: "When Pop Will Eat Itself sent me their track, I chopped it up and got Their Law, based only on parts of the main riff. The result had a very street, skateboard feel. There's surf guitars, hip-hop, real drums and very heavy beats all in there. I loved that song because it had a proper band sound." Voodoo People The guitar sample is taken from 'Very Ape' by Nirvana. The song also uses samples from 'The Shalimar' by Gylan Kain. Liam didn't actually sample the guitar riff and he didn't even clear the sample license but Nirvana never wanted any credits from the band. The riff was played by Lance Riddler Liam: "I'd lost the buzz so much that I just had to do something for myself, and not with a rave or club in mind. I had to go out of my way, as much as I could, to make records that didn't have a keyboard sound, using more natural instruments. I sampled Nirvana track and basically I didn't think a lot of people would like it, but I did. I thought it almost had a 1970s vibe." Liam: "This is my favorite Prodigy mix. The Dust Brothers have gone back to the old skool taking the hip hop vibe and bringing it up to date with a mix of analogue sounds and rock influence. This proves that a slower track still has the energy." This remix contains a vocal sample from 'For Pete's Sake' performed by Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. It also uses a sample from 'Slow Ride' performed by the Beastie Boys. Due to copyright problems 'Dust Brothers Remix' was renamed to 'Chemical Brothers Remix' for the US release and one (unknown) sample was reversed. Liam: "This track has quite a empty feel with a lot of space, taking the Voodoo People sounds from the original and totally distorting them and then re-arranging it into a trancy feel." Speedway (Theme From Fastline) This remix was originally released on XL Recordings' rare 12" DJ promo called '5th Chapter - The Heavyweigh Selection'. Later the remix was released on 'Voodoo People' US single which dropped the value of the promo 12". The Trouser Rouser Mix is actually same as Secret Knowledge Remix. The Heat (The Energy) Uses a sample from the film 'Polterguist III'. Liam: "This track is a hard, heavy, dirty acid track. This track was written when I was just jamming in my studio with Neil McLellan. We just set the tape rolling and the whole track was written live! It has a very hypnotic feel about it and becomes very intense towards the end." Poison Liam: "That song could have lost us a lot of fans because it's so laid back but I wanted to prove that hard sounds did not necessarily involve fast speeds. I also wanted to make more use of Maxim. He actually tried out a few vocal ideas at first that didn't quite work. Then he came back with the Poison lyric. Poison became a key element of the album and the musical direction I was going in, because it was completely different to anything on Experience." Maxim: "That ('Poison') started to open up other possibilities to the band, both in terms of the gigs and on record." Liam: "This track is a mix that I did featuring my friend on lead guitar and myself on bass guitar. I just wanted to take this mix as far away from the original as possible. The result is somewhere between Biohazard and Nine Inch Nails." Liam: "This track is quite a dubby mix from these boys. I like the way that they have edited the beats up and that the vocal sounds very cool with the delay effect on it. This gives the whole track a different angle." 3 Kilos Skylined Claustrophobic Sting Contains a sample from the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Liam: "Claustrophobic Sting was a paranoid, depths-of-hell track, probably the most forbidding music I've ever written." We Eat Rhythm 'We Eat Rhythm' was originally meant to be on 'Music For The Jilted Generation' but due to lack of space, Liam had to drop it. However, it was given away on a freebie cassette. The jungle mix was in Prodigy's live set in 1995. Scienide 'Scienide' was originally released as 12" white label (XL SC 1). Only 500 copies were made. Liam: "This is a German style techno track. I like the rhythm effect, it has a really metallic feel to it. The intro is really cool with a distorted guitar sound." |