'Wind It Up' was the fifth single taken from Prodigy's debut album 'The Prodigy Experience'. Liam didn't even want to release the song as a single because he felt that the song too 'breakbeat', 'rave' and, simply, dated - and releasing it as a single would be ripping off the fans. But the record label wanted to release another single from the album and that's what happened. "I could have written something better than that as a single. Around that time we were looking to change the music, to get away from breakbeat and do something a bit more techno", said Liam. "I regret that release even though it did well in the charts, because it did absolutely nothing for our long term development, and possibly even threatened that." The single was released in March 1993 and it reached number three position in the single chart.

    The video for single was filmed at Prodigy's US in just two days. They tour schedule was hectic at the time - they had 28 gigs within 30 days and the video for the single was shot during the two non-gig days. The location was Los Angeles, California in such places as Venice Beach and Death Valley.

    Tracks

    'Wind It Up' was totally re-mastered for the single release - even re-titled as 'Wind It Up (Rewound)'. The rewound version was totally different than the album version. The song actually samples 80s New York rapper Just Ice and his song 'Latoya'. The UK single contained an edit and extended versions of rewound mix. The single also contained a new song - 'We Are The Ruffest' - and a Top Buzz remix of their old song - 'Weather Experience'. Top Buzz was at the time Prodigy's label mate but for one reason or another he later dissed Prodigy.

    The US single contained four exclusive mixes, all made by Tony Garcia. 'Tightly Rewound', 'Forward Wind', 'Unwind' and 'Bonus Beats' weren't available on any UK single. The mixes, apart from 'Bonus Beats', later appeared on Intercord (Prodigy's German record label) single 'Wind It Up (US Remixes)'.

    Records

    The commercial single was released as 7-inch (XLS-39), 12-inch (XLT-39), cassette (XLC-39) and CD (XLS 39 CD). XL also released a promo 12-inch. The single was released in the USA by Elektra as CD single (66319-2) and 12-inch (0-66319). Elektra also made a 12" promo (ED 5649). The Dutch single was released by Torso Dance recordings as CD single (TORSOCD 239) with same track listing as on the UK single and as 12-inch (TORSO 11239). The German single was released by Intercord with normal track listing (INT 827.905) and a single with US remixes as CD (INT 827.906) and 12" (INT 127.906). There is also a mysterious Polygram CD single (422 862 285-2) which contains seven tracks but no further information is not available.
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