Dance music. You hear it everywhere. TV ads, shopping centres, buses. Everywhere. But how did this international phenomenon begin? I mean, 18 years ago, rave music was still confined to raves and warehouses and popular dance acts (which today receive international respect and large fan bases) were confined to these venues, not even considering a large stage show. That was all until The Prodigy. The Prodigy are a band who went where their music wasn't meant to. Experience (which I'm reviewing) was an album by a dance group at a time when dance groups weren't meant to make albums. Their next album, Music For The Jilted Generation bought elements of rock music, and sellout main-stage shows and was controversial to the dance music community as it sounded too 'mainstream'. Soon enough, the influence The Prodigy had on it's own genres, the world of dance music and everyone in it was apparent, and it's impossible to know what would've happened if they hadn't been there to guide us on the path of electronic music change.So, a little about the album. It's a breakbeat hardcore album (basically early 90's rave) released in 1992. Perhaps the most influential dance album of all time, I bought this album a few months ago and haven't looked back. From the swelling, uplifting bass of Jericho to the almost devious undertones of Charly (Trip Into Drum & Bass Version), Experience offers a solid launching pad for a band who perfected a genre, and then evolved as the times changed, leaving this style unreplicated in their next album. This album is a classic and deserves all the good praise it gets. For that, I'm going to give Experience:
9/10
Sure, there is a strong retro feel to this album which may not be everyone's cup of tea, but to me it just sounds amazing.
The Prodigy - Out of Space
The Prodigy - Jericho
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