The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation: How the Album Changed the Electronic Music Scene

Music for the Jilted Generation is the second album by English electronic dance music band The Prodigy. The album was released through XL Recordings in July 1994.

- If you listen carefully, on the album version, you can hear a hip-hop sample in the background saying"Jump around, hit the ground", which may come from the House Of Pain "Jump Around" (Album: House Of Pain, Year: 1992)

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In hindsight, The Prodigy were still very much a dance band, yet to make the full transition to rock, and Jilted Generation is a dance album, albeit a very good one, with just a couple of rock tracks. It's no wonder we got death threats for covering them. But, also in hindsight, there are elements here that are not too far from the trance vibe of Hawkwind, and, in some ways, it was inevitable that the energy of dance music would eventually seep into the rock scene. Killing Joke had flirted with dance beats on the Pandemonium album of '94 and they were not alone. The big difference was that the Prodigy had the audacity to do it the other way around and to do so entirely on their own terms.

Fittingly for the first release, Experience was playful hardcore breakbeat with samples galore. As a result, this album was somewhat of a Trope Maker for the dance music album, because previously electronic/rave bands never managed to release an album full of worthwhile material. 2ff7e9595c