It’s difficult now to appreciate the scale of the moral panic that arose in response to early 90s rave culture in the uk. There were fulminating editorials in serious broadsheets, speeches in parliament and an authoritarian criminal justice bill where judges tried to come up with a legal definition of what constituted a rave so that it could be banned. The official definition turned out to be “music that includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats” - gasp! The horror!
The police enthusiastically adopted their new powers to dish out a good thrashing to people they saw as dirty hippies, confiscating or smashing up sound systems and throwing people in jail for the most trivial of offences.
The Prodigy were one of the premier bands on the rave scene and this album is in part a response to the CJA with the refrain “Fuck ‘em and their law”. Musically this is solid dance music with good use of samples that don’t get in the way of the beats. Put on your best high court judges wig and robes and party on down to this one.
Rave-tastic!
https://album.link/gb/i/1450123784
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