Most people are only familiar with Firestarter era Prodigy and elicit blank stares when you ask them if they have heard the latest album. Usual responses are, "I didn't know they still made music'. They seem to be on par with their contemporaries and have only 5 full length albums of original material to their discography.
The group, headed by beat and programming wizard Liam, began a career in the late 80's early 90's producing typical Hi NRG style tunes with Experienced in 1992.
Perhaps sensing the shifting winds and wanting a bit of self preservation the Hi NRG anthems almost disappeared 2 years later with Music for the Jilted Generation, which started to earn them notice outside of the UK.
By 1997 they polished their sound, emphasized more on lyrics at some points, which seems to have dulled the production in my opinion, and blazed the world with the incredibly popular Fat of the Land.
After soaking i8n the massive success the band seemed to drop off of the radar until 2004 when Liam resurfaced on the worlds stage with a grittier sound also mostly if not wholly devoid of creation support from the rest of the group (who where originally brought in to provide excitement in live shows) with Always Outnumbered, Never Out Gunned.
Another length break brought the remainder of the group back together to create what I consider a blending of all the past efforts into 2009's Invaders Must Die, which also so a level of main stream recognition, but the sound was so far from the familiar Fat of the Land many of their long ago fans must have lost interest.
While I have no love for Experienced and barely any love for Fat of the Land, I enjoy much of this interesting bands exploits and creations and hope to see more from them down the road...they just take forever to bring anything out. Though...their vast single and remix catalog contains some of their best tracks.
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