The Prodigy. We Live the Rhythm. The Story of the Band in Their Own Words

Illustrated biography of the legends of electronic music! “Glastonbury, June 1995. It's getting dark, and the field in front of the NME stage sways side to side as the spotlights fly over the crowd, and dissonant samples echo through the air. Maxim approaches the edge of the stage and stares into the night with mad white eyes. He raises the microphone. ‘Glastonbury, are you ready to light it up?’ The sound of shattering glass booms at an enormous volume, and under the breakbeat of Break and Enter, thousands of dancing people turn into one gigantic mosh pit.” The Prodigy is not just a band; it is a true contemporary of English rave culture. It gathered the largest, craziest, and most energetic concerts in London in the 1990s. The band members showed first the UK, and then the whole world, what it means to “let loose,” and created a true cult of electronic music fans all over the globe. In this book, written by the band's friend Martin James, the members of The Prodigy reminisce about the atmosphere at underground London raves in the 1990s, how the first performances of the collective took place, where the idea for the strange outfits for the musicians came from, and why rave never became protest music. This is not just the story of The Prodigy; it is a true monument to rave music and club parties of a bygone era.