I’m still, all these years on, kinda bummed by how much club culture has co-opted rave and warehouse culture - I recall Interviewing URB’s first managing editor Jason Bentley who said that persons like himself (now PD at KCRW) Phillip Blaine (now art curator for Coachella) and Raymond Roker (founder of URB magazine, where I am an editor) did the things they did because the felt like “A round peg in the square hole of club culture”. It really felt like a genuine culture - and for a few proverbial shining moments, it was. I remember finally getting the CD of “…Jilted which replaced the advance cassette given to me by Mute Records, and I remember seeing the image of the massive giving the finger to the authorities who’d passed the most ridiculous law, “The Criminal Justice Bill”, which actually called out “repetitious music” as a basis for prosecuting an “unpermitted” event as a possible den of drugs. And I hope we just legalize weed completely, very soon. I haven’t seen the details yet, but I hope its retro-active. Funny to remember the arrest in Texas, a young man whose CD copy of Plastikman’s “Sheet One” was confiscated on the suspicion that it was blotter acid.sigh.Īs I write this, the Rockefeller Laws, which have ruined so many lives, are being eradicated. And I’ll say herein that while the music isn’t just about the drugs, there is no doubt that Ecstasy has to an immeasurable degree changed the world incrementally.
The legendary Daniel Miller and his Mute records had picked up Prodigy for US distro from XL in the UK and had also released Plastikman’s album during a time that just felt like a culture and a way of seeing things - and yes, of even appreciating certain drugs - could really change the world, one head at a time. I remember when FedEx arrived with the CDingle of Firestarter I definitely didn’t love the tune, but I knew they were now going to conquer America, and they deserved to, so I’m not trying to hate - Prodigy are a unit that have held together from dirty warehouse days through playing massives in Russia, and I’m pretty sure they knew what it as like to be broke before they broke they also know firsthand the backlash one’s own culture can create, like when they were accused of killing a the scene in the UK.īut when “… Jilted” dropped, boy was that a magic summer. “Outer Space” is one of those tracks that every DJ seems to drop, believing it’s a kind of secret weapon, and as long as it makes hands go up in the air it is.Īnyway, going to a post-”Fat of The Land” Prodigy show remains an interesting affair - you run into some people who would’ve probably made fun of you for listening to them in the early 90’s, but went ga-ga for them when they put on clown make-up and got heavy rotation on MTV and shit FM power stations - call it the Nirvana syndrome, where you find suburban creep co-opts the culture and the music you loved first. Speaking of dancing, it’s good to see these cats still spar-slash dancing goofily with each other, like they did in the “Outer Space” video. Roseland is truly a legendary venue, it was once one of the great dancehalls of New York and even during the heady days of disco it saw many an amazing party and some of the world’s greatest dancers loved it because just under the layer of the floor is a sub layer or cork, which makes it a very special surface to get acrobatic on. This is probably the shortest clip I’ll ever upload. This is unedited and shot in a single winding take, which was difficult, as bodies jostled about in the photo pit. The middle finger freeze-frame harkens back to the art for The Prodigy’s amazing LP “Music For The Jilted Generation”. Unlike TripTrop, ClipClop does not have an ivory version.An oral history of The Prodigy, part two.Īccompanying the concert video that opens this post, here’s what I wrote at the time, at my Youtube page :.Flora, an Arena (Coliseum) wizard, has this pet.This pet's old sprite resembles the Minotaur.This pet is found on floor 8 of the Dark Tower.
The entire old evolution line carried a horn.There is evidence that a ClipClop can interact with wizards as a Tyscout would.However, the old ClipClops had more hair. In battle, ClipClop's old sprite would blow its hair from its eyes in its sprite, similar to how TripTrop's old sprite, its previous evolution, would blow into its flute.There is a world, Grumpus, that represents ClipClop. Sometimes, pets can learn either/or of a move. TripTrop - Level 24 ⟶ ClipClop Other Pets with Two Evolution Stages Ice element spells ( Shiverchill Mountains).
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