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C'è da dire che rispetto ai lavori precedenti, con questo i Prodigy hanno quasi cambiato genere, passando da una techno innovativa e molto apprezzabile ad una techno molto incazzata. Con questo non voglio dire che l'album non mi piace, anzi alcune canzoni le trovo belle, ma preferivo comunque i precedenti "Experience" e "Music For Jilted Generation".
Non mi è lecito sapere cosa frullava nella testa di Liam Howlett quando ha deciso di affidare ad un ballerino (Kool Keith) il ruolo di cantante, ma l'unica cosa di cui sono certo è che questo nano-punk non sa cantare (difatti la sua voce è plasmata dalla Dea Tecnologia). Fortunatamente nella prima canzone non lo si sente. "Smack My Bitch Up" è a mio parere uno dei brani più riusciti di questo gruppo, e lo dico non solo in qualità di dj, ma anche in qualità di uno che ne ha visto il video quando era praticamente ancora un pargoletto. La seguente "Breathe" (l'inizio vi suonerà familiare perché è un campionamento del riff-colonna sonora di 007) è l'unico brano che mi piaccia contaminato dalla voce di Keith. Perché ? Perché è potente, cazzo.
Poi c' è una sfilza di canzoni dove si sentono chiaramente le influenze hip-hop del terzo membro Maxim. Francamente non mi piacciono. "Serial Thrilla" è techno hard-core allo stato brado, iper incazzato. Poi c'è "Narayan", di cui apprezzo particolarmente la parte da estasi ipnotica medio-orientale. Segue l'incazzatissima "Firestarter", che mi fa un po' storcere il naso dicendo: valeva proprio la pena di addentrarsi in un tipo di techno così spinta? So che a molti piace, ma personalmente non la trovo per niente buona.
Resta un bell'album ma secondo me non all'altezza dei precedenti (ebbene si, anche 'Experience' mi sembra migliore). Pazienza… preferivo i tempi in cui Kool Keith era un ballerino coi capelli lunghi e la tuta da ginnastica…
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Smack My Bitch Up (05:42)
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
(Aaaaaa... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... aaaa aaaaaa .......
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Aaaaaa... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa aaaa..
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Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
Change my pitch up.
Smack my bitch up.
02 Breathe (05:34)
Breathe with me.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale.
Breathe with me.
Breathe with me.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale
Breathe with me.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psychosomatic addict, insane.
Breathe the pressure,
Come play my game I'll test ya.
Psycho,-somatic addict, insane.
Come play my game.
Inhale, inhale, you're the victim.
Come play my game.
Exhale, exhale, exhale
03 Diesel Power (04:17)
Yo, I used to check out lyrics upon the format
Build with skill with technique. Computer A-DAT
My lyrical form is clouds on your brainstorm
I get hyped think thought flow. Acrobat, sink the track, pump the track
Dance missions,clubs like spores react by. Strong visions
And hurrying more. Reflects on the dancefloor
Flow it up and having now people showing up
Packing crowds jam packed venues
Needles collapse, while atmosphere continues
Sprinkle that,
Winnin' like that, movin'like that, hittin' like that
The melody is phat
Yeah, I'm on the energy source
The cosmic force
With Prodigy
Kicking astrology
My intellect's the power
With Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta..
We spin back rewind. Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantasically
It has to be, automatically
Check it out. You better work it out
Change to another route
My techniques, strategies, abilities.
I leave cords of mikes hanging like spring leaves
You would try so fast. Beyond the human eye
Lyrical tactics, vocal gymnastics
E's and pepped up
You get swept up
Smacked up, backed up, your crew's all cracked up
Checking flow
Quick choose quick
You can't stick
My medical brain's a stranger's angles
You get tangled. Twisting side effects us
Channels repeat, complete. Can't compete
Check that our texture
Mind adventure
Exploit the point
It attracts to devour
My intellectual seed
With diesel power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta...
Back attack
And wack patch you're faxing me
You don't want none
High quality acts should be still standing
Damaging your other manic
Quick reverse
Potent as the first verse
My amplifier blows on your world's higher
World's sire
Cuts like a barbed wire
Record player
I pull up on you every day
Fast forward
I move And I swings forward
Exit load
Put your brain in right mode
Selected mix
The man with perfected fix has lightly bite me
Copy zimmer. Cops' handblocks
You can't knocks some out there
I've been lifting, shifting, persisting
Intelligent kingpin
Keep the strategy
As I roll with Prodigy
With Diesel Power
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fanta...
Mono 706
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Robot sonic
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
Blows your mind drastically, fantastically
04 Funky Shit (05:16)
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
Oh my god that's the:
Funky shit!
05 Serial Thrilla (05:11)
Damage destructor
Crowd disrupter
Youth corrupter
Every timer
Damage destructor
Crowd disrupter
Mind liner
Every timer
Taste me, Taste me
Succumb to me, succumb to me
Taste me, Taste me
Succumb to me, succumb to the
Serial thrilla, serious killa...
06 Mindfields (05:39)
This is dangerous..
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous,
I walk though mindfields, I watch your head rot.
This is dangerous,
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous..
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous,
I walk though mindfields, I watch your head rot.
This is dangerous,
Open up your head feel the shell-shock.
This is dangerous,
I walk though mindfields, I watch your head rot.
I watch your head rot.
[Pretty much carries on like this all the way thru..]
07 Narayan (09:05)
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
If you break it free and the morning's come
If you would now your time has come
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
And you feel it burn, don't try to run
And you feel it burn, your time has come
And I feel it
You feel another energy and I feel a power growing
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
If you break it free and the morning's come
If you would now your time has come
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone
And you feel it burn, don't try to run
And you feel it burn, your time has come
I feel it!
You feel another energy and I feel a power growing
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
You feel another energy and I feel a power grow
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
Om Namah Narayana
I feel it
I feel it
You feel another energy...
08 Firestarter (04:41)
I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigator.
I'm the fear addicted and danger illustrated.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
You're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
I'm the bitch you hated, filth infatuated-yeah.
I'm the pain you tasted, well intoxicated.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
You're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
I'm the self inflicted, mine detonator-yeah
I'm the one infected, twisted animator.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
You're the firestarter, twisted firestarter.
I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,
Starter... starter... starter...
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Di GATTINATOR
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