Liam Paris Howlett (born 21 August 1971) is a DJ and core member of the English band The Prodigy.
Howlett was born in Braintree, Essex. He was trained in classical piano from childhood. At the age of 14, he mixed songs recorded from the radio using the pause button on his cassette player. He was first influenced by hip-hop music and culture when he began to attend school at Alec Hunter Humanities College in Braintree. He learned breakdancing alon...
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Liam Paris Howlett (born 21 August 1971) is a DJ and core member of the English band The Prodigy.
Howlett was born in Braintree, Essex. He was trained in classical piano from childhood. At the age of 14, he mixed songs recorded from the radio using the pause button on his cassette player. He was first influenced by hip-hop music and culture when he began to attend school at Alec Hunter Humanities College in Braintree. He learned breakdancing alongside his crew called The Pure City Breakers, and DJed in his first band Cut 2 Kill before starting to write his own music.
He became connected to rave music and he reportedly went to his first rave in 1989.
On weekends, he went to all the raves and when the clubs closed down in the early morning those ravers went on to party on the beach while Liam played a compilation of the latest rave tracks out of a van. One day, Keith Flint approached him and asked whether Liam could do some mixes for him. When Liam had done the mixes he would pass it to...
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