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The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex, England. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method, as well as other acts they are pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre which achieved mainstream popularity in...
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Big beat
Big beat is a term employed since the mid 1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads and The Prodigy, typically driven by heavy breakbeats...
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic...
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988. Many styles of techno now exist, but...
Breakbeat
Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These...
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not...
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Industrial music
Industrial music is an experimental music style, often including electronic music, that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The premise behind creation of industrial music was to "pursue music in the context of the late industrial society...
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Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. The term is often used to describe the means of production and distribution of independent underground music, as well as the style of music...
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Alternative rock
Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the...
Rave music
Rave music consists of forms of electronic dance music that are associated with the rave scene.
Most often, the term is used to describe high in energy music, including some forms of trance music, that features samples, loops and synthesizers. Less...
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- Their Law: The Singles 1990-2005 ,
- Music for the Jilted Generation ,
- The Prodigy Experience ,
- Full On... Mask Hysteria
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Acid house
Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed by mid-1980s DJs from...
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Hardcore techno
Hardcore is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK. The style is typified by a fast tempo, and the rhythmic use of distorted and...
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Synthpunk
Synthpunk (also known as electropunk) is a music genre combining elements of electronic rock and punk rock. The term invented by Damian Ramsey in 1999 as an attempt to retroactively identify a small sub-genre of punk music from 1977–1984 that...
Alternative dance
Alternative dance (also referred to as underground dance in the US) is a musical genre that mixes rock subgenres with electronic dance music. Although largely confined to the British Isles, the genre has gained American and worldwide exposure...
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Dance-punk
Dance-punk (also known as disco-punk, punk-funk and indie-dance) is a music genre that emerged in the late 1970s, and is closely associated with the post-punk and no wave movements.
Many groups in the post-punk era adopted a more rhythmic tempo,...
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Electropunk
Electropunk is an umbrella term that describes the combination of electronic music with the attitude of punk. Popular and important artists of the early electropunk period were Suicide from the USA, DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses from Germany, and...
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music that is produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment. The music is largely created for use by disc jockeys and...
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- She's in Control ,
- Me Myself & Rye... An Introduction To The Russian Futurists ,
- A State of Trance 2007 ,
- Zoomer
