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So U2's manager has stepped into the ring. In the red corner, the music industry. In the blue corner, sanity. Red corner: Internet can be used for illegally sending music to some one! Blue corner: Internets is a bit more than that (piracy & memes). Red corner: But it's also used for illegal purposes (purposes which are stopping me from paying for my yacht). So we want to decide when to cut you off. Blue corner: .... Red corner: GHHHHUHHHHHHH. They've clearly missed a trick here, because really if I want some illegal music I don't need an internet connection. I can get me some tracks off a friend through the good ol' sneakernet if they live close, or through the postal system if they don't. Next week, music industry makes taking CD's out of their cases illegal. Also if you hear music in the background of a phone call then you have to make sure you own the track otherwise put the phone down. (I incidentally do engage in some piracy, but purely for the purposes of try-before-you-buy, I spend a fortune on music that I love, same for books, movies and tv series.) I'm actually half tempted to set up a site where you put in the genres you fancy and someone from wherever who've got similar interests send you a dvd full to the brim. Can't imagine them being able to shut down the postal system really.
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I understand you know. I understand that it's inevitable that it'll be compared to Pendulum - In Silico, and that people will talk about them sounding so alike. This is because those people have no sense. Truly the most merciful thing to do would be to cut their ears off, spare them any more torture of listening to music and just not getting it.
I'll hold my hands up, I hated In Silico, and to an extent have a strong dislike for Pendulum due to it, and after hearing early reports of the Prodigy apparently sounding just like them I was concerned. Extremely concerned. Thankfully my concerns were unneeded and it sounds fuck all like Pendulum. You know who it sounds like? Prodigy. You know why it doesn't sound like Pendulum? Well for a start decent vocals.
The entire album is the usual Prodigy romp through sounds, never really easing off until the last track which unfortunately takes a slow and slightly more chilled out stance, which sort of spoils the end of the album. After 10 prior tracks of drum and bass style drops, and shouty lyrics it comes as a bit of a surprise. For the moment it's an unwelcome one but it may very well grow on me.
Omen of course is the one thats gotten air time recently, and for good reason it's an excellent track, but there's some other tracks that are fantastic, Thunder being the first one that springs to mind. But speaking of Omen, the EP is definitely worth a look in, the remixes of Omen by Herve and Noisia are excellent plus a remix of the albums title track by Chase & Status rounds out Prodigy's courting of the big names in drum and bass.
All in all the album has been worth the wait, and in case you missed it, it's nothing like Pendulum so stop with the comparisons before ears have to be taken.
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