Music for the Jilted Generation by The Prodigy

Music for the Jilted Generation, the Prodigy's second album, landed on XL Recordings on 4 July 1994, and it's the sound of a rave act refusing to stay politely in the field. Liam Howlett produced it and built it, leaving the rave roots of Experience behind for techno and breakbeat muscle: fat, heavy basslines, beats that hit like a shove in a packed club, and an aggression the dance floor hadn't asked for but got anyway.

On record it was a two-man job, Howlett plus MC Maxim, with Keith Flint and Leeroy Thornhill uncredited on any track even though all four turned up in the liner-note photos. "Voodoo People" and "No Good (Start the Dance)" are the calling cards. Critics cheered how far it pushed dance music, it sold, and the commercial peak of The Fat of the Land was next.

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