History Music / Experience

Experience was the debut album by Music/TheProdigy, released on 28 September 1992. Until then, the band was only one of many on the blossoming British rave scene. However, this very first LP became their breakthrough and immediately distinguished them from their peers due to the whole set of memorable tracks and the general creativity of their approach to sampling.

Experience was the debut album by Music/TheProdigy, released on 28 September 1992. Until then the band was only one of many on the blossoming British rave scene. However, this very first LP became their breakthrough and immediately distinguished them from their peers due to the whole set of memorable tracks and the general creativity of their approach to sampling. Fittingly for the first release, ''Experience'' was playful hardcore breakbeat with samples galore. As a result, this album was somewhat of a TropeMaker for the dance music album, because previously electronic/rave bands never managed to release an album full of worthwhile material.

6 songs off this album were released as singles (including a double A-side single, "Fire"/"Jericho"). The first, pre-album, single, "Charly", appearing in August 1991, reached the 3rd place in the British hit-parade and caused controversy with some critics slamming it. However the following single, "Everybody in the Place" (released in the very end of 1991), already reached the 2rd position in the same chart and it became clear that The Prodigy were not a one-hit wonder. Later "Out of Space" became a very successful song complete with a popular video.

Experience was thr debut album by Music/TheProdigy, released on 28 September 1992. Until then the band was only one of many on the blossoming British rave scene. However, this very first LP became their breakthrough and immediately distinguished them from their peers due to the whole set of memorable tracks and the general creativity of their approach to sampling. Fittingly for the first release, ''Experience'' was playful hardcore breakbeat with samples galore. As a result, this album was somewhat of a TropeMaker for the dance music album, because previously electronic/rave bands never managed to release an album full of worthwhile material.

** On "Fire" Liam Howlett samples by the song of the same name by Creator/ArthurBrown.

---> '''Music/{{Moby}}''': "Dance albums had always failed [...] because they didn't work over the full length of the record. Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didn't want to do[...]''Experience'' impressed me because they'd managed to create a full listening experience which encompassed various styles."

Experience was a debut album by Music/TheProdigy, released on 28 September 1992. Until then the band was only one of the many on the blossoming British rave scene. However this very first LP became their breakthrough and immediately distinguished them from their peers due to the whole set of memorable tracks and the heneral creativity of approach to sampling. Fittingly for the first release, Experience was playful hardcore breakbeat with samples abound. As a result this album was somewhat of a Trope Maker for the dance music album, because previously electronic/rave bands never managed to release an album full of worthwhile material.

6 songs off this album were released as singles (including a double single Fire/Jericho). The first, pre-album, single, Charly, appearing in August 1991, reached the 3rd place in the British hit-parade and caused controvercy with some critics slamming it. However the following single, Everybody in the Place (released in the very end of 1991), already reached the 2rd position in the same chart and it became clear that The Prodigy were not a one-hit wonder. Later Out of Space became a very successful song complete with a popular video.

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* BiblicalMotifs: Jericho with the words "the horns of Jericho".

** Keep on dancing on ''Jericho''.
** Titular "Ruff in a jungle" is repeated many times on the penultimate track.
* DownerEnding: Played with. At least the last track bears the name ''Death of the Prodigy Dancers''. Although it is still live. However the final seconds imply that something ''unpleasant'' might have happened.
* EpicRocking: ''Weather Experience'' is over 8 minutes long.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: ''Jericho'' → ''Music Reach'' → ''Wind It Up''
* MeaningfulName: For Liam Howlett it was a new experience to make a whole album of music. Same for the rave scene, which mostly rwached out to its audience through compilations.

* LastNoteNightmare: ''Death of the Prodigy Dancers'' ends with the sudden "Oh, no" by an MC, random whistles from the audience and fading heartbeat.

* NoEnding: The album's last track, ''Death of the Prodigy Dancers (Live)'', ends too abruptly.
* OneWordTitle: Experience proper.
** Definitely Jericho.
** Also Charly and Fire play with this trope. Official track names contain indications of the versions present on the album, however songs themselves are named by one word.

** On ''Fire'' Liam Howlett samples by the song of the same name by Creator/ArthurBrown.
--->I am the god of hellfire and I bring you FIRE.
* SopranoAndGravel: ''Ruff in the Jungle Bizness'' where the girl sings which the guy repeats the title in a coarse voice.

---> '''Moby''': "dance albums had always failed [...] because they didn't work over the full length of the record. Mostly they were singles collections which was exactly what I didn't want to do,[...]Rxperience impressed me because they'd managed to create a full listening experience which encompassed various styles."
* XtremeKoolLetterz: ''Ruff in the Jungle Bizness''