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The Prodigy
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![The Prodigy in 2009](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Prodigy-rock-am-ring-2009.jpg/260px-Prodigy-rock-am-ring-2009.jpg) The Prodigy in 2009
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Origin
| Braintree
,
Essex
, England
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Genres
| Electronic
,
big beat
,
breakbeat
,
rave
,
dance-punk
,
alternative dance
,
alternative rock
,
electronic rock
,
industrial
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Years active
| 1990?present
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Labels
| Take Me to the Hospital
,
Ragged Flag
,
Cooking Vinyl
,
XL
,
Beggars Banquet
,
Mute
,
Maverick
,
Warner Bros.
,
Elektra
,
Shock
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Members
| Liam Howlett
Maxim
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Past member(s)
| Leeroy Thornhill
Keith Flint
Sharky
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Website
| www.the prodigy.com
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The synth that the band was named after.
The Prodigy
are an English
electronic dance music
group. It was by Liam Howlett in 1990 in
Braintree, Essex
. Along with
Fatboy Slim
,
The Chemical Brothers
and
The Crystal Method
, as well as other acts, members of the Prodigy have been said as founders of the
big beat
genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s. They have sold over 25 million records worldwide.
[1]
They named the band after the synthesizer, Moog Prodigy.
[2]
- Experience
(1992)
- Music for the Jilted Generation
(1994)
- The Fat of the Land
(1997)
- Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
(2004)
- Invaders Must Die
(2009)
- The Day Is My Enemy
(2015)
- No Tourists
(2018)