Liam Howlett with Live (Screenshot)

dirtystudios · Post by **dirtystudios** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:39 am

I just heard "Girls" off the new album and it sounded very amaturish. I'm not surprised to hear it was all done in Reason, it sounded like it.

k

horselesspaul · Post by **horselesspaul** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:05 am

dirtystudios wrote:I just heard "Girls" off the new album and it sounded very amaturish. I'm not surprised to hear it was all done in Reason, it sounded like it.

k

Totally.
Just resampled Prodigy tunes made from other people's music in the first place. REALLY uninspired.
Personally, while I liked the last 2 albums, I thought they sounded very grainy and overcompressed. This one is just tedious. Shame he couldn't afford to buy Reason. Really sends out the right messages to the yoof, innit. I wonder if he's a registered Live user?

Paul.

raapie · Post by **raapie** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:19 am

dirtystudios wrote:I just heard "Girls" off the new album and it sounded very amaturish. I'm not surprised to hear it was all done in Reason, it sounded like it.

k

So the tools are more important than the music?

Is a song with a Fender Strat worse than one with a Les Paul. I mean: a Strat hums like HELL!

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:21 am

but a strat has GUTZ!!

Big difference in sound.

-Ben

MarkH · Post by **MarkH** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:57 am

horselesspaul wrote:Shame he couldn't afford to buy Reason. Really sends out the right messages to the yoof, innit. I wonder if he's a registered Live user?Paul.

C'mon man, do you really think the Props would have interviewed him and posted the interview on their web site if he was using a pirated copy? Tell me you're not that gullible to believe what some schmoe posts.

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:30 am

I don't know, Angstrom seems reliable to me, i trust his free plug ins anyway. I've nothing but pity in my heart for Liam Howlett after seeing some of the carry on his Missus got up to in "I'm a celebrity, get me on telly". I really liked Action Radar and Girls and nearly liked the Juliet Whatshername track, the rest of it hmmmm!. I thought the sound of the album was grand, if a little "clean wants to be dirty" with all that fancy analog distortion from the Culture Vulture.

JAMM · Post by **JAMM** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:29 am

The man made milions with his music so i think reason isn.t a problem to buy. He is mastering everthing in protools so if it sounding not the same as the big beats he used to make a few years ago maybee he is doing that with a plan. The guys could easely make the same music again but why should he. I personaly like this style better.

MarkH · Post by **MarkH** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:33 am

JAMM wrote:The guys could easely make the same music again but why should he. I personaly like this style better.

And they did make the same music again with the single "Baby's Got a Temper" released in 2002. Liam trashed it because he felt like it was Fat of the Land - Part 2. Anyway, I dig the new album. Good stuff.

horselesspaul · Post by **horselesspaul** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:06 pm

MarkH wrote:
horselesspaul wrote:Shame he couldn't afford to buy Reason. Really sends out the right messages to the yoof, innit. I wonder if he's a registered Live user?Paul.
C'mon man, do you really think the Props would have interviewed him and posted the interview on their web site if he was using a pirated copy? Tell me you're not that gullible to believe what some schmoe posts.

I heard this R1 interview myself. Maybe they gave him a copy afterwards.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:46 pm

some schmoe wrote:Tell me you're not that gullible to believe what some schmoe posts

well that's the way I remember it!

It was implied (although not explicity stated) that he bought a copy as soon as anyone took an interest in the music being anything beyond it being just doodlings.

I think he said: " a friend of mine was trying to get me to do something constructive and kept going on about how exciting reason was, but I wasn't intersted. He did me a copy, but I didnt touch it for ages until I was really bored one day"

seemed like an unwitting admission of receipt of a bootleg copy to me!

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:58 pm

MrYellow wrote:but a strat has GUTZ!!

Big difference in sound.

-Ben

I disagree, LP has more Gutz but Strat CUTZ!

nexus-6 · Post by **nexus-6** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:18 pm

whats the advantage of having ableton live running in sync on 2 laptops???

and i like the new prodigy album(didnt at first,but after i have listened to it a couple of times i think its a good album)

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:26 pm

nexus-6 wrote:whats the advantage of having ableton live running in sync on 2 laptops???

More tracks at once, you could cross fade between the two

double the help screens, or you could have the manual up on one while using the other...

Spiralgroove · Post by **Spiralgroove** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:36 pm

nexus-6 wrote:whats the advantage of having ableton live running in sync on 2 laptops???

he can switch songs without having to stop also (at least youd hope so)

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:26 pm

MarkH wrote:
JAMM wrote:The guys could easely make the same music again but why should he. I personaly like this style better.
And they did make the same music again with the single "Baby's Got a Temper" released in 2002. Liam trashed it because he felt like it was Fat of the Land - Part 2. Anyway, I dig the new album. Good stuff.

yug, that Baby Got a Temper song was nowhere near Fat of the Land... i was kinda expecting Prodigy would go down the drain. they were doing too much drugs for too long... (if there's such a thing as too much drugs ofcourse

)