Rave Digging: The Prodigy - “Everybody In The Place”

ravers Rave Digging: The Prodigy Everybody In The Place
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What’s your name? Where you from? Are you on one? Are ya, matey? What’s your name? Where you from? Are you-
And so on. Can you guess what this feature’s about yet, readership? If you answered “I think it might be a look at the time in the early to mid-nineties when cheap but enormously popular rave tunes started gatecrashing our beloved Top 40″, you’d be bang on. Matey.
With “nu-rave” - or at least the clothes inspired by the term - apparently not going away, now’s as good a time as any to revisit the days when young men would risk torn knee ligaments just to show that they could dance like Leeroy from The Prodigy (which they couldn’t).
And where better to start than with the Essex boys themselves - one of the first acts to take the rave movement into the charts?

“Everybody In The Place”, to these ears, still sounds frenetically exciting. It’s all over the bloody place, but is also a lazer-guided breakbeat monster designed to send “the youth” shape-throwingly mental. It achieves this aim very effectively.
And even if you hate this stuff, honestly - check out Maxim’s cartoonishly mesmerising feet around 1:42. Just don’t try and copy him or you’ll do yourself a mischief. Trust me, I know.
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[video: AkVerse47]