The Prodigy had been famous in Britain since 1991, when their debut song “Charly” flooded dance floors across the nation. The story of how The Prodigy came to symbolize a kind of techno-dystopian darkness says as much about the late 1990s as the band itself. People seemed to “think it’s about the internet, the future, technology, play stations -and it isn’t!” he said. In a Spin magazine cover story, Flint, who died this week at the age of 49, described his bafflement at the way British rave culture was being translated for Americans. With its third album, The Fat of the Land, led by the massive singles “Firestarter” and “Breathe,” The Prodigy became the first of the 1990s British dance acts to cross the Atlantic. After a long youth dancing in English rural barns (literally-his local club in Essex was called The Barn), the band he sang for was breaking America.
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