PRODIGY, (The) Smack My Bitch Up CD/SINGLE (1996)

1997. A music video so confrontational the BBC refused to air it uncut. A track so relentlessly aggressive it made rave culture feel genuinely dangerous again. The Prodigy didn't make electronic music, they made something that sounded like the end of the night when things had gone properly sideways.

Smack My Bitch Up is one of the defining moments of big beat, a genre that was always too loud and too chaotic to last, which is exactly why it mattered. This UK CD single from 1996 is a piece of that moment, back when a 3-track single felt like an event. The Prodigy at their most confrontational, which is saying something given the band that made Firestarter and Breathe in the same year.

CD single, 1996 UK pressing, Electronic/Big Beat. Condition reflective of price, worth checking in store or asking us about. A solid grab for collectors or anyone building out a 90s alternative and electronic section.

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