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While personally saddened by this loss, I don't think this post "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While personally saddened by this loss, I don't think this post "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Keith was bouncing around on stage, and then all of a sudden he jumps off and starts to run down the walk way at high speed. You could see the overweight security guards freak out and start to try and follow him to make sure he didn't get hurt. He runs within like 2 feet of us and makes his way back on stage. After a couple of minutes, he then proceeds to do it again causing the crowd in there to go nuts. They were so much fun to watch.
> Flint's distinctive appearance, vocals and dancing made him one of the most recognizable figures on the British techno scene > Keith Flint, singer on hits like ‘Firestarter’ for British electro-pop pioneers The Prodigy, has died aged 49 CNN shows again its ignorance, The Prodigy is not techno and not electro-pop.
Lots of '90s bands labeled as "grunge", "shoegaze" or "Britpop" weren't any of those things, but for the benefit of the reading public, it was easier to connect them to a "scene" using those terms.
Music for the Jilted Generation is one of the best electronic albums I've ever heard. Not sure how much Keith contributed to that particular album (at the time I think it was mainly Liam Howlett's project) but certainly Fat of the Land is a seminal electronic album as well, and Keith was a very visible part of that act.
I discovered The Prodigy in an odd way. I was walking down the sidewalk in 2003 in northern Utah. and a car drove past me on the road. They hit a pot-hole really hard. So hard that it caused a CD in their visor-cd-holder-thing to shoot out of the open car window. It was an unlabeled burned CD that landed darn near my feet. I took it home and popped it in my CD player. It was Fat of the Land.