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What is the Best Rave Anthem of the 1990s?

This is the first installment of our series cataloging the best rave anthems over the decades.

Let’s take a trip down nostalgia lane… all the way back to the ancient days of the 1990s when the rave scene was still underground. The 1990s proved to be a seminal time in rave culture, where the heavily gelled and spiked hair of the ravers started to peak out from underground and be seen in the mainstream. A time when JNCO jeans and butterfly hair clips reigned supreme. You had to know someone who knew someone to find out the location. Rave tracks from the 90s bring up a lot of emotion with not just the ravers from that era, but almost anyone who grew up listening to electronic music. So what are the best rave tracks from the 1990s? Let’s dig in.

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Op Ed: Sonic Resistance, The Power of Music in Protest

When I was a kid my mom introduced me to The Prodigy. I really loved them, and I still do, but how do you explain The Prodigy to another third-grader who is a die-hard Hillary Duff fan? Throughout elementary school and beyond I’ve always considered music to be a form of personal protest. It’s been my sounding board, always challenging me to question what feels accepted, conventional, or expected. This isn’t an unusual sentiment. In fact, I hope it’s widespread. Consider moments when that one song can explain everything and everyone. When you connect to that one song because it is a testament to your reality, and no one else’s reality. Music is more than mere vibrations: sounds amplify worlds that you cannot see.

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The Prodigy Frontman Keith Flint Dead at 49 Due to Suicide

It is with sadness that the world’s music community learned of Keith Flint‘s passing today.

The Prodigy frontman was found dead at his Essex home, aged 49. Police are not treating the death as suspicious:

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Paula Temple Remixes The Prodigy’s “Roadblox”

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Paula Temple has stepped onto an elevated plane in true industrial fashion with a dark techno remix of The Prodigy’s original drum and bass track Roadblox. The remix was released this morning on Ghent’s R&S Records, an independent label that consistently releases new wave dance music and techno that possess massive underground appeal in addition to its progressive, virtually avant-garde aesthetic. Read more