Sun on the Skylined
When a sunny day finally appears I get a little shot of happiness before I’ve even
start my day. That small adrenaline like feeling you get only when looking out of a
window onto a blue dawn, knowing that a day of warmth is ahead. That’s the feeling I
want replicated in my record that represents my sunny day, the record to help me
celebrate or find a little bit of sun on a grey passionless afternoon, for this task I
choose ‘Skylined’ by ‘The Prodigy’ the stick out track on the their sublime second
album ‘Music for a jilted generation’
A piece of music so powerful and personal it makes me feel like I’m in the sun.
If I close my eyes when listening to it I get the vision of just gliding towards an Ibiza
sunset, over the emerald waters of the great white isle, a cliché maybe, but for me the
ultimate summer image.
The backbone of this track is its rolling tribal drums, which confirms the Balearic
image in my mind to the point of feeling sand between my toes.
The production being almost orchestral in its composition, sweeping in with
crescendos and holding different levels of sounds as little audio platforms that leaves
it feeling like a condensed electronic symphony, I truly believe if Mozart was alive
today and had our technology and sound capabilities he would be sitting in a little
studio in Vienna churning out epic little journeys like this for fun, but fear not we
have our own Mozart and his name is Liam Howlett and he’s from Essex
. Long live the Prodigy.
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