My free remix of Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy. Never got much airplay obviously and when it did it was the vocal free version. Still a banger. Takes me back seeing them for the first time playing at the Civic Hall in Guildford on 25th October 1994, then at Glastonbury 97 and Reading Festival 98. Good times!
In 2013, Mixmag readers voted it the third greatest dance track of all time.
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Samples:
Intro Guitar & Breakbeat: Kool and the Gang: Funky Man [Live at the Sex Machine, 1971]
Intro Bassline: Randy Weston - In Memory of [Tanjah, 1973]
"Wow" Guitar: Cold Cut - More Beats + Pieces (Mo' Bass Remix) [Beats + Pieces, 1987]
Bass Kick / Shaker fill: Ultramagnetic MC’s – Critical Beatdown [Critical Beatdown, 1988]
Time Stretched Guitar: Rage Against The Machine - Bull's on Parade [Evil Empire, 1996]
Vocal: "Change my pitch up, smack my bitch up": The original song is "Give The Drummer Some" by The Ultramagnetic MC's, found on the album Critical Breakdown. The rapper is Kool Keith from The Ultramagnetic MC's.
Indian Female Vocal: it's not actually a sample but the vocalist is the Middle Eastern artist Shahin Badar. Early live version of Smack My Bitch Up contained a different female vocal. It was taken from Sheila Chandra's "Nana - the dreaming". Sitar that can be heard in this part is also taken from this same track.
Buy the original here:
shop.xlrecordings.com/release/346932-the-prodigy-smack-my-bitch-up
released March 1, 2024