Rock’n'Roll remix was actually a BD present for Liam Howlett
Hey guys, this is a first post at this blog. And I’d like to start it with our first serious Prodigy remixing work – Rock’n'roll. There were many remixes before Poison (many versions), Mindfields and probably other tracks but none of them were released as MP3 for public before Rock’n'roll did the release.
It was summer 2000, I think it was my happiest time in my life. Funny to remember how I did an escape from a local hospital (not a madhouse, madhouse was later) just to have some time to make a present for Liam. So, I did it. Came home, It took not much of time to select track, I was under big inspiration from Prodigy these days, especially live tracks. I decided to put my hands on Rock’N'Roll – simple but sincere as hell track. There was another reason for the choice – nobody before remixed a live Prodigy track, it was a quite challenge to me. The only things we had to start were a couple of bootlegs, pair of old PC, some free HDD space and hell of the inspiration. The PC of mine was not actually mine these days, I borrowed it. It had no monitor, so I borrowed the monitor as well. The configuration of the PC was Pentium 133Mhz, 24M RAM, 1.6G HDD, SB16, this sounds funny, but it was damn powerfull workstation to me. Anyway, I sat to work at middle August night, took “Serial Thrillas” bootleg CD, cut down the all related track parts with SoundForge 4.5, cut the main pad bass from “Zero and Ones” Liam’s remix. Just one night, it took just one night, crappy 4 hours to make a basic version of the mix I’m still proud of. By the August 17th 2000 we had the pretty nice raw version of the mix. It was BDay of my mom, I had to go with my family to a local cafe to celebrate it. All the party people knew that I don’t drink vodka and let me out early night. I came back to home, called to Al. A. Smith and asked him to come and try to record some guitars to the mix I did day before. He came and we just did it! He played the best of samples of the final Rock’n'Roll version! I took the whole sample pack, did some filters in Generator (old name for Reaktor – software synth), and the samples fit the track perfectly. Al. A. Smith wasn’t lazy to add some lead sounds to finish up overall work.
I was a newbie as an Internet surfer and could not find any ways to send the present except e-mailing it as an attachment to XL recordings! LOL! 1.7 megabytes attachment – I bet it was pure shock for XL these ealy internet days. No doubt – they deleted the russian weirdo’s message from the server! But XL wasn’t the only victim. Neko was the next one:
We sent you remix of “Rock’N'Roll”. Have you received it? Explain to
us! May be you have changed the attitude to The Prodigy? All this is
strange, man! Have you received our MP3?
This was an original version of first agressive spam event which Neko has ever recieved I believe! Later we discovered that the “man” is actually girl from Switzerland who don’t remember that Russians gave a butt kick to Napoleon to set this small country free about 200 years ago 
Well, the story of mine acquaintance with Neko has a good end, another proudly fact, hehe. So, another grateful victim was Jugez, but this time got fast and proper reply, no need to remember another Russian-Finland war So, this is quite end of the Rock’N'Roll remix story.
I guess Liam still havn’t heard the mix. Shame on XL!
aah… hell with that, the mix:
Prodigy – Rock’N'Roll (the Second Division remix).mp3
