It was late December 2001, I decided to do a small New Year present to people around, I spent few hours in FT2 remixing “Bionic”, a nice sketch track. It was last track ever done by me in FastTracker 2. I never touched FT2 afterwards.

the Second Division - Bionic (Original Remix)

Finally, after more than 7 years of *hell communications* internet service usage I managed to get an ADSL home connection. Basically this means that from this moment I can do unlimited uploads, at least. Unfortunately, there is still a big difference between Moscow and deep Russia regions, it reminds me a time difference, like we (Russia province) live with a 10 years delay. Well, I still think it’s up to people, I doubt there is any damnation.

Anyway, I’m going to upload all our tracks including very first ones. Today it goes Word in under attack, one of the first and fully sample-based track. The track was written something like 7 years ago, and it was the time when it was impossible to get any sampled material at least in deep Siberia. I’ve used a lot of hip-hop samples from old modules and first E-Jay bank.

the Second Division - World is under attack

yo yo, its been a long time. i lost my computer! we played great show last nite in dubai.never been there before so thanks to the people . bizzare line up with iron maiden on after us(rawk). it was a metal concert but we brought the beats. we played a cover version of war by dogg , one of keefs fav tunes. not sure what we will do with it but it rocked.

i got the new label up and running now ‘ragged flag recordings’ as you may have heard, we are all excited about it.
see ya soon

mr H (appy)

I don’t want to comment the crap above, lemme post something like my remix of it:

yo yo!!!!1 its been fucking ages since i was working on new prodigy sexy remix! i hate my computer! been fighting to my great asthma , so thanks to the doctors . just finished building bizzare sound system in reaktor . played sounds nobody heard of.

i got the new hardware to build a new rocking pc as you may don’t care , i am the only one who exited about it .

see ya s *burb* n!!11!

mr Z (illion of pocket holes)

Pop princess, yeh? American dream yeah? Remember Michel Jackson story? Something’s really wrong goin on in States. You know, I’ve been moaning a lot lately, Russia isn’t best place to live and stuff. But, now I think it’s the best one, for me, right now. I’m not rich, it’s been damn cold for weeks, but there are so many of things make me feel unique. I know a lot of stuff, I own a few internet projects, my head is full of ideas, I like *very* different music, sometime I think there is no culture or information I couldn’t comprehend. Really, need a rehabilitation? Come to Siberia. The thought is short, but I’ve got a whole year to tell you my stories and putting out new remixes.

THE PRODIGY are back with their own new label, and this time they’re doing it their way. Always fiercely independent, the band have decided to set up their new label Ragged Flag, which will be the platform for their next album release and will subsequently act as an outlet for new talent that they find.

Backed by UK Independent label Cooking Vinyl, the deal will allow the band to continue to enjoy total creative control over all aspects of their music and how it is presented.

Prodigy founder member Liam Howlett commented : ‘”We have been planning this for a while and we are looking forward to building our label up, starting off with the release of the new Prodigy album. We have recorded a few songs already for this next album and they are sounding big and mean!”

“The Prodigy are one of the most relevant bands to today’s world,” said Cooking Vinyl’s Managing Director Martin Goldschmidt. “It is a real honour to be entrusted with handling affairs for Ragged Flag. This is a fantastic start to 2007, and it is the start of a new era for Cooking Vinyl.”

Says Cooking Vinyl’s Product Director Rob Collins, “We can’t wait to start getting music out there and show everybody just how great this band is.”

Generally long-awaited and well-predicted news.. But I wouldn’t hurry to call it a good news. I’ve alread heard the “relevant”, “sounding big”. I haven’t heard any music from the label yet, and I suspect the new Prodigy album’s gonna be the last one for the Prodigy. I bet the guys are tired of being in the “relevant bands to today’s world”. And it seems it’s time to review their contracts. As an idle-fan of the Prodigy I’m tired of the Prodigy, I’m tired people lick band’s asses, I’m tired of pointless news, new eras, fantastic starts, “recorded few songs”.

Well, I’m curious what about XL? I assume they’re gonna wait for another Liam ‘impatient’ Howlett. Maybe I could resend them Liam’s demo tape to get a record deal, whacha think? Basically, I think XL’s gonna down. They’re too much conservative, they’re conservative so much I could call them lazy. If they weren’t lazy they could find a dozen of Liam Howlett’s around. They could become something more than just the Prodigy music store.

Generally long-awaited and well-predicted news.. But I’m not happy, the news sounds too damn cheap again..