Prodigy, The - What Evil Lurks


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Label: XL Recordings, XL Recordings
Catalog#: XLT-17, XLT 17
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:UK
Released:Feb 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore
Credits: Written-By, Producer, Mixed By - L. Howlett*
Notes:Approximately 7,000 copies pressed.

Due to the high demand, a lot of bootlegs have been pressed. The official release comes in a silver and black XL Recordings housing sleeve. Some copies have a What Evil Lurks sticker on it. Not all official copies have this sticker though and a copy which comes in an original sleeve can STILL be an illegal copy.

An original copy should have 'THE EXCHANGE' engraving in the run out groove of the vinyl. If this is not engraved in the record, it is a fake record, even if it comes in an original sleeve.

The first illegal copies came in a plain black sleeve. On the B-side it DID NOT state Android, instead it read ANDROIDS (with an S behind the word!). It also lacks The Exchange engraving in the run out groove.

The second run of illegal copies was more difficult to spot. It did not have the Androids error and the center label of the record was almost identical to the original record - so similar that it's very hard to see the difference! But it also lacks THE EXCHANGE engraved into the run out groove. This is how to tell the difference between the illegal copy and the original.

There has also been an official reissue of this EP in commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of XL Recordings. That edition has a different catalogue number - XLXV 1501

Track A1 title sample from 1940's radio series 'The Shadow'. "Breakdance" sample from West Street Mob - 'Break Dancin' - Electric Boogie'.
Rap sample from Ultramagnetic MC's - 'A Chorus Line' and horn sample from Madness - 'Night Boat To Cairo'.
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Tracklisting:

A1   What Evil Lurks (4:23)
A2   We Gonna Rock (4:34)
B1   Android (5:03)
B2   Everybody In The Place (3:27)
User Reviews:
djpepsi, May 20, 2005

Aye, bit of a groundbreaker this one, although not that great it somehow managed to carve out a niche for Liam Howlet. I think they timed his next release perfectly, so as to catch whatever this first one had managed to do. Personally i think it caught the people who were getting bored with the way the scene was becoming overground, The Prodigy grabbed the scene Altern-8 had managed to stem, that almost comical but hard edged approach to hardcore and the whole drugs culture. And for the record (no pun inteneded) i had the original promo of this with photocopied press release inside, god knows whose got it now, prolly up in Nottingham with DJ Dizzy.

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