The Prodigy   Smack my bitch up

Poison (95OQ) (1995)

The Prodigy - Spitfire (original)

If it weren't for Eliminate's "Audio Combat" YouTube series, there wouldn't be an Interbay.  

(Now if, for whatever reason, you're not a particular fan of Interbay--please, don't blame Nate.  The mistakes, all of them, have been mine and mine alone.)  

Let's speedrun through the backstory--I was the front man and co-songwriter for a few bands in the late 80s to the early 90s.  In '92, I moved to Seattle...and, somehow, never found myself a band during the Seattle scene explosion.  I still had song ideas--especially as my nightclub dj career took off--but I hadn't figured out how to craft them on my own.  I started collecting gear, but I'd always put off "putting together a home studio" to some later date.  

"If I only had some extra time..." I'd say.  

Then, in 2015--I was diagnosed and hospitalized with blood cancer (just half a year after my wife had been diagnosed with colon cancer--not my favorite year)...and when I got out of the hospital, I was so weak...I couldn't imagine going back to my previous jobs full time.  If EVER there was a time to set up a home studio...it would be at that moment.  I bought a laptop that I was only going to use for music production.  I bought Ableton 6 and a Push 2 and a Focusrite and some monitor speakers and tons of cables and a mixer and I opened a new folder and titled it Interbay 2017 (because I realized that there was a learning curve, I knew it would take some time before I'd create anything worth sharing.)  

And then?  Nothing.  Most of those things are still in the boxes I bought them in.  The learning curve was so daunting--and I just wanted to have fun making music!  And then I recovered enough to get back to my comedy industry career and the moment was gone.  

A few years later, the Covid lockdowns happened--and I was forced to not work, forced to stay home...and I put together some of the gear I owned (I set it up on the dining room table) and it made me never want to do that again.    

I was mad--I said "If I only had some extra time"--and then I did, and I didn't do what I'd been telling myself for a couple decades that I really wanted to do.  

And then my wife died (while I've been declared cancer free, her cancer kept coming back. :( )  

I was suddenly a single father--a role that did not mesh with my comedy industry work, so I retired.  Despite the horrible circumstances that created it, I was given one final chance to get back to music production.  

And watching "Audio Combat"--an open challenge to take an awful sample and turn it into a 1 minute long track in 2 hours, while Eliminate did the same--made me feel like that was something I could do.  That I wanted to do.  

And Nate used FL Studio.  And FL Studio made sense to me.  

Two months after I got myself FL Studio and started making music again (and decided that I would learn by doing and that I'd make my mistakes in public, so I posted the first tracks I managed to produce on Facebook), I competed in my first Audio Combat.  The sample was that of an old Russian helicopter squaking itself to life, when started.   I would compete in every single Audio Combat during the 3rd "season"--and nearly every 1 minute track I'd make for Audio Combat was then turned into a full length Interbay experiment.  

This track, this noisy funky track with video game samples and hidden helicopter sounds and a classic funk vocal sample, is based on the first track I ever made for Audio Combat.  It became "Experiment 32" on Facebook.  And now, it has undergone the Rethink, Remake, Remix treatment to share it here on SoundCloud.  

Time for your turn in the Soul Train dance line as Interbay gives up the funk.  

(Listen, Like, Repost, Share, Comment, Playlist and Follow.  Please!)

"I Wanna F-F." (exp32 RRR) *exclusive remix*

The Prodigy - Firestarter (NFS Most Wanted 2012)

New Album DEATH PRICE OUT NOW:

https://actiontoreaction.bandcamp.com/album/tha-death-price-or-the-price-of-death

Firestarter (Prodigy)

The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (Original Mix)

This is a humble techno edit in memory of Keith Flint let's get Firestarter back into the No.1 spot in the music charts. In honor of his name and to help raise awareness of mental health and suicide in men.

The Prodigy - Firestarter (NFS Most Wanted 2012)

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