Glad that got smoothed over, and we’re happy to reaffirm the current Mixmag stance as being: ‘Charly’ is a classic. up/intercord OUT OF SPACE PRODIGY blow up/intercord TOM TRAUBERT'S BLUES. He later admitted that "The criticisms probably fuelled some of the music on 'Music for the Jilted Generation' - I stopped doing cartoon tunes”, and Mixmag’s former assistant editor Dom Phillips who wrote the condemning article also held his hands up for “ some mistakes in the way we covered the rave scene”. ACE OF BASE mega ALBUMS SOUNDTRACK THE BODYGUARD arista PAUL McCARTNEY OFF. However, there was a happy ending of sorts. This pissed off Liam Howlett who responded by burning a copy of the issue in the video for ‘Fire’. As we mentioned earlier in this list, the year after the track’s release in 1992 this very magazine ran one of its most controversial covers, questioning ‘Did Charly kill rave?’ in light of the abundance of copycat kiddy-sample rave tracks that followed. It merges a juvenile voice sample and cartoon cat meowing with ‘Mentasm’-esque rave synths to raw and disorientating effect. The Prodigy’s debut single ‘Charly’ still holds up as one of their very best.
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