The Prodigy – Firestarter X30 Vinyl Edition

Essex renegades The Prodigy blew up British pop culture in 1996 with 'Firestarter', lighting the string fuse that would lead them from rave pioneerage to nonstop chart-topping. The Fat Of The Land would premiere the following year, but it's still 'Firestarter' that most cautious ex-raver parents play when their children wonder aloud about Keith Flint. X30 celebrates the fact with a fresh 12" booster pack built about the original; joining in are drum & bass figurehead Andy C and rave-techno suit Empirion; the latter, lesser-known version is a properly pugnacious groove, with shit-scary machine-gun saw pulses in speedy divisions of time, not wasting ours for a second.