Prodigy: Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned (2LP)

At a time when rock critics only saw The Prodigy as a glorified keyboardist with a troupe of crazy dancers, Liam Howlett and co. showed the world how dance music had moved away from the club scene and towards festivals and arenas. And they did so by staying true to their own sound. While dance evolved from acid house to rave and ambient to breakbeat and drum & bass, The Prodigy kept their special blend of fat breakbeats with superhuman hooks and catchy samples for the most part. "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned" was the eagerly awaited album that followed their breakthrough with "The Fat Of The Land". It featured Liam Gallagher, Kool Keith, Twista and even Juliette Lewis, who are distorted beyond recognition on an album that goes back to the core of what The Prodigy stand for: a fat bass, wicked beats and noise that aims in all directions at once.