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Music for the Jilted Generation

The Prodigy · 1994

Music for the Jilted Generation is a breakbeat techno record defined by its political stance, sampling rigour, and studio discipline. It rejects commercial rave tropes while expanding the form’s emotional and structural range. It is not nostalgic. It is not ambient. It is not collaborative beyond Howlett and Reality. It is urgent, specific, and sonically uncompromising.