Catching up with the Prodigy [Poweron-a promotional Roland mag!!!]

"The first record I ever bought was 'Dance Craze' which was a Ska compilation with the Specials, Madness, Selector and the Beat.Then I got into the Hip-Hop thing. One of my friends was a mobile DJ and he made himself a scratching desk. I used to go round to his house and to scratch on his turntable. After that I worked all through my summer holiday on a building site to save up and buy these turntables.

Of course, back then I couldn't really afford anything. A multi-tracker was about �200 and samplers were so basic, so I just borrowed my friend's Fostex and put beats together with that. I'd use track one to scratch a couple of bars of a loop in, transfer that to track four and just bounce record it to create a four minute loop, and mix things over the top. It was really minimal, without any keyboards or sequencers."

Despite all this it wasn't long bebore Liam began to see cuccess. "Yeah, the first siccessful thing I did was enter two mixes into this competition on Capital Radio under different names. I came first and third! Then I started this Hip-Hop band with some guys from Chemsford. I was working in Londan at the time and my boss put �4000 into recording an album.We called ourselves Cut To Kill."