90s rave culture defied the odds by becoming a successor of sorts to the rock n’ roll era. The electronic music that helped spawn it, though technically demanding, was visually uninteresting. Live performances were devoid of of long-haired bands virtuosically playing their instruments on stage, replaced instead by a few people, or often just one person, standing stationary behind a turntable. Many performers tried to make up for the lack of interesting visuals with a light show. Take, for example, the Chemical Brothers. Enter: The Prodigy.
Producer and keyboardist Liam Howlett was a visionary, producing music that captured the imagination of a generation of ravers. Howlett, however, was not a frontman; he lacked the charisma to get the crowd going. It was customary for electronic music acts to bring dancers to a rave, and though they were typically women, Howlett chose three of his male rave companions when forming the Prodigy in 1990. It was in 1996 that dancer Keith Flint was unexpectedly promoted to frontman, that same year the band released their third album The Fat of the Land, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Keith Flint took his own life over the weekend, his body was found in his home North of London. He was 49. The band expressed their shock and sadness as they announced the news via social media early Monday morning.
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