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Keith Flint of Prodigy, dubstep is the future of electronic music
"The sound of Skrillex is something completely new," says lead singer of the trio, which is two shows in Brazil this week

Perhaps no artist of electronic music has reached the mainstream by making as few concessions. Sound dirty and hard techno and heavy industrial punk look to vocalist Keith Flint, the Prodigy has changed little since its birth in England for over 20 years. But that may change on the next album. "I would say yes, in house and techno music, [almost all] has been done. But I saw the Caspa and Skrillex recently, and dubstep, noisy thing ... The sound of Skrillex is completely new, is the future, "the singer said in an interview with Rolling Stone Brazil.

The Prodigy, still formed by Maxim MC and producer (and main songwriter) Liam Howlett is currently working on a new studio album. Apparently, it is possible that the enthusiasm of Flint with dubstep interfere with work. However, it still does not reveal information about the album, which is being done without haste. "For the band, is more important to write a good album, than writing an album quickly. It will be good if we can soon launch [the forecast is the second half of 2012], but it has to sound right. You must have a meaning to be a record, "he says.

The last passage of the Prodigy was in Brazil in 2009, for presentations in closed houses. This time, in addition to a performance at Club Vibe, Curitiba, they come to a show in 15 years of editing XXXperience, one of the biggest electronic music festivals in Brazil, where about 30 thousand people should see them. These are, to date, the last two presentations this year the Prodigy - and who knows, Brazilians can learn something new. "Maybe Brazil is the first to hear the new songs," he says.

Ecstasy, motorcycles and piercings
Now 42, Keith Flint lived boom rave scene in England in 90 years - as well as the birth of the generation of nightclubs moved to ecstasy. Although this connection with synthetic drugs have generated bias in the past, Flint takes it as part of the culture "raver". "The rave scene in England was built around the ecstasy, for sure. But all musical genres have some kind of drug bound to them, do not know why, "says the musician. "It was like that. There is randomness in all things, and good and evil in all things. "

At shows, while Howlett runs most of the programming (with the help of a drummer and a guitarist / bassist) and Maxim interacts with the public, Flint is the most energetic. Besides releasing this hyperactivity on the beats of Prodigy, the singer has a motorcycle racing team, which is also a pilot. It defines the work in the music as "the complete package, my family," and racing as "need, my passion."

If running for Flint often need to take some of the sporting body piercings in the daily life outside of his band he says always remain the same. According to the British, the Prodigy there personas. "If it's a pop artist, he probably will want to reinvent the campaign for a new disk. But you see we really are. "For the Brazilian public that will see the trio for the first time, he warns," You'll be seeing Keith Flint, not someone to be dressed in a band. "

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