Jericho (song)
Jericho is a song by the English big beat band The Prodigy . It was released together with Fire as their fourth single on September 7, 1992.
The single was labeled "strangely limited edition" as the records were only sold for two weeks to promote sales of the debut album The Prodigy Experience , which was released a few months later. When the single was re-released, however, it still had the same subtitle.
The intro of the original version consists of trombones over a string ostinato and " The horns of Jericho " calls, which come from Hijack's hip-hop album of the same name ( The Badman is Robin ). A scream sampled by James Brown , which is subsequently imitated by soaring synthesizer glissandi , opens a breakbeat part. Two other samples ("Feel the bass come down on me" and "Keep on dancing") are from Jungle Brothers .
The remix by the British jungle pioneers Genaside II begins with a vocal sample (“Hey poor! You don't have to be poor any more!”), Which is on the track “Welcome to paradise” by the EBM band Front 242 finds (from the 1988 album Front by Front ). The exclamation "And you thought the beat slowed down, come on!" Comes from Public Enemy's track Power to the People on the album Fear of a Black Planet .