the prodigy vs enya 2008

remixed by kinky bootz / mastermix

featuring samples from...

Li Kwan - I Need A Man (Acapella)

"Smack My Bitch Up" was the twelfth single released by the British big beat band The Prodigy on November 17, 1997. It was the third and final single from the album The Fat of the Land. The song was highly controversial because its lyrics, title and music video were believed to promote violence against women.

The lyrics "Change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up" are repeated through the whole song, as can be heard in the sample below. The band defended the song, saying that the lyrics were being misinterpreted as misogynistic and the song actually meant "...doing anything intensely..." [1] The song led to a publicised disagreement at the 1998 Reading festival after The Beastie Boys asked the group not to play the track.[2][3] The vocals are sampled and altered from the Ultramagnetic MCs song "Give the Drummer Some". The original lyrics, performed by rapper Kool Keith, are: "Switch up change my pitch up / Smack my bitch up like a pimp".[4] Keith had previously been sampled by the Prodigy in the track "Out of Space" using his spoken vocal "I'll take your brain to another dimension", this time sampled from the Ultramagnetic track "Critical Beatdown" from the 1988 album of the same name, on Next Plateau Records. The female vocals in "Smack My Bitch Up" were performed by Shahin Badar.

"Orinoco Flow" is a 1988 UK #1 single by Enya. The song is often incorrectly referred to as "Sail Away", a phrase repeated during the chorus. The American version of the single, however, was retitled "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)".

The song was highly popular in the early 1990s and was featured on many pop music compilations.

The title of the song refers to the London recording studio, Orinoco Studios (now Miloco Studios), in which it was recorded, rather than the Venezuelan river Orinoco, although it is likely a deliberate dual reference.[citation needed]

The division of syllables to follow the pattern of music may trick the listener into thinking that the song is written in Latin (as some Enya tracks are), but the lyrics are in fact English. At the end of the song she pays tribute to Warner Brothers Music UK CEO Rob Dickins and makes a more veiled reference to producer Ross Cullum.

In 1998 a special edition 10th anniversary remix single was released.

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