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    The Prodigy's Keith Flint was the face of raving for a generation

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times Mar 05, 2019 4 minutes

    When the Prodigy's third album, "The Fat of the Land," arrived on American shores in 1997 and topped the charts, it represented a new genre that gleefully terrified the country.

    The Prodigy - fronted by the dual-mohawked, whirling dervish of dancer-singer Keith Flint, with founder-producer Liam Howlett and co-singer Maxim (Keith Palmer) - came out of the seething U.K. rave underground. They exported an outlaw subculture of illegal parties in distant forests and abandoned tunnels, greased by wild new designer drugs and music that saw New York hip-hop, Detroit techno, German noise and British punk all on a radical continuum.

    Flint, who died

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