The Day Is My Enemy

Some rumors about the production of a new album started to emerge back in 2011-2012. It was also announced that the working title of the album would be ‘How to Steal a Jetfighter’. According to Liam, the forthcoming album was going to be much darker and heavier than the band’s previous record. Liam also posted new track ideas on Instagram regularly. However, the plans were not destined to come true: the album was only released on March 30th, 2015, under a different name, The Day is My Enemy, and did not include almost all of the tracks that had been posted on Instagram and played at gigs for several years. In general, Liam continued the concept developed on the previous release.

Production-wise, not much changed since ‘Invaders Must Die’, and Liam completely moved to Ableton Live. It’s worth noting that Howlett reincarnated some ideas from the past, mostly leftovers from the previous album ‘Invaders Must Die’. For instance, tracks such as ‘The Day Is My Enemy’, ‘Destroy’, and ‘AWOL’. ‘Rebel Radio’ also incorporates several elements from an unreleased track from 2005-2006, ‘Heatwave’. The beat from ‘Take Me To The Hospital’ was used for the new track ‘Get Your Fight On’. Among other things, Liam began to abuse the loop of Mental Cube – Chile Of The Bass Generation (Chile Of The Bass Generation, 1990) for his new album’s production, which was discovered a few years earlier and has been used several times in live tracks as well as in remixes for third party artists.

LP
THE DAY IS MY ENEMY
    Sample: drums
    Sample source: Top Secret Drum Corps – Live At The Edinburgh Military Tattoo [2009]
    Note: The drums were sampled from a live performance of Top Secret Drum Corps. The source information is listed in the booklet of ‘The Day Is My Enemy’: Live drums by Top Secret Drum Corps, Switzerland.
    Sample: vocals (‘The day is my enemy, the night is my friend’)
    Interpolation source: Ella Fitzgerald – All Through The Night [Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook, 1956]
    Note: The vocals were re-recorded by Martina Topley-Bird. The source information is listed in the booklet of ‘The Day Is My Enemy’: Incorporating elements of ‘All Through The Night’ by Cole Porter. Published by WB Music Corp. All rights administered by Warner/Chappell North America Ltd. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
NASTY
    Sample: break
    Sample source: Mental Cube – Chile Of The Bass Generation [Chile Of The Bass Generation, 1990]
    Sample: orchestra
    Sample source: Ron Goodwin – Main Title [Where Eagles Dare OST, 1968]
    Note: The sample is pitched up an octave and is played backwards.
REBEL RADIO
    Sample: stab (at 0:06)
    Sample source: The Golliwogs – Fight Fire [Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968), 1998]
    Sample: break
    Sample source: Zero-G – Jungle Warfare [1995] – The Roller 162
    Original source: M.B.P. Mix – Light My Fire [Light My Fire, 1969]
    Sample: guitar riff
    Sample source: The Lollipop Shoppe – You Must Be A Witch [Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968), 1998]
IBIZA FEATURING SLEAFORD MODS
    Sample: beat
    Sample source: The Turtles – You Baby [You Baby, 1966]
DESTROY
    Sample: synth (at 3:13 and throughout)
    Sample source: Brainstorm – Help Me To Believe [Rock The House, 1991]
WILD FRONTIER
    Sample: pad & melody
    Sample source: LennarDigital Sylenth1 VST – Presets – 392: ARP Firefly
    Also can be found in: Popeska – Firefly [2012]
    Sample: break
    Sample source: Mental Cube – Chile Of The Bass Generation [Chile Of The Bass Generation, 1990]
    Sample: monkey screams
    Sample source: The Hollywood Edge – The Premiere Edition Volume 2 [1990] – 62 Chimpanzee Screeches And Vocalizes
ROK-WEILER
    Sample: break
    Sample source: Mental Cube – Chile Of The Bass Generation [Chile Of The Bass Generation, 1990]
RHYTHM BOMB FEATURING FLUX PAVILION
    Sample: vocals (‘I need a rhythm to put me in the mood, I need a rhyme to make my body move’)
    Sample source: Jomanda – Make My Body Rock (Feel It) (Supremely Clubbed) [Make My Body Rock (Feel It), 1988]
    Note: The sample source is listed in the booklet of ‘The Day Is My Enemy’: Featuring samples from the Jomanda recording ‘Make My Body Rock 1990’. Produced under license from Atlantic Recording Corp. by arrangement with Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
GET YOUR FIGHT ON
    Sample: guitar
    Interpolation source: Rage Against The Machine – Bullet In The Head [Rage Against The Machine, 1992]
    Sample: beat & percussion
    Sample source: Pepe Deluxe – Salami Fever [Beatitude, 2003]
    Original source: Hugh Masekela – Grazing In The Grass [The Promise Of A Future, 1968]
    Note: The sample source is listed in the booklet of ‘The Day Is My Enemy’: Contains a sample of ‘Salami Fever’ by Pepe Deluxe courtesy of Catskills Records. Published by BMG / Supahero Media Limited/Kobalt / Perfect Songs / MTA / Catskills Music Publishing / Incentive Music Management.
    Sample: scream (‘hallelujah!’)
    Sample source: Zero-G – Datafile Two [1991] – Track 61
    Original source: Tramaine – In The Morning Time (A Capella) [In The Morning Time, 1985]
MEDICINE
    Sample: eastern melody
    Sample source: Babaka & His Ensemble – Se Makri Sofra / At A Long Table [Music Of The Balkans, Vol. 2 – Bulgaria, Turkey (1930 – 1945), 2006]
    Note: The sample source is listed in the booklet of ‘The Day Is My Enemy’: Contains a sample of ‘Se Makri Sofra / At A Long Table’ by Babaka & His Ensemble as featured on the album ‘Music Of The Balkans Vol 2’ (FM 707) courtesy of FM Records. Published by BMG / Universal HGG (Westbury) / Supahero Media Limited/Kobalt.
    Sample: saxophone lick
    Sample source: Chill Rob G – Let The Words Flow (Acapella) [The Court Is Now In Session / Let The Words Flow, 1989]
WALL OF DEATH
    Sample: finger snap
    Sample source: Vengeance Essential Club Sounds Vol. 1 [2006] – VEC1 Percussion 081
    Sample: shout (‘wooo!’)
    Sample source: Janet Jackson – The Pleasure Principle (A Cappella) [The Pleasure Principle, 1986]
SINGLES / EXPANDED COMPILATION
AWOL STRIKE ONE
    Sample: intro & outro stretched orchestra
    Sample source: Kiss And Kill trailer [1968]
    Sample source: Kiss And Kill trailer [1968]
    Sample: vocals (‘AWOL, fuck y’all, shoot ya with a sugar bowl!’)
    Also can be found in: Dirt Candy – Dirty Money [2013]
    Note: Both tracks used the same acapella.
MEDICINE SOUTH CENTRAL REMIX
    Sample: synth & melody
    Sample source: Rob Papen RAW VST – Presets – Memory
    Note: The last note of the preset was changed.
NASTY ZINC REMIX
    Sample: break
    Sample source: Jimmy McGriff Organ And Blues Band – The Worm [The Worm, 1968]
SHUT ‘EM UP THE PRODIGY VS. PUBLIC ENEMY VS. MANFRED MANN
    Source: The Prodigy v Public Enemy – Shut ‘Em Up (Mashup by Pony Sixfinger) [2015]
    Note: Liam very much liked a fan mash-up of ‘Stand Up’ and Public Enemy’s acapella, so he decided to release it officially.
    Sample: acapella
    Also can be found in: Public Enemy – Shut Em Down (Bald Beat Breakapella) [Shut Em Down, 1991]
    Note: ‘Bald Beat Breakapella’ isn’t complete. The complete one hasn’t been oficially released.
THE DAY IS MY ENEMY CHRIS AVANTGARDE REMIX
    Sample: break
    Sample source: The Winstons – Amen, Brother [Color Him Father, 1969]
RARE STUFF
2012 DEMO
    Sample: melody
    Sample source: The Death Of Yugoslavia – Enter Nationalism [1995]
AWOL BEAT JAM
    Sample: vocals (‘how many ways can you distort the human mind? one way!’)
    Sample source: Brain Of Blood trailer [1971]
    Sample: outro vocals & orchestra
    Sample source: Kiss And Kill trailer [1968]
    Sample source: Kiss And Kill trailer [1968]
RISE OF THE EAGLES
    Source: The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Rise Of The Eagles [The Royal Society, 2004]
    Note: Cover track.
INSTAGRAM CUTS
EARLY MORNING SICKNESS BEATS 2016 OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM CUT
    Sample: eastern melodies
    Sample source: Lata Mangeshkar – Main Teri Dushman, Dushman Tu Mera [Nagina, 1986]

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