2012 Demo • The Death Of Yugoslavia

While celebrating the band’s birthday today, we’ll tell you about a rare demo that appeared out of the blue on The Prodigy’s official YouTube channel, but remained unnoticed for some time.

10 years ago, in October 2012, a new video directed by Paul Dugdale appeared on the band’s YouTube channel. Video dedicated to the upcoming ‘Warriors Dance 3 Festival’ that took place in Belgrade, Serbia. This video hung around for a while, until attentive fans noticed the audio track used in the video, and then started asking what that track was playing in the background, to which Pole later jokingly replied:

HAHA… yeah sure- the night before the warriors gig Liam was working on bits and pieces and sampled the Serbian news. He dropped it during sound check and i thought it was ace so we stuck it in the film. ha- i thought it was weird no one had asked what it was yet…. DGZ.

This untitled demo contains the main melody from a documentary about the war in Yugoslavia. But it looks like the sample was taken from the Universal Production Music library – Skirmish (Track #68)

Subsequently, the track itself became known as The Death of Yugoslavia among the fans. However, the actual title of the demo is still a mystery, since officially it hasn’t been mentioned anywhere. We reached out to Dugdale himself, yet it didn’t give much: as he said, the audio file used in the video project was untitled. Still, we assumed that the track may be called Beat Drone because it’s the only unidentified track that was registered in licensing catalogues around that time, but Liam hasn’t confirmed that’s the title of this particular demo.
 

 
By the way, 10 years ago our mate Rapraize already tried to recreate the clean version of this tune, without the dialogues from the video, but his version wasn’t clean enough by today’s standards and we’ve made ours, that’s much cleaner. Anyway, it’s up to you to decide what version is better.

In our next articles we will cover other demos from the same period, as well as the full story behind the cancelled How To Steal A Jet Fighter album.

Headmasters: All Souvenirs
Additional thanks to: Dugdale

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