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> Flint's distinctive appearance, vocals and dancing made him one of the most recognizable figures on the British techno scene

> Keith Flint, singer on hits like ‘Firestarter’ for British electro-pop pioneers The Prodigy, has died aged 49

CNN shows again its ignorance, The Prodigy is not techno and not electro-pop.

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eh, fighting about musical genre is like arguing tabs and spaces. I often call Prodigy "techno" to people who don't closely follow electronic music, as it gets the point across. And certainly you could make an argument that some of their music was "electro-pop" depending on how you define it, as it hit pop radio stations for a time, and was predominately electronic...

Shouldn't you be off correcting their Wikipedia entry, or something?

Fat of the Land album hit #1 in the US at a time when "techno" was absolutely the catch-all term used to describe dance-oriented rock/electronic music. Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Moby all fell under this moniker in the popular press, but so did Madonna, U2, and David Bowie, who had also released electronic-tinged albums at the time.

Lots of '90s bands labeled as "grunge", "shoegaze" or "Britpop" weren't any of those things, but for the benefit of the reading public, it was easier to connect them to a "scene" using those terms.

Pretty much all electronic is "techno" to people who are unfamiliar. Like metal, the genre is just too diverse to try and be specific for the average reader.

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