Client: XL Recordings
Brief: Illustrate a significant event from the history of XL Recordings - Banned "Smack My Bitch Up" song by The Prodigy discussed during Prime Minister’s Question Time.
Outcome: 1997, Britain – at which time The Prodigy was at their peak of popularity while in the political world the Labour Party overcame the Conservative party. The album “The Fat Of The Land” is accompanied by a pervasive “Prodigymania“ and the musical revolution. The title track “Smack my bitch up” was voted as the most controversial song of humanity, but at the same time became the anthem of electronic music. The discussion of banned “Smack my bitch up” during Prime Minister Questions Time, confirms the fact that, even such a conservative place like the British Parliament has a lot of fans of this great band. The nature of the imagery illustrating the discussion is grungy and dynamic, personifying chaos which is presented in the clip as well as in Parliament. Colour spots demarcate space explosion accompanying bacchanalia and confusion in which the viewer loses the control over the situation. The imagery was created and painted using graphical editors.
Team:
Art Direction
Michael Skachkov
Illustrator
Slava Triptih
Brief: Illustrate a significant event from the history of XL Recordings - Banned "Smack My Bitch Up" song by The Prodigy discussed during Prime Minister’s Question Time.
Outcome: 1997, Britain – at which time The Prodigy was at their peak of popularity while in the political world the Labour Party overcame the Conservative party. The album “The Fat Of The Land” is accompanied by a pervasive “Prodigymania“ and the musical revolution. The title track “Smack my bitch up” was voted as the most controversial song of humanity, but at the same time became the anthem of electronic music. The discussion of banned “Smack my bitch up” during Prime Minister Questions Time, confirms the fact that, even such a conservative place like the British Parliament has a lot of fans of this great band. The nature of the imagery illustrating the discussion is grungy and dynamic, personifying chaos which is presented in the clip as well as in Parliament. Colour spots demarcate space explosion accompanying bacchanalia and confusion in which the viewer loses the control over the situation. The imagery was created and painted using graphical editors.
Team:
Art Direction
Michael Skachkov
Illustrator
Slava Triptih
