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The hit song made in a bedroom with one sampler

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The massive, abrasive stadium-shaking anthem 'Smack My Bitch Up' was not produced in a massive electronic lab. Liam Howlett constructed the entire dense, aggressive track inside a cramped bedroom using a single basic sampler and some cheap vinyl records. It proves you don't need a spaceship of synthesizers to make a generation riot, just good timing.

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