Quite frankly, we’re awestruck by some of the sounds we hear in dance music. We’re consistently wowed by the guitar wizardry of really talented axe gods, but some of the sounds we hear in dance music just leave us scratching our heads.

Well, Russian DJ and producer Jim Pavloff is here to help us understand our favourite dance tracks just a little bit better. There’s only one problem, we’re now utterly gobsmacked by how he figured them out and even recreated them perfectly.

As readers can see in the videos below, Pavloff knows his way around Ableton Live, the popular music production and mixing suite used by bedroom producers and dance floor superstars around the world, including names like Daft Punk, Sasha, and Armin van Buuren.

Pavloff has tackled three of our favourite tracks by UK dance veterans The Prodigy, not only recreating the tracks so faithfully it’s near impossible to tell them apart from the originals, but he hips us to some of the surprising samples used by the trio.

For example, did you know that ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ contains a sample of Rage Against The Machine? Neither did we. But we’ll be sure to tell everyone that it does the next time we hear it come on the stereo at a party, and now so will you.

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