The Prodigy is a British music group, formed in Braintree in 1990. Also recognised as the group that helped spread rave culture in the media, they were, along with the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method and others, among the major exponents of big beat in the 1990s. From the second half of the 1990s in particular, the group's singles and albums began to have a significant influence on electronic music.