Keith Flint of The Prodigy, an anti-establishment figurehead, brought a punk ethos to techno

Keith Flint really was the firestarter. You could see the line as a reference to Flint's manic stage persona — devil-horn haircut, tongue out, head whipping around like he was Regan from The Exorcist. "We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk," Flint said on triple j in 1997. They were a band — "we wanted to be more in people's faces," Howlett said in 2013 — and in that sense they borrowed heavily from punk. "People are getting force-fed commercial, generic records that are just safe, safe, safe," he said — and that's the opposite of punk.