Solo Project Maxim
Maxim Reality
The MC of The Prodigy, has released some work of his own. In '96 he released a quite unknown White Label under the name 'Grim Reaper'. In '98 his work under his own name, 'Maxim', appeared on two promotional compilations. Finally, in August '99, his first commercial release saw the light of day as My Web was released. After that came the more straight-forward 'Carmen Queasy' where Maxim gets vocal aid from Skin of Skunk Anansie, 'Scheming' was the follow up. Finally Maxim's album 'Hell's Kitchen' was released 2 October 2000. Pre-announced with his release of the single 'Suvivor' in 2004, Maxim finishes his latest album 'Fallen Angel' in May 2005.

Albums
Fallen Angel
UK release date: 29 Mar 2005
EAN: 4029758600221

(Limited Edition 2 cds)
UK release date: 29 Mar 2005
EAN: 4029758613627

Label: Edel Records

Tracklist:
1 - Nouveau Riche
2 - I Don't Care
3 - Violator
4 - Temptation
5 - Fallen Angel
6 - Pretty
7 - Trouble Shoota
8 - Holding On
9 - Heart Sing
10 - In 2 U
11 - Jump Spread Out
• Japanese Version is includes a bonus track.

Hell's Kitchen
UK release date: 2 Oct 2000
Cat. no. CTCR-17068 / XLLP 134 / XLCD 134

Tracklist
1 - Hadrians Wall
2 - Killing Cultures
3 - Carmen Queasy
4 - Spectral Wars
5 - Hell's Kitchen
6 - Scheming
7 - Worldwide Syndicate
8 - Soul Seller
9 - Universal Scientists
10 - My Web
11 - Dominant Genes
12 - Backward Bullet

Extra Info
13 - Hells Kitchen (vocal version)
14 - Prism
• These are 2 Bonus Tracks on the Japanese release.

Singles
Survivor
UK release date: 1 Jun 2004
Label: Supahero Media

Tracklist
1 - Survivor (10" vinyl)

Extra Info
Survivor is released in a limited edition, 500 copies only. Survivor is Maxim's first solorelease under his own recordlabel: Supahero Media

Lyrics
Execute my delivery
Face to face with my enemy
I launch a dozen granates
Better be afraid
Selled by the nation
Im the United States of minds

All you wanna do is take from me
Take from me, give to you!
All you wanna do is eat trough me
Eat from me, but i'll eat trough you!

Im surviving me!
Im surviving you!
Im surviving me!
Im surviving you, and the things you do!

Who caughts the shots
Who's got the pistol
Im loaded, sugarcoded pills can i get a fist full
Hope the pain is real, how you feel?
Behaviour by the ..........

All you wanna do is take from me
Take from me, give to you
All you wanna do is eat trough me
Eat trough me, but i'll eat trough you!

Im surviving me!
Im surviving you!
Ah pain
Yes i'm a survivor!
Ah pain
Yes i'm a survivor!

I see your tentions
Murderous intentions
Trash back slash mental shackles
You hold the title for abuse,
don't even try to cut me loose
You battle lives inside your own head

All you wanna do is take from me
Take from me, give to you!
All you wanna do is eat trough me
Eat trough me, but i'll eat trough you!

Im surviving me!
Im surviving you!
Im surviving me!
Im surviving you and the things you do!

Im surviving me
That's what we do do!
Im surviving you, im a survivor
Im surviving me
That's what we do do!
Im surviving you, im a survivor

Thanks to Posse and Mc-Maxim translating the lyrics

Scheming
UK release date: 11 Sep 2000
Cat. no. XLT-121 CDE(CD) / XLT 121 CD (CD) / XLT 121 CD2 (CD)

Tracklist
1 - Scheming (Radio mix)
2 - Prism
3 - Scheming (Blood of Abraham Remix)
4 - Scheming (Zed Bias Remix)
5 - Scheming (Instrumental) (Original mix)
6 - Scheming (K.C. more Sabiva mix)

Extra Info
'Scheming' was originally a hip hop based song which had Guru on the vocals but when Liam Howlett heard the tune he changed it into experimental UK garage song. The guitar was played by Jim Davies, Prodigy's live guitarist.

Lyrics
Stopping with your scheming, baby
Start stopping with your scheming, baby (6x repeat)

You've been scheming
You've been playing behind my back
You'll get to discover how I'm about to act
You've been scheming
You've been messing around
You've made my heart as cold as ice

All your lies and your scheming scheming
I've heard it all before a thousand times
With all your lies and your scheming you've
been scheming
I've heard it all before a thousand times

Stopping with your scheming, baby
Start stopping with your scheming, baby (2x repeat)

You have been scheming
You've been playing behind my back
You'll get to discover how I'm about to act
You've been messing around and it ain't
about to take
You've made my heart as cold as ice

All your lies and your scheming scheming
I've heard it all before a thousand times
With all your lies and your scheming you've been scheming
I've heard it all before a thousand times

Stopping with your scheming, baby
Start stopping with your scheming, baby (4x repeat)

Hey, yeah, yeah

All your lies lies and your scheming scheming
I've heard it all before a thousand times
With all your lies and your scheming scheming, scheming, scheming
I've heard it all before a thousand times

You've been scheming
You've made my heart as cold as ice

Stopping with your scheming, baby
Start stopping with your scheming, baby (4x repeat)

Carmen Queasy
UK release date: 29 May 2000
Cat. no. XLT-119 (12") / XLCD-119 (CD) / XLC-119 (Casette)

Tracklist
1 - Carmen Queasy (Original Mix)
2 - Carmen Queasy (Digital Dubz Digi Dub)
3 - Carmen Queasy (Instrumental)

Extra Info
Kieron Pepper supplied some of the guitars used. He toured with The Prodigy as a live drummer during the FOTL tours. Features a guitar-sample taken from "House of the Rising sun" by The Animals. Just like the first single "My Web EP" which also featured a "Animals" sample.

Maxim: "Skin came up with the actual lyrics, I wrote the music, and fitted my bits on - I put my growls on in the little spaces, and constructed the song, changed the chorus a bit." "It’s about a female called Carmen Queasy who would do anything to make it in the music industry. I look at it in a different way as well - someone being calm and remaining a bit queasy, for instance doing this interview. Your boss is telling you to do it and you say "OK" and remain calm and do it, but you're not sure cause it’s not the right mood for you to do it. So that’s not just the music industry."

Lyrics
My vision is distorted by my sleazy mind
To picturesque an image to control this time
My intimate discriminating fears you test
My ignorance that truely feels it knows me best
You have the power but you keep it all to yourself
Your lust is decomposing us

The intricate sincerity is choking me
Its crumbling and crawling all around my feet
It wasn't jump from lie to lie to cover me
But could a bullet tell her just evading me
You have the power but you keep it all to yourself
Your lust is decomposing us

So now your telling me its all damn easy
Try to see yourself as carmen queasy
'Cos money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing      
I don't want to be a marketed baby
Try to see yourself as carmen queasy
'Cos money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing

Carmen Queasy, I don't wanna be
("Don't wanna be" echoing 4 times)

I'm flinging out some rhythms in a cultural
scare Suffocating, still frustrating like we care
Dissecting all who analyse and empty heart
Just spiting out some more with dreams of
calling it art

You have the vision but you keep it all to yourself
Your lust is decomposing us

So now your telling me its all damn easy
Try to see yourself as carmen queasy
'Cos money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing
But I don't wanna be a marketed baby
Try to see yourself as carmen queasy
'Cos money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing

Money making, money taking
We don't have a choice
But we still have a voise
Antagonists, life is too short
Twist deform and distort
And bring their brains into my ceminar
Where there making music making failure
Gotta take back whats mine (gotta take back)
Keep chocking and holding, provoking
My life style you be smoking
      
So now you're telling me it's so damn easy
Try to see yourself as carmen queasy
Coz money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing
I don't want to be a marketed baby
Try to see yourself as carmen queasy
Coz money making is a wonderful thing

Money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing
Money making is a wonderful thing

Promos
Scheming
UK release date: -
Cat. no. XLE-119 / XLT-121PR  

Tracklist (CD-Rom):
Audio: 1 - Scheming (Radio Edit)
Multimedia: Video: Carmen Queasy Video

Info on Hell's Kitchen and Carmen Queasy video.
A Promotional 3" CD Rom with the Scheming
(Radio Edit) as an audio track, and the video for
Carmen Queasy as *.mov. You can put it in your
CD Player for the audio, or your CD Rom Drive
for the Multimedia part.

Here goes the files included on the CD Rom:
Autorun.inf (Speaks for itself, doesn't it)
MAXlinki.mov (Makes the BackGround.
ReadMe.txt (Read bellow...)
scheming.exe (The Program file.)
scheming2.mov (Black BackGround with scheming flashing)
Smaller.mov (The Carmen Queasy video)

ReadMe.txt goes:
Enhanced CD Help
This CD-ROM will run best if you close down any other applications that you might have open. The Enhanced CD should launch automatically. If not double click the scheming icon to play the video.

You will need Quicktime 4.0 (or later) to play the video. Unfortunately a Quicktime installer has not been included on this cd due to limited disk space.
However, a web link has been placed at the start of scheming'. Just follow the instructions on the quicktime download site to install.
Please note that the graphics and video may take a little longer to load and play on slower computers or CD-ROM drives.

Tracklist: (White label) XLT-121PR (12")
A1 Maxim vs. Zed Bias - Scheming
It's a single side 12" whitelabel testprint of "Scheming". Side A has one track, and Side B is blank.

Tracklist: (CD-R Promo) Masterpiece
1 - Scheming (Radio edit)
2 - Scheming (Zed Bias Remix)
3 - Scheming (Blood of Abraham mix)
and
1 - Scheming (Radio edit)
2 - Scheming (Zed Bias Remix)
3 - Scheming (Blood of Abraham mix)
4 - Prism

Carmen Queasy
UK release date: July 1999
Cat. no. XLE-119

Tracklist Masterpiece #1: CDR Promo
1 - Carmen Queasy

Tracklist Masterpiece #2: CDR Promo
1 - Carmen Queasy (Original mix)
2 - Carmen Queasy (Digital digi dub)
3 - Carmen Queasy (Instrumantal mix)
 
Extra Info
The second solo single from Maxim Reality. Was released by XL Records 29th May 2000, it is taken from his forthcomming album "Hells Kitchen" which will hitted the stores at 11th Sep 2000 (tbc)

Hell's Kitchen
UK release date: -
Cat. no. XLCD 134 PR

Tracklist: XLCD 134 PR (4 Track Album Sampler)
1 - Carmen Queasy
2 - Dominant Genes
3 - Scheming
4 - Universal Scientist

Tracklist: Hell's Kitchen Promo
1 - Hadrian's Wall
2 - Killing Culture
3 - carmen Queasy
4 - Spectral Wars
5 - Hell's Kitchen
6 - Scheming
7 - Worldwide Syndicates
8 - Soul Seller
9 - Universal Scientist
10 - My Web
11 - Dominant Genes
12 - Backward Bullet

Tracklist: Hell's Kitchen Japanese Promo
1 - Hadrian's Wall
2 - Killing Culture
3 - Carmen Queasy
4 - Spectral Wars
5 - Hell's Kitchen
6 - Scheming
7 - Worldwide Syndicates
8 - Soul Seller
9 - Universal Scientist
10 - My Web
11 - Dominant Genes
12 - Backward Bullet
13 - Hells Kitchen (Vocal Version)
14 - Prism

Not really a promo release, the reason it was called promo, was that it was released earlier in Japan than the rest of the world. Which made people think that it was a promo.

My Web EP
UK release date: 9 Aug 1999
Cat. no. XLT-108 (2 x 10") / XLCD-108 (CD) /
XLS-108 CD (CD)

Tracklist XLS-108 CD
1 - Pissed
2 - My Web
3 - My Web (Instrumental)
4 - Sin City
5 - Paranoid
 
Extra Info:
The credits read:
All tracks written and produced by Maxim at the red room for six finger productions.
Track 2 vocals mixed by L. Howlett.
Track 4 contains samples from: Worried life blues by The Animals. Included courtesy of EMI records limited.
Let my people go by Darando. All rights reserved. Made in England. Distributed by Vital. The copyright to this recording is owned by XL recordings limited. (P) and (C) XL recordings ltd 1999. (XL address) Photography: Colin Hawkins (flies) and Steve Gullick (hands).
Art direction and design: Alex Jenkins

Against The Grain
UK release date: -
Cat. no. XLEP126PR / XLPR 126

Tracklist
1 - Breakbeat Era - Rancid
2 - Stroke - Internal Call
3 - Basement Jaxx - Rendez Vu
4 - Jonny L - Brother
5 - Maxim - Dog Day
6 - Prodigy - Diesel Power (Dirtch. Remix)
 
Extra Info
XL promotional sampler. Released in a limited edition of 1000 CD copies and 500 3x10" vinyl copies.

The credits on the CD read:
Track 1 written by Laws/Size/Die. Produced and mixed by Roni Size and Die A.K.A. Scorpio
Track 2 written by Jason Kelly. Produced by The Underdog.
Engineered by Luke Gordon. Mixed by Adrian Bushby and The Underdog.
Track 3 written and produced by Basement Jaxx.
Track 4 written, produced and mixed by Jonny L.
Track 5 written and produced by Maxim for Six Finger Productions.
Track 6 written and produced by L. Howlett & K. Thornton. Mixed by L. Howlett. Vocals by Kool Keith.

XL-Recordings, 17-19 Alma Road, London, SW18 1AA.
Tel: 0181 870 7511. Fax: 0181 871 4178.
E-mail: xl@xl-recordings.com
XL Website: www.xl-recordings.com
Photography and design: Alex Jenkins.

Beggars Banquet
UK release date: -
Cat. no. BEG 21 CD

Tracklist
1 - The Global Twins - Sympathy for the Devil
2 - Six by Seven - No Expectations
3 - Buffalo Tom - Dear Doctor
4 - N. Atlas vs. Fun 'Da'Mental - Parachute Woman
5 - The Basement Flicks - Jig Saw Puzzle
6 - Swell - Street Fighting man
7 - Jack - Prodigal Son
8 - Bis - Stray Cat Blues
9 - Maxim - Factory Girl
10 - Jan McNabb - Salt of the Earth
 
Extra Info
Released as a promo item for the 21th anniversary of Beggers Banquet. Limited edition (5000) promotional CD album with Rolling Stones covers by artists from the Beggars Banquet group of labels. XL is a sublabel to Beggars Banquet. The CD comes in a double-LP type sleeve. The cover says BB 21CD on the back but the actual disc says BEG 21CD.

Grim Reaper
UK release date: 1994
Cat. no. -

Tracklist White Label 12":
1 - Lyric Style Psychosis
2 - Mightier Than Mighty
3 - Free At Last
4 - Slide And Go Through

Extra Info
This Ep is Maxim's first release ever on a anonymous white label under the name of Grim Reaper, very rare, only 500 copies were printed.