Leftfield

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Leftfield
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General information
Genre (s) House
Electronica
Dub
Intelligent Dance Music
founding 1989, 2010
resolution 2002
Founding members
Paul Daley
DJ
 Neil Barnes

Leftfield is a British music producer duo. It was founded in 1989 by Paul Daley (previously a member of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies ) and Neil Barnes in London . Leftfield released two critically acclaimed albums and were also active as a remixer . Leftfield are now considered to be the pioneers of intelligent dance music .

biography

Leftfield, 2016

Leftfield landed their first mainstream hit with the 1993 Open Up , which was created in collaboration with John Lydon as a singer. The 1995 debut album Leftism , a completely new mix of dub , breakbeat and techno , was groundbreaking for modern electronica . Many electronics manufacturers were influenced by Leftism . The large number of Leftfield-inspired publications caused the British music press, above all DJ Magazine and Mixmag , to create a new genre name with its own record charts: Leftfield .

The second album, released in 1999, Rhythm And Stealth , kept a similar style but is more techno - especially Detroit techno and electro funk - influenced. Prominent guest vocalists were Afrika Bambaata and Roots Manuva . The music video for Afrika Shox , created in New York under the direction of Chris Cunningham , which impressively conveyed the dark mood of the track, became a classic. Rhythm And Stealth was nominated for the British Mercury Music Prize in 2000.

In 2002 the two musicians separated to pursue solo projects.

In 2005 another best-of album was released with the title A Final Hit - The Greatest Hits . On this both previous albums were found next to the most famous pieces, the two non-album singles Not Forgotten and More Than I Know and three other pieces not previously used, including the track Snake Blood , the leftfield for the soundtrack of the movie The Beach had produced . A DVD is included with the album, which contains all seven videos produced by Leftfield.

Some of their titles became known to a wider audience through advertising. For example, the intro of Release the Pressure was used for a commercial for the German telecommunications provider O 2 . The leftfield track Afro-Ride was also used in the PlayStation game wipEout . The track Phat Planet was used as the theme song for the series Transformers: Beast Machines .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Leftism
  UK 3 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
02/11/1995 (136 weeks)
Rhythm and Stealth
  DE 33 04/10/1999 (4 weeks)
  AT 47 11/04/1999 (2 weeks)
  CH 36 03/10/1999 (3 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
10/02/1999 (22 weeks)
A Final Hit - Greatest Hits
  UK 32 
silver
silver
10/15/2005 (4 weeks)
Alternative light source
  DE 74 06/12/2015 (1 week)
  UK 6th 06/20/2015 (4 weeks)
Singles
More Than I Know
  UK 98 02/02/1991 (1 week)
Song of Life
  UK 59 12/12/1992 (2 weeks)
The Afro-Left EP (feat.Djum Djum)
  UK 22nd 08/05/1995 (3 weeks)
Release the pressure
  UK 13 01/20/1996 (3 weeks)
Arika Shox ( feat.Bambaataa )
  UK 7th 09/18/1999 (7 weeks)
Dusted (feat. Roots Manuva )
  UK 28 12/11/1999 (4 weeks)

Albums

  • Leftism (1995)
  • Rhythm and Stealth (1999)
  • A Final Hit - The Greatest Hits (2005)
  • Tourism (Live, 2012)
  • Alternative Light Source (2015)

Remix albums on which Leftfield was remixed

  • Stealth Remixes - Leftfield (album 2000, released on double CD with Rhythm and Stealth )
Tracks: Phat Planet ( Dave Clarke Remix), El Cid (I-Cube Simple Mix), Rino's Prayer (Nick Rapacciolo Remix), Chant of a Poor Man (Mighty Quark Remix), Dub Gussett (Maas Remix), El Cid (I -Cube Table Tennis Remix), Double Flash (Headstarter Remix)
Videos: Afrika Shox , Dusted

Compilations

  • A Final Hit / Greatest Hits (2005)

Singles

  • Not Forgotten (1991)
  • More Than I Know (1991)
  • Release The Pressure (1992)
  • Song Of Life (1993)
  • Open Up (1993)
  • Original (1995)
  • Afro Left (1995)
  • Release The Pressure (1996)
  • Africa Shox (1999)
  • Dusted (1999)
  • Snakeblood - The Beach Soundtrack (2000)
  • Swords (2000)

Remixes by Leftfield

  • Intoxication - React 2 Rhythm (1992)
  • Open Up Your Head - IF? (1992)
  • Body Medusa - Supereal (1992)
  • Free And Equal - ICP (1992)
  • Deeper Love (Missing You) - Ultra Nate (1992)
  • Everything And More - IF? (1992)
  • Hallelujah '92' - Innercity (1992)
  • A Profound Gas - The Sandals (1992)
  • Back To The Front - Adamski (1992)
  • The Hunter - The Sandals (1992)
  • Nothing - The Sandals (1992)
  • You're Mine - Pressure Drop (1992)
  • Perfect Motion - Sunscreem (1992)
  • Step It Up - Stereo MCs (1992)
  • I Am Free - Morgan King (1993)
  • Jump They Say - David Bowie (1993)
  • Unforgiven - D: Ream (1993)
  • Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave (1994)
  • Timeless Land - Yothu Yindi (1994)
  • White Skies - Sunscreem (1995)
  • Sun - John Lydon (1997)

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links

This text is mainly based on a translation of the article en: Leftfield from the English Wikipedia, version dated September 5, 2005.