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	Encyclopedia: Leftism (album) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Leftism is the debut album by electronica musicians Leftfield, released in 1995.
		An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things.
		Album stubs John Lydon John Joseph Lydon (born January 31, 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten (a nickname derived from the state of his teeth) was the iconoclastic lead singer of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd (PiL) and an Irish individualist anarchist.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Leftism-(album) (308 words)

	thendoftheworldreview: Leftism By Left Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This is a retrospective view at an album that signalled a change (though not neccesarily caused one).
		This album is a rise and low of textures and melodies.
		Beginning with the ethnic "Release The Pressure" the album stakes a claim at being a smart, melodic journey through deep house.
	www.theendoftheworld.org /left.html (495 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Leftism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Their second album, Rhythm and Stealth, is also full of shimmeringly beautiful cuts - though without the unifying "comet ride" impulse of this album and the easy acceptance that often greets...
		"Leftism" was perhaps not as big commercially as the others but it's a original album with many good songs and influents, never cared for their other albums and eventually they split up in 2002 but this one is topclass.
		This album has to be one of the greatest of the 20th century, and I know that is saying a lot.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B000002B7I (529 words)

	Sorted magAZine, Albums, LeftField - Rhythm and Stealth (Epic)
		For the band who claim that music is "like a drug", it is a pity that Leftfield seem to have become addicted to this particular sound and in many ways have merely produced a collection of tracks that could have been the B-Sides for their last long-player "Leftism".
		I think the disappointment is compounded by the fact that it took them four years since their last album to actually produce this piece of bum fluff.
		Four years ago it was the perfect chill-out album with sounds like 'Open Up' and '21st Century Poem' the listener was manipulated between fast and slow with the effortless ease that only true masters could accomplish.
	www.sortedmagazine.com /archive/magazine/albums/rhythm.htm (224 words)

	The Universal - Artists - Leftfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was a prediction that by the Summer of 1996 had literally come true: during a gig on the 'Leftism' tour at London's Brixton Academy, sound levels reached the highest ever recorded at the venue, while the bass vibrations caused the ceiling to start disintegrating, showering dust and plaster onto the stage.
		Four years later, 'Leftism' has just been declared the Greatest Dance Album Of All Time in a poll of top DJs, while its timeless mix of ribcage-shaking dub, grandoise techno, and futuristic splendour still sounds like it was made yesterday.
		'Leftism' was an album that redrew the borders for dance music, pioneered a radical hybrid of dub and house and breaks (long before anyone had invented big beat), and threw together guest vocalists from other musical worlds (gothic torch singer Toni Halliday, reggae toaster Earl Sixteen) over rhythms borrowed from dub, reggae, and African music.
	www.the-universal.com /artist.asp?artist=leftfield (548 words)

	Leftfield: Rhythm and Stealth ---Ink Blot Magazine
		The slow gestation period of Leftism was filled by Hard Hands' championing of the emerging junglist scene and taster singles like "Song of Life" and "Open Up," which raised expectations to a simmer.
		The new album explores the same broad range of tempos and styles (ambient, dub, hip-hop, house, techno) as its predecessor, but Rhythm and Stealth is dominated by a slavishly digital, no-frills aesthetic.
		Leftism raised the bar so high that it's hard to excuse these filler tracks - the likes of which we'd expect from almost any other electronic long player.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Leftfield_RS.htm (457 words)

	Welcome to Streets Online Dance Leftism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The album gets better with every track played and builds up to the fantastic track 'Open Up.' For me the best track is 'Inspection (CHECK ONE).' Unlike a lot of albums you can just keep playing this particular album over and over again, without getting bored of it.
		Leftism is rightly acclaimed as one of the best, most important and most seminal albums both of the nineties and of dance.
		Leftism is an intelligent dance album with some cool brassic beats and some great tunes.
	www.streetsonline.co.uk /common/product.jhtml?pid=10228818 (509 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Leftism - Leftfield at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When it was first released five years ago, it was hailed as one of the most seminal works this type of music had ever seen, and although I don't feel qualified to give it this kind of perspective, I can understand where those opinions came from.
		This is one of the album's best tracks, and it's mixed straight into the penultimate track, Open Up, which begins with more spooky chanting, which changes to English later on with some melodramatic weirdly-accented rhyming declamation over the same old drums.
		That's not to say there aren't a lot of flaws; in my opinion, the album would have worked a lot better as a continuous mix, because the tracks taken separately are pretty fragmented.
	www.epinions.com /musc-review-4D2B-27A6CDF3-39907291-prod5 (851 words)

	Leftism Music at Shop Ireland
		This album has been ripped off and used on tv programmes and all over the place, though it is still a definitive work that made dance a music not a sound, which is something the Prodigy could never achieve without reggae and soul.
		When this album was released, it was at a time in the 90's when dance/electronic music was starting to decay, but Leftfield found something left in the genre and they took it to new levels.
		This is one of the best albums of the 90's, groundbreaking at the time and many artists have attempted to simulate its sound.
	www.shopireland.ie /music/reviews/B000025MGU (747 words)

	Review: Leftfield, Leftism - Martin Bate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But the album ends on "21st Century Poem", a little bit of cod-politics despite a fine spinning and chiming backdrop.
		is a varied and solid album which nestles comfortably alongside the last releases by The Prodigy and Orbital (although, sonically, it is closer to the open-eyed wonder of the latter than the adrenaline filled rush of the former).
		All three are albums demonstrating to the uninitiated just how human, exhilarating and mysterious dance music can be, away from the identi-kit pop pap that clogs the charts.
	www.westnet.com /consumable/1995/May30.1995/revleft.html (370 words)

	Leftfield: Leftism ---Ink Blot Magazine
		A lot of people were eager for the arrival of this album, but few knew how badly the world needed it.
		Leftism is the first world map of dance, charting worldbeat, jungle, techno, hip-hop and a steel drum full of dub across an ever-fragmenting clubland.
		Leftism distilled the revolutionary sounds of the early '90s into timeless songs, and even as the second Leftfield album approaches, the debut sounds fresher than 1999's flavor-of-the-month junglists and big beaters.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Leftfield_Leftism.htm (417 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Leftism [MINIDISC] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Their debut album was a glorious fruition of their talents, delivering on all fronts and sealing their place in dance music history.
		Effortlessly weaving intoxicating rhythms and sublime melodies around the diverse vocals of former Sex Pistol John Lydon, reggae toaster Earl Sixteen and indie ice maiden Toni Halliday, Leftism is a scintillating journey through all the planes of club culture.
		Leftism is almost every sounds and feelings you can think of on one cd.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WX5M (958 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Leftism - Leftfield at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This tune is quite minimal in its structure for the first few minutes, an african stringed instrument and a single bass is all that is required for you to enjoy the track.
		The continued use of tribal instruments throughout the album is shown here with proper African drums being heard in the comparatively ambient section of the track in the 4 to 5 minute mark.
		In short, Leftism is easily the best dance album this planet has ever seen, not a single track is below the standard of excellence.
	www.epinions.com /content_108776492676 (1862 words)

	[i:Vibes] - your guide to electronic dance music (trance, techno, house, progressive etc.)
		We started by making a list with albums who have been the topic of a lot of discussion, whether it was renewing, why it would be in the top ten, or why it shouldn’t be in the top ten.
		This album follows on from their awesome "Not Forgotten" in the early 90s which was marked as a pioneer itself within the house and dance scene and this album only escalates their influence on club culture world wide.
		Leftism is a varied and solid album which nestles comfortably alongside the likes as The Prodigy and Orbital, but influencing the music with their own unique sounds, and impressions.
	www.ivibes.nu /index.php?article=1365 (2931 words)

	Maneater: Leftfield’s spacey bleeps show through in ‘Rhythm and Stealth’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Four years after its debut album, Leftism, achieved official "neato" status in the United Kingdom, Leftfield (Neil Barnes and Paul Daley) has resurfaced with a new album, Rhythm and Stealth, and in the process violated the "thou shalt not deviate from thy style" commandment.
		Leftism collaborator Cheshire Cat does the chanting on "Chant of a Poor Man." Electro hip-hop innovator Afrika Bambaataa lends his name and voice to "Afrika Shox," the first single off of Rhythm and Stealth.
		Leftfield's second album, Rhythm and Stealth, was released on Sept. 21.
	www.themaneater.com /1999/11/02/arts (447 words)

	Armchair DJ: Music Review: Leftfield: Rhythm and Stealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		UK techno duo Leftfield's 1995 debut album, "Leftism," helped pave the way for the short-lived "electronica explosion" of 1996 and 1997, but it's taken them until 1999 to craft the follow-up.
		But for a crossover album, it was remarkably faithful to its underground roots.
		A similar tension pervades the album's instrumental tracks, which range from ethereal mood pieces ("El Cid," "Rino's Prayer") to dancefloor monsters such as "Phat Planet" (which becamse a UK hit after being used in a Guiness TV ad).
	www.armchair-dj.com /reviews/r/rhythm_and_stealth.asp (455 words)

	Leftism - Leftfield : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk
		Leftfield Debut album had been sitting in the dust alcove that is the tape section of my music collection for a few years now.
		This album has it all, the beats the bass the ambience the tighter than tight productions and guest vocalists to die for.
		My first experience of this album was at least 6 or 7 years ago when I heard the Le...
	cd.ciao.co.uk /Left_Ism_Leftfield__39108?xid=373b7dce111185f5d9d4d6444b022249a0 (387 words)

	Leftism by Leftfield
		If you are a MP3.com member you can set a preferred service to instantly tell if that music service has this album.
		Leftism spans most of Paul Daley and Neil Barnes' singles output from 1992 to 1995 (excepting only "Not Forgotten") and adds several new tracks.
		Maxi Jazz, the maestro behind Faithless, is well titled as "the grand oral disseminator." The tales he spins make this album a manifesto, religious experience, sexual escapade, and 24-hour rave all...
	www.mp3.com /albums/160716/summary.html (163 words)

	Armchair DJ: Music Review: Leftfield: Leftism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It's been four years since Leftfield made the leap from the 12-inch import bin to the CD racks at your local Best Buy with their full-length debut, "Leftism." Hailed by many in the duo's native England as the best dance album ever, it can't help but suffer in the glare of its own legend.
		But from the electronic skank of opener "Release the Pressure" to the rippling pulse that closes the album with a sense that the beat goes on, "Leftism" is a rewarding listen through and through.
		The last third of the album focuses on space and texture, with the dubbed-out breaks of "Storm 3000" making the most lasting impression.
	www.armchair-dj.com /reviews/l/leftism.asp (256 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Chemical Brothers- Push the Button (Jan 24) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Their last two albums were ok (Surrender was actually pretty good), but this album is being marked as the Official Return To Form.
		There aren't too many electronica/techno albums I can take (Leftfield's "Leftism" and "Vegas" by Crystal Method are the other two), but it would be nice to hear something like their first album.
		Their album was called "Formica Blues", and they had the song "Life in Mono" featured on the Great Expectations soundtrack from the mid 90's.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=404490 (2117 words)

	Samplings Dec.1999
		Timeless and unique for its mix of tuneful techno, Leftism spawned many an imitator, but it has yet to be duplicated, even by Leftfield themselves.
		Where Leftism experimented with the deconstruction of preconceptions of dance utilizing the vocals of noted rock singers like John Lydon, Rhythm And Stealth goes back to basics with a higher concentration on electronics, coupled with the pointedly soul vocals of Afrika Bambaataa and Roots Manuva, among others, for an added organic element.
		We didn’t want to sound like anyone else and, in a way, we wanted to get away from the sound of [Leftism] (a) because it was such a long time ago and (b) because we felt so many people had emulated what we’d done.
	www.djtimes.com /original/djmag/dec99/samplings_1.htm (726 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Rhythm And Stealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After buying Leftism on a whim and falling in love with it, I was excited to find Rhythm and Stealth and bought it right away when I saw it a few years back.
		Leftfield showed us with Leftism that they have the range to make versatile and edgy music, but these tracks fail to display their talents.
		The album ends nicely on a very dark tip with the awesome '6/8 War' and that's topped off with 'Rhino's Prayer' which is a dark breakbeat number with heavy sub-bass rhythms.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001R3G3 (1025 words)

	I-Mockery.com \| Music Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Naff quote right off the bat, but it's time to set the record straight on a certain subject which always causes me to contemplate the sanity of music journalists, music magazines and their readers.
		The first point was valid, as Leftism is a fine album which I hope to post a review of in due time, but the second downright fucks me off when this almost perfect piece of moulded plastic exists.
		The album ends at the criminally cut short One Love, a throw back to the old days of acid house and warehouse raves, but there are more tracks here that give The Prodigy an extra intangible quality.
	www.i-mockery.com /musicreviews/detailed.php?id=647 (581 words)

	entertainment.iafrica.com \| music \| archives Coming in from Leftfield
		Their debut album, "Leftism", released back in January 1995, only served to reinforce this reputation.
		Prior to "Leftism", they even collaborated with John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon, proving that no boundaries were safe from their genre-pillaging dance style.
		A stripped-down sound replaces the architectural majesty of "Leftism", but with it comes an increase in intensity that fuels a deeply dark album, full of stripped beats and punchy samples.
	entertainment.iafrica.com /music/archives/4470.htm (427 words)

	NME.COM - News - LEFTFIELD: WORTH WAITING FOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The song will be made available as DJ promo copies only in the next couple of months but may be released as a single later on in the year.
		The first single from the new album is still scheduled to be 'Afrika Shox', a collaboration with Afrika Bambatta.
		The duo are still deciding on album titles and artwork for the new album which has a provisional release date of September 6.
	www.nme.com /news/1256.htm (337 words)

	Weedguru.com --> Music to listen to while your high.
		Taken from the Leftism album of the early nineties this song remains an all time favourite of mine.
		This whole album is class through and through, the African beats of Afro-left make you think you’re in Zaire, the bass line pumps through to the guitar twanging and the African singing, its so magically created, this album must have be the product of some heavy smoking.
		The old favourite ‘insane in the brain’ is on this album which when you consider was released in 1993 has stood the test of time remarkably well and competes with anything of this genre we hear today.
	www.weedguru.com /tunes.php (1492 words)

	Leftism - Leftfield - Review - the best dance album of all time
		The Leftfield boys pulled Jon Lydon off the streets to snarl over one track and managed to dig Toni Halliday out of her post Curve silo to seduce the speakers on one of the most amazing collaborations of dance music history.
		Bringing their love of dub and punk together with a passion for hard house and techno the producers of Leftism were on a simple rationale....make it kick, echo and kick some more.
		The amaxing Melt is an ideal way to start a techno house DJ set with its melancholic swells, Song of Life is a classic on its own and is worthy of heaps of praise but tracks on their own don't make magnificent albums.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/leftism-leftfield/39321 (282 words)

	Leftfield - The Face interview (July 1999)
		Their first album is the best dance album ever.
		Leftism was recently voted, by a poll of DJs, the best dance album...
		This was the first British album to bring the club floor to the living room - and then take it back again, intact.
	www.leftfield-online.co.uk /articles/face99.htm (2336 words)

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