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"Leftfield is a genre inspired by Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, two electronic music pioneers who were the first to fuse house music with dub and reggae. Their desire to ignore the boundaries of genre classifications and experiment with new sounds that were often indefinable in terms of the genre classifications around at the time, led popular UK ...
May 11, 2017 · When Leftfield released their debut album in 1995, it changed dance music forever. Wilfully eclectic, Leftism never settled on a single genre, dabbling in tribal, trance, dub, house and ambient...
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Now, with Barnes and Daley having spent three years in the studio struggling to draw up the architectural plans for new cathedrals of sound, the result is a sequel that is as vital, relevant and challenging as its predecessor. Standout tracks include rising London rapper Roots Manuva freestyling over the sci-fl hip-hop of Dusted, the aforementioned...
During the making of Rhythm And Stealth, rumours abounded of serious studio rifts between Daley and Barnes, apparently stemming from a mutual dread that, with Leftism, their finest hour had passed. An honest bloke, Daley makes no attempt to deny them. "Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was bad, but it was like that for the first album as well. It...
Before meeting him, I wouldn't have been able to pick Leftfield's Paul Daley out of a police line-up. Indeed, like a lot of faceless boffins, he seems most comfortable being heard and not seen. A fair comment? "Perhaps when I was younger I was interested in fame, but I'm 36 now and you change as you get older," he expounds. "I’m just interested in...
A few years ago, Daley was surprised to find himself spinning the steel wheels before 20,000 people at Tribal Gathering, a state of affairs he could never have foreseen a mere five years ago. “I never saw the whole scene ever being like it is now," he explains. "When we were making Leftism, I thought the whole scene was on its knees taking its dyin...
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You don't have to look long and hard at today's music scene to spy Leftfield's fingerprints – here are five ways they changed the game and invented modern dance music as we know it.
Popular music historian Arnold Shaw wrote in 1949 for the Music Library Association that the term "out of left field" was first used in the idiomatic sense of "from out of nowhere" by the music industry to refer to a song that unexpectedly performed well in the market.
Leftfield are a British electronic music group formed in 1989, a duo of Neil Barnes and Paul Daley (the latter formerly of The Rivals and A Man Called Adam). The duo was influential in the evolution of electronic music in the 1990s, with Mixmag describing them as "the single most influential production team working in British dance music". [1]
