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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]
Based on baseball lingo, a sentence such as "That was a hit out of left field" was used by song pluggers who promoted recordings and sheet music, to describe a song requiring no effort to sell. [2] A "rocking chair hit" was the kind of song which came "out of left field" and sold itself, allowing the song plugger to relax. [2]
John Bush of the online music database AllMusic stated the album is not simply a progressive house album and that it "spans a wide range of influences (tribal, dub, trance)". [1] Clash expanded on this, describing "Release the Pressure" and "Inspection (Check One)" as dub -influenced tracks, while "Storm 3000" is a bass-heavy track that ...
Dave Simpson from Melody Maker named "Original" Single of the Week, adding, "The intro sounds like the launching of some faraway spacecraft (well, all right, Kraftwerk), the main chassis of the song is some inter-Galaxian funk, and some sampled guitars mimic the flight of a slightly malfunctioning Venusian Observer's Vehicle."
A black-and-white music video was produced to promote the single, directed by British director Lindy Heymann. [6] "The Dust Brothers Remix" is an early remix by the Chemical Brothers, before they were forced to change to their current name. On later compilations, the remix appears as "The Chemical Brothers Remix" and is over nine minutes in ...
Matt Hendrickson of Rolling Stone said, "The album's jumble of epic sounds is a blessing and a curse: Rhythm and Stealth never develops a sustained, full-on groove, but it makes for a mind-melding headphone adventure."
Alternative Light Source is the third album by the English electronic group Leftfield, released on 8 June 2015.It is the first new material following the band's 1999 album Rhythm and Stealth.
Pop music is more conservative than other music genres such as folk, blues, country, and tradition. Many pop songs do not contain themes of resistance, opposition, or politics, rather focusing more on love and relationships. Therefore, pop music does not challenge its audiences socially, and does not cause political activism.