Leftfield

Leftfield are a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley (formerly of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes formed in 1991 in London, England. The pair were pioneers in the fields of intelligent dance music and released a series of singles and two acclaimed albums before breaking up in 2002 to focus on solo projects.

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Electronica - Record producer - Paul Daley - A Man Called Adam - Brand New Heavies - Neil Barnes - 1991 - London - England - Intelligent dance music - 2002

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Their first major hit was Open Up, a collaboration with John Lydon; it was followed by their debut album, Leftism, in 1995. This album blended dub, breakbeat and techno. Their second and final album, Rhythm and Stealth (1999) maintained a similar style but with a harder, bleaker techno edge, and featured such artists as Roots Manuva, Afrika Bambaataa and MC Cheshire Cat from Birmingham. The album was shortlisted for the 2000 Mercury Music Prize.

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John Lydon - Leftism - 1995 - Dub - Breakbeat - Techno - Rhythm and Stealth - 1999 - Roots Manuva - Afrika Bambaataa - Birmingham - 2000 - Mercury Music Prize

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They are also well-known to a mainstream UK audience for their track Phat Planet, which soundtracked the "Surfers" TV advertisement for Guinness, ranked #1 in Channel 4's Top 100 Adverts list in 2000.

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UK - TV - Guinness - Channel 4 - 2000

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Their downtempo music style has inspired a genre which has been recognised as simply leftfield, with several charts appearing in magazines such as DJ magazine and Mixmag. The genre is also known as Chill out.

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Downtempo - DJ magazine - Mixmag - Chill out

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