Leftfield straight away really hit it home for me, in fact most that got to hear Leftism were taken by it. It's a pity that after the second album, and all the attention and remix work they did the the spirit to go on together was gone, in a sense theyw ere too pinholed by us. How different the other duo, right from the start they opened up to and produced a range of music under different monikers today and tomorrow i will post a lot of their diverse work. Starting with the elektro funk of the Jedi Knights, who as such pop up on the Evolution label (theirs) sampler where they appear under diverse names and with some friends work, notably Matthew Herbert. They certainly showed to be ahead of the game here, and so they were with their ambient classic 76:14 under the global Communication moniker that will appear tomorrow at the Sundaze post.
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Leftfield - A Final Hit (03 * 168MB)
Leftfield were a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley (formerly of The Rivals, A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes, formed in 1989 in London, England. The name Leftfield was originally used simply by Neil Barnes for the first single Not Forgotten but after this Paul Daley was involved firstly in remixing songs and then in the creation of following music. The pair were pioneers in the fields of intelligent dance music and progressive house, being among the first to fuse house music with dub and reggae. Their first major hit was "Open Up", a collaboration with John Lydon; soon followed by their debut album, Leftism in 1995, blending dub, breakbeat, and techno especially called "UK-dub". Part of their genius lies in their ability to bring warmth and spirituality to so-called machine music.Part of Leftism's crossover - and Leftfield's retention of club cool -- can be attributed to the savvy use of guest vocalists. "Original" pits Curve's Toni Halliday against moody trip-hop, thereby inventing Garbage two years early, while the artist formerly known as Johnny Rotten's banshee prophecy of a burning Hollywood over the caning house rhythms of "Open Up" still sounds incendiary. It was shortlisted for the 1995 Mercury Music Prize but lost-out to Portishead's "Dummy". Where Leftism was sprawling, deep, seemingly all-knowing, their second album Rhythm and Stealth is ruthlessly minimal. Considering it 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. The now-notorious chug of "Phat Planet" a distorted, quasi-bass rumble that doesn't so much invade your space as occupy your territory, no wonder it got used under a beercommercial then. They infamously had a number of gigs shut down and were banned from Brixton Academy due to their sound systems being way above legal noise levels, with certain basslines actually causing structural damage.2001 and after 12 years of sonic experimentation, Paul Daley and Neil Barnes decided to pull the plug on Leftfield, and pursue solo projects .
01 - Release The Pressure(voc. Earl Sixteen , Papa Dee) (3:59)
02 - Afro-Left (voc. Djum Djum )(7:34)
03 - Song Of Life (7:00)
04 - Original (voc. Toni Halliday )(4:09)
05 - Storm 3000 (5:48)
06 - Open Up (voc. John Lydon )(3:49)
07 - Dusted (voc.Roots Manuva) (4:42)
08 - Phat Planet (5:23)
09 - Afrika Shox (voc Afrika Bambaataa) (5:37)
10 - Not Forgotten (6:39)
11 - A Final Hit (3:16)
12 - Swords (voc. Nicole Willis) (5:09)
13 - Shallow Grave (4:29)
14 - Snakeblood (5:39)
15 - More Than I Know (6:42)
For those that think the edited Open Up is a bit short, here's a wildfire of 14 min
16 - Open Up - Dervish Overdrive ^ 27mb
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Jedi Knights - New School Science ( 96 * 111mb)
No other electronic dance act made so many recordings in such a wide range of styles (and with such impressive results) as the duo of Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton. After coming together in 1991, the pair began recording music whose range spanned all of electronic dance music, though many were recorded under aliases -- industrial techno as Reload, electro-funk as Jedi Knights, progressive house as Link, jungle as the Chameleon, and most famously, ambient and house as Global Communication. Their 1994 LP 76:14, recorded as Global Communication, was a notable high point of the early-'90s ambient house movement.
The partnership began in 1991, when Pritchard and Middleton formed Evolution Records (named after a Carl Craig track) to release their own dancefloor-oriented house and techno. (Middleton had previously recorded with Aphex Twin while Pritchard had been half of the duo Shaft, responsible for the British Top Ten rave hit "Roobarb & Custard"). The first three releases on Evolution were EPs recorded as Reload by Pritchard/Middleton in 1992-1993 -- The Reload, The Autoreload, and The Biosphere. The records were excellent Detroit-inspired tracks, brooding and eerie but nonetheless highly danceable. Reload first gained fame on the Infonet label (the brief dance subsidiary launched by Creation Records) with an EP and the 1994 full-length A Collection of Short Stories. Global Communication, which matched the unsettling ambience of Reload but with a focus on warmer rhythms, debuted on Evolution 004, otherwise known as The Keongaku EP. Though Global Communication's full-length debut Pentamerous Metamorphosis followed soon after, it wasn't quite a proper album per se; it was in fact an extended remix of Chapterhouse's Blood Music LP.
With the ambient house boom in full force by 1994, Pritchard and Middleton's downtempo project became more important than Reload. They signed to Dedicated and released 76:14 in mid-1994. The album later gained an American release, and made many critics' best-of lists that year. Global Communication released Remotion in late 1995, though this album consisted of remixes also, including material from the out of print Pentamerous Metamorphosis LP along with reworkings of material by Jon Anderson, Nav Katze, and Warp 69.
Never a team to rest on their laurels, Pritchard and Middleton added another side project to their resumé in late 1994 when Jedi Knights released the debut single for nu-school electro label Clear Records. Though a full-length was more than a year in coming -- New School Science appeared in March 1996 -- the debut 12" sparked an electro revival in England. Jedi Knights also appeared on the May 1995 label retrospective The Theory of Evolution along with other Evolution projects such as Reload, Link & e621, and non-Pritchard/Middleton artists such as Jak & Stepper (aka Dave Kempston and Stevie Horn) and Matt Herbert's Wish Mountain project.
Evolution was soon replaced by Pritchard and Middleton's new label venture: Universal Language Productions, the home of new releases by Gerd, Max 404, Danny Breaks, and Droppin' Science, among others. The duo also debuted yet another project in early 1996 -- the Chameleon had first appeared in 1994 remixing Link's "Archetype Arcadian," and as jungle began to grow in popularity during 1995-1996, LTJ Bukem signed the Chameleon to his Good Looking stable for the single "Links." It appeared in January 1996, and was compiled later that year on Bukem's Logical Progression compilation.
Perhaps fearful of spreading themselves too thin, Pritchard and Middleton cut back on their side-project work by early 1997; though no LPs were forthcoming, the pair did issue two new Global Communication singles ("The Way/The Deep," "The Groove") signaling a new direction toward the lush sounds of dancefloor-friendly deep house and funk. Middleton also stepped out on his own with A Jedi's Night Out, an entry in Mixmag's series of DJ albums. By the end of the decade, both were working on solo projects (Middleton's Cosmos project produced a big Ibizan club hit during 2000 with "Summer in Space"), though they promised they'd work together again.
One of the more endearing pseudonyms of Global Communication's Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, Jedi Knights spearheaded Britain's electro revival of 1994-95 with the single "May the Funk Be with You." Resembling nothing so much as a fusion of electro-funk with the cantina band from Star Wars, Jedi Knights also released a rare GC-related full-length, 1995's New School Science. The duo continued to use Jedi Knights, for big-beat frenzy on singles like "Big Knockers" and "Catch the Break."
01 - May The Funk Be With You (8:20)
02 - Noddy Holder (7:42)
03 - One For M.A.W (8:30)
04 - Science Friction (10:49)
05 - The Truth (4:28)
06 - Lessons (2:34)
07 - Air Drums From Outer Bongolia (3:26)
08 - Dances Of The Naughty Knights (4:39)
09 - Human Blancmage (9:04)
10 - Solina (The Ascension) (11:04)
11 - Afterlife (3:14)
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VA - The Theory Of Evolution (95 * 134mb)
Reload, originally, was a Mark Pritchard solo project. Later, Tom Middleton joined Pritchard on some of his Reload releases, and "& E621"(the name of a chemical flavour enhancer) was added to specify Middleton's involvement/flavour enhancement on a track (similar to the set-up with "Link & E621").
Producer, Written-By - Dave Kempston (tracks: 5) , Mark Pritchard (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14, 16 to 20,) , Matthew Herbert (tracks: 12, 15) , Stephen Horne (tracks: 3, 5, 7) , Tom Middleton (tracks: 1, 8 to 11, 13, 17 to 20)
01 - Perverted Science (Intro) (0:05)
02 - Reload - Birth Of A Disco Dancer (3:46)
03 - Horn, The - Waltz With (1:13)
04 - Reload - Sexomatic (4:03)
05 - Jak And Stepper - Send.a (0:26)
06 - Reload - Peschi (5:05)
07 - Horn, The - Election (1:14)
08 - Reload & E621 - Ptysch (4:15)
09 - Reload & E621 - The Biosphere (6:36)
10 - Reload & E621 - Nemm (4:48)
11 - Rebus Project, The - Larynx (2:28)
12 - Wishmountain - Royal Wedding (2:32)
13 - Link - Amazon Amenity (Chameleon Remix) (9:03)
14 - Link - Archetype Arcadian (4:36)
15 - Wishmountain - The Book (2:36)
16 - Mystic Institute - QA:752:LP (Reload Remix) (4:54)
17 - Jedi Knights - Pubic Funk (Live) (2:22)
18 - Link & E621 - Antacid (11:35)
19 - Link & E621 - Winna (0:48)
20 - Link & E621 - A Tribute To Peter Cook (1:06)
Mark and Tom @ Base
Note, tomorrow in Sundaze part 2 Global Communcation
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