chrysmeson: Rhythm and Stealth by Leftfield

As if this was what mainstream music was like in 1999. This reached number 1 in the UK album charts and was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. It’s another album I regularly listen to and have loved over the decades. Two tracks were featured on separate Guinness adverts, further cementing their wide appeal. What has happened to people’s taste for electronica? It’s a fantastic example of 90s-00s electronica, with elements joining each track, making a seamless flow of music without being mixed in the club sense. Sonically it’s incredible. Layered and full of complex samples from other genres, woven into spacey, deep, dark and twinkly tracks. Double Flash, for example, is so chugy. It’s straight up peak time techno which could hold its own today in Berlin today. El Cid on the other hand is delightfully dreamy and a prime example of how electronic music can be beautiful. It’s another album orchestrating why I love electronica.

Rhythm and Stealth

9/15/1999