Rhythm & Stealth
Baritone Bristolian
Screenshot of the coverart of Leftfield’s second album Rhythm & Stealth.
(Using Mac App Cleanshot with shelf effect. Cool, but likely won’t do that anymore.)
Screenshot of the coverart of Leftfield’s second album Rhythm & Stealth.
(Using Mac App Cleanshot with shelf effect. Cool, but likely won’t do that anymore.)
Bass
I think I sideways discovered this album while at an electronics store and this record was stacked near the back where some massive speaker cabinets were on demo. It claimed their previous album Leftism was the ‘greatest bass album of all time.”
So I bought it.
I’ve mentioned Leftfield before here, but when I realized I haven’t mentioned this album yet, I had to get something up.
I also quickly found a British subway advert for the album on ebay, too, along with one for Massive Attack’s Mezzanine album, and a few others, and I quickly had a nice collection of musical art on the wall, but pro-like, mounted on foam core panels instead of just push pins. These posters were huge, 3’ x 5’ some of them, and they were impressive. Here’s what a poster for the album looked like from ebay:
Manuva
The heavy hitter Roots Manuva (Rodney Smith) was a badass, baritone-voiced Bristolian in the ‘90s, and he’s still going strong today.
He contributed to a few tracks on this Leftfield album and there is more info on his own label’s site here: https://bigdada.com/
The track “Dusted” showed his unique vocal style in an over-the-top track, with a companion music video, too: