{"id":337,"date":"2007-01-30T22:37:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T03:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2007-01-30T22:37:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T03:37:34","slug":"leftfield-leftism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/leftfield-leftism\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftfield &#8212; Leftism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/leftfieldleftism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-770\" title=\"Leftfield -- Leftism\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/leftfieldleftism.jpg\" alt=\"Leftfield -- Leftism\" width=\"500\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Leftfield<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Leftism<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1995<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> CD<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 2007 &#8211; SecondSpin.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than once I&#8217;ve read reviews that called Leftfield&#8217;s <em>Leftism<\/em> &#8220;the greatest dance record ever.&#8221; To that I say, &#8220;OK.&#8221; It&#8217;s good all right; that&#8217;s for sure. <em>Leftism<\/em> was their debut. I&#8217;ve had their second, darker and somewhat minimalist, record <em>Rhythm and Stealth<\/em> for some years, and it&#8217;s one of my favorites. I couldn&#8217;t find <em>Leftism<\/em> easily because it&#8217;s now out of print. Then, just recently I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondspin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SecondSpin.com<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ve been in business for quite a while, but they&#8217;re new to me. They have used CDs, DVDs and games, the prices are great, and best of all they have hard to get stuff like this record. You can bet I&#8217;m going to be picking up a lot of back catalog stuff from them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the Leftfield deal is like this: They are two DJs with numerous guest vocalists (no less than John Lydon on this one) and have been described as the finest example of freestyle British club music. Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leftfield\">more about Leftfield<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Leftfield Title: Leftism Year: 1995 Format: CD Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 2007 &#8211; SecondSpin.com Keeper: Yes More than once I&#8217;ve read reviews that called Leftfield&#8217;s Leftism &#8220;the greatest dance record ever.&#8221; To that I say, &#8220;OK.&#8221; It&#8217;s good all right; that&#8217;s for sure. Leftism was their debut. I&#8217;ve had their second, darker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474,452,453],"tags":[518,604,632,655,739,800,46,1005],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-518","tag-cd","tag-dance","tag-dub","tag-house","tag-leftfield","tag-music","tag-techno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}