Gone But Forgotten: Leftfield - Leftism (1995) Album Review

My occasional series on (usually) an album that was either denied classic status on release or has been forgotten about since. Immediately I feel maybe I should’ve chosen the second Leftfield album for this - as has Leftism been forgotten that much? It was alongside Portishead’s Dummy and Air’s Moon Safari, in every CD library back then. Maybe it has a bit, due to their initial run only being two albums before largely disappearing, whilst contemporaries, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Underworld, The Prodigy... all kept releasing and playing live prominently. None the less it remains a stunning landmark of the most fertile period of British electronic music ever, and despite coining the entire genre of progressive house, is a wide overview of everything that made that first five years of the 90s of British dance electronica so incredible - from techno to house to drum n bass/jungle, trip-hop and reggae/soundystem music - a beautifully produced and sequenced 10/10.