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that album blew everything out of the water when it came out, bigger than Jilted, Second Toughest, Timeless, maybe even Homework. Whole album still sounds good today.

For me, the greatest electronic album of all time. Absolutely timeless.

Got that on the Tomb Raider Soundtrack as a kid. I is my single favourite piece of music ever - the thing I want to listen to one last time before I finally bite the dust

Has anyone else heard the Underworld steppin razor mix of this Leftfield song ? It’s insane!!!

This album belongs in the hall of fame for the greatest albums of all time. Still as fresh today as when it was first created.

CSI of EDM, love your ability to deconstruct and recreate these tracks. Awesome👌

We danced on mushrooms in a forrest on this music whole album just magic 🦋❤️1996

The strings sound the way they do because the song is in C Dorian rather than Natural Minor, so the A flat in C minor scale (C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭) is raise a semitone to A. This gives it a slightly brighter sound than the sad sounding Natural Minor and gives the F major IV chord instead of F minor which is that beautiful but slightly unexpected 3rd chord in the progression. Absolutely love these breakdowns, there's no way we weren't at the same rave at some point during the 90s because every track you breakdown is straight out of my fondest memories playlist. The 303 pitched bassline completely blew my mind, absolutely nailed it, a very special sound indeed. Thank you!

Saw Leftfield live a few years back and they opened with Song of Life. Can’t really put into words how good it was. Excellent tutorial

When I played the Incredible Bongo Band album and noticed that break in it, I couldn't believe it! Must have been 20 years after Leftism and I still instantly recognised it. Leftism is burned into the bit of my brain associated with trippy chillouts after clubnights and raves.

I always knew in my guts that this volcal sample is from the bulgarian folk music, never did a research, but today I found the proof, so proud and so love Leftfield, buzzing!

Ollie Jacobs (Arkarna) was the engineer on this, along with 'Open Up' and 'Space Shanty' which is pretty telling. A real talent that lad.

It's kind of weird how Leftfield was like the definitive example of what progressive house music sounded like considering that most modern progressive house music nowadays sounds nothing like Leftfield. A lot of their classic stuff like Song of Life, Open Up, and Space Shanty could easily fit well in a "techno" or even a "psytrance" mix in certain circumstances today.

Song of Life still rocks, it’s that baseline in the 2nd section that never fails to blow me away… you did a masterful job at recreation 👍

Just found you and your channel via your re-make of The Orbs Little Fluffy Clouds. Now i find the start of the series is Leftfield Song of Life....My conclusion this series is going to explode! 💣

Leftism is my favourite artist album. Bought in 96 on CD and then treated myself to the vinyl release in 2001. Great video and if Leftfield have viewed it, I'm sure they are chuffed for your love & respect for their music.

I remember the first time i heard this track in '94 on my first trip Dj'ing in Corfu. 30 years later and almost to the month, i'm planning to drop this in my set next month on a sunset boat cruise party on the water between Samui and Phangnan...

Good job, as usual dude! These guys were so good. Their arrangement skills are amazing - not just snare rolls and risers etc, they build tension through music. Wish there was more of it nowadays

This reminded me of how much of a watershed album Leftism was. Thanks.

beautiful tune. I worked on events one summer a few years ago, and the sound engineer used to check the PA/Soundsystem at the start of every day with this tune. It fills the space!

Dance music traditionally doesn't age very well. So listening to Leftism 30+ years later and it still sounds fresh is pure joy! A masterpiece ❤

This album got me into 4/4 dancemusic. I never looked back. To this day my favorite album. It aged so well! ❤️

What a timeless tune....timeless album. I remember the first time I heard leftism in the 90s.. absolutely blew me away

Excellent breakdown of an absolute monster of a tune, from Pioneers of electronic music.!

Big leftfield fan here,must say there was a point in time where that album never left the cd player, i've also got it on it on all my mobile devices too,love the full album,...AWESOMENESS!! Whenever i purchased/auditioned new monitors/speakers back in the day this was one of my go to track alongside "inspection" (CHECK ONE) to test their drive,authority and scale! "SONG OF LIFE" helped separate the "wheat from the chaff" in my decision making...the bass on this track is truly awesome and it demands to be driven hard to be fully appreciated. just about to go watch your "Orb" little fluffy cloud deconstruction/reconstruction,,oh and i've just subscribed too!...love what you do!! "quality always rewards"

The album is a masterpiece. It just takes you on a journey. The build ups and the blends of textures just hold up. Its not just dance/electronic music it is well thought out.

brilliant. gave me goosebumps hearing you break it down. I'd give you a thousand likes if I could

That sound you are looking for at 9:40 is a melodica. If you have ever seen leftfield live then you will know that they use it in the live set, then it has a bit of delay and maybe some reverb. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodica

Like everyone else here, words fail to describe how much I love this song! Your breakdown has just technically explained why we all love it so much. Saw them live in Australia about 5 years ago, best live perfomance and vibes to date!

Great video mate. Makes me wanna listen to the whole album right now! Lots of memories from Years 2 and 3 at Uni listening to this and smashing the album.

my favourite album of all time, along with The Prodigy - The Fat of The Land. Would love to see you recreate one of their tracks also :) subbed!

So pleased you are covering tracks from this album, was my favourite for decades ♡♡

Mate, I used to start my DJ sets with this. From the day it came out right up until 2000s!! Even today I would. Ive been making dance/house music since 1992 on "real gear" and on plug ins. You have done an AMAZING job on deconstructing/reconstructing this tune!!

Absolute classic track and a great rundown of its components. The lead sound @ 14:49 I'm almost certain is a JD-990. IIRC they had one. The phaser effect gives it away plus it has such presence even on a relatively straightforward timbre. Also think the strings could be from the JD too. Great work.

an incredible timelessly brilliant record that I still listen to regularly...thanks for the breakdown !!

Wow, just always been in awe of the beauty of this track. You have done a cracking job here!!!

Very well done thanks for sharing…..this record changed everything!

Always been one of my favorite tracks - thanks!

Absolutely brilliant thank you

One of my favorite tracks! Can't wait on the next one

This is awesome. Thank you for deconstructing. I've always found Leftism so mesmerising because I can't really identify any sounds too clearly.

You've made me fall in love with this track again. It's a genuine work of art

Love this dude, always interesting track choices and the approach is inspiringly creative 👊🏻

Really great to hear / see this. One of my favourite tracks of all time. Really impressed with your work on this.

This is phenomenal!! Hats off to you this is really cool

Amazing breakdown. One of my favourite tracks from my favourite artists. Great work!

Brilliant walkthrough. Thank you:) look forward to hearing more.

Your enthusiasm throughout this video is inspiring. Very happy to see someone soooo happy doing something they love.

Great watch...fantastic tune

This is absouletely effing brilliant - great job! One of my favourite pieces of electronic music of all time.

Excellent work!

Awesome job reconstructing an awesome track from an awesome album. Awesome.

One of my all time favourite songs! You've really worked hard working all that out, mad respect 🙏 This song has so much emotion in it, a true work of art.

What a fantastic and educational video. Kudos to you man. You had the benefit of knowing where the samples came from, imagine trying find them in the first place as some of them were pretty obscure.

Great work recreating those parts.

Really great job, absolute classic track, round of applause 👏🏼 will be looking out for more of your videos

Outstanding!

spine tingling. nice one.

I love this video very insightful, cool stuff!

Brilliant deconstruction of an epic track. The track still manages to hold onto some of its secrets, mostly in effects and it holds up really well after all these years. I was transported back to my uni days in Manchester in the 90s when I first heard this album, and this track especially holds so many great memories for me, thank you I really enjoyed this episode and looking forward to more.

Thanks, you made me remember how much I love this track. Great explanation and video

Really enjoyed watching this. Three different mixes of this track were featured on the Sasha & John Digweed Renaissance The Mix Collection from 1994 where I first heard this. Nice to hear the recreation & separation of each of the instruments & samples! Looking forward to more videos! 🙌🏻👏🏼

goose bumps! such a nice recreation!

They were geniuses! Well done! One of my favourite tracks

amazing!

OMG, what a fantastic channel and amazing work. A new subscriber for sure. And I've lost count of the nights I've had to this album. I'm 46 and I doubt this album has dropped out my top 10 in the last 27 years! I was fascinated watching this. Keep up the brilliant work.

Brilliant stuff!! Totally stoked to find your channel!

Top videos mate. This track is so good it puts me off getting into production. 👌

this is one of the most epic vids I've seen in a long time. do more pls

Fascinating to hear how it's all broken down! Makes you appreciate the track even more!

😍Really awesome. Thank you for this!

Awesome work

Lovely and inspiring, thanks my brotha! 🤠

Great video! Love how you figured out that 303 bass! Subscribed!

fascinating, really nicely put together

Excellent breakdown, great effort with recreating some of those sound, esp. that lead with LFO.

Wow I really enjoyed this clip. Loved the album when it came out.

Love your passion for production!

Hey just discovered your channel, awesome and great choice of tracks to cover. You’ve clearly put a lot of hours and effort into these remakes. Thanks you!

very well done. i've loved song of life forever but breaking it down reminds me just how great it really is. i know what I'm playing in full right after this video :D

thank you, more from leftism please, one of my most favorite albums of all time

Loved this album for decades, still play it regularly.

What a lovely vidoe, thank you. That album was quite something in it's day, and I had largekly forgotten about it. There seems to be a quite a lot of stuff from that era getting attention. and why not? You explain everything really well, and your passion for the project is absolutely obvious. Bravo. Subbed.

Ahhh, this made me so happy, thank you! I was 10 when I discovered this album in the year 2000 and it holds a special place in my heart. I've never heard anything else quite like it.

Awesome breakdown! Love it

That was amazing. Liked and sub’d. Thanks for sharing!

This video is an instant subscription.

Really nice breakdown, Leftfield are an amazing act.

10/10 album!! super video, great idea ! something really new.

Love your work pal. 👊🏻

Just catching up on your videos ... Man ! What a great track... Takes me right back to 95 seeing leftfield live in Leeds 🤪 it was so loud the bass knocked out the windows ... Great video 🙏👍

Nice work brother 60 years old Remember back in time when i take the LP and maxi singles nice memories. Thnx for the upload and resolution Stay safe and keep up the way you love. Greetings from greece

Saw them in June and all I keep praying for was song of life, needless to say I wasn't disappointed. Still buzzing now 👌

What a tune!!!!!

Such a classic, this song never gets old. The whole album actually. Can’t wait for you to do The Orb!

This is brilliant. Just subscribed. Keep these coming.

amazing video, best tune and breakdown

Congratz, excellent work ! /subbed

One of the greatest songs of all time. Definitely the greatest album of all time, bar none (IMHO). Well dissected sir. Really interesting!