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Rhythm and Stealth

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Released
  
20 September 1999

Length
  
52:48

Artist
  
Leftfield

Label
  
Hard Hands

Recorded
  
1998–1999

Rhythm and Stealth (1999)
  
Stealth Remixes (2000)

Release date
  
20 September 1999

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Producer
  
Leftfield and Nick Rapaccioli (track 6)

Genres
  
Techno, Dub, Electronica, Breakbeat, Trip hop

Similar
  
Leftfield albums, Trip hop albums

Rhythm and Stealth is the second album by Leftfield released on 20 September 1999. It was the follow-up to 1995's Leftism. The album reached No. 1 in the UK album chart. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2000 but lost out to Badly Drawn Boy's The Hour of Bewilderbeast.

Contents

Rhythm and Stealth sees the band enter a darker sound with heavy influences on breakbeat, downtempo and dub. The album is popular with the public due to the song "Phat Planet", being featured in Guinness' 1999 advert Surfers and the theme to the animated series Beast Machines, although the song was never released as a single. The best selling single from the album was "Afrika Shox" featuring Afrika Bambaataa which peaked at No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart.

The album was released on CD, cassette, double-LP, quintuple 10" box set and MiniDisc (COLUMBIA 488527 8). "Double Flash" was one of the songs that was remixed into the European release of MTV Music Generator, known as Music 2000. The album was re-released on 29 May 2000 with a bonus disk of remixed versions which was also released as an album on its own, Stealth Remixes. The song "Swords" was featured in the 1999 film Go.

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Track listing

  1. "Dusted" (featuring Roots Manuva) – 4:41
  2. "Phat Planet" – 5:24
  3. "Chant of a Poor Man" (featuring Cheshire Cat) – 5:54
  4. "Double Flash" – 4:11
  5. "El Cid" – 6:02
  6. "Afrika Shox" (featuring Afrika Bambaataa) – 5:37
  7. "Dub Gussett" – 4:51
  8. "Swords" (featuring Nicole Willis) – 5:07
  9. "6/8 War" – 4:13
  10. "Rino's Prayer" (featuring Rino) – 6:44
  • A special edition was released in Australia and Japan containing a bonus track "Phat Planet (Version 2)"

    • Bonus CD

    1. "Phat Planet" (Dave Clarke Remix) – 5:52
    2. "El Cid" (I-Cube Simple Mix) – 5:52
    3. "Rino's Prayer" (Nick Rapaccioli Remix) – 5:39
    4. "Chant of a Poor Man" (Mighty Quark Remix) – 5:24
    5. "Dub Gussett" (Maas Remix) – 6:33
    6. "El Cid" (I-Cube Table Tennis Remix) – 6:49
    7. "Double Flash" (Headstarter Remix) – 6:11
    8. "Afrika Shox (CD-ROM video version) – 4:52
    9. "Dusted" (CD-ROM video version) – 4:43

    Songs

    1Dusted4:42
    2Phat Planet5:24
    3Chant of a Poor Man5:56

    References

    Rhythm and Stealth Wikipedia
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