Leftism

A couple songs worth bopping to but the rest I zoned out of.

You had me at leftism, but why? Might as well have been conservativism. Okay for background, but otherwise not my tea.

Open Up is an absolute banger But dear god there was some tedious stuff around that.

At this point, I assume every album I am going to get will be electronica/house/dance. This is the 4th instrumental/dance album out of the last 6 days. Everything I said about the previous album(s), the inability of to determine why this album should be in the book and the songs are mostly 5+ minutes, goes for this one as well. How is this different from the 125 other records from the 90's where there is dance/electronica? I don't see it. Please make this stop.

Techno dance - lots of beats, lots of creative noises, some lyrics thrown in but I’m honestly reaching for why it would be so lauded. Nothing of consequence.

fine, decent, nothing interesting, good background beats, but nothing i'd return to. didn't feel compelled to finish the album.

Bit repetitive for me but could see it working well in a club serting.

An example of being completely mid, and made even worse by running too long at over an hour in length. I gave up and went to do something else with only a few songs left because it had well overstayed its welcome by then.

I’m so excited to listen to all 1001 albums from the book “300 Good Albums, 4 Reggae Albums, 26 Albums of British People Copying Reggae, 40 Albums of 60’s Psychedelic Bullshit (18 of which are by the Byrds), 200 Forgettable Late-90’s Early-2000’s Brit Pop Albums, 10 Albums Representing the Entire History of Jazz, 150 Generic and Completely Inconsequential Techno Albums that the Author Danced to at a Rave When he was Young I Guess?, 101 Duran Duran Wannabes, and 170 Other Terrible Choices that Make You Want to Die”. What a good use of my time and energy! This was stupid and pointless. The first two songs sounded like “The Macarena”. It never really improved from there. A complete waste of time.

Ce qu'on appelait du techno dans les années 1990... pas très subtil ni varié

If you dig Techo and EDM this is probably a cornstone album 🤷🏿‍♂️ but a whole hour of this was a bit brutal. I can get down on any one of these tracks individually with a huge gap between the next time I hear another (like a few days). Like JP in Grandma's Boy said "You'd like it if you had robot ears." I don't and I don't. 3.1/10 120/1001

Well… not bad but not for me! The song Original was really good! It sounds like Massive Attack to me.

pretty cool, not exactly my taste. 2 hours is a long time for ambient electronic music. nothing bad about it just not really my thing

Outside of the hit single, "Original," these isn't much to write home about here. Plenty of other contemporary electronic artists (Moby, Daft Punk, Underworld, Orb, etc.) were making similar music for the primarily European club kid scene. Leftfield may have helped break the genre into the mainstream, but I don't hear it as a must-listen. Add a half-star for the outstanding album cover art.

Early fighting video game music. I did not eat the right drugs for breakfast for this.

This was one of the rare cases where I got an album that I thought I would really like, but it turned out to be a bit of a dud. "Open Up" is fantastic, but everything else was a chore to listen to. Much of the music on this album has aged like old milk.

Dear album generator, I am a patient man. But one more ALBUM OF EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL ELECTRONICA FROM THE NINETIES AND I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING REGRETTABLE. Yours truly.

The repetitive, hypnotic beats from this 90s-era electronic album make for great background music.

Look, usually I don’t like long electronic albums that sound repetitive. There is no but. 2/5

It's alright. Probably won't listen again, not the type of electronic music I enjoy.

What if we made a dance album but we didn’t make it fun

not too exciting

Its ok. Def not something one would need to listen to.

Electronica is not my thing. This reminded me of music I might hear in the original Blade Runner movie. And while that would normally be a good thing, this just sounded dated.

This is bad, typical Euro house - didn't even finish way too long

Just not my thing at all. I don't even know what brand of music it is... Just lots of ambience with reggae/dub vocally bits?

As far as electronics goes this wasn’t terrible. Just not my thing. 2.85

I can imagine this works very well in a club. But simply not my cup of tea.

More rave hypno stuff. Meh

No me gustó casi nada. Hay dos tracks cantados que están padres, especialmente el que se llama Origins. El resto del disco, una especie de electrónico de Senegal, me cansó y fastidió en su más de una hora de duración. Not a fan.

I’ve never been to a rave, I think you have to have been to a rave to like this.

It was fine, but I don’t think it belongs on the best albums of all time list.

Eh, not for me. These electronic albums are pretty tough not in the right setting. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Ah it's rave music! Well 90's rave music anyway. Here is the fun part about it, it's only fun when your at the rave some pills were taken and your dancing next to a beautiful woman who is in short shorts and a bikini top. Outside of that specific instance 90's rave music isn't worth listening to. If you listen to it in the car you will get a ticket or wreck and die. On a bike you think I can beat the train. Maybe try and listen while cleaning your house but your doing to miss some spots. It's fast noise with a rhythm. Sometimes people will repeat words in another language that you don't understand. I will say production wise it's good. It's not painful to listen to so that's nice.

Ok if I was at a nightclub or rave. No good for listening in the house or car.

Completely indifferent to this one. I didn't like or dislike it, it simply was. It did feel too long though, and I doubt I'd actively seek it out again in the future.

Funky disco pinko commie!

Gear: Focalman Cleardara Artwork: 🦈🪥🔊 Production (2017 Remaster): 🎧😘🤌 Music: 📀⌛😐 Rating: 👈👈/5

Oh god. It's been going on for ages and I'm only on track 8 of 11. Some of these beats are catchy and head bopping, but then they don't do anything. Every so often a cool synth comes in, then it either stays there or goes away. But then every often a horrible snare will come in for a couple of bars, hit and miss I suppose. Some of it reminds me of guerilla by SFA only they use the good beats under an actual track with interesting instrumentation and real changes. Then on top of that each song is like 6/7 minutes long (although it feels longer) and the whole thing is like an hour and a bit. Just stop it. How, when nothing happens, can you justify everything lasting so bloody long? Oh, you used a sweep filter, cool, that will let us drag this same blip and hihat out for another 3 minutes. I don't even hate it, I just find the amount of time I've had to spend listening to it infuriating.

2,5

A 1997 LexisNexis search for cutting edge music.

I have some recency bias about this because I keep getting brit edm/electric and I just can't do it. I can appreciate EDM for what it is, but this album just seems the same as all the others.

More vocals on this than is usual for the genre which render it inappropriate for its best uses, elevators, boutiques, and sound tracks.

5/8/25. Pretty typical sound from the 90s electronic/big beat scene. Somewhat enjoyable, but don't know if I would revisit.

This album generally sits between annoying and boring for me. Starting off with the Macarena sounding Release the Pressure, and then following it up with Afro Left where they do that thing with their tongue and make a noise with it against their lips like a school kid taunting someone... yeah. Not enjoying this one. Otherwise it's kinda atmospheric dance beats that are repetitive, and wouldnt be out of place on a video game soundtrack. Didn't listen to the whole thing, kinda skimmed around when I realized early on that I wouldn't like it. Was kinda enjoying the vibe of Original, but the vocals ruined it. Dunno what it is with EDM records and their monotone talk-singing, but it just doesn't sound good to me. Some songs like Original and Inspection (Check One) almost verge on Massive Attack-esque trip hop, but its not enough, and not good enough. On top of that, and hour and nine minutes of this is entirely too much.

There are for sure better electronica records than this piece of badly aged elevator stuff.

2.25/5 enjoyed some of the songs as background music

This is definitely more ambient house than I was expecting. It kind of all blended together as a result. I guess I can see the "progressive" house aspect as a result, but not sure how significant that makes this album in the grand scheme of things.

Not for me

Some tracks fine; others I suspect would be far better in a nightclub after a few drinks and suchlike. Not one for me I'm afraid.

2.5

Not for your boy

Kind of fun but forgetable

I remember that I didn’t care for this one. Bad electronic music.

Soso. I've heard worse but it's not great either.

There's no way I could put up with this for over an hour. It sounds like Massive Attack and 2 Unlimited had a less talented child. Better than Daft Punk though.

Feels like I’m inside the 1999 PlayStation game, Gran Turismo.

Boring and repetitive video game music

90s club trash. Sounds like title screen music for gran turismo.

2.5 - Meh

Not really my style of electronic music

Felt like I should be tripping my balls off in some grimy loud European club while listening to this. I had and still have no idea what’s going on Not bad background music but far too long an album otherwise, strong 2/5

Robert Dimery - We need to talk! I realize 1001 is a lot of anything. Gun to my head, idk if I could name 500 let alone 1001 albums. I think you know where I’m going here. This wasn’t as bad as the inexcusable Timeless album by Dookie. AKA it wasn’t distracting in the background of me doing my bullshit ass job. Maybe just not my thing idgaf 2/5

Really trying to stare another electronic album in the face and get through it right now. All I can really say is I'm sure this went hard in a club in 1995 but it's 30 years later now and we have the Macarena. Song of Life and Original were pretty good. This album is another example of the purgatory of drum loop torture that this list seems to love.

another british dance album... seriously...... 2/5, please no more. its not even bad, just bored

The day is Friday, March 21st at 2:30 A.M, and I have been sitting in a hospital room for the last 20 hours straight, supporting my wife in a labor induction process that is starting to seem like it will take 3 days. My wife is asleep, and I am lying on a deeply uncomfortable couch unable to sleep because I have been on the night shift for the last 6 months. The only things I have heard over the last 20 hours outside of my wife and nurses has been 20 straight hours of a baby heartbeat over ultrasound and 10 hours of food network reruns. I set the scene, dear reader, to underline that I am currently apocalyptically bored, and it is in this boredom I have decided to undergo the task of listening to the third hour+ long English electronica album of this list, three of what is probably 200. and it's just making me more bored abysmal. I have put the album in it's entirety in my Spotify queue, and to make sure I don't overshoot and accidentally listen to even more samey electroslop that autoplays after this album ends I have put Perfect Way by Scritti Politti. This is no longer a review for Leftism, this is now an appended review for Scritti Politti: Scritti Politti, when heard after 70 minutes of this, is a 5 star magnum opus, and I'm sorry I doubted it.

Enjoyed the album artwork, and the hope that this would be good before I got into it

Not terrible but just way too long. This is like video game music. 2.5

I'm not into this house/techno stuff. This was the most interesting tidbit for me: "The album was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1995 but lost to Portishead's Dummy." Yeah, that's not even a close contest.

Shitty, repetitive techno. If this is groundbreaking, I'm a shoe.

= The Beatles. If there's one thing this list loves as much as the Beatles and bands that wish they were the Beatles from the 60s and 70s, it's mid as hell British electronic duos from the late 90s and early 00s

I could see this being fun at a rave. I don't know what I'm supposed to do when this pops up on a random Sunday. Take MDMA and let loose in my living room by myself? I liked some of the beats that hey made, but I can't really say I'm going pop this album in when I'm looking for something to listen to.

Not really my vibe. Pretty much background music at a 90s club.

Not my fave but into it

#510. Not my favorite. 2/5: meh

Agree with the ps2 comment

More video game music. Felt like talented musicians having fun making new sounds....wasn't awful, but I wouldn't opt to put it on again.

Not awful but give me anything by Tiesto instead

Too repetitive and songs are far too long without any substance. Hard listen to finish the album, 3.2/10

Have no idea how anyone could feel anything about this

This is #day180 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... here's to electronica from the mid-90s. I'm not sure why this album ended up on this list... was it really that groundbreaking? I've always been more on The Chemical Brothers' side, maybe a little Fatboy Slim... OK, features with Toni Halliday from Curve and John Lydon from Public Image Ltd. ring the bell. But aside from that? That said, I did learn that the term "progressive house" was coined to describe the band's style, a mix of house with dub and reggae. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day181.

How did the appeal of musical tastes get so far apart after the Boston Tea Party? It's amazing to me. Reading the summary for this album I was excited. The first song had promise. I'm even at the gym on a bike. This is what you should be listening to right? Well it drove me crazy by track 8 and I wanted to be done. Sorry 9 10 11 for not giving you a full listen. Your siblings were simply too unruly.

Melt is amazing, some of the other songs not so much. 2stars based mostly on Melt

Out of all 90's House records, why this one? It's certainly not bad, but it's also so unremarkable. I'm sure there were better options out there. Key tracks: Release the Pressure

I think that this kind of sounding music doesn’t prove to me skill. To me, it sounds similar to music similar to itself of that makes sense. I don’t get it.

Album length 1 hour 9 minutes, should be able to sleep for an hour. Not as bad as most of its kind. Still boring and dated.

Groupe inconnu. Cet album aligne des morceaux systématiquement longs, mais suffisamment variés pour retenir l'attention. Et certains morceaux sont instrumentaux (ou pas loin), ce qui est une bonne surprise. J'ai apprécié Melt (instrumental, trompette), Song of Life (voix féminine éthérée). Mais sur 70 mn les morceaux ne sont tous pas aussi intéressants (Space Shanty, Inspection trop répétitifs). Je n'y reviendrais finalement pas. =>2/5

Ugh. Acceptable

That felt unnecessary.

I got the gist after the first CD. That is not a compliment. 2/5

I liked a handful of tracks here, some of which I'd argue were total bangers. But it's very VERY difficult to make a 2+ hour long record where every song is offering a reason to be on the record. And this ultimately fell flat for me while testing my patience quite a bit.

While I felt this was more thorough and comprehensive listening experience than Fatboy Slime's "Better Living...", and seemed closer to EDM as I know it today (despite its '95 timestamp), I still maintain that these are not albums that must be listened to before you die. Do these songs come on in the club and people go "OMG I love Leftfield!" or "OMG I love this album!". I have a hard time believing it, but then again I'm just an EDM hater. Yet I've already gotten 3 EDM albums on this list and it's my goal to take with me at least one song from every album, so perhaps I will be a changed man by the end of it.

Another pretty boring electronic album. I could see a couple tracks in a club environment. Not worth the list in my opinion.

Another unpleasant electronic album.

Not really for me only listened halfway though

This gives millennium era Ministry of Sound compilation vibes. I guess it’s influential

This seems like a good electronic album. Unfortunately I don't like electronic at all. The songs are just too long and repetitive, and the lyrics, when they exist, are a bit too stupid for me.

Just barely tolerable. 2 stars or D-.

I normally love anything that sounds like the background music for a PS2 game. But something about this record just isn’t doing it for me. Thin isn’t the right word, but it’s close. Almost every other electronica album I’ve gotten so far has depth and variety, and I’m just not finding that here. Sure, I get that house tracks are long– that isn’t the issue for me. To me, ‘90s house music did a lot of stylistic blending and used a lot of diverse palettes. I can definitely see an attempt toward that on songs like “Afro Left” and “Original,” and I don’t think this is inconsistent or anything, but it’s just…a bland take on it all. Whatever boundaries Leftfield are trying to push, they’re making minimal efforts to change anything. But unlike most dated electronica where you can critique the technology behind the music, here, that isn’t a problem. My issue is solely with the song structures. These songs lack progress, depth, style, genre fusion, riffs, hooks. It’s all just music to dance to, not music to listen to. I do wonder if my apathy toward Leftism is one of those things like, “This record was so influential that now it feels insignificant,” which is an argument I very rarely believe. In my opinion, a good record should be influential AND stand up against the shifting sands of time. But Leftism does feel like it’s more of a stepping stone record meant to be looked back on less fondly as house music matured more. Maybe that’s me trying to justify my opinion, though. For once, I could do without the PS2 music.

Enough edm dance nonsense.

Fine

I've listened to it for more than an hour, it's a 2 hour double CD and I'm not super inspired by this album. I do like electronic music and this was a decent fit into my workflow this afternoon but I've heard and enjoy better electronic music than this. I think I'll go with 2 star.

not bad compared to some of the other electronic albums i’ve listened to on this list, but still not my thing. and sooooo unnecessarily long, did that last song seriously need that extra minute and a half of silence at the end???? highlights: melt, original (feb 17 2026)

I was lying it ... but it's too much sameness. And then I looked and there are TWO DISCS???? no thank you .... next!

I think a big issue with electronica is that something gets lost in the general listening experience. There’s something enjoyable about it playing at a party or in a club, but on its own it can be repetitive and boring. The ones who can make an enjoyable listening experience regardless of setting are truly special. Sadly, this is not that. I was waffling between a 2 and 3 for this because I didn’t hate it, but the last two songs I really disliked for some reason, so I’m going with a 2.

I like electronic music but hate dance music, and this falls too much on the dance side. I think if it had live drums I would get more or of this, but the soulless hihat and metronomic kickdrum is annoying.

Anytime I have a busy day I’m like “okay please give me one of those classic 30-35 minute banger albums” and this project is also like “no, you’ll get two hours of British electronica.” How many can there be?!?

This has been a tough stretch of albums.

This was probably the best house I've listened to. But I don't really like house.

1001 Albums #17 eugh dont care for it

A few interesting sounds here and there but by and large pretty boring and repetitive.…. No flute in the song called black flute ?? kinda lcd knockoff lol

Giving fruitige airo or a mario level sometimes

A few interesting sounds here and there but by and large pretty boring and repetitive. The bright spots were songs that had unique instrumental parts or vocals like on track 10 Open Up. Maybe I’m just not super into house music but it’s hard to believe that this album is one of the genre’s all-time best offerings. Well produced but not much more than background music imo.

Interest level: 0

good music to nod off in a bathroom to

There is a song called Black Flute and it doesn't have a flute in it. Boring.

Unce unce unce unce

I’m sure the rightism by the right field wouldn’t be any better. Supposedly this is great while taking drugs. That’s fine, but it should also be good when your sober.

Did not enjoy.

I just don't get it. Can get a 2 Will I listen to again: 0%

1. prezzure - 1.5 2. afro - 1.5 3. melt - 1 4. life - 1.5 5. original - 1 6. flute - 1 7. zpace - 2 8. inzpection - 1.5 9. ztorm - 1.5 10. open - 1 11. poem - 1

It was okay. But its a one and done.

My third electronic album in a row… give me reprieve.

First of all, this is not my kind of music. But what I wonder most about is why should listen to this music when not dancing. It is so clearly made for dancing and for that purpose is good. On the other side, the monotonic 4 and 8-beat are quite ok as background music for work etc.

I didn't get a lot out of this at all. The second half of this is definitely more energetic than the first but for the most part I found this to be incredibly mid-tempo and uninspired, and I can't tell if it's a Seinfeld effect type thing where maybe this was massively influential or if it is just straight up boring. It reminded me of generic runway show music, generic video game loading screen music, generic gay club music. I'm not surprised Leftfield doesn't like it either.

Needs to be ecstasy passed out when you get this album. I enjoyed nothing about it.

This is good background music to work to. Has potential but never seems to take off. Forgettable.

Aika kädenlämpöinen konelevy. Ei oikein lähde 2/5

This was probably pretty out there and groundbreaking for the time, but can't say it holds up super well in todays world of electronic music. I wish the songwriting was more compelling, I wish the grooves were better, I wish there was a bit more interesting stuff going on.

Enjoying Melt. It's alright overall

Repeat after me: No intrumental electronica album should be anywhere near a best album ever list. This having had listened to John Prine the shein version of bob dylan who doesnt belong in this list either. I also had to sit through Moby whoch at least is better

It's the genre, that's the problem. Dance music records often sound less like actual albums than coding outputs or abstract patterns. And they should definitely avoid vocals, especially lame ones, which are abundant here. A waste of a slot in this esteemed list.

Twchno

I’m not usually one to write a short review. Take a look at my history for one minute and you’ll see that’s true. I try to find something interesting to say about each album. This was an exception. This was an electronic/club music album. It was exactly what you’d expect from such a record, except that it was too long and honestly boring at times. There were standout tracks, yes. But that doesn’t mean I loved the album. There were good grooves, and that’s what made them standouts to me. I’ve grown to have an appreciation of this genre of music through this project. While I don’t yet have the vocabulary and understanding necessary to articulate what makes for outstanding examples of this genre, I do know the good stuff when I hear. This wasn’t it for me. Two stars. Standout Tracks: Black Flute, Space Shanty, Inspection (Check One), Storm 3000

This album really tried my patience. Too long and too repetitive.

Decent background music while working but I don't think I'll be coming back to it

Atmospheric African influenced rave music.

Not terrible but it all sounds the same. 90s dance club vibes

I will probably never listen to this again but it got me fired up for my workout.

if there’s one thing this journey has taught me, it’s that i really don’t like electronic music

Just okay techno. Sounds dated. 2/5

Meh

I feel I must at least give it a 2 for popularizing the genre of progressive house and it’s influence on electronic blah blah blah whatever… This was a boring hour and I completely zoned out several times. Wish I could have zoned out the whole time but oh well.

I had this CD. God it’s boring. How did we love this stuff?

Needs to go even more left (2.5/5)

2.5, i was really feeling it the day i listened but i can't ever imagine listening again

once again, this one falls into the trap that many albums of this genre do… music and effects are played in a loop and repeated. over and over. until it’s almost hypnotic. it’s really not my thing. having said that, it’s well produced and if i were a fan of this type of music, i would probably be into this album.

Meh. Not for me.

I thought I would like this and then I found out it was house music. There were a couple more spacy songs which I liked but ultimately I couldnt really pay attention to it.

Gave it an honest listen and it just faded into the background. I don't think there is anything of note here. Not bad, not great, not going in the playlist.

I liked it at the time but it's really aged.

This was ok but I feel like it’s the kind of music you hear at a CBD store

I'm running out of ways to say I'm not a fan of most 90's electronica music.

While I don’t enjoy this music typically, there was something about this I enjoyed more than most in this genre. I could hear a melody occasionally. But really, it’s so repetitious and not something I’d go back to. Most of this music I’ve done 1 star…this is better, so 2.

I just don't like this kind of music and the British make the worst version of it.

High points: great production/engineering. Good vocals on the tracks that have them. Low points: length. Far too long. Also another album I'd need drugs to fully appreciate. Dude, I'm pregnant, why do you keep doing this to me?

Some good ones 2/5

si boh ciao

Sporadically interesting but often uninspired 90s electronica, the kind that might have introed a cracked game for my Amiga 500. -->---,-`-.> 5h0ut 0u7z 2 RaZoR 1911 4nD Fa1rL1Gh7 d00dz! <.-`-.---<--

Not my thing.

Mixing reggae with techno sounds like it might work. This doesn't.

Okay good

umm...

Sounds like a gay reggae club

Ekki minn tebolli.

Some of the music is alright, especially if you are drugged up in a club in the 90s. Vocals ruin it a bit though.

2/5

Pretty good, but nothing too great. It was listenable but boring

Listenable, but not something I would want to revisit. My favorite song was probably Song of Life.

Interesting. Not bad considering how poorly electronic music ages.

I'll give the artist credit, they at least tried to make EDM interesting. Still failed of course, but the effort was commendable. Top tracks: Original, Inspection (Check One)

I never understood what "house" music was before I listened to this album. Now I know.

Raging lefty here but this musical leftism isn’t for me

- a 2 hour British electronic album does not excite me - it was decent for what it was but not my cup of tea

2.5* Fine enough, never really got the hype with these even back in the day. Remember seeing them on the Rhythm & Stealth tour in 2000 or so and they were LOUD

No.

Not my cup of tea

EDM, but not much bass. Kinda dragged on

This is not my style of music and I've never been into synth beats and house music. Listened to a bit of it but could not maintain my interest. I"ll give it 2 stars from me but certainly not indicative of a real rating of the album.

I don't know why but it made me anxious. Like there's build-up without release. 1.5.

standard house music, fine as background music but very boring to pay attention to. doesn't hit as hard as most good modern electronic music does now

Almost quit during first two tracks, the party/dancing electronic stuff is so shit and im proud to endure 14 min of it . BUT THEN the party stuff was over and the great music came in. FOR TWO TRACKS ONLY and the rest was meh.

The trouble with house is its boring as just a listen. Reggae affectations dont reslly help. Probably tight if on molly at uk rave but thsts a low bar. The african language one was ok

Covers more ground than I thought it would upon start, and some interesting soundscapes, but still found my mind wandering (a lot). "Melt" and "Inspection (Check One)" held my interest the longest.

- I appreciate that this is one of the first albums I have had that seems to have some heavy non-white influences. Somewhat annoyed when I found out that the duo is indeed white, though. - Found the first half more engaging than the second half. I do not feel like I have a good read on electronic music. Nothing was bad. But nothing stood out either.

Wel origineel opzich. Maar duurde te lang dus ben snel afgehaakt. Afro nummer wel heel dik

Okay i didn’t mind this I’ve decided. I thought that a lot of the album sounded the same but the core of the album was in the groovy chords and dance beats. This is where I found the most enjoyment. Not bad.

Not keen on electronic music in general, some is better than others, I didn't listen to the all of this album due to time or lack of it

I wanna say this album had flashes of brilliance among a sea of dullness, but if we're being honest they were more like flickers of fineness. Inspection was the best song. 💥💥

i'm sure this is really important to uk house music and the 90s rave scene or whatever but in any context outside of the club it's woefully boring. i really don't think i needed to hear 70 minutes of background music from a c-tier euro-exclusive playstation 1 racing game before i die.

House/techno music is usually difficult for me to digest. I just can't stand the pulsating beat for long periods of time. It just causes some intense ear fatigue. To this album's credit, they do change it up a bit on some songs. I heard some hip hop, breakbeat, and dub influences, which I appreciated. However, this album is over an hour long. It just wore me out listening to it. Maybe it was a "you had to be there" thing. I was born in the early 2000s so I obviously missed the whole rave scene of the 90s. Electronic music never really gained prominence in the same way since then, so I'm glad I'm getting some exposure to it through this list.

I’ll never come back to this

There's some pockets that I can get into, but house is just not for me.

All very samey. High points are very cool but overall it bored me for the most part.

This album was out of LeftField for sure. An early introduction to techno, the genre of this album is considered progressive house. "Release the Pressure" is the first track and is probably the best track. As the album progresses, each new song seems out of place following its predecessor. A strange amalgamation of songs. This was probably a very impressive feat of music for the time but has grown irrelevant. This is a credit to how far EDM music has progressed over the years.

Didn't get it initially but appreciated it more later om, not something i'd normally listen to

Standard electronic house music, nothing special of exciting about it. It was decent background music for working, Space Shanty stood out as being different from the other tracks, overall it was ok

It's another post apocalyptic orgy for me! I didn't think much of this tbh. It didn't quite get me. It wasn't terrible I just didn't get into the groove. Even as a socialist lefthander

Generally just thought it was nonsense. I guess it's not really made for me to be listening to at work sitting at my desk, but that being said, I'm not really interested in being wherever it was made for.

Hard pass! [0098/1001]

Overly long. Not terribly interesting.

Techno things bleah

In a nutshell: prime candidate for a film or game soundtrack. Early 90s house with a song played on chillout radio ad nausea ("Original"). Overall: 3/10

Fun club music, but not very memorable.

Not my style of music but overall, I enjoyed it more than other electronic albums I’ve heard.

Electrónica.

I love that this list shows sometimes a bit range and goes further than America or UK rock but it still doesn't make this project greater to me. For its time revolutionary but for today unnecessary. For me at least.

Lots of four-to-the-floor kinda stuff. The album did have its moments though.

This album, albeit obscenely long, had some interesting tracks. I like the alien kind of sounds, and I think “Melt” is what the Pokémon Diamond’s intro sampled from. (Specifically the shimmer sounds.) Pretty good beats as well. Also, I’m pretty sure that “original” uses the sound of a microwave button being pushed?

It's fine, but why is it on this list? Of all the electronic music in the world?

Loppua kohden parani, mut aika basic-tason edmää

1.5 - Way too long and boring in the modern age. But maybe house just isn't my thing?

Nichtssagend, bisschen nervig

Album #: 310 (issued, #287 rated) first impressions: Oh this might be interesting (& what felt like 40 minutes and 3 songs in -- ok maybe I was wrong.) after listening through: I will not be listening to the extended version. I get it. It's kind of fun for a little bit and I'm sure sounds better when you're on ketamine. But I don't like contemporary EDM much and don't like this prototype for it. post-reading reviews/wiki: *Imagines everyone who loves this album dancing in that cybergoths dancing under a bridge meme video* recommended for: cosplaying club scenes in early seasons of Sex & the City

Not arsed

There's some interesting bits here and there, a few dub infused tracks that I kinda like bit everything is waaaay toooo loooong and in the end it's just generic. I could definitely make through life without ever knowing that this existed.

Electronic

Wow they really threw everything into this EDM album, D&B, trance, dance hall, dub etc, but that's not necessarily a good thing as I found myself getting bored with the long interminable beats so I fast forwarded through most of the tracks. I see that Portishead's Dummy beat this out for the Mercury Prize in 1995, and deservingly so. Hearing Johnny Lydon's voice on Open Up was a bit jarring also. I think if I was on a dance floor this album would have resonated with me better, but as it is, I'm working at my desk so it sounds pretty dated and monotonous.

Wow, another beats album…haven’t heard 50 of those already on this list..

2bstars mainly because of the runtime and the repetitiveness

It was too housey for me, but some of the songs were catchy.

Great to workout to, but Icannot imagine any other time I'd ever want to hear this again.

Me and electronica just dont get on, and thats fine 2/5

Don't we already have like 3 John Lydon albums on this list? Why do we have to be subjected to him on a featured song on an already overly-long album?

There’s clearly something going on here, I just don’t think I’m getting it. Spooky 90s dance with lots of wailing backing vocals and jungle drums. Interesting but not very exciting to me.

It’s pretty long, and I’m not struck by any of it. I’m sure it’d be amazing in the right situation…like rolling in a club.

sounds like a rave in a bad 90's movie. mediocre

Just techno stuff. I imagine it may have been groundbreaking at the time, but nothing special to me.

I don't know what I think about this.

It’s ok but why does every song have to be so long and repetitive? If you could cut each of these songs to like 3 minutes I might sort of enjoy it. 2 stars.

I actually kind of enjoyed Original, but the other songs are so boring and there are too many of them

This is kinda cringey

It's a bit intense for me. Great atmospheric opening that reminds me of the BBC news theme tune. Lots of tracks that have been used on TV and in adverts. I wouldn't choose to listen to this again. Unless I was raving. Or doing a HITT workout. Two to three stars, will decide at the end.

I'm not a huge fan of electronic music so this wasn't really the album for me. I liked it a little bit but after a while I started to get a little bit of a headache. I'm sure someone more used to the sound would prefer it.

1 or 2 Stars max

Mysig musik, dock lite enahanda i längden

I don't really have much to say nor do I know where to begin with this. I do not know electronic music at all nor do I know progressive house music in general. I will say this was a wild thing to listen to for 70 minutes on a lazy Sunday morning. It's not bad by any means, and I get the appeal, but just honestly never something I've ever been interested in.

No

Too long, always stuff like this is so God damn long. And really, the length isn't the problem. It is that the length is combined with repetitive tracks. If you have repetitive tracks, just play them on repeat.

This is just SO not for me. Everyone else can enjoy if they'd like.

House music. I don't need 70 minutes of this.

2.5 Easy to listen to, but not really outstanding in any major way

Background music

Th kind of elctronic music I can't take sriously. Inspection is ok, but some tracks are just a nightmare.

Open Up is so good! Love it! Couldn’t spare another 2 hours to finish listening to all the other songs.

I know and like Open Up. I don’t really care about the rest of this album though.

Mixed. Some of the tracks are quite good musically, but are marred by the presence of vocals bordering on Hip-Hop, where just the music would have made it a much better track. Case in Point: Release the Pressure. But also musically, there is too much standard dance music here to be truly groundbreaking. 2/5

Good beat for some power walking. Made me want to bump my booty right there in the middle of the Eastport. Felt like it took me to Jamaica to Star Wars and some weird places in between. Wouldn’t go out of my way to listen again.

Sort of chill club music. I liked the first couple of tracks but the more I listened the less I was enjoying it and by the end I was pretty bored. Not something I’d ever listen to again.

Nope.

Je l'ai trouvé un peu long et monotonne. Les pièces étaient un peu longues considérant comment certaines étaient lentes et douces, plusieurs sonnaient comme des longs interludes.

I don’t know that I needed two hours of this. Good for: attending raves, getting your chakras balanced at a new age spa, or playing Need for Speed at an arcade.

Absolutely built to live in my background and to potentially get me to call the police if it plays too late into the night because, seriously, teenagers. But also - extended editions strike again. I was halfway into 'Afro Ride' and was like "I can't listen to this whole album. This is starting to hurt." So now because of a terrible expanded streaming album, my first impression of this group is 'did not finish'.

Some interesting moments and sounds, but when I played little league I got stuck in RIGHT field. So maybe this just wasn't meant to be.

I don’t get it. C

This was alright, not my thing

A bit mindless. Not my scene.

Doesn't really do anything for me. Good grooves, but too samey. Obviously not meant for a first thing Wednesday morning listen while you sip coffee and catch up on emails so maybe I'm not in the right headspace for it. Maybe I'll put it on the headphones this weekend when I go to Costco and see if it improves. 2/5

I flip-flopped on this one a few times, but mainly on whether to round up or down from a 2.5. Because while it didn’t offend me much at all, there’s nothing on here I think I could ever love (unless, perhaps, I was in a field full of people at a very specific time of night). Maybe the genre just isn’t quite for me, and that’s ok. The John Lydon track is a belter though.

Not even the worst one, but continuing to strike down the multitude of 90s electronic on this list.

This album gave me a headache and had no words - 2.5/5

LSD Music

It wasn't interesting. It felt like the same beat was playing over and over again and I would not have been able to differentiate between songs if you asked me to.

Un disc interessant i original de house 90s, barrejat amb sonoritats reconeixibles i amb temes tan punyents com l''Open Up' amb John Lydon, que va servir de carta de presentació de la banda. El temps l'ha deixat una mica desfassat però temes com l'anomenat o 'Afro-Left' continuen tenint la seva força

Too long. Pacing is a bit slow. Pretty unfamiliar with this kind of electronic music not sure exactly what I should be listening for. Most interesting things are the sounds and textures I guess. Sounds like it’s missing something to me. I couldn’t really get into it

2 hours?!?! That is really too much. I'm not sure I would even appreciate a two-hour Paramore album (actually, I probably would). House music just isn't for me. I listened in the background while I did a bunch of activities but if I was walking around the street or hearing this at a bar., I'd get sick of it quick. I guess I'd rather listen to this than some of the other English punk rock shit we have been listening to.

its aight kinda similar to the chemical brothers but uses international beats and singers rather than rap 2.5

Leftism? Biden's America eh Nolan? Nolan: Yuh

1 save. I will soon join the left

Just a meh electronica piece. Nothing special. 2/5

EDM...blerrgg

Chill dance tracks, nothing too crazy

27th September 2022 Listened mainly on the train home from London and while legging it to Paddington. Out for dinner at the Japanese restaurant in Stroud with mum and dad. Not really my bag, too young for the 90s dance scene but definitely vibey. 2.5 if I could.

Never heard of this group before. I'm not a huge electronic music fan. I wish I could get into it more but I didn't enjoy this album. Its just not for me and unfortunately I couldn't finish listening to it.

gotta dance to this album

I find this kind music is only ok in short time frames kind of in the background. So to intently listen to this entire album where every song is like 7 minutes was quite a chore. I don't know how some people can just listen to these 7+ minute songs of like looping beats and patterns without being extremely bored. This would be a 1.5 if I could give it that.

Good house music is barely tolerable if you're not on the dance floor. This is not really good house music.

I probably made it through half of the record. I do not like (or understand the appeal) of EDM. Just pounding for the sake of pounding. No heart or soul here.

Get's very repetitive and boring after a while

Becomes boring after like the 3rd track or so

Not for me.

Dinner party house. I was surprised how much of this I actually remember, it must have been playing in shops constantly in the late 90s. Mostly, the album sleeve reminds me of the Columbia Record Club ads in Select Magazine. For me 'Open Up' is the only track with much value here. Everything else just happens. Just sounds like generic video game music now.

Not my thing

More sampling and dance music. It's fun, but unless I'm at the club, idk if I needed to hear this before I die

I'm not usually into electronic dance music. I might have enjoyed it better if I was younger in a night club hearing this very loud. I like how they incorporated different types of music in the songs. Like Dubstep and hip hop.

eh

2/5 nope

Could have been worse.

Música un tanto electrónica, con algo de voces en alguna canción, sin nada especial que aportar. Un poco anodino. No me ha llamado la atención en absoluto

I actually liked a few tracks, especially first couple but then it sort of fell apart for me and became a bit of a slog.

Classic nineties' electronic music, so identifiable by its decade that it's also quite dated by now. Which brings me to ask: In this day and age, would I choose to listen to this album? And the immediate answer is "probably no".

Not sure about this one. A bit left field for me (ayyy), but it was great background music to code to. A 2 or 3 for me... Also, is that the macarena!!?!?

I just don't think I'm ever going to love a house album. It just gets too repetitive for me and, despite the clear technogical breakthroughs and interesting textures going on throughout, it just leaves me a bit cold

Dance. Meh.

If you want your drive to feel like a PSX game, then this is your album.

Not really my thing

All very samey. High points are very decent but overall it bored me a tad.

Not right

Samen met mijn dochter geluisterd. helaas waren we er na een paar liedjes wel klaar mee. Soms zeiden we: "dit is best wel aardig/lekker..."

Ik begon vol goede moed, maar het was toch niet echt heel lang boeiend.