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Leftfield is a Electronic act. Their sound grew out of Fatboy Slim, Afrika Bambaataa, Inner City, Ultra Naté and David Bowie. Those roots explain a lot about how Leftfield arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Underworld, The Orb, Fluke, Groove Armada and Utah Saints, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Planet Funk, Tunde Adebimpe, Nicole Willis, The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Leftfield, reaching back through Fatboy Slim and forward to Planet Funk. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Leftfield connections
Leftfield grew out of Fatboy Slim, Afrika Bambaataa, Inner City and Ultra Naté, shares an orbit with Underworld, The Orb, Fluke and Groove Armada, went on to shape Planet Funk, Tunde Adebimpe, Nicole Willis and The Chemical Brothers. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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