What is "leftfield"

left field \left` field"\, leftfield \left`field"\n. (Baseball) the part of the outfield on the catcher's or batter's left.

Syn: left.

a. From wikt:left field; off-the-wall

Leftfield is a British electronic music group formed in 1989. Until 2002, Leftfield was a duo of artists and record producers that consisted of Neil Barnes and Paul Daley (formerly of the Rivals, A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies). In January 2010, Barnes resurrected Leftfield and, having toured the world for a couple of years, finished writing new material for a third album entitled Alternative Light Source. Daley declined to be involved and is focusing upon his solo career.

The duo were hugely influential in the evolution of electronic music in the 1990s with Mixmag describing them as "the single most influential production team working in British dance music". As with many of their contemporaries such as the Chemical Brothers, Leftfield were notable for their use of guest vocalists in their electronic music. Among the more prominent were Toni Halliday on " Original", Johnny Rotten on " Open Up", Djum Djum on " Afro-Left", and Earl 16 and Cheshire Cat on " Release the Pressure". The term progressive house was coined to define their style, a fusion of house with dub and reggae.

Leftfield or left field may also refer to:

• Left field, a position in baseball
• The Leftfield, an event at a number of British music festivals
• Leftfield, a British electronica duo
• Leftfield, a music genre
• Leftfield Magazine, the magazine of Scottish Socialist Youth
• Left Field Productions, a video game development studio
• Left Field Lounge, the area beyond the stadium fence at Mississippi State University
• Out of left field, American slang for "out of nowhere", "unexpectedly", "strange"
• Out of Left Field, a 1993 album by Hank Williams Jr