24 THECHRONICl£ ... October 19, 1999

^mER3MESMBT NEWS

Leftfield finally return
with second album
BY CHRIS COURTNEY

from Johnny Rotten (ex-Sex
Pistols), TonI Halliday (from
Four years the wait and Brit indie band Curve), and
three years In the making, reggae toaster Earl Sixteen.
Leftfield, the Stanley Kubrick Rhythm and Stealth followed
of dance music have finally suit with London rapper Roots
returned with their sophomore Manuva on "Dusted", Afrika
album, Rhythm and Stealth.
Bambaataa on the electro cut
In 1995, Leftfleld’s debut "Afrlka Shox", and former
album Leftism proved to be a Curtis Mayfleld collaborator
landmark for dance music, Nicole Wiflls on the chilled
with its tremendous diversity out "Swords".
ranging from dub and techno
Rhythm and Stealth is a worto drum n’ bass. The album thy successor to Leftism, but
sold half a million copies in saying which is better is like
Britain alone, and was voted comparing apples with
the greatest dance album of all oranges. Leftism blossomed at a
time by an international poll time when drum n’ bass ruled
of DJ’s.
the roost and techno had
All that aside, the pressure resurfaced.
was on the duo of Nell Barnes
Rhythm and Stealth has
and Paul Daley to follow up merely kept with the progrestheir epic debut with an album sive and evolutionary ways of
that could take their sound a dance music, imitating and
step further.
developing paradigms of techRhythm and Stealth opens house, breakbeat, and downwith the sci-fi hip hop of tempo styles.
"Dusted", a track .that had to
Many fans will be satisfied
be redone numerous times that Leftfield have kept their
because it originally sounded diverse ways intact even
too much like a hip hop track. though the new album at
"Phat Planet", by far and away times lacks the melodic appeal
the most explosive number of its predecessor.
fuses molten bass with a maelLet’s hope it doesn’t take
strom of breakbeats. It is the another four years for these
most dance-oriented track on obsessive perfectionists to
the album.
come up with another album.
Leftism featured guest vocals
Chronicle staH

More millennium options
BY NATHAN JANKOWSK1
Chronicle staff

Only 73 days left until the
(am of the millennium, kids.
Have you made your plans
yet? Here are just a few more

includes two nights stay at a
four-star hotel in downtown
Montreal and round-trip luxury motor-coach equipped
with reclining seats, washrooms, and TV/VCR.
Students will also be provided with a Uniropa tour escort
available 24 hours a day, as

events scheduled to take
place on the historic night.
Un i ropa G e taway well as a welcoming party.
Vacations Inc. is offering stuOptional club-hopping
dents all over Canada a cou- pass and New Year’s eve
ple of very affordable vaca- party tickets are available at
tions.
an extra cost.
Students can visit
Skiers and snowboarders
Montreal for two nights for can tear up the slopes at
S139 per person, which Mount St. Sauveur while In

Montreal for an additional
$40 per person.

For information on the
New Year’s eve bash ’99,
contact Uniropa Getaway
Vacations Inc. at (416) 497
3736 or toll free at 1 800 593
6666.
Visit their web site at

www.untropatravel.com or
e-mail them at unlropa@netcom.ca.
The popular Whitby
nightclub Opium plans to
have a huge party, but details
have not yet been confirmed.

X-Men come to Oshawa
BY MALCOLM MORUM
Chronicle staff

A man who seemed to be
wearing his Halloween costume early this year, with long
claws coming out of his hands
and a mask with pointed ears,
was seen at Parkwood Estate
somewhere between Oct. 3
and 5.
But don’t worry, it’s only a

Hollywood film.

Under tight security,
Springwood Productions
filmed the part of latest
Marvel Comic big-screen
adaptation the X-Men at
Parkwood In Oshawa.

According to an inside
source, Patrick Stewart (Star
Trek - The Next Generation)
and Halle Berry (The
FHntstones), were on hand
during the shoot. Stewart and
Berry play Professor Charles
Xavfer and Storm respectively.
Said to be the largest budget
movie ever filmed in Ontario,
the $75-mllllon production will also feature actors
Framke Jassen as Jean
Gray, James Marsden as
Cyclops. Dougray Scott as
Wolverine, lan McKellen as
Magneto, Tyier Mane as
Sabertooth, Anna Paquin as
Rouge, and Rebecca Romijn-

Stamos as Mystique.
"Films are good for the
area," said Judy Dunbar, business, development manager for
the city of Oshawa. "They
bring a lot of money into the
area in terms of the costs of
production."
. A group of mutants, naming themselves the X-Men,
attempt to bring peace and
awareness of their kind to the
world, but other mutants led
by the infamous Magneto
don’t see it this way, and the
battle begins.
X-Men will be in theatres
June 30, 2000.

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