Song · Leftfield
“Afro Left” by Leftfield
From the album Leftism (1995)
“Afro Left” by Leftfield appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1995. It was first released in 1995 on the album Leftism. Its best result is #41 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #290 alternative song of 1995.
"Afro-Left" is the track on Leftism where Leftfield hand the microphone to Djum Djum, the alias of Neil Cole, and let him loose. It went out on 24 July 1995 as the duo's seventh single, on 12-inch, CD and cassette through Hard Hands/Chrysalis, and the word going round was that Cole was singing in some African tongue. He wasn't. It was invented gibberish, what came to be known as "Djum Djum talk", which only makes the trick more astonishing.
Cole shares the writing with Neil Barnes and Paul Daley, Papa Dee and guest Kevin Haynes play berimbau, and Adam Wren engineered. Melody Maker's David Bennun was knocked flat by the way it squeezed melody out of words with no meaning. The single reached 22 in the UK, and its remixed B-side, "Afro Ride", ended up in the 1995 game Wipeout.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 41 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995 | 50 |
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