Original (song)

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"Original"

CD single cover
Single by Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday
from the album Leftism
Released 13 March 1995
Format 12"/CD
Recorded Rollover Studios, London
Genre Electronica
Length 4:10
Label Hard Hands/PolyGram
Writer(s) Neil Barnes, Paul Daley, Toni Halliday
Producer(s) Leftfield
Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday singles chronology

"Open Up"
(1993)
"Original"
(1995)
"Afro-Left"
(1995)

"Original" is a song by Leftfield, released as the sixth single under that name. The song was released on 12" and CD on 13 March 1995. It featured Toni Halliday on vocals. The song gave the group their first appearance on Top of the Pops and reached #18 in the UK charts. The beginning of the song is used often on the UK version of Big Brother.

Background

Toni Halliday about "Original":

They gave me a DAT tape of 12 minutes of music which seemed to change

every 12 bars. I put it on my 24-track and added some experimental vocals, with different lyrics and chorus ideas. There was one bit where I wrote the start and end of a scene in an imaginary movie, and they loved that. So they rewrote the track to fit around it. One person said he thought "Original" was about the death of dance music. I can't say what it is about, but it's definitely personal. It's very dark and disturbing. Whatever people think of my lyrics, I always say it's probably more interesting than my own explanation.[1]

Track listing

CD

  1. Original (Radio Edit) 4:10
  2. Original (Live Dub) 7:37
  3. Original (Jam) 5:27
  4. Filter Fish 7:40

Australian CD

  1. Original (Radio Edit) 4:10
  2. Original (Live Dub) 7:37
  3. Original (Jam) 5:27
  4. Original (Album Version) 6:22
  5. Filter Fish 7:40

12"

  1. Original 6:22
  2. Original (Jam) 5:27
  3. Filter Fish 7:40
  4. Original (Drift) 4:07

References

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