Goldie

小簡介
作為Drum and Bass界最有影響力的DJ，Goldie的存在就代表著一個時代的音樂和時尚潮流。90年代最令人矚目的DJ Goldie出身于品流復(fù)雜的貧民區(qū)。擁有蘇格蘭、牙買加混雜血統(tǒng)的他從小在不同的寄養(yǎng)家庭中長大，這種缺乏愛與支持的凄涼童年經(jīng)歷卻也不經(jīng)意地挖掘了他對于Hip-Hop、霹靂舞及涂鴉藝術(shù)上的獨特造詣。在Goldie的少年時期，他經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)于街頭涂鴉的紀(jì)錄片，并且花大量時間在紐約和邁阿密兜售定制的金牙。Goldie的創(chuàng)作之路并不如想象中順利。92年他化名為Metalheadz推出首批作品并沒有引起預(yù)計中的波瀾，而93年的單曲《Terminator》則因充斥著不協(xié)調(diào)的工業(yè)噪音備受質(zhì)疑。但一切到了首張專輯《Timeless》的發(fā)行便突然有了轉(zhuǎn)機，專輯成功地再現(xiàn)了雜亂的歷史，而人們對這歷史的盲目認同更加刺激了Goldie，因此它不是為了任何俱樂部而做，而只是為了告訴你不能夠忽略、抹煞這段歷史。其中的作品——《Angel》開始有了人聲的介入、《Sea of Tears》則融入了吉他、貝斯和嗚咽的女聲。面對突然而至的好評，Goldie坦言：“也許它聽起來不錯，但總有些黑暗在里頭，這是種心情。我的成長并不令人愉快，每個人都有自己的角落，《Sea of Tears》就是我的?！彪S著《Timeless》的橫掃全球，從此一發(fā)不可收拾。96年Goldie推出了首張集結(jié)Metalheadz旗下DJ創(chuàng)作之超級精選《Platinum Breakz》，頓時掀起一股Jungle狂熱旋風(fēng)；緊接著在98年又再接再厲推出第二張精選大碟《Platinum Breakz II》。同一年，他轉(zhuǎn)戰(zhàn)南美與Bjork進行合作，并“野心勃勃”地推出又一張高品質(zhì)的專輯《Saturnz Return》，其中包括一首長達60分鐘的作品《Mother》?！斑@張專輯十分大眾化。我要打破那種認為第一張專輯好，第二張就不可能好的迷信。這迷信敲敲我的門，我把它拽進來，然后踢它的腦袋。”這是Goldie的張揚自信，但他確實做到了。在Goldie的音樂中我們總能清晰地讀出他的心情?；蛟S音樂不僅僅是武器、是宣泄，對于他來說音樂更像一個隱秘而安全的藏身地。他是一個真實的人，卻又是虛幻的，注意他的一舉一動，注意他手下滑出的每一個音符，你看到了你聽到了，可卻是如此難以捉摸。他永遠是矛盾的統(tǒng)一，傲慢而又迷人?；蛟S只能如他所言：“我是條變色龍，總是在不斷地改變?！?
by John Bush
The first superstar produced by the breakbeat jungle movement, Goldie popularized drumnbass as a form of musical expression just as relevant for living-room contemplation as techno had become by the early 90s. Though he hardly developed the style, and his later reliance on engineers like Rob Playford and Optical to capture his sound puts into question his true musical importance, Goldie became one of the first personalities in British dance music, his gold teeth and b-boy attitude placing him leagues away from the faceless bedroom boffins that had become the norm in intelligent dance music. For the first time, England had a beat maestro and tough-guy head who could match the scores of larger-than-life hip-hop stars America had produced, and the high profile of drumnbass as the first indigenously British dance music made Goldie a figure of prime importance. After spending several years working on his production skills at Reinforced Records (the home of 4hero), he founded Metalheadz Records, which released seminal dark-yet-intelligent singles by Source Direct, Photek, J. Majik, Optical, Lemon D, Wax Doctor, and Peshay, among others. In 1995, Goldie released Timeless, one of jungles first and best full-length works of art. The album put him squarely at the top of the drumnbass heap — at least in the minds of critics and mainstream listeners — though his follow-up, SaturnzReturn, displayed an ambitious, personal side of Goldie hardly in keeping with jungles producer mentality.
A native of Walsall, England, Goldie was born to a Scottish-Jamaican couple and put up for adoption. He bounced around child-care homes and several sets of foster parents during his childhood years, and became fascinated with the rise of hip-hop, breakdancing, and graffiti art. By 1986, he was involved with breakdancing crews around his home of Wolverhampton; after making several trips to London for all-day breakdancing events (and to see hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa), Goldie appeared in the English documentary on graffiti art called Bombing. He also spent time in New York and Miami (working in a market stall selling customized gold teeth), but returned to England by 1988.
For a time, Goldie worked at the Try 1 shop in Walsall (also selling gold teeth), then moved to London. He began hanging out with two fellow heads from the British hip-hop scene, Nellee Hooper and 3-D (later of Massive Attack), and by 1991 hed been introduced to the breakbeat culture that birthed jungle; at the seminal club night Rage, DJs Grooverider and Fabio pitched ancient breakbeats up to 45 rpm, blending their creations with the popular rave music of the time. Goldie was hooked on the sound of raw breakbeat techno, and he gradually switched his allegiance to jungle from the British hip-hop scene that later generated trip-hop.
Through his girlfriend DJ Kemistry (later to make her name with the mixing duo Kemistry & Storm), Goldie hooked up with Dego and Mark Mac, two of the most influential figures in the emerging drumnbass scene. The duos Reinforced Records and recordings as 4hero were fostering an increasingly artistic attitude to the music, and Goldie learned much about breakbeat production and engineering at their studios. He recorded his first single as Ajax Project, then debuted on Reinforced as Metalheadz with two 1992 singles, Killermuffin and Menace. The 1993 single Terminator broke him into the jungle scene — besides pioneering the crucial jungle concept of time-stretching (basically extending a sample without altering its pitch) the single evinced the growing separation between the uplifting rave scene and its emerging dark side, reliant on breakbeats and restless vibes.
The name was later taken for his influential Metalheadz Records, which released material from a legion of crucial jungle artists: Photek, Doc Scott, Dillinja, Source Direct, Peshay, J Majik, Alex Reece, Lemon D, and Optical among others. Later singles such as Angel and remixes for 4heros Reinforced label spread Goldies fame, and in 1995 he signed a contract with London Records. His first major-label single was Timeless, and his debut album of the same name followed in August 1995. He gained additional fame in early 1996, when an American tour supporting Bj?rk sparked a relationship between the two and led to a brief engagement period before they called off a wedding. Goldie resurfaced in 1998 with a high-profile follow-up, SaturnzReturn, an epic two-disc set including one track, Mother, that broke the 60-minute barrier itself. The album tanked with critics and fans, leading to a return to the underground later that year with the Ring of Saturn EP. Goldie mixed a two-disc volume in the INCredible series of mix albums compiled by Ovum, as well as a number of Metalheadz-centric sets. Malice in Wonderland, a production album credited to Rufige Kru, was completed for a 2007 release.