Goldie-Inner City Life

Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie (born 19 September 1965) is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist, and actor. As a musician he works mainly within the jungle and drum and bass genres, and has helped to promote these styles globally.

By 1991, Price had become fascinated by the British breakbeat music scene; and his girlfriend, DJ Kemistry, introduced him to the pioneering jungle/drum’n'bass producers Dennis ‘Dego’ McFarlane and Mark ‘Marc Mac’ Clair, known as 4hero.[4]

In 1992, Price released his first track as Ajax Project. At the same time, he did design and A&R work for 4hero’s Reinforced label.

His releases “Killa Muffin” b/w “Krisp Biscuit” and the Dark Rider EP were put out under an alias, Rufige Cru. More recently, he has used the alias Rufige Kru to release collaborations with other producers such as Heist.

His track “Terminator”, released under the name Metalheads (sic) in 1992,[5] was a huge hit in the jungle scene, and is noted for pioneering the use of timestretching.[4] In 1993 he released “Angel”, another 12″ on the Synthetic Hardcore Phonography label. 1994 saw him setting up his own record label, Metalheadz. The label was a huge success, releasing some of the most important 12″s of that era.
Goldie next to another person’s “Timeless” tattoo, 2001

His first globally released album, Timeless, followed in 1995. Timeless shot straight into the charts at number seven, which was a first for a drum ‘n’ bass record. The album fused the breakbeats and basslines common in jungle with orchestral textures and soul vocals by Diane Charlemagne. The album’s title track was a 21-minute symphonic piece. Inner City Life, a track taken from the album, sold over 15,000 copies on vinyl, reaching number 21 in the UK charts.

With his reputation firmly established, Price released his second album in 1998, Saturnz Return. The album’s opening track, “Mother”, is an hour-long orchestral drum and bass piece. The remainder of the album features appearances by David Bowie, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, and KRS-One.

In 2002, Price said that he had been working for three years on a film called Sine Tempus, described as a coming-of-age story of a young paintbrush artist, and in 2006 announced its soundtrack as his new album. The album was released via the metalheadz website in 2008. The film is still listed as ‘forthcoming’.

Price is also known for his work as the leader of the Rufige Kru. This group has no fixed members; it has included some of most well-known drum and bass producers such as Technical Itch, Heist, Cujo, Agzilla Da Ice, Danny J, Doc Scott and Rob Playford.

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Tricky-Evolution Revolution Love

Tricky (born Adrian Nicholas M. Thaws on 27 January 1968) is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop culture. His debut album Maxinquaye was nominated for the Mercury Prize and voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine.

Tricky was born in Knowle West, Bristol, England. His father left the family before he was born and his mother, Maxine Quaye, committed suicide when he was only four. He named his solo album after her – Maxinquaye – and once said that though he hardly knew her, he feels like she’s speaking through him with his words.

He spent his youth in the care of his grandmother, who often let him watch old horror movies instead of going to school. At 15 he began to write lyrics (“I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants” MixMag ‘96). At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police. In an interview, Tricky said: “Prison was really good. I’m never going back” (NME ‘95).

Eventually he met DJ Milo and hung out with a sound system called The Wild Bunch, which by 1987 evolved into Massive Attack. He received the nickname ‘Tricky Kid’ and at 18 he became a member of the Fresh 4, a rap group built from The Wild Bunch. He also rapped on Massive Attack’s acclaimed debut album Blue Lines (1991).

In 1991, before the release of Massive Attack’s album Blue Lines, he met Martina Topley-Bird. Some time later she came to his house, and mentioned to Tricky and Mark Stewart that she could sing. Martina was only fifteen years old, but her ‘honey-coated vox’ impressed them and they recorded a song called “Aftermath” (though The Face ‘95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called “Shoebox”). Tricky showed “Aftermath” to Massive Attack, but they weren’t interested. So in 1993 he decided to press a few hundred vinyl copies of the song. He cut it directly off of the tape, so that the song is basically “just bassline and hiss”. (NME ‘94). Finally, a white label got him a contract with Island Records and he started to record his first solo album.

Tricky left Massive Attack to release his debut album, Maxinquaye. The album was a massive success and Tricky was catapulted to international fame, something he was notably uncomfortable with.[citation needed] This was because the impact of his album truly set the stage for trip-hop within the black community in the United Kingdom. Tricky was able to do so much with his music by incorporating different musical genres in his sound, but ultimately making sure he made the overall product his own. In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, “Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.”[3] It is important to note that Tricky paid tribute to early hip-hop artists whose music was, and still is, influential in the hip-hop scene. He also incorporated commercial pop music into his music, and by combining early hip-hop and pop samples in his music, he found a way to appeal to both audiences, which rarely happens. As Hesmondhalgh and Melville wrote, “Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualizing samples and slices of both the most respected black music (Public Enemy) and the tackiest pop (quoting David Cassidy’s “How Can I Be Sure?”).” Mixing all of these elements, Tricky created “a mercurial style of dance music that immediately finds it own fast feet.”

Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead. Different versions of the same songs appear on both albums – called “Overcome” and “Hell is ‘Round the Corner” on Maxinquaye and “Karmacoma” and “Eurochild” on Protection.

In 1996, Neneh Cherry and Björk appeared as guests on his second album Nearly God. The opening number was a cover of the Siouxsie and the Banshees pre-trip-hop song “Tattoo” that had previously inspired Tricky when he forged his style.

In 2001 Tricky appeared on the Thirteen Ghosts soundtrack with the song “Excess” which (briefly) features Alanis Morissette during two of the choruses. In 2002 that song also appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.

Tricky’s website last reports him busy at work with the musical acts signed to his Brown Punk record label. Several new solo works have been featured in television programs such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The L Word and Girlfriends, and he contributed “Au Revoir Emmanuelle” to a compilation entitled Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.

Tricky’s latest studio album, Knowle West Boy, was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008 and September 2008 in the U.S. The first single was Council Estate. In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky suggested that the album’s release was delayed by Bernard Butler who allegedly demanded a co-producer credit on the album after contributing to recording sessions that were ultimately discarded by Tricky.[11]. In 2009 a make-over of the album by dance music producers South Rakkas Crew has been released, simply titled as Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew.

On December 8, 2009, Tricky’s 1995 debut album Maxinquaye was reissued with a bonus 13-track CD featuring B-sides, out-takes and 7 previously unreleased mixes including 3 new mixes of Overcome, Hell Is Round The Corner, and Black Steel.

On December 10, 2009, Daddy G. revealed that he met with Tricky in Paris and asked him to work on a future Massive Attack project. Tricky agreed.

Tricky on Wikipedia

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