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Clifford Joseph Price MBE (born 19 September 1965), better known as Goldie, is a British music producer and DJ.
Initially gaining exposure for his work as a
soap opera '' EastEnders'' (2001–2002). He has also appeared in a number of celebrity reality television shows, including '' Celebrity Big Brother 2'' (UK), '' Strictly Come Dancing'', '' Come Dine with Me'' and ''graffiti
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artist, Goldie became well known for his pioneering role as a musician in the 1990s UK jungle
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, drum and bass and breakbeat hardcore
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scenes. He released a variety of singles under the pseudonym Rufige Kru and co-founded the label Metalheadz
Metalheadz is a drum and bass record label based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1994 by Kemistry & Storm and Goldie.
History
Origins
Goldie's early experiences of the rave scene, especially the club ''Rage'' had a profound effect on ...
. He later released several albums under his own name, including the 1995 album '' Timeless'', which entered the UK charts at number 7.
Goldie's acting credits include the 1999 James Bond
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film ''The World Is Not Enough
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'', Guy Ritchie
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's '' Snatch'' (2000) and the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Maestro
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''.
Early life
Born inWalsall
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, but raised in Wolverhampton
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England, Price is of Jamaican and Scottish heritage. He was put up for adoption at the age of three, and raised in childcare homes and by several foster parents
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. According to his 2002 autobiography, he was physically and sexually abused during this time. Price was a member of the breakdance
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crew Westside, based in the Whitmore Reans and Heath Town
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areas of Wolverhampton
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, in the 1980s. He later joined a breakdance crew called the Birmingham Bboy
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s, and made his name as a graffiti
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artist in the West Midlands.
His artwork around Birmingham
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and Wolverhampton
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was featured heavily in Dick Fontaine's documentary ''Bombin''. He is mentioned for his graffiti in the book '' Spraycan Art'' by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, which contains several examples of his art.
He moved to the United States owing to graffiti projects, and also started selling grills (gold teeth jewellery) in New York and Miami; he continued this business after his return to the UK in 1988. His nickname stems from "Goldielocks", an earlier nickname given to him during his Bboys days and subsequently shortened when he no longer wore dreadlocks
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.
Career
Music
By 1991, Price had become fascinated by the British breakbeat music scene when his girlfriend, DJ Kemistry, introduced him to the pioneeringjungle
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and drum and bass producers
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Dennis "Dego" McFarlane and Mark "Marc Mac" Clair, known as 4hero
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. He went on to execute some design and A&R work for 4hero
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's Reinforced Records
Reinforced Records is a British breakbeat hardcore, jungle, and drum and bass record label, first founded in 1989 by 4hero and based in Dollis Hill, London. Reinforced is one of the groundbreaking record labels of the genre.Reynolds, S. (1998) ...
label.
In 1992, Price made his first record appearance by contributing to an EP by Icelandic group Ajax Project that included the track ''Ruffige''. For many years, the track was repeatedly misattributed to Price himself, perhaps because of his subsequent use of "Rufige" as moniker for his own releases.
His releases ''Killa Muffin'' b/w ''Krisp Biscuit'' and the ''Dark Rider'' EP were released under the alias "Rufige Cru" on Reinforced. His track "Terminator", released under the name "Metalheads" in 1992, was a hit in the jungle scene and is noted for pioneering the use of time stretching
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* Audio time stretching and pitch scaling, in audio
* Time stretching, in video
* Time dilation
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.Simon Reynolds, "Above The Treeline", ''The Wire'' #127, September 1994. In 1993, he released ''Angel'', another 12" on the Synthetic Hardcore Phonography label. 1994 saw him setting up his own record label, Metalheadz
Metalheadz is a drum and bass record label based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1994 by Kemistry & Storm and Goldie.
History
Origins
Goldie's early experiences of the rave scene, especially the club ''Rage'' had a profound effect on ...
.
His first studio album, '' Timeless'', followed in 1995. ''Timeless'' entered the UK Albums Chart
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at number seven. The album fused the breakbeats and basslines common in jungle with orchestral textures and soul
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vocals by Diane Charlemagne. The album's title track was a 21-minute symphonic piece. " Inner City Life", a track from the album, reached number 39 in the UK Singles Chart
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. ''Timeless'' helped to popularise drum and bass as a form of musical expression. The music critic Simon Reynolds noted that Price's credentials as a musical innovator – and particularly as one of the key driving forces of innovation in the jungle/breakbeat scene – were exceptional. "Goldie revolutionised jungle not once but thrice", he noted in ''The Wire
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'' magazine, continuing, "First there was 'Terminator' (pioneering the use of time stretching), then 'Angel' (fusing Diane Charlemagne's live vocal with David Byrne/ Brian Eno samples to prove that hardcore could be more 'conventionally' musical), now there's 'Timeless', a 22-minute hardcore symphony."
In 1996, he released the ''Toasted Both Sides Please'' remix of the Bush song "Swallowed
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", which topped charts in the US and Canada.
Price released his second album, ''Saturnz Return
''Saturnz Return'' is the second studio album by Goldie, released on 27 January 1998. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at 15, however only spent four weeks on the chart in total. The album received mixed reviews upon release, with particul ...
'', in 1998. The album's opening track, "Mother", is an hour-long orchestral drum and bass piece. The album featured appearances by David Bowie
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, Noel Gallagher
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and KRS-One. The album met with mixed reviews. David Brown of ''Entertainment Weekly
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'' called the album "ambitious but monotonous and overlong – Pink Floyd with a gold tooth".
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. In 2006, he announced the soundtrack as his new album. The album was released via the Metalheadz website in 2008, but the film has not been released.
Price is known for his work as the leader of Rufige Kru. The group has no fixed members and has included drum and bass producers such as Technical Itch, Heist, Cujo, Agzilla Da Ice, Danny J, Doc Scott
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Biography
He originally started to DJ at clubs and raves such as Amnesia House and The Eclipse in 1989/1990 ...
and Rob Playford.
March 2013 saw the release of ''The Alchemist: The Best of Goldie 1992–2012'', featuring prominent tracks from throughout Price's musical career. A subsequent compilation, the three-CD Masterpiece set released by Ministry of Sound in 2014, brought together tracks that influenced him (Soul II Soul
Soul II Soul are a British musical collective formed in London in 1988. They are best known for their two major hits; 1989's UK number five and US number eleven " Keep On Movin'", and its follow-up, the UK number one and US number four " Back to ...
's "Back To Life", Roy Ayers
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' "Everybody Loves The Sunshine") with cuts that soundtracked his entry into the rave scene and key moments from the drum'n'bass scene.
In 2017, the Goldie album ''The Journey Man'' was released, which Price described as his "magnum opus
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" and "the most important thing that I've ever made."
In 2020, Goldie launched his new record label, Fallen Tree 1Hundred.
Acting
Price has appeared inGuy Ritchie
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Ritchi ...
's '' Snatch'' and several other films, most notably the James Bond
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film, ''The World Is Not Enough
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''. He also played gangster Angel Hudson
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in the British soap opera '' EastEnders'' (2001–2002). Price starred in '' Everybody Loves Sunshine'' (1999) (aka ''B.U.S.T.E.D.'' – United States title) with David Bowie
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.
Television appearances
In the late 1980s, Price appeared on ''Central Weekend'', a Friday evening topical debate show on Central TV, promotinggraffiti
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as an art form. He had a small documentary made about his own art on Central TV's ''Here and Now'' programme featuring Pogus Caesar's photographs of New York. He has appeared on various young people's TV shows as part of a breakdance
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crew, the Bboy
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s from Wolverhampton. In 1995, he appeared on ''Passengers
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'', and in a Channel 4
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documentary about himself in 1998.
His next TV appearance was hosting ''Crime Business'' on the digital TV channels Bravo and Ftn. He presented the documentary series ''The World's Deadliest Gangs'' on Bravo in 2002.
Price appeared on the second series of ''Celebrity Big Brother
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'' in 2002. He was the first celebrity to be "evicted". In 2006, he was scheduled to appear in '' The Games'', a UK reality TV show on Channel 4, but during training for the water-ski jump event he fractured his femur
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and was unable to take part in the show. He was replaced by Adam Rickitt
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. In 2009, he was reported to be suing the producers of the show for damages as a result of the injury.
During August and September 2008, the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Maestro
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'', a reality television show in which eight celebrities, including Price, learned to conduct a concert orchestra. Price was placed second, behind Sue Perkins.
On 31 July 2009, the first of a two-part television programme '' Classic Goldie'' was broadcast, showing how in the wake of his success in the ''Maestro'' programme he learns to write a score for a large orchestra and choir. The resulting composition, commissioned by the BBC and entitled ''Sine Tempore'' (''Timeless''), was performed at two children's Promenade concerts
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in the Royal Albert Hall on 1 and 2 August 2009, which featured music connected with Charles Darwin
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and the creation and evolution of the world.
He appeared on '' Celebrity Mastermind'' on 27 December 2009 and came fourth behind Paul O'Grady
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, Gail Emms and Loyd Grossman. On 11 September 2010, he was announced as part of the line-up in '' Strictly Come Dancing'', staying in the competition for two weeks.
On 22 December 2010, he appeared in a '' Celebrity Come Dine with Me'' Christmas special
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.
On 26 March 2011, he appeared in a three-part reality television series, '' Goldie's Band: By Royal Appointment'' in which he led a group of music experts as they conducted a nationwide search for young talented musicians and then selected and coached 12 of them, who collaborated to create some musical pieces for a performance at Buckingham Palace.
On 24 August 2012, he appeared in the Channel 4 documentary ''Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed the World'' (hosted by Idris Elba
Idrissa Akuna Elba (; born 6 September 1972) is an English actor.
) to explain how he invented the revolutionary technique of time stretching
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* Audio time stretching and pitch scaling, in audio
* Time stretching, in video
* Time dilation
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by misusing an HF ultra-harmoniser, which is usually used for guitars. He then went on to say that when he crossed this with digital breakbeat, the sound evolved from jungle
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Etymology
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into drum and bass.
In 2014, he appeared on the telethon
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Most telethons f ...
'' BBC Children in Need''.
Art
In 2007, Price returned to the art world with an art exhibition, "Love Over Gold", which was held at the Leonard Street Gallery, London. In 2008, he teamed up with Pete Tong to provide much of the artwork for Tong's new Wonderland club night at Eden nightclub inSan Antonio
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, Ibiza.
There was an exhibition of Price's art in Berlin
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from 13 to 26 June 2008. In April 2009, a retrospective exhibition titled "Kids Are All Riot" took place in Shoreditch, London, coinciding with the release of his screenprint "Apocalypse Angel".
Around 2008, Price's art work was displayed on the London Underground
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by the arts company Art Below
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.
In 2021, he modeled for Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer and contributed a song.
Personal life
In the early 1990s, Price had a relationship with drum and bass artist Kemistry, who died in a car accident in 1999. He was romantically involved with singer Björk in 1996. In 1998, he bought a country house inBovingdon
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, Hertfordshire. In 2002, Hodder & Stoughton published his autobiography, ''Nine Lives'', which he wrote with Paul Gorman.
Price married model Sonjia Ashby in 2002. They divorced in 2005. As of 2003, he had five children, including social content creator Danny Price, who has appeared on Channel 4 reality show Make Me Prime Minister.
In 2007, Price began a relationship with Mika Wassenaar, a Canadian. The couple appeared in the 20 June 2009 episode of ITV's ''All Star Mr and Mrs
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'' with Phillip Schofield
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and Fern Britton. Mika and Price married in 2010.Lynn BarberGoldie: The interview
''The Observer'', 19 July 2009. On 29 April 2010, Price opened the William Tyndale Primary School Sports Pitch in Islington, London. In July 2010, Price received an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences from
Brunel University
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, Uxbridge.Honorary degree for artist and musician GoldieBrunel University, 20 July 2010, accessed 21 July 2010. On 3 September 2010, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Design from the
University of Wolverhampton
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.
On 7 September 2010, Price's 23-year-old son Jamie Price was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum sentence of 21 years, for murder. He was convicted of stabbing a rival gang member to death in Wolverhampton town centre on 24 August 2008.
As of 2017, Price and his wife were living in Thailand, having moved there in 2015.
Price was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours
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awards, for services to music and young people.
Price was accused of assaulting a security guard at the 2017 Glastonbury festival after the guard had refused to let Price's daughter, Chance, backstage; Price later emailed a response which read, "Yep, guilty as charged", but in March 2018, district judge Lynn Matthews at Bristol Magistrates' Court rejected Price's emailed response and in a video call Price later admitted to assault by beating. On 30 May Bristol Magistrates' Court ordered Goldie to pay almost £2,500 as a fine.
In 2017, Price appeared to reveal the first name of pseudonymous graffiti artist Banksy
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as "Rob" on Scroobius Pip
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's weekly '' Distraction Pieces podcast''. When discussing the rise of commercialism in street art, Price said, "Give me a bubble letter and put it on a T-shirt and write Banksy on it and we're sorted. We can sell it now... No disrespect to Rob, I think he is a brilliant artist. I think he has flipped the world of art over."
Discography
Albums
Studio albums * '' Timeless'' (1995) * ''Saturnz Return
''Saturnz Return'' is the second studio album by Goldie, released on 27 January 1998. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at 15, however only spent four weeks on the chart in total. The album received mixed reviews upon release, with particul ...
'' (1998)
* ''The Journey Man
''The Journey Man'' is the third studio album by English drum and bass artist Goldie. Released nearly two decades after his previous studio album, ''Saturnz Return'', ''The Journey Man'' has been described by Goldie as his magnum opus and his lega ...
'' (2017)
as Rufige Kru
* ''Malice in Wonderland'' (2007)
* ''Memoirs of an Afterlife'' (2009)
Soundtrack albums
* ''Sine Tempus – The Soundtrack'' (2008)
Collaboration albums
* ''Subject One – Music for Inanimate Objects'' (2019) with James Davidsen as Subjective
* ''The Start of No Regret'' (2022) with James Davidsen as Subjective
Selected singles/EPs
* "Kris Biscuit / Killer Muffin" (as Rufige Cru) (Reinforced Records
Reinforced Records is a British breakbeat hardcore, jungle, and drum and bass record label, first founded in 1989 by 4hero and based in Dollis Hill, London. Reinforced is one of the groundbreaking record labels of the genre.Reynolds, S. (1998) ...
, 1992)
* ''Darkrider EP'' (as Rufige Cru) (Reinforced Records, 1992)
* ''Terminator EP'' (as Metal Heads) (Synthetic Hardcore Phonography, 1992)
* "Ghosts of My Life / Terminator 2" (as Rufige Kru) (Reinforced Records, 1993)
* "Angel / You and Me" (as Metal Heads) (Synthetic Hardcore Phonography, 1993)
* ''Internal Affairs EP'' (as Internal Affairs with 4hero
4hero are an electronic music group from Dollis Hill, London, comprising producers Mark "Marc Mac" Clair & Denis "Dego" McFarlane. While the band is often cited as ''4 Hero'' or ''4-Hero'', the name is stylised as ''4hero'' on their albums and ...
) (Reinforced Records, 1993)
* "VIP Riders Ghost" (as Rufige Kru) (Metalheadz
Metalheadz is a drum and bass record label based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1994 by Kemistry & Storm and Goldie.
History
Origins
Goldie's early experiences of the rave scene, especially the club ''Rage'' had a profound effect on ...
, 1993)
* " Inner City Life" (as Goldie presents Metalheadz
Metalheadz is a drum and bass record label based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1994 by Kemistry & Storm and Goldie.
History
Origins
Goldie's early experiences of the rave scene, especially the club ''Rage'' had a profound effect on ...
) (FFRR
FFRR Records (sometimes credited as Full Frequency Range Recordings) is a dance music label previously run and founded by English DJ Pete Tong. Originally the dance music label of London Records, FFRR is currently a sublabel of Parlophon ...
, 1994) – UK No. 39 (UK Singles Chart)
* "Angel
In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God.
Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles inclu ...
" (FFRR, 1995) – UK No. 41
* "Jah / Deadly Deep Subs" (Remixes) (Razors Edge, 1996)
* "State of Mind" (FFRR, 1996)
* " Digital" (featuring KRS-One) (FFRR, 1997) – UK No. 13
* "The Shadow" (as Rob & Goldie) (Moving Shadow
Moving Shadow is an English breakbeat hardcore, jungle and drum and bass record label which was founded in 1990 by Rob Playford.
History
The label began in 1990, operating from Playford's Stevenage home. Playford had become a focal point for ...
, 1997) – UK No. 82
* "Kemistry V.I.P. / Your Sound" (Remixes) (Razors Edge, 1997)
* '' Ring of Saturn'' (FFRR, 1998)
* " Temper Temper" (feat. Noel Gallagher) (FFRR, 1998) – UK No. 13
* " Believe" (FFRR, 1998) – UK No. 36
* "Beachdrifta / Stormtrooper VIP" (Metalheadz, 2001)
* "Say You Love Me" (Metalheadz, 2005)
* "Monkey Boy / Special Request" (Metalheadz, 2007)
* "Vanilla" (Metalheadz, 2007)
* "Freedom" (featuring Natalie Duncan
Natalie Alexis Duncan is a British soul musician from Nottingham, England, currently signed to British music producer and DJ Goldie’s record imprint Fallen Tree 1Hundred. Duncan released her eponymous debut EP ''Natalie Alexis Duncan'' under ...
) (Metalheadz, 2012)
* "I Adore You" (2017)
Selected mixes
* ''INCredible Sound of Drum'n'Bass'' (1999) * ''Goldie.co.uk'' (2001) * ''MDZ.04'' (2004) * ''Drum & Bass Arena
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...
: The Classics'' (2006)
* ''Watch the Ride'' (2008)
* '' FabricLive.58'' (2011)
Filmography
*'' Everybody Loves Sunshine'' (1999) – Terry *''The World Is Not Enough
''The World Is Not Enough'' is a 1999 spy film, the nineteenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Michael Apted, from an ...
'' (1999) – Mr. Bullion
*'' Snatch'' (2000) – Bad Boy Lincoln
*''The Price of Air'' (2000) – The Greaser
*''The Case'' (2002) – DJ Gabriel
Notes
References
Further reading
*''Nine Lives'', Goldie with Paul Gorman, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.External links
* * * *Goldie – biting through
nbsp;– Interview by ''Jan Goodey'', November 2002
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Mixmag
''Mixmag'' is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London. Launched in 1983 as a print magazine, it has branched into dance events, including festivals and club nights.
History
The first issue of ''Mixmag'' was prin ...
Interview by ''Tony Marcus'', 1995
Saturnz Return
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Mixmag
''Mixmag'' is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London. Launched in 1983 as a print magazine, it has branched into dance events, including festivals and club nights.
History
The first issue of ''Mixmag'' was prin ...
Interview by ''Matthew Collin'' about the release of his album ''Saturnz Return'', 1997
Goldie – Headz Will Roll
Interview by ''Tim Colman''
Goldie
nbsp;– 2008 art exhibition {{Authority control Living people Black British artists Black British male actors Black British musicians English DJs English drum and bass musicians English electronic musicians English people of Jamaican descent English people of Scottish descent English record producers Labour Party (UK) people Members of the Order of the British Empire Musicians from the West Midlands (county) People from Walsall 1965 births FFRR Records artists Reinforced Records artists