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Clifford Joseph Price
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(born 19 September 1965), better known as Goldie, is a British music producer and
DJ.
Initially gaining exposure for his work as a
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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Etymology
The word ''jungle'' originates from the Sanskrit word ''jaṅ ...
,
drum and bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
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
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Ritchie left school at age 15 and wor ...
's ''
Snatch'' (2000) and the
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soap opera ''
EastEnders
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'' (2001–2002). He has also appeared in a number of celebrity reality television shows, including ''
Celebrity Big Brother 2'' (UK), ''
Strictly Come Dancing
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'', ''
Come Dine with Me'' and ''
Maestro
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''.
Early life
Born in
Walsall
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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
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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
Whitmore Reans is in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is situated to the north-west of the city centre, in the city council's Park and St Peter's wards.
History
The name 'Whitmore' is said by toponymists to come from the Old Engli ...
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
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Etymology
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.
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
''Spraycan Art'' is the first book that documented the initial stages of the worldwide spread of New York City Subway graffiti style and subculture. Authored by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff and published by Thames & Hudson on September 1, ...
'' by
Henry Chalfant
Henry Chalfant (born January 2, 1940) is an American photographer and videographer most notable for his work on graffiti, breakdance, and hip hop culture.
One of Chalfant's prints is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Ne ...
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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Origins
Some of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 1600–1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, one of Europe' ...
.
Career
Music
By 1991, Price had become fascinated by the British
breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK ...
music scene when his girlfriend, DJ
Kemistry, introduced him to the pioneering
jungle
A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates. Application of the term has varied greatly during the past recent century.
Etymology
The word ''jungle'' originates from the Sanskrit word ''jaṅ ...
and
drum and bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
producers
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*A stakeholder of economic production
*Film producer, supervises the making of films
**Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...
Dennis "Dego" McFarlane and Mark "Marc Mac" Clair, known as
4hero.
He went on to execute some design and
A&R work for
4hero'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
Time stretching may refer to:
* 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 ...
.
![Goldie timeless tattoo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Goldie_timeless_tattoo.jpg)
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
breakbeat
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s and basslines common in jungle with orchestral textures and
soul
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Etymology
The Modern English noun ''soul'' is derived from Old English ''sāwol, sāwel''. The earliest attes ...
vocals by
Diane Charlemagne
Diane Charlemagne (22 February 1964 – 28 October 2015) was a British jazz, soul, funk and electronic dance music singer and songwriter.
Biography
Charlemagne was lead singer with 1980s funk band 52nd Street, having replaced previous lead voc ...
. The album's title track was a 21-minute
symphonic
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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 Musical expression is the art of playing or singing with a personal response to the music.
At a practical level, this means making appropriate use of dynamics (music), dynamics, Musical phrasing, phrasing, timbre and Articulation (music), articulat ...
. The music critic
Simon Reynolds
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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
Diane Charlemagne (22 February 1964 – 28 October 2015) was a British jazz, soul, funk and electronic dance music singer and songwriter.
Biography
Charlemagne was lead singer with 1980s funk band 52nd Street, having replaced previous lead voc ...
's live vocal with
David Byrne
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/
Brian Eno
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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
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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
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. 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
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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
Scott McIlroy (born 1971, Coventry, England), better known as Doc Scott or Nasty Habits, is a British drum and bass DJ and producer.
Biography
He originally started to DJ at clubs and raves such as Amnesia House and The Eclipse in 1989/1990 ...
and
Rob Playford
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 f ...
.
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
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's "Back To Life",
Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Pol ...
' "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 in
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Ritchie left school at age 15 and wor ...
'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
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'' (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, promoting
graffiti
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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
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Early life
Dr Pogus Caesar was bo ...
'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
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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
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