Goldie

By • Mar 1st, 2009 • Category: Band Bios

goldieAs one of the first breakout artists of the U.K. warehouse scene, Goldie (born Clifford Joseph Price) helped put a face to the emerging early ’90s jungle and drum & bass movements. Although his beats were undeniably innovative, it was his villainous love of gold — with corresponding gold teeth and hair — that vaulted him into his role as the most recognizable global personality of the then-faceless club culture. Today, almost 20 years removed from his formative underground days and a decade past his musical prime, the 43-year-old has found himself altering back and forth between appearances in Guy Ritchie films and BBC reality television programs. It’s a career path that has come to mirror his genres’ biggest praises as well as their biggest criticisms. Hailed for their awesome energy while at the same time panned for their repetitiveness and failure to adapt, Goldie’s once dynamic look and breakthrough sound have fallen into the same predictable routine as the drum & bass and jungle genres that he once so formidably championed.

Chicago Innerview Magazine, March 2009

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