Goldie - Goldie Presents: 25 Years Of Goldie (Re-Mastered) '2018

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[7:45] 01. Goldie, Rufige Kru - I Walk the Dog (Re-Mastered)
[12:09] 02. Goldie, Rufige Kru - Hornet 127 (Re-Mastered)
[5:24] 03. Rob, Goldie - Shadow VIP (Re-Mastered)
[5:31] 04. Goldie, Rufige Kru - Riders Aftermath (Re-Mastered)
[5:33] 05. Goldie, Rufige Kru - Stormtroopa (Re-Mastered)
[6:57] 06. Internal Affairs - Shinin Down on Me (J Majik Remix) (Re-Mastered)
[5:12] 07. Goldie, Rufige Kru - Stormtroopa (VIP Mix) (Re-Mastered)
[5:39] 08. Internal Affairs, Goldie - Shinin Down on Me (J Majik Vip Remix)
(Re-Mastered)
[7:42] 09. Rob, Goldie - Shadow (Re-Mastered)
[6:00] 10. Rob, Goldie - Riders Shadow (VIP Mix) (Re-Mastered)
[7:41] 11. Rob, Goldie - Shadow (Alternative Mix) (Re-Mastered)

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Goldie Presents 25 Years of Goldie (Re-Mastered)
by Goldie
Goldie keeps going through his records. To celebrate 20 years of his career, the
founding father of drum’n’bass (and the co-founder of the mythical
label Metalheadz) brought out his triple ‘best of’ CD The Alchemist
in 2013, followed by his third solo album The Journey Man in 2017. For the
quarter of a century celebration, the harvest is a little more modest, with six
unreleased or rare tracks (plus five “alternative mixes”) that have
been remastered by the British producer who now lives in Thailand. Though what
is lacking in quantity is regained in quality; these tracks all come from the
golden period of the 90’s.

The compilation begins with I Walk the Dog under his pseudonym Rufige Kru
(originally a duo that he formed with DJ Freebase before he took over the name),
a cryptic drum’n’bass, with a scratch rewind for the chorus and
threatening synths. Besides the original Stormtroopa that was released in VIP
(standing for Variation In Production) in 2001, we find Shadow VIP, a remix of
The Shadow, a haunting D&B track that Goldie had released in 1997 with Rob
Playford, one of the pioneers of the genre. There’s also the previously
unreleased track Rider’s Aftermath, which slightly resembles
Benga’s Night with its mournful melody yet with the energy that you find
in rock music, as well as a groovy remix of Shinin’ Down on Me, the
iconoclastic track from 1993 recorded with 4 Hero, by another figure of the
movement, J Majik. This ‘best of’ record climaxes with Hornet 127,
a rare track that came out in 1996, with a very long intro, a breakbeat that
slowly rises and a slight pause that arrives in the middle… Twelve minutes
of happiness which contain all the flavour of Goldie’s drumnbass from the
90s. And its delicious.

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