Goldie
Goldie is the nickname of a British DJ and producer of electronic music. He was born in 1965 in Walsall, Staffordshire. As a musician, he works mainly within the jungle and drum and bass genres.
He is of Jamaican and Scottish heritage. He was put up for adoption and raised in child-care homes and by several foster parents.
Goldie was a member of breakdance crew Westside, based in the Whitmore Reans and Heath Town areas of Wolverhampton, in the 1980s. He later joined a breakdance crew called the Bboys, and made his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands.
He then moved to the United States and started selling grills (gold teeth) in New York and Miami; this is why he chose "Goldie" as nickname. He continued in this business after his return to the UK in 1988.[1]
Music career[edit]
By 1991, Goldie had become fascinated by the British breakbeat music scene; and his girlfriend DJ Kemistry introduced him to the emerging jungle and drum and bass producers Dego and Marc Mac, known together as 4hero.
In 1992 Goldie released his first track as Ajax Project. His releases Killa Muffin, Krisp Biscuit, and the Dark Rider EP were released under the alias Rufige Kru. More recently, he has used the alias Rufige Kru to release collaborations with other producers, such as Heist.
His track Terminator was released under the name Metalheads in 1992. It was a success in the jungle scene and was noted for pioneering the use of timestretching. In 1993 he released Angel, another 12" on the Synthetic Hardcore Phonography label. In 1994 he set up his own record label, Metalheadz.
His first globally released album was Timeless, released in 1995. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number seven. Goldie released his second album in 1998, Saturnz Return.
In 2002 Goldie 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, but the film has not been released.
Goldie is also known for his work as the leader of the Rufige Kru group. The group doesn't have any fixed members and it has included artists such as Technical Itch, Heist, Cujo, Agzilla Da Ice, Danny J, Doc Scott and Timecode.
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