Goldie Timeless
This month we’ll talk about an opus of breakbeat science, soulful vocals, and super charged emotional soundscapes that would get into the charts, and then under the skin of an entire generation. It would be the blueprint for drum & bass, a soundtrack to the city, and an album that would go on to live up it its name, with every year that passed.
The man responsible for creating this masterpiece was, of course, Goldie. He’d already lived enough lifetimes for a hundred people by this point, and definitely had something to say, but needed help saying it.
“I went into the studio with an album already in my head,” he says. “But, as a person who doesn’t engineer you have to conceive the music first in your head, as an artist, then shape what has to be done, and how to do it.”
Old mentors, 4hero, shared the boards at times, but the bulk of the heavy lifting was done by engineer and Moving Shadow boss Rob Playford, whose Stevenage semi provided the studio space.
“He was a very good engineer,” says Goldie. “But I pushed it and pushed and pushed it, technically. Knowing
