"I remember being introduced to the hip-hop/electronica sub-genre, drum and bass, by one of its pioneers, Goldie. I accompanied him to his DJ set at the London club, the Blue Note. After about an hour of him staring straight into my eyes, gold teeth glaring, miming or pointing to every invisible, yet highly audible, bass line, kick, snare, and high hat, he took me outside and instructed me to monitor my heartbeat so that I might note that the intensity of the music in the club had actually sped it up so that my heart was, now, pounding-a sort of high speed drum and bass metronome. I had been reprogrammed (note: it was a highspeed wireless connection)." ©2006 by Saul Williams
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This tune has been around for years now (1995 I guess). This version is longer than others I've heard and I got it from #5 in the GoodTimes series delivering choice tunes from the GoodTimes Sound System at the Notthinghill Carnival. A classic that is, as the album it is taken from suggests, Timeless. A beautifully haunting intro. eases you into the beats that are layered in complex structures. Beautiful.
Download 114_inner_city_life.mp3
While I was looking into this post about Goldie I found out that he
'starred' in Celebrity Big Brother this year. Hmmmm I thought. But read
an interview with Goldie here and get his take on it. Nice.
For some more Drum & Bass tunes see here.
Cheers,
Cubik
*From The Dead Emcee Scrolls
MTV BOOKs and Pocket Books (a Division of Simon & Schuster).
See Saul Williams Reading from the Dead Emcee Scrolls here.
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