Timeless is the 1995 debut album

Album

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 from Goldie

Goldie

Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist...

 and is a groundbreaking release in the history of drum and bass

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 music. The album blended the complex, chopped and layered breakbeat

Breakbeat

In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...

s and deep basslines of jungle

Oldschool jungle

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 and drum and bass

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 with expansive, symphonic strings and atmospherics, and female vocals, creating a crossover hit. It is listed as one of the best albums of all time in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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.

History

Goldie was joined in the studio by engineer/producer Rob Playford (aka Timecode

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), founder of the renowned Moving Shadow

Moving Shadow

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 label, who did most of the programming and production, with Goldie generating the musical ideas, rhythms and arrangements. Additional engineering and production came from Dego and Marc Mac of 4hero. Diane Charlemagne

Diane Charlemagne

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 contributed the bulk of the vocals.

Released on Pete Tong

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's FFRR

FFRR Records

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 label, the album reached #7 in the charts. Timeless was simultaneously released as a double album

Double album

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 and single album. The single album removed four tracks and featured the original mix of "Sensual". The U.S.

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 release of the double album appended two bonus remix

Remix

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es. At the time Goldie was an active graffiti

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 artist and his paintings are featured in the album's artwork.

Reception

• Spin
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  (12/95, p. 63) - Ranked #17 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '95.'
• Spin (12/95, p.81) - 9 - Near Perfect - "...a fall of light into the urban endzone...Goldie has taken jungle to a more expansive level here, fusing its ominous bad-boy polyrhythms with gorgeous diva vocals, rich piano playing, and upbeat jazzy chords that dissolve into ambient clouds...brings jungle to a new level of cross-fertilization..."
• Alternative Press (1/96, p.80) - "Starting with the increasingly familiar...palette of jungle/drum and bass music, Goldie and his Metalheadz sculpt expansive sonic constructions that elude the linear confines of descriptive language."
• Melody Maker
  Melody Maker
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  (12/23-30/95, pp. 66–67) - Ranked #8 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's 'Albums Of The Year' - "The jungle underground's figurehead...Massive and jaw-droppingly ambitious."
• Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #23 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
• New York Times (1/6/96, p. C16) - Included in Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of `95 - "...the frenetic break beats of England's jungle dance-music rub against lush ambient music, live instruments and a technology-addled sense of soul..."
• NME
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  (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #10 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995 - "...an astonishing...symphony of whizzing breakbeats, fluid soundscapes and mind-warping moodswings..."

Disc 1

1. "Timeless" – 21:01
   • i. Inner City Life
   • ii. Pressure
   • iii. Jah
2. "Saint Angel" – 7:14
3. "State of Mind" – 7:05
4. "This Is a Bad" – 5:56
5. "Sea of Tears" – 12:03
6. "Jah The Seventh Seal" – 6:36

Disc 2

1. "A Sense of Rage (Sensual VIP Mix)" – 7:05
2. "Still Life" – 10:50
3. "Angel" – 4:56
4. "Adrift" – 8:29
5. "Kemistry" – 6:48
6. "You and Me" – 7:04
7. "Inner City Life (Baby Boy's Edit)" – 3:34
   • Remix by Photek
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     , U.S. bonus track
8. "Inner City Life (Rabbit's Short Attention Span Edit)" – 4:20
   • Remix by Rabbit in the Moon
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     , U.S. bonus track

Single-disc album

1. "Timeless"
   • i. Inner City Life
   • ii. Pressure
   • iii. Jah
2. "Saint Angel"
3. "State of Mind"
4. "Sea of Tears"
5. "Angel"
6. "Sensual" – 8:13
7. "Kemistry"
8. "You and Me"

Double LP album

Side A

1. "Saint Angel"
2. "This is a bad"

Side B

1. "Kemistry (V.I.P. Mix)"
2. "You & Me"

Side C

1. "Still Life"
2. "Still Life - V.I.P. Mix (The Latino Dego in Me)"

Side D

1. "Jah the Seventh Seal"
2. "A Sense of Rage (Sensual V.I.P. Mix)

External links

• Timeless 2xCD at discogs.com
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• Timeless CD at discogs.com
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