Drum & bass pioneer and elder statesman Goldie has put his name to this new 4 CD/60 song compilation of the electronic music sub-genre that first became popular in the early 1990s, and continues to have a sizeable following today. Goldie himself is represented by Inner City Life, I Adore You and his highest-charting single, Digital. Most of the other giants of the genre are present and correct, with Andy C’s Roll On, Roni Size’s Brown Paper Bag, A Guy Called Gerald’s Like A Drug, 2 Bad Mice’s Bombscare, E-Z Rollers’ Weekend World, Photek’s Minotaur and High Contrast’s Everything’s Different all showing up. More seminal sounds of the breakneck genre, where 160bpm was de rigueur, include DJ Hazard’s Air Guitar, DJ Hype’s Roll The Beats, Alex Reece’s Pulp Friction and Doc Scott’s suitably frenetic Rage. Innovative and insidious, sometimes with subtle and sublime shading, the influence of these tracks and others like them is undeniable in shaping the musical soundscape of the era.
