This is Zone of Fruitless Intensification 101, isn't it?But I am also sympathetic to the view that I really absorbed on here that they basically helped suck the fun and snotty energy out of jungle and replaced it with The Face approved tastefulness and portentousness in the 90s.
He's great, but also reminds me of Dennis Hopper in 'Apocalypse Now'.... and I still love a lot of their records and admire Goldie to the Nth degree (one of the most interesting people/interviewees in music, built himself up from really shit circumstances by sheer force of will and self-belief).
Yeah this is an interesting/weird thing about the label. Was that something to do with them being HQ'd at the Blue Note?Weird hearing all this smooth, jazzy stuff after associating them with 'Stonekiller', 'Metropolis', 'The Angels Fell' etc for so long.
But I am also sympathetic to the view that I really absorbed on here that they basically helped suck the fun and snotty energy out of jungle and replaced it with The Face approved tastefulness and portentousness in the 90s. No doubt that was a reaction to ragga jungle and other things that I can't understand, though.
I'm sympathetic to that view too, but I don't hold it against them as it seems inevitable. If not them then someone else.But I am also sympathetic to the view that I really absorbed on here that they basically helped suck the fun and snotty energy out of jungle and replaced it with The Face approved tastefulness and portentousness in the 90s. No doubt that was a reaction to ragga jungle and other things that I can't understand, though.
The delivery of "Because Carl's that kind of guy" at the end of what starts @ 2:51 is about as Goldie as it gets. Off his nat on chisel bein' all profound
Probably the coke and hanging out with the hoy polloi that lead him down that path
That era of Bowie's always reminded me of Doug Rocket (David Hoyle) from 'Nathan Barley'.