Goldie - When Saturn Returnz

British graffiti writer, drum and bass / jungle artist, DJ, actor and TV personality. Born: 19 September 1965 in Walsall, England, UK. The first superstar produced by the breakbeat jungle movement, Goldie popularised drum'n'bass as a form of musical expression just as relevant for living-room contemplation as techno had become by the early 1990s. Though he hardly developed the style, and his later reliance on engineers like and to capture his sound puts into question his true musical importance, Goldie became one of the first personalities in British dance music, his gold teeth and b-boy attitude placing him leagues away from the faceless bedroom boffins who had become the norm in intelligent dance music. After spending several years working on his production skills at (the home of ), he founded the label, which released seminal dark yet intelligent singles by , , , , , , and , amongst others. He released one of jungle's first and best full-length albums with "" (1995), which put him squarely at the top of the drum'n'bass heap at least in the minds of critics and mainstream listeners though his follow-up album, "" (1998), displayed an ambitious, personal side of Goldie hardly in keeping with jungle's producer mentality. A native of Walsall, England, Goldie was born to a Scottish-Jamaican couple and put up for adoption. He bounced around child-care homes and several sets of foster parents during his childhood years, and became fascinated with the rise of hip-hop, breakdancing, and graffiti art. His nickname stems from "Goldielocks

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