Goldie – The drum’n’bass bad boy who defined ’90s Jungle
4/20/20261 hr 17 min
Diving deep into all things ’90s. Nothing captures the raw excitement of ’90s clubbing like the speaker-shattering sound of jungle and drum’n’bass – a collision of real time breakbeats and chest-rattling sub-bass that created a culture that still lives on today. And the undisputed don of the scene is Goldie, the Metalheadz mastermind whose unstoppable ambition brings drum’n’bass out of the underground and into the mainstream. Thirty years later and slightly mellowed, Goldie joins Miranda Sawyer to look back on the craft and the chaos, from pirate radio to primetime TV and the lasting impact of jungle in the UK. • Want an extra mini-pod every two weeks, early ad free episodes and access to merch? Support us on Patreon Follow us on: BlueSky Instagram TikTok Subscribe to our Spotify playlist • Buy Miranda’s book Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll be helping the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Advertisers! Want to reach smart, engaged, influential people with money to spend? (Yes, they do exist). Some 3.5 MILLION people download and watch our podcasts every month – and they love our shows. Why not get YOUR brand in front of our influential listeners with podcast advertising? Contact ads@podmasters.co.uk to find out moreWritten and presented by Miranda Sawyer. Produced by Liam Tait. Audio and video production by Tom Taylor. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Soniq Branding from Artlist. Talk ’90s To Me is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsGoldie· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] You cannot fuck with the '90s. The '90s is the most powerful thing. [upbeat music] Talk to me '90s, fucking talk to me.
Miranda Sawyer· Host0:14
Hello, and welcome to Talk 90s to Me, where the inner city pressure is getting to us, but we have the solution. Well, maybe not the solution, but why not join our Patreon anyway? It won't take the pressure off, but it is a way of you getting your hands on some nice merch, while also supporting your favorite fun weekly podcast about everything 1990s. If you donate around £4 a month, you get some great extras, such as special episodes about whether Hooch was better than Bacardi Breezers. Plus, you improve your karma by knowing that all the money you give goes into paying the people who make the show. Not just me, but fab producer Liam, editors Tom, Robin, and Simon, and camera wranglers Chris and Connor. So why not search up Talk 90s To Me Patreon, that's P-A-T-R-E-O-N, or follow the link in the show notes to find out more. Now on with the show. [upbeat music] This is Talk 90s To Me, where we're striding through the '90s in a fly coat and grills, starting as a graffiti artist before inventing an entirely new type of music, setting up a successful record label and a brilliant club, releasing two genre-defying albums, becoming a Bond villain, buying a country house, and nurturing a wild drug habit, while also somehow staying an absolute