Goldie

It’s difficult to imagine jungle and drum 'n' bass without Goldie.

The UK DJ/producer—born Clifford Joseph Price in the West Midlands in 1965—changed the shape of the music on both micro and macro levels.

The former B-boy and graffiti writer discovered the nascent sounds of breakbeat hardcore in the early ‘90s, thanks to girlfriend DJ Kemistry, and began producing singles for 4 Hero’s Reinforced label; with his 1992 single “Terminator,” under his Metalheads alias, he pioneered the technique known as time stretching, extending his samples without altering their pitch, essentially mutating the genre’s DNA.