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30 years after first signing to
legendary London Records label

GOLDIE returns with
a new album

GOLDIE presents:
RUFIGE KRU
‘ALPHA OMEGA’

Out Now
and available HERE

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Goldie’s alter ego Rufige Kru (with SubMotive) has returned!  The iconic breakbeat project Rufige Kru have released the brand-new album ‘Alpha Omega’, out now and available Here via London Records.

The new album ‘Alpha Omega’ consists of twelve groundbreaking new tracks which bring together Goldie’s unerring dancefloor suss and the impeccable technical prowess of Submotive (real name James Davidson). It is Rufige Kru’s deepest outing so far – a reminder of exactly why drum’n’bass remains the most exhilarating, groundbreaking and electrifying music on the planet. Of the new album, Goldie says: ‘It’s a reinvention. We’ve gone back to the source and extrapolated from there. I wanted to create something that absolutely represents what this music is all about … and where it’s going next.’

The album includes two previously released singles ‘Still The Same’, produced collaboratively by Goldie and SubMotive which features a guest appearance from the peerless grime MC and UK rap artist CASISDEAD, and ‘Goldikus’ which features guest vocals from revered UK music legend Cleveland Watkiss MBE, sampled from a recording of Goldie’s 1993 set at legendary London club, The Blue Note.

Both tracks, along with the latest focus track ‘Secret Handshake’ give a taste of what’s on the latest Rufige Kru album: an unfiltered, underground roller with breaks and a bassline that are made for the dance floor.

One of the most revered names in breakbeat science, Rufige Kru rewired the dancefloor for the first time back in 1992 with the hardcore classic ‘Darkrider’. Back then, Goldie’s musical partner was hip hop fanatic Linford Jones.

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‘He had a fantastic record collection’, remembers Goldie. ‘I had a field day going through his records and pulling out breaks.’ Engineer Mark Rutherford – who also worked with Peter Gabriel and Mark McLaren – was another early collaborator. The partnership yielded pivotal hardcore moments like ‘Ghosts Of My Life’ and ‘Terminator’ (still considered one of the key moments in the evolution of drum’n’bass). 

It’s a testament to the alchemy itself, that no matter who Goldie has worked with – or taken under his wing – the Rufige sound remains consistently forward-thinking and innovative.

Though Goldie’s groundbreaking debut album ‘Timeless’ and its 1998 follow-up ‘Saturnz Return’ broke through into mainstream success, he continued the sonic explorations of Rufige Kru and found a new musical partner, Heist/Strider main man Jim Muir.

And then, of course, there was the first all-time drum’n’bass classic of the new millennium: Rufige Kru’s 2001 masterpiece ‘Beachdrifta’. Recorded with Danny Goldstein, it was a record that – like ‘Ghosts’ or ‘Terminator’ before it – just turned everything upside down. So much so that, in 2017, when Goldie played two memorable nights at Ronnie Scott’s, the live rendition transformed the venerable jazz club into a 4am rave. ‘Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle,’ recalls Goldie, ‘That was one of those times.’

Now he’s done it again with the new record. Turning drum’n’bass inside out, reframing the breakbeat, setting the agenda all over again. ‘I’ve travelled with James (SubMotive) through every angle of this game and now he’s a formidable partner in the Rufige Kru echelon….boss levelz.’

‘I’ve gone back to my roots,’ concludes Goldie. ‘That’s a beautiful thing for me. I’ve spent a lot of time honing my craft, developing these concepts, assembling all these moments. But that sense of possibility – what kept me going in the early days – is still there. I’m still as excited by this music and where it can go as I was all those years ago. The only limit is my imagination.’

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Goldie presents: Rufige Kru
 ‘Alpha Omega’ album
out now and available  Here

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AMNPLIFY – DB