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PS2 D&B
Diane Charlemagne is everything on the "Inner City Life" part of the "Timeless" suite that is the 21 minute opening track of the Goldie album, also entitled "Timeless." Beloved in 1995 by the UK music periodicals and other trend-starved critical outlets gazing across the pond (Village Voice, Spin, Alternative Press), but most Americans are only familiar with Goldie because of his brief romance with Icelandic superstar Björk. Drum and Bass emerged from the UK Jungle scene, which translates as a variation on Techno, Dance Music and Electronica the finer points can be endlessly discussed by afficionados of the genre. I appreciate the propulsive lightness of "Saint Angel" "State of Mind" is harp, piano, synth strings and soulful vocals. Lovely, feathery, stuttering, ethereal....but ultimately background music that overstays its welcome.
I enjoyed this. Got a little repetitive, but still good.
Electronic trance music. Not entirely sure how to rate it. Sounded good, but also nothing stood out to separate it from others things I know. Not even sure if it was good enough to have the artist's name stand out
So to preface, I am not very familiar with drum and bass music. When I was a kid exploring music on newgrounds, the drum and bass music section always seemed repetitive and boring. So ever since then I’ve never taken time to listen to any professional/established d’n’b artist, until I got to this album. And I really enjoyed the first song. It’s TWENTY ONE MINUTES LONG, but it somehow manages to not over stay its welcome. It has a multitude of beat switches and tone changes, and it keeps finding ways to maintain your attention. Genuinely a great song. I also liked the third and twelfth song, but this is where the problem comes in. In-between those 3 songs are just a mess of the same sound. Like it’s not nails on a chalkboard offensive to the ears, but it’s so atmospheric that nothing stands out about the other tracks. They all blend together to create an hour and 18min long loading music for the 35mins of music that’s truly remarkable. Strangely however, I don’t hate this album, it’s very relaxing and “sound-scapey”, it’s grand and epic in tone. I just think that the atmospheric background music just overstays its welcome. Like if the album was 6 songs and just under an hour long, I think this album could’ve been a 4 or even a 5. But I think this album is definitely worth your time if you already are a big fan of drum and bass or if you have never really listened to it before. Goldie is probably the way to go for an entry into the genre.
Interesting mix
По мнению А: 3/5 По мнению С: 4/5 ИТОГОВАЯ ОЦЕНКА: 3/5 (06.02.2025)
90s Drum and Bass, pretty good - not the best I've ever heard in the genre but certainly not the worst. Gotta be in the right mood / doing the right activity for this to be listenable.
Very 90’s. Good background music
Wayyy too long
Dated but not in a bad way. Bit too long at parts.
idk I liked it but far too long. I enjoyed the tracks with melodic vocals the most
Vitas meets Grimes meets Meow Wolf Omega Mart ambient music. Certainly put me in a weird headspace while eating mixed nuts at 1 am. I know, I know this was groundbreaking... and probably somewhat inspired the aformentioned music (that I like a lot) but... 3/5. Would listen to again at 1 am, but probably not on purpose. It's another one of those albums where I feel like I heard the whole thing by the first song, then confirm that I have indeed heard the whole thing by the third song, and then listen to the rest of the album.
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
Goes on way too long. Some interesting ideas but ultimately becomes tedioius.
Sì, non male, ma eccessivamente lungo.
It's decent background music. That's all that really comes to mind.
cool, some bits even super favorite song: adrift
This is a wild album to include on this list. I don’t dislike it overall, and it’s hard to believe someone was making drum and bass like this 30 years ago, truly a very influential album. The opening track is shockingly soulful, and the breakbeats throughout really work for me. I’m not entirely sure it needs to be 21 minutes long, but as a DJ, this would be the absolute perfect bathroom break track. “Saint Angel” hits a little more aggressively, and feels like it would be at home in a goth club, the matrix soundtrack, or an edgy credit card commercial. I dig it though. “State of Mind” is where the album starts to lose me a little bit, it feels more pop than dance music, and I’m not overly into it. The rest of the album is sort of hit and miss, I’m not sure it’s really worth reviewing this one track by track, but it’s got some highs and lows for sure. The piano in “You And Me” feels very Felix Da Housecat’s remix of “Sinnerman” in a very good way. I don’t know if I’d actively listen to this again, but if I was for some reason ever forced to start DJing again, this could be a good album to keep in my back pocket for just the right show. 3*
I have to admit I first balked when I saw the AOTD is nearly two hours of 1995 drum n bass, but I actually found this pretty enjoyable to zone out and do repetitive tasks to. This album makes nice use of some pretty funky/soulful samples and strikes a nice balance between letting the song meander and returning to its central motif. The 20-minute opening track takes a little while to get there, but it settles into a nice groove, and I liked both of the abridged remixes at the end as well. I swear there's some Mario Kart samples in here. I wouldn't put this on in its entirety again but any particular song would fit in nicely to a shuffle of jungle/dnb on the rare occasion when I put that on for menial tasks. 6/10
Never heard of this artist. Interested to find out what they sound like. At first glance, by the name, I immediately thought 80's synth solo artist. So far interesting, almost trip-hop. It's interesting. Definitely reminds me of 90's rave or something
I've been aware of Goldie as an artist and personality for ages, but never actually known what his actual music was like. I didn't realise he was so influential in the DnB scene. I guess this is what it is. It's not something I'll ever celebrate or go back to. I'm not bothered by the super long tracks as so many are. I vibe with it well enough, and it works well enough in the background while cracking on with work.
Take it or leave it.
3/5 trochę za długie chociaż takie do lecenia w tle w pracy to calkiem niezłe
Certainly didn't hate this. It's a long listen for sure.
really chill and album incorporating some pretty solid breakbeat tracks
Expected heavy metal or prog from the cover art and was surprised to hear what sounds like some kind of partly acoustic drum and bass variation with vocals. Hard to decide if I like this. Not an instant hit, but there is something interesting to it! Too long for a re listen at the moment. Giving it a 3 due to the varying quality of the tracks. Would probably have given it a 4 if it was shortened down by curating the track list more.
I like the choppy rhythms of drum and bass/jungle whatever other subgenres of britronica are based on chopping up and reassembling the amen beat or whatever. Not sure how one dances to it. Apparently his son knifed somebody!? Classic pom ignorance. Anyway the choppy stuffs fun, but there are too many beatless interludes and the whole damn thing, at least what's on spotify and appears to correlate with the wiki track list, is too damn long.
If the Hackers soundtrack had less enjoyable music riddled with poorly sampled drum sounds, this is what it would sound like. There were a few ok spots, but I can't fathom how people could ever have listened to drum n bass as a primary musical style.
Some great EDM, not what I was expecting at all (I think I got Goldie mixed up with Goldie Lookin Chain!), so it took me a while to get into it, but I did enjoy what I heard.
Cool sounds and shits.
70% Best: State of Mind; Angel Must-Hear? Nah
Before I put this on I’m praying it’s better than Roni Size (gave that a 3 and should of been a 2) This is definitely more soothing and chill. Other than length of the album I really enjoy it. Light 3 could’ve moved up more if it was condensed into best tracks
I like and love dnb!!!!!!!!
2.6 1x
was like listening to the Lumines: Puzzle Fusion soundtrack for 2 hours
Hmm... okay. This is an album alright. Here, we have Timeless by Goldie, which is the earliest of three albums on this list from a genre known as drum and bass, a genre categorized by its characteristic drums (often in the form of break beats) and its bass. Despite this being the first one I've gotten from the generator, I have listened to the other two drum and bass albums on the list already. I did those ones because they were over two hours each, and were thus albums that I felt the need to listen to when I had free time so that I can do them during days where I have as much time to get through them as possible. Maybe I should've extended the minimum time to include this one. Let's move past that though. Back to the genre itself, this album is seen as a seminal album for the genre, giving it an argument for inclusion in this list. So, is this album truly Timeless? No, but that doesn't mean it's not good. I think this album's alright. Is it a bit too long for my liking? Yes, it is. However, the contents of this album are pretty good. This would've been a great album for me to do homework to if I had homework tonight, which I didn't. The sound is somewhat interesting. It's certainly more interesting than other 90s British electronic albums, that's for sure. The singing that shows up sometimes is neat. It's kind of Björk-like in a way. The sampling is good. I do have problems with this album, don't get me wrong. The pacing is kind of wack. The longest song, which is the first one by the way, is 21 minutes long, while the shortest one, "Angel," is just under 5 minutes long. That makes some songs drag too long while others feel tiny in comparison. Still, I respect this album for doing something different at the time. It may not be timeless or faultless, but it's still a solid album that I can see the appeal of. 3/5.
Timeless it may be, but drum and bass always was a little too hard for me.
I'm not sure I loved this, but it was perfectly fine for focusing at work. Then I got to "adrift" and was so annoyed I felt like throwing furniture. I think this is an album that works well when being slightly understated music that sounds good, but that's really all I see here.
Drum & Bass / Jungle classic.
At first I really didn’t like this because it sounded like generic irritating Brit rock the album looped on accident and I found myself enjoying it a lot more for some reason. I’m not even sure what really changed but songs like music when the lights go out were a lot more fun.
I wish I could say that my experiences with electronic music over the last 300-some days was entirely good. But most of it has been unfortunately less than positive. It continues to confuse me. Because in all honesty I’m not that hard to please when it comes to that genre. If your songs sound cool, are varied enough, and have solid drum programming, you have me sold. So it’s baffling that almost none have managed to check each of those boxes. I am aware of a good amount of the albums on this list. And I know which ones are much, much longer, including this one. Thankfully I’ve been mostly lucky so far and haven’t had to worry about work when trying to finish those records. Sadly today was not one of those days. I guess an hour and 40 minutes isn’t that long in comparison to some. But it feels like a lot. Especially when you have that 20 minute long monster of an opener. I tried to let the length of it affect my rating as little as possible. And I’ll admit that this isn’t actually the worst thing I’ve ever heard. But it isn’t anything more than okay. I’ll start off by saying that the production here is consistently interesting and doesn’t feel completely lifeless throughout. I’m also not traditionally a fan of singing in this style of music. But there is enough room left for the rest of the music that makes the vocals feel worthwhile. They aren’t completely overwhelming the whole song for once. But most, if not all songs on this album are plagued by the same issue. Every small section of music I enjoy listening to is surrounded by something far more monotonous. I don’t have the desire or energy to force myself through 5 minutes of an 8 minute long song to get to the 3 minutes of it I like at the end. That’s not what I listen to music for. But like I said, not all of these songs are horrible. I wouldn’t actually classify anything on this as objectively trash. Much of it is just incredibly below average. And for its length, I couldn’t recommend it to someone. Most people don’t have the patience for 100 minutes of music, let alone 60. Rating: 5/10
Just another day with another British electronic album. Despite the length, at least this one has an upbeat that was enjoyable. I'm still harsh with electronic, even learning to respect it during this 1001 challenge, but this type of drum and bass looks like a good style for me.
The drumming on this is insane. But an hour and 55 minutes of is...a bit much and repetitive. Good background music. Not much more.
Sound and feel of a nineties video game. Long at almost 2 hours and a some repetitive tracks but overall interesting with strings, jazz and samples over synth bass and drums. Solid music to work or read to. 2.8
Good but way too long.
I hated Drum and Bass when it became big in the 90's I couldn't much stand Goldie when he was ubiquitous for his 15 minutes And yet I did not hate this at all Won't ever seek it out again but it was an interesting and arresting listen
Creative but repetitive and redundant. This is what happens when you have a good idea that’s not big enough for an entire album so it becomes cookie cutter. Enjoyable but limited.
Totally dug this spending a couple hours cooking in the kitchen. Would I add this to the list? No. Did I bookmark for work background music? Yes.
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
I was pleasantly surprised at this album, as it was calming enough to listen to while I worked, but I think it is much too long, and it felt mostly the same in many parts. I think that with one or two songs to break some of the "sameness" and a cut of 20 minutes or so, it could be much better, but nothing much stood out to me enough to give it more than a "good" rating.
Solid drum and bass album that had a big reputation in the 90s. It is more ambient than I remembered, which is fine but also a little boring.
There are some nice hooks but not enough to keep me tied over the full record.
Not in the mood
I have a drum and bass tolerance that does not last for a full album. But this is pretty good, especially the tracks with the female vocalist.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Goldie. No idea why. I’ve never really listened to much of his music. I guess my rating is really just a reflection of my inexplicable love, but the album was actually pretty good too!
Old-school Drum and Bass. Some tracks don't vibe with me though.
first listen actually and relentlessly boring
I actually was enjoying much of this album...for like the first 45 minutes. Then it suddenly made me feel like I had been standing in at the check-in desk at the Cosmo in Las Vegas for an hour and I started to get a bit irritated. (Can we please get a couple more check-in hosts out here to get this line moving???)
I don't want to yuck anyone's yum and I can accept that I'm just not the audience for this BUT I can see why one song that sounds like this is cool. But a whole album? A double album? An entire genre? I don't get drum and bass. What am I missing? Drugs? Is it drugs? It's drugs, isn't it?
This was mostly ok for me. Reminds me of my days running the board at a radio station on Sunday mornings when I would insert ads into the breaks of a new age show. While it wasn’t terrible to have on in the background for a lot of it, there were parts that really did start to wear on my nerves. But only when I was paying closer attention.
it actually feels disrespectful to listen to an album like this front to back in the middle of the day and not in a sweaty dimly lit room as part of a dj set. lots of catchy parts and sections but *for sure* not a full 2hr listen. 2.5
Rate it higher than 3 but not a 4. Music good for meditation.
the album manages to build a whole universe which is pretty fantastic however, even if I really enjoy electro, I didn't enjoy the harmony, tunes and all
More mellow than I remembered it… personal preference is the more abrasive artists in the genre but there is no denying the impact this album had at the time…
Goldie, positive representative for the genre Though I like mine harder
Not terrible - fairly pleasant, actually. I could shop to this, or watch a film.
Jungle is massive. Goldie mixes things up with an epic double album of drumnbass. I prefer the instrumental tracks generally as I always find the vocals to dnb a tad cheesy. It's a long listen, and probably could've done with some editing. Best Tracks: Timeless; This is a Bad; Sea of Tears
Few decent tracks, went on for wayyyy to long!
Not the highest energy stuff, but listenable
Got halfway through, got the vibe.
I certainly liked it better than some of the other techno stuff from that time. I could actually listen to this and enjoy a bit of it. I might be able to have this on in the background for working.
Solid Drum and Bass, nothing major. I like it but it's not anything to write home about. Definitely has a more aggressive tone in comparison to the LTJ Bukem record.
3.25
Big swing, naming your album Timeless. Not sure if the name exactly fits, since it does still sound sort of futuristic, but in a 90's/00's way. Definitely not something I would have chosen to listen to on my own, but not horrible. Kind of a good background for doing work that requires some focus, but not a lot of deep thinking. I could see myself coming back to some of these tracks for long runs or coding sessions.
Pretty interesting. Not super what I wanted to listen to, but a nice break from the rock albums. Soo long though and many of the songs sounded similar. 5.5/10
6/10 - I enjoyed most of the songs but they were all too long. The first song has great parts but its 21 minutes long so I would never really listen to it in my free time. It was great to listen to while chasing my target in assassin. Inner City Life- baby Boy's edit was great.
Fine but just so long. I’m glad I was doing stuff and not really locked in on the music the whole time 6/10
respect it probably never listen to it again
I'd never listened to Goldie before. I like the ethereal parts of this artist. Didn't like the heavy beat of one or two of the songs, but overall, nice.
Ok light techno feel
Great sound and bass album. Definition of sound and bass. Does get repetitive tho. Perfect for a workout if that's your jam
Funky
Liked, didn't love. Zone out kind of vibes.
this is good stuff, but i dont have time/will to listen to a two hour record today.
Don’t let the album title fool you, this pioneering drum and bass effort is very much a hermetically-sealed capsule of the time and place in which it was recorded.
a couple good tracks...but, man this is a long album! 3/5
It was alright, too long though.
It's the soundtrack you would put in a movie when the main character is confused in some warehouse rave where everyone is looking at him like he doesn't belong and the camera is a fish-eye lens.
It just became blended noise after the first two tracks. Seems good but I’m not sophisticated enough to know why
There was lots that I actually enjoyed about this, but it is way too long. I also don't think that the setting I played it in was the best - this isn't a sitting at your desk working album. Could've been much higher rated with some editing though
It worked really well as an album while I was doing some monotonous work, the drums keep it ticking along. On a more focused listen, it's not my favortie but I don't have the best ear for all the intricate differences in the drum beat song-to-song. My favorite here was Inner City Life (Baby Boy's edit).
Brilliant. Loved it
This album goes on forever. One pretty good song, honestly, I forget which one it was. The rest is great background music. 3/5
I would need more time with this. Not good morning music for Ders
Very nice, not my favorite genre but I still loved the vocal mix on timeless, and the quirky, high end synths scattered throughout. Can see the influence on modern techno/breaks. Reminds me of a lot of eris drew.
Some pretty solid drum n' bass, all things considered. Perhaps a bit boring and overlong to some, but I found some enjoyment. Very well-produced on the whole.
Some decent DnB. At least it's more coherent than Logical Progression.
I went away to college and came home one break to discover a friend got into drum and bass during his first semester. We were rock and rap fans, so when I first heard musicians like Goldie and LTJ Bukem I was lost. Now all these years later these late 90s drum and bass albums make me nostalgic for that time, and I have a better understanding of the genre.
Good atmospheric feel, would’ve jammed it a bunch back in college for study music if I was aware of it back then.
Not exactly my thing, nor would I seek it out, but it was enjoyable. I thought a lot of the components were cool even though I wasn’t in love with the overall songs.
Not as good as it could be.
Maybe i was just in the right frame of mind but I kinda got it this time. In the past I haven’t liked music like this but I enjoyed it well enough today
No es mi tipo de música favorita pero es buena
Steady selection of drum and bass!!
Between harmony and noise.
It’s a child of its time.
3.5
A very long album. Listen to the title track and decide if you want some more because the album doesn't get much better than its intro.
It was a nice background listen but be prepared that you're in for almost 2 hours.
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
This is a fundamental drum and bass album. It varies in texture and is more atmospheric in parts and more dance oriented in others. It works well for me as a background album but it is not something I get much out of with a focused listening. Furthermore, this album is just too long and the fatigue sets in fairly quickly.
Interesting electronica..... wouldn't say that any track stood out or made me want to hit repeat, good background, non-intrusive
21 minutos dura la primera canción. Innecesario.
Byrjar vel og skemmtilegt að hlusta á og sjá nýbreytnina mv aldur plötunnar hvað þetta hefur haft mikil áhrif víðar en fór síðan of langt í sumu sem varð langdregið og þreytandi á köflum
Þetta er legendary plata. Svakalegt sound miðað við hvað þetta er early. Fínasta vinnutónlist. Lifir vel og hljómar enn bara mjög vel. Auðvitað átti Dn'B eftir að toppa en það er ekkert endilega mikill gæðamunur á þeirri þróun IMO. Svo var hann að deita Björk kringum 1996 þannig við eigum smá í Gulla.
Mikill áhrifavaldur í drum and bass tónlistinni. Má enn heyra í teknó- og danstónlist dagsins í dag.
Great to have for background music
Not bad as background music, but not really my thing. I can't see myself listening to this again on purpose.
Estilos drumm n'bass. Temas parecidos entre sí. Alguna vocalización, femenina sobre todo. Con ritmo. No termina de enganchar, aunque para mantener como fondo no es mala opción. Me hubiese gustado algo más de variedad
Een van de allereerste drum and base artiesten, heel ziek om te zien dat old-school jungle gerepresenteerd is. MAAR PLZ GEEN 2 UUR DURENDE ALBUMS
Het was een goed album maar erg druk. Hierom moeilijk om in een keer doorheen te komen. Als je het is stukjes luistert is het goed te doen.
Foundational to modern jungle/liquid/dnb, but I didn't love it on its own merits.
Nice atmospheric, almost hypnotic drum and bass record. Pretty repetitive, but then that's this genre for you. Favourite tracks: Timeless, State of Mind, Jah the Seventh Seal, A Sense of Rage, You & Me.
Meh kind of mediocre and doesn’t seem to ever go anywhere, it is just repetitive.
The drums are quite interesting. A very early 2000 vibe. Bass & drums is strong in this one. Super atmospheric. Reminds me of video game music Not the biggest fan tho.
Really really really long but pleasant. Drum and bass is not a genre I have a lot of fondness for but it’s good zone out music.
Well I've certainly spent 2 hours of my life in worse ways. Mostly (and I mean like 99%) background music that I was barely paying any attention to, but it beats having to listen to the thoughts in my head. Has some really cool moments. The 21-minutes long opening track was fantastic. So was "Angel". I don't get why "Inner City Life" is on here a whopping three times. Haha what, this guy played in James Bond?
Certainly was a DnB album
Not horrible, but very 90s.
Always believe in your soulie
Track one has very cool drum lines. This would be a good album for a long boring drive.
Decent background music, but I wouldn't sit around and actively focus on it
I can see why this is in the list due to its significance in the Drum and bass genre, being one of the earliest mainstream albums within the genre. Can't lie the first song got a bit boring at 20mins long but I actually kind of enjoyed some of this album surprisingly.
Favourite tracks: timeless; sea of tears
I feel bad. They must have thought this was the future of music; turns out it was the future of PS1 character select menus.
Nothing really exceptional here
some fun beats, but the songs are super repetitive.
I guess it was okay for background music. Wow, it was long. Maybe 2.5
Re D &B in general, I don’t know much about the nuances of this genre let alone the D&B sub-genres but, because some friends were into it, I went through a stretch where I listened to part of a local radio D&B hour once a week so got to like it. I was always impressed by the speed of the drumming although after reading up I understand this was sometimes achieved by increasing the recorded tape speed. Oh well, it still sounds good. I liked this but I couldn’t get through a double album of it.
Not what I was expecting Wasn’t in the mood But still enjoyed it
Even though it was too long, I hated this less than the others of it's ilk, so rounding up
Good, but too long. Mellow almost ambient d&b. Ok.
I didn't mind this at all. For driving to it was perfectly decent and I imagine it'd be pretty good background music for most things. I do kind of like the ambient nature and the sight trance sort of feel to it. If I needed two hours of backing tracks for doing something else then this might be OK. Maybe it's a favourite in prep kitchens or something. But it is awfully long. I suspect that the single CD version of this would be a better listen - and that's still over 70 minutes. And the length loses it a star - I want to given this 4, and I'd listen to individual tracks again; but the whole thing is just too much.
A significant album in the drum and bass subgenre. When it’s good, it’s incredibly atmospheric; when it isn’t, it drags.
Disco alrguísimo que tiene ideas muy interesantes, parecido a un poco más estlo rave de lo que actualmente hace fred again again en sus live shows, por lo que aprecio. No entiendo si cataloga como ambient music o es directamente electrónica, pero no suena mal. El problema, reitero, es que es demasiado largo y tedioso, realmente se hace muy pesado. A pesar de todo esto si me ponen todo el disco en una fiesta voy a seguir moviendo la cabeza probablemente asi qeu le voy a dejar su ganado 6/10.
It was interesting enough
Very nineties, almost timeless.
Eh, kinda cool, kinda boring, kinda all the same. Very long 7/10
Face warping drum and bass, doomy ketty jungle, it smells like the footwell of my uncles car - petrol, socks, old grinders and meal-deal packets. This is to music what the boost bar, red bull and half a spliff are to breakfasts
The cover art through me off. Looked like something I wouldn't like, but I do. Not quite timeless, but enjoyable enough. 3.5
Enjoyable for studying. Felt like some GrooveSalad fm back in 2009.
He wasn't the best D and B artist of the 90s, but a bit like the Damned he was the first to get his stuff out there and into the mainstream. Soft spot for anyone from Wolverhampton. This has some great peaks but it's a bit compromised by trying to make a home listening album out of club music. Not the first person to get caught here.
As far as drum and bass goes, this is really excellent. Songs are way too long! But there’s some great stuff happening, good beats, fun instrumentation. Glad I read up on it before saying it wasn’t for me.
Did not finish but it was a great vibe
I found this album tough to rate. Taken on it's own, it sounds like generic drum n' bass with nothing that makes it particularly interesting. However, something can only sound generic once a trope has been established, and this album seems to have been critical in establishing many of the tropes of drum n' bass, especially the use of ethereal female vocals (though this had been done in other electronic genres previously). Overall, I don't find this album that interesting to listen to, but it's got clear significance in the development of the genre 3/5
Alright... nothing more
Its fine but the first song is 22 min long 2.5
Prima Drum & Bass, maar niks aparts
Very insane album! Not bad at all! Really just sounds but very wild to say the least
Is this album Timeless? Not sure. I'm not really a DnB guy so I really can't say much about where this sits among the rest. According to the internet this thing was released in the early early stages of DnB which I think says something about the album considering the fact that I was like "oh yeah this is pretty much what I know about what the genre sounds like" vs. something like that Grandmaster Flash record "The Message" giving us a very very early look at where hip hop humbly began. I dig the jazz tracks on this album. "Adrift" was a very interesting stand-out to me but I think it stood out because most DnB kind of blends together in the background. Not that that is a bad thing at all! The breaks were sick, there were cool moments of the loungey jazzy nature, that first track was a little out of place but that kind of made me think of Christoph de Babalon's "If You're Into It, I'm Out of It" in that there are tracks scattered throughout that seem out of place but fit into the grand scheme of the record somehow. All in all, solid listen that had me focused on my work and made me feel way more productive. My only gripe is its length. Holy cow it felt like I was listening to this thing for the entire day.
Damn I forgot to take my daily dose of MDMA so I couldn't enjoy this to its full potential. This feels like an exercise in how many different was you can work in a breakbeat into a song. The first few songs could've used some changes of pace that the end of the record brings since the constant barrage of breakbeat with heavy bass riffs and soft vocals gets old pretty quick. 5/10
3rd day in a row of 'off the beaten path' albums. Might be a bit of fatigue but really couldn't get in to this.
Big songs. I can see why it’s on the list. Seemed like he was experimenting a lot and just trying to figure it all out.
Kyllähän hyvä junkka aina putoaa siinä missä just rumpubasso alkaa pidemmän päälle puuduttaa. 3/5
Tää sai nyt olla enimmäkseen taustamusana lumimyrskystä selviytymiselle. Mut ihan kivoja jazzahtavia hetkiä siellä täällä, vaikka sit taas välillä vähän bulkkia junkkaa. Kaks on liian vähän, eli 3.
After listening to (a low rated) album of the day yesterday I mentioned that sometimes you just need a different concept of the song. It doesn't necessarily need to stray too far outside of the bounds of tradition, but it also shouldn't cloyingly cling to it either. This record is almost an expression of something else, but still hews a bit too close. At least it was a welcome relief of sorts. Today's rating might be some kind of relative recency bias based off of reacting to yesterday. But what does that tell anyone about what this even sounds like? The album is a mix of soundscapes colored in an industrial palette all cut with drum and bass beats. The record is a little overlong with some tracks feeling aimless at times, but more enjoyable than I would've thought at first glance.
Good but not really a DNB fan.
Pretty nice background music
Nice surprise. Never know what to expect with these kind of albums but I enjoyed the drum & bass. Made for a nice workday.
This is such a difficult album to review. First of all - at 100 minutes, it's too long. The runtime of most tracks is excessive and I could have done without songs like "Adrift". On the other hand... I just might have listened to this under the right circumstances. I listened to the title track at home and felt that it was, of course, too long but I was drawn in by the atmosphere and Diane Charlemagne's vocal. The rest of the album I listened to while driving on the freeway at night during a light rain. And then everything just made kind of sense. I mean it's excessive and too ambitious and some of the choices I can not defend. But I think I enjoyed this way more than I expected too.
At the end of the day I think the EDM, the Drum and Bass, the Trance and House and Jungle is mostly not for me, at least not as a standalone thing at length. I just don’t get it. Lots of bits I liked here, but then these long stretches of what are, to me, just relentless repetition and monotony.
Impressive ambience in sporadic and fleeting bursts but there’s hardly any album which can justify such a gargantuan run time (which I’m completely sick of by this point). Will return to this fascinating record at some point.
Really good spacey drum-and-bass.
Later versions of this sound appeal to me more.
Moody and cinematic but unnecessarily long to the point of being almost absurd. Appreciate the dense rhythms but some of the synth tones are cringey.
I read the artist as Blondie at first and was absolutely shocked, then I reread it and came back down to earth. Overall some pretty fun jungle DnB-style stuff. Never my favorite genre of EDM, but I think this is better casual listening than techno is. However I'd rather dance to techno than Jungle. Shits intense yo.
Not timeless by any measure, this is very 90’s. I like it but it is loooong and very repetitive
I like this kind of music typically, but this was a little weird. The song with the dolphins was over the topo.
I have always enjoyed the jungle EDM subgenre. It's blend of drum-n-bass, trance and house plays right around the edges of something you can dance to and something you can chill to. Unfortunately, as time has gone on the monotony of the compositions have stood out more and more to the point where I think I'm almost over it. While this album had similar moments (i.e. I definitely didn't need to hear the same dolphin chirps looped for 9 minutes on 'Sea of Tears'), it also did well to keep tracks varied enough to keep songs from feeling too stuck in a rut. I could see digging this album back out for workday focus, or for playing in the background.
I haven’t listened to a lot of this kind of drum and bass music, but I will say it was great music to work in the office to. Not to distracting but also kept my foot taping through most of it.
Musically this is pretty nice, if a touch boring. The sort of thing you might put on if you wanted to slip in and out of consciousness while still being able to wake up and be alert when you needed to. Say, on a long train ride.
Definitely of an “era”. Noticed a sampled snare rhythm that I’ve heard before. The album seemed repetitious in its motifs, it seemed they were quite excited about being revolutionary!
If you’re into electronic house music
A seminal release as one of the first *albums released in the genre of drum and bass and certainly one of my early major exposures. Not the best of its field - IMO other Metalheadz artists surpass this but did a lot for exposure of the genre in the wider media. Goldie claims a lot of credit for this but Rob Playford is probably more important, probably illustrated by Goldie's subsequent releases being fairly weak. TLDR, an important album and a decent one but overrated.
I'm probably being generous here because mostly I found this repetitive and a bit, well, too drum 'n' bassy. But i can see the artistry and the effort shinign through.
Nice
Sorry guys… ja lyssna halva å sen så ble ja mighty sick å ja ha int haft krafter att lyssna klart… min review kommer i chatten pr pr
Goldie was able to create an expansive atmosphere, coupled with ethereal vocals and a litany of stringed instruments. Timeless is truly a timeless album that will always take you back to the mid 90s house/trance scene. Best: Timeless Worst: Adrift
I guess you had to be there. I came around to some of these sounds through the Asian Underground. I think I wasn't young enough for this scene.
Not really my kind of thing, but interesting. Many of the songs last much too long, but I guess that works in the clubs and/or makes it easier to create remixes. Inner City Life (part of the 20 minutes opening medley) was the big breakthrough hit, and probably the best "song". Plenty of other enjoyable music though, just not much that is as catchy or memorable
This is not really my kind of music ig
i love my (atmospheric) drum and bass
I saw Goldie live in 1997. I didn’t realise that this album was so legendary, but I guess someone had to kickstart drum and bass. It’s a good listen, yeah, and so layered, but it does feel well dated.
Dnb
good background music
en vérité j'apprécie vraiment la drum and bass, mais sur une courte durée (e.g. le quart d'heure de marche rapide pour ne pas être en retard chez le docteur)
Break-beats. Ik houd hier wel van. Maar niet boven gemiddeld. Mijn favorieten zijn "State of Mind" en "Inner City Life". ***
I just couldn't get into it
Rating: 6/10
Not my preferred flavor of electronic music, but it felt very mid-90s and nostalgic
This was better than I expected, but then I didn't expect much.
I grunden gillar jag sån här musik men det faktum att första låten är 21 minuter lång visar att han har samma problem som jag när jag satt hemma med med eJay på slutet av 90talet och det är att komma på hur man avslutar en låt 😄. Lyssnade bara på två låtar dock
Good ambient album.
Not really my thing, and also super long.
Me gusta el D&B pero este se me hizo demasiado repetitivo. No acabe de escuchar el disco.
really interesting to have a glimpse into this time capsule from the 90s! who listens to this today?
Boas referências de música eletrônica
First track of the album is 21 minutes long... The album is about 2 hours long in total. A lot of the tracks has some really nice parts and is very inspiring, but in total it seems like there could have been some darlings that got killed. Good Drum'n'Bass and Jungle, but the vocals not so much.
Interessante en met tijd en wijlen spannende muziek van naar wat ik las ern van de eerste drum 'n bass acts. Vond het toch een iets te lange zit en was ik datzelfde ritme steeds wel beu.
De zangeres hadden ze thuis mogen laten. Verder leuk om een keertje Drum ‘N bass voorgeschoteld te krijgen.
Nice background and driving vibes, but felt the pace stayed the same a lot of the time
Ну слишком несвязанно
Probably just 3 stars... Kinda weird.
Yeah. Bit of me. love this and fuckin underworld for a whole thing
Enjoyed.
Eh, idk, just a little too out there for me to really enjoy.
Computers are cool
Välistä ihan tempaavaa biittiä, mutta oma maku on enemmän melodisen kuin bassolla pelaavan mmmtsin puolella. Kagonen ala- ja kolme yläkanttiin
Não é meu estilo favorito, mas é de produção de muita qualidade.
Sea of tears e Inner City Life.
Is not the kind of music i like, some parts of some musics are interesint, psicodelic...but the rapid parts are not the kind of EDM music i like it. However, i must say that the production of the album is quite good.
Too long!
When I looked down at the track info 8 minutes in and saw I wasn’t even half way through track 1, I knew I was in for a bad time. Decent enough drum and bass ruined by ridiculously extended meandering runtimes that induce boredom.
I'm likely not the best judge of this one... Interesting and fine, but doesn't feel like a huge breakthrough in contemporary drums or electronic music. 2+?
Okay.
Love a bit of drum n bass on a Sunday train trip to Liverpool
Endless rather than timeless. Yawn
No. Too chill
not for me. kind of anxiety inducing. also there is no need for a 25 minute opening track!! you can separate that out!!
Migraine inducing or migraine sustaining, I don’t know it’s a blur to me now. I now understand that the word groundbreaking when it’s a genre I don’t like is meaningless. I don’t think it helped that I listened to the double album by accident. It had it’s highs, state of Mind is lovely and got me musing on what ever happened to good ole Goldie but then soon after another heavy dance track started and I decided I just didn’t care.
Drum & Base can be pretty decent at times but hard to navigate when sober, especially when the album is NEARLY 2 HOURS LONG. Lost a star for that fact alone, nae time for that level of self indulgence.
So dull. I’ll give it 1 extra star just because I could ignore it fairly easily as background music
I don't think I do the right kind of drugs to really enjoy EDM, although this wasn't terrible.
Honestly, decent soundtrack to not really listen to while I'm locking in on work tasks. When I was actually listening to what was going on, there were some really weird choices.
It's cool that this is 1995 I know this must have melted faces but it's not really my taste and omg way too long lol
I like goldie he’s a cool and sweet guy, who paints and now does yoga. but this music doesn’t work for me, it feels un-synchronised and chaotic. It’s the same sounds repeated over and over again with songs that just don’t need to be that long
This is so boring
Saturday, 12 September, 2026 Do you remember that episode of Friends where Ross plays “his sound”? Turns out he recorded an album. Not really. This has some good parts. But I definitely didn’t need 80 minutes of it.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof. 2 hours of this
One of those albums that makes me think the original Donkey Kong Country soundtrack deserves to be on this list. The sound is missing something. It's a bit thin. Seems like a good example of a thing. Superfluous track lengths.
Nope... Inte ett helt album. Inner city life är ju bra men den kommer ju igen i alla låtar typ, blir lite tradigt. Orkade inte lyssna klart. Bra beats förstås och dansigt men som sagt: orkar inte ett helt album med detta.
Vet ikke hvorfor jeg følte jeg var med i et bilspill hele tiden?
Drum n bases panic attack in musical form!
Nope
Congrats, you made one beat.
I like EDM even and this was bad, man.
I mighty have enjoyed this if the album was only the first track.
Overindulgent Jungle DnB album. Jungle should never have been made into a symphony vehicle, it should have stayed club music. When you stretch it out too long, it loses it's purpose and ventures into noodling. Tighter music and album decisions would have made this wonderful, but by the end you're just so tired of it you want it to be over. The only saving grace was the two remixes at the end, which showed how good it COULD have been. My Rating: 2/5
This album feels like you had to experience it in real time to appreciate it. Computerized drum beats, while novel at the time, feel cheap now. It got that hypnotic vibe but if you play a 5+ minute long drum beat with female vocal, I think it's just a matter of construction. The weird ocean song was different. It wasn't bad but not something I will revisit. 2 out of 5.
Ambient gym noise.
Actually, this is the kind of music I really like. I don't have a problem with repetition or the length of the songs. Here, though, the drum machines quickly started to get on my nerves. At some point, I couldn't stand the singer's voice anymore either. I was glad when I could switch back to other music. 2/5
1995 Electronica, UK rave Los inicios de las canciones ofrecen algo interesante pero pasa a ser música repetitiva de rave en 20 sec.
1,7/5
I’m seeing Goldie in two days time but god damn will I not be relistening to this I’m sorry but it’s the longest album on this generator so far please just let me listen to other albums my whole backlog is because of you Goldie you had better blow my mind come Saturday.
Is it bad? Not necessarily. Definitely not my usual thing, but it was fine background music while I was working. Don't think I would enjoy it as much if I was paying more attention. The length especially would have been on my nerves. 2.5/5
these songs are cool.. but very long.. and cool in the way that i don't actually like them but i can understand that they are cool
I try to be objective when things aren't my cup of tea, but this was endured rather than enjoyed, and I'm now too exhausted to wax lyrical about whether it's a fine example of the genre, was ground-breaking, etc. There were some nice swooshy and orchestral moments; jazzy ones too. I like a dance. But I'd have to be absolutely trollied to be tempted to move around to this, and even then, I think it would make me enter the drunk-crying stage really fast. Actually I did quite like State of Mind and Inner City Life, but found most of the other slower tracks to be a bit meandering. Not enough moments that grabbed me, or connected musically to me at all, tbh, to earn more than two stars.
I like a bit of drum & bass but a 2 hour assault on the ears was a bit much for me.
Too much
tålmodig som dalai lama at komme igennem den og mere godhjertet end jesus at give den mere end 1 på trods af længden
Sniger sig næsten op på en 3er fordi jeg synes det startede rigtig cool men GUD hvor er den lang
Feels like an 8-year-olds take on Aphex Twins Selected Ambient Works... Not sure if I have to mention it, but it was faaaaaar too long. Was already bored halfway through.
I just don't get it... but it worked well for background noise while I read my book!
1 for my taste but 2 cuz it's not awfully performed or anything.
2 hours D&B uff. Dunno, it is not terrible, just repetitive and kinda stale. I could draw some resemblance to Massive Attack, but I dont know if I want to. Defo not in the same league or close for that matter. I dont think it is unlistenable, so it gets 2 stars.
"Timeless" as in the artist lost track of time and put out a two hour drum'n'bass album? Absolutely "Timeless" as in this album doesn't sound dated at all? Nah, not so much It's fine, but it doesn't tickle my fancy 2.0
At a runtime of nearly two hours and with very little deviance or new ideas to be found, this album is an endurance test in the worst way. Probably the worst possible way to introduce someone to drum and bass is with this long of a project. Time wasted.
Eh. Kinda fun
noooooooooooooooo. 2hrs of techno.
18 minutes for track one seemed a bit excessive. Not that it was bad mind you, but it wasn't 20 minutes long good. That's pretty much the theme of the album for me. Couple of tracks I might go back to for racing games
DnB, var inte så mycket jag uppskattade på den här. Funkar okej som arbetsmusik men kommer nog inte spela den igen. 2/5
For a genre like DnB, the monumental founders are important to look at, but basically every subsequent musician will build on it and make something better than this.
I get why it's on the list but not my thing at all
This was kind of strange, like spaceship music.
Extremely long and repetitive. Had to skip through quite a bit. Does change up the sounds but drags on and on. 2/5
I generally want to learn more about influential early electronic music, 90s and such. DnB I can bop to live for sure. As a studio album listening experience it felt a little background-musicky to me
Har ikke tid.
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Ceaseless
These songs were moderately interesting for the first 2-3 minutes each. The problem is they went on for another 5-20 minutes.
Almost two hours of the same thing. Rapid fire electric drum beats with some lady singing once in a while. Boring but they tried. This was stupid bloated.
Meh. Not my cup of tea.
Litt kjedelig.
why does every electronica album have to be like 2 hours long?
Не для меня)
Wasn't as bad as the runtime would suggest, but it was mostly uninteresting, with most songs being stretched out way longer than need be.
Hmm, it's all fairly coffee table really. It's called timeless but it's absolutely of its time. Nothing here to go back to really
Yep, another album that you can just tell is going to suck from one glance at the cover.
Background music TM
This is interminably long. And not much of any interest happens. Lots of ridiculously fast breakbeats over relatively chill synths and singing. I actually didn’t mind the first track (which goes for more than 20mins) but by about the 1 hour mark I was bored out of my brain. Maybe I would have fared better with the single CD version but couldn’t be bothered figuring out the track listing to reproduce it.
mja in het begin vond ik het wel groovy maar het album is echt wel een uur te lang om zo monotoon te blijven
nyt en ihan tästä saanut kiinni töissä kun tuli kuunneltua
Meneehän tuo työnteon taustamusiikkina, mutta ei juuri muuna.
Mä en oikein tämmösestä musasta saa kiinni. Junnaavaa ja tylsää kautta linjan. Ei nyt mitään ihan luokatonta kuraa silti, niin mennään kakkosella.
I could not get into this long, meandering mess.
I found it pretty boring and unenjoyable. The runtime was insane. Not for me.
Too modern for me!
Felt like time stood still during this slog of a record. Not in a good way either.
I’m a deadhead, 20 minute songs don’t scare me. This one was complete bullshit. Who asked for an entire album of 1989 answering machine sounds and video game noises?