Goldie returns with Rufige Kru. New single with CASISDEAD.

Goldie is again as his alter ego Rufige Kru and slams straight again in together with his revolutionary type of drum n bass that chops and adjustments with each launch. First taster is that this wonderful single Nonetheless The Identical that includes CASISDEAD. Learn on…

Goldie’s alter ego Rufige Kru (with SubMotive) has returned. Introduced at present, iconic breakbeat mission Rufige Kru will launch the model new album Alpha Omega on Could 16 by way of London Data.

Pre-Order/Save the brand new album Alpha Omega HERE out Could 16.

New single Nonetheless The Identical that includes CASISDEAD, taken from the forthcoming album is out now. The Rufige Kru single (produced collaboratively by Goldie and SubMotive) incorporates a visitor look from peerless grime MC and UK rap artist CASISDEAD, after years of requests by his followers to rap over a DnB observe. In reality, it’s uncommon for CASISDEAD to function on tracks with different artists—such is the importance of this collaboration and it’s his first new materials since his critically acclaimed 2023 album Well-known Final Phrases and being awarded Finest Hip-Hop/Grime Rap Act on the 2024 BRIT Awards.

The official video for Nonetheless The Identical, directed by Elliott Gonzo stars each Goldie as an AI overlord being hunted down by a vigilante CASISDEAD, set towards the backdrop of a dystopian future. Of the video to Nonetheless The Identical, director Gonzo says: “It was an enormous honor to collaborate with these legends within the sport. The liberty and belief I used to be given meant I may actually push the boundaries of what’s attainable with new expertise, combining animation and digital manufacturing. A large shout-out to my co-director Buse Simon, for serving to deliver these new worlds to reside.”

New album Alpha Omega consists of twelve groundbreaking new tracks which deliver collectively Goldie’s unerring dancefloor suss and the impeccable technical prowess of SubMotive (actual title James Davidson). It’s Rufige Kru’s deepest outing to this point—a reminder of precisely why drum’n’bass stays probably the most exhilarating, groundbreaking and electrifying music on the planet.

Of the brand new album, Goldie says: “It’s a reinvention. We’ve gone again to the supply and extrapolated from there. I wished to create one thing that completely represents what this music is all about…and the place it’s going subsequent.” 

Goldie will probably be on tour all year long, beginning with a takeover of London’s Cloth on February 28 to rejoice the album announcement, adopted by a reside present at London’s Village Underground on Tuesday, April 29. In Could, Goldie will function as Artist in Residence at Detroit’s Movement Competition 2025 (TICKETS), earlier than bringing his reside present to UK festivals this summer season. Full listing of reside dates could be discovered beneath, and on his official web site: goldietimeless.com.

Some of the revered names in breakbeat science, Rufige Kru rewired the dancefloor for the primary time again in 1992 with the hardcore traditional, Darkrider. Again then, Goldie’s musical accomplice was hip hop fanatic Linford Jones. “He had a improbable document assortment,” remembers Goldie. “I had a subject day going via his data and pulling out breaks.” Engineer Mark Rutherford—who additionally labored with Peter Gabriel and Mark McLaren—was one other early collaborator. The partnership yielded pivotal hardcore moments like Ghosts Of My Life and Terminator (nonetheless thought of one of many key moments within the evolution of drum’n’bass).

It’s a testomony to the alchemy itself, that regardless of who Goldie has labored with—or taken beneath his wing—the Rufige sound stays constantly forward-thinking and revolutionary. Although Goldie’s groundbreaking debut album, Timeless and its 1998 follow-up Saturnz Return broke via into mainstream success, he continued the sonic explorations of Rufige Kru with two had discovered a brand new music accomplice, Heist/Strider most important man Jim Muir.

After which, in fact, there was the primary all-time drum’n’bass traditional of the brand new millennium: Rufige Kru’s 2001 masterpiece Beachdrifta. Recorded with Danny Goldstein, it was a document that—like Ghosts or Terminator earlier than it—simply turned all the things the wrong way up. A lot in order that, in 2017, when Goldie performed two memorable nights at Ronnie Scott’s, the reside rendition remodeled the venerable jazz membership right into a 4am rave. “Typically you catch lightning in a bottle,” recollects Goldie. “That was a kind of instances.”

Now he’s executed it once more with the brand new document. Turning drum’n’bass inside out, reframing the breakbeat, setting the agenda over again. “I’ve travelled with James (SubMotive) via each angle of this sport and now he’s a formidable accomplice within the Rufige Kru echelon…boss levelz.”

“I’ve gone again to my roots,” concludes Goldie. “That’s a ravishing factor for me. I’ve spent a number of time honing my craft, growing these ideas, assembling all these moments. However that sense of risk –what saved me going within the early days—remains to be there. I’m nonetheless as excited by this music and the place it will probably go as I used to be all these years in the past. The one restrict is my creativeness.”

New album Goldie presents: Rufige Kru – Alpha Omega will probably be launched Could 16 by way of London Data. Pre-order/reserve it HERE.

Forewords by Wayne Carey, Critiques Editor for Louder Than Struggle. His writer profile is right here