{"id":2518,"date":"2013-03-12T23:26:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2013-03-12T23:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:29:48","slug":"tuesday-time-machine-the-two-gs-energy-vintage-goldie-and-a-guy-called-gerald-collaboration-from-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/tuesday-time-machine-the-two-gs-energy-vintage-goldie-and-a-guy-called-gerald-collaboration-from-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Time Machine: The Two G&#8217;s &#8216;Energy&#8217; (Vintage Goldie and A Guy Called Gerald Collaboration from 1995!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bR76j-UZN8w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Evening! Here&#8217;s a new feature I&#8217;ll be doing from now on (hopefully) &#8230; the Tuesday Time Machine!<\/p>\n<p>Every Tuesday I will reach into my record shelves and pull out one vintage tune from yester-year to share with you, and briefly rabbit on about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/photos\/juicebox.jpeg\" alt=\"Juice Box Records\" align=\"right\">To kick things off, here&#8217;s &#8216;Energy&#8217; by The Two G&#8217;s, a 1995 collaboration from two of the absolute pioneers of drum n&#8217; bass music, Goldie and A Guy Called Gerald. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Two-G-The-Energy-The-Reno\/release\/51412\">Originally released<\/a> on Gerald&#8217;s Juice Box label, this tune was also later released in an extended form on Gerald&#8217;s trailblazing album <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/A-Guy-Called-Gerald-Black-Secret-Technology\/master\/25248\">Black Secret Technology<\/a><\/i>, which was one of the first serious drum n&#8217; bass artist albums &#8211; I can&#8217;t quite remember if it was literally <i>the first<\/i>, or whether that honor goes to 4 Hero&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/4-Hero-Parallel-Universe\/release\/8404\">Parallel Universe<\/a><\/i> or not, but in any case it was well ahead of its time! <\/p>\n<p>Lesser-known than Goldie&#8217;s own <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Goldie-Timeless\/master\/184569\">Timeless<\/a><\/i>, I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for <i>Black Secret Technology<\/i>, since it was one of the first drum n&#8217; bass cd&#8217;s I ever bought &#8211; as well as for the obvious reason that it is absolutely brilliant! The album has sadly become a bit of an obscurity over the years, so if you&#8217;re a new school drum n&#8217; bass fan who wants to learn more about the roots of the sound, I seriously cannot recommend highly enough picking it up if you chance across it. Wonderful album.<\/p>\n<p>Every album has it&#8217;s standouts, though, and &#8216;Energy&#8217;, for me, was and is the highlight of <i>Black Secret Technology<\/i>. To my knowledge this tune (and its flipside &#8216;The Reno&#8217;) represent the only tunes that Goldie and Gerald made together, which is a shame, because this track is an absolutely gorgeous hybrid of their two distinct styles, with intricate drum programming and solid bass thumps offset by swirling pads and a lovely little vocal snippet. <\/p>\n<p>This is music equally at home on the dancefloor and in your headphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldie and A Guy Called Gerald vintage 1995 collaboration on Juice Box Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-tuesday-time-machine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}