Goldie’s Timeless is credited with catalyzing the Bay Area drum-and-bass boom in the 1990s, and recent coverage continues to spotlight that legacy. Calibre announced a new album, while Everything But The Girl’s blend of breakbeats and pop received renewed attention. Pitchfork provided a retrospective on Goldie’s “Mother,” tied to his 1998 follow-up Saturnz Return. These developments align with ongoing Bay Area drum-and-bass parties, including Stamina at F8 and SHELTER at Underground SF. Although a 1990s revival is visible in broader culture, drum and bass is described as not truly gone, only evolving in production and supported by label and event returns.
"Just after this year's Noise Pop, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of Goldie's Timeless in this column, highlighting how that record catalyzed the drum-and-bass boom in the Bay during the '90s. And then a series of things kept on happening: Belfast-born drum and bass wiz Calibre announced a new album is on the way; remembrances popped up for Everything But The Girl's singular blend of sullen breakbeats and languishing pop ( Walking Wounded gets deserved praise on an electronic music trade platform)."
"Pitchfork gives an expansive "tracks retrospective piece" to Goldie's hour-long catharsis single "Mother," the first selection on his 1998 follow-up to Timeless called Saturnz Return. All of this is happening within the same time frame of two faithful, long-running Bay Area drum and bass parties: Stamina, a free weekly Sunday night party at F8; and SHELTER, a third Thursday party at the Haight Street temple for electronic music, Underground SF."
"I'm quite cognizant that our cultural zeitgeist has been experiencing a '90s revival of sorts, which you can attribute to a yearning for more, less digital "pleasant times" or Zoomers just fiending to wear some baggy JNCO jeans. Both items can be true at once. Yet, the undeniable fact is, drum and bass is not exactly back because it really didn't go anywhere."
"It might have morphed or switched up in production a bit, but the mere fact that seminal label Metalheadz recently announced the return of its classic jazz remix "Blue Note Sessions"-and that a new series of UK events inspired by the groundbreaking nights that helped define the label's early direction will be making a return this summer i"
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