Goldie released Timeless in 1995 on FFRR. It was the first major-label DnB album. It was reviewed seriously by music critics who had never paid attention to the genre. It changed how the outside world saw jungle.

What is on it

The title track is a 21-minute three-movement composition. Other tracks feature Diane Charlemagne vocals and orchestral arrangements that pushed DnB into territory it had never been near. It sounded ambitious because it was ambitious.

The reception

Major newspapers wrote in-depth reviews. Q Magazine. NME. Mainstream radio played excerpts. The album charted in the UK Top 10. None of that had happened to a DnB record before. Some of it has not happened to one since.

Why it still matters

Timeless gave permission to DnB producers to think bigger than the dancefloor. Every "DnB album as artistic statement" that followed (Photek, Roni Size, more recently Calibre) drew on the precedent Goldie set in 1995.