High Contrast is a young Cardiff based deejay / producer specialising in soulful, vocal drum and bass. His productions fuse many musical styles from jazz and funk to film soundtracks and disco.
High Contrast (AKA Lincoln Barret) grew up more interested in films than music (although his father was involved in the music industry - managing Shakin' Stevens + The Sunsets up until Shakey did the dirty on his band). It was J Majik's "Arabian Nights" which turned a 17 year old Lincoln onto drum and bass (in his own words "he fell in love with the music") - drawn in, not by the beats or the bass, but the whole soundscape. He immediately set about trying to make music, and although it took him a year to even work out the basic structures he was soon making tunes that were full of funk and original ideas.
Lincoln continued to pursue his interest in film - at the time of writing he is in his final year at Newport Film School - but while mastering Cubase, he also got into deejaying. He was resident at the Forum in Cardiff spinning D&B in the backroom of a R&B/Garage night for a year, and it was at that time that he started thinking about fusing the more soulful vocals with drum and bass. He has been deejaying and promoting clubs in Cardiff since then, and currently plays at the excellent Silent Running nights at the Welsh Club. Lincoln also works in Cardiff's respected Catapault record shop ("Good for getting the latest promos and for checking out all the other styles of music ie. deep house, NY garage, broken beats"). It was here that he met London Elektricity who immediately checked for what he was doing. Before long he had been signed up to do an album for Hospital and the grrreat Grooverider was playing his tunes.
A major new young talent.

 

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At The Farewell Party
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Gooseflash *
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Ipunx
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Mezcaleros
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Pest (Ninja Tune)
Pop Levi (Counter) *
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Stateless (!K7) *
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The Heavy (Counter) *
The Lemonheads *
The Low Frequency in Stereo *
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Underwater Sleeping Society *
Urban Delights (Unique)
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Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode) *
Aphrodite (Urban Takeover)*
Birdy Nam Nam *
Buscemi (Labels) *
Commix (Metalheadz)
Cyantific (Hospital) *
Dani Siciliano (!K7) *
Danny Byrd (Hospital) *
DJ Cam (Columbia) *
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DJ Krush (Sony) *
DJ Marky (Brazil) *
DJ Patife (Brazil)*
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Dub Pistols (Distinctive) *
Dunkelbunt *
Etienne de Crecy (V2) *
Freddy Fresh (Sony) *
Gilles Peterson (Talkin` Loud) *
Goldie (Metalheadz) *
Gooseflash *
Guns´n´Bombs (Kitsune Maison) *
Hacienda (Ministry Of Sound)
Hexstatic (Ninja Tune) *
High Contrast (Hospital) *
Julie Marghilano
Kenny "Dope" Gonzales (MAW) *
Knee Deep (Clubstar)
Kosheen DJs (Universal) *
Llorca (Fcom/Pias) *
Logistics (Hospital) *
"Little" Louie Vega (MAW) *
London Elektricity (Hospital) *
Louis Osbourne (Kingdom Come)
Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) *
Masters At Work (MAW) *
Michael Rütten (Compost)
Mickey Finn (Urban Takeover) *
Miguel Migs (Naked Music) *
Mo` Horizons (Agogo)
My Robot Friend (Soma) *
Nu:Tone (Hospital) *
Paco de la Cruz (Brazilectro)
Peter Hook (New Order/Joy Division) *
Plump DJs (Finger Licking) *
Shy FX (Digital Soundboy) *
Smith & Mighty (!K7)
Syncopix (Hospital)
Talvin Singh *
The Buttbrothers
The Freestylers DJs *
The Happy Mondays DJs *
Tomahawk (Hospital)
zero dB (Ninja Tune)*

MCs
J.MC
MC Tali (Full Cycle) *
MC Wrec (Hospital) *
Stamina MC *



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