- published: 28 Sep 2011
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Lincoln Barrett, better known by the stage name High Contrast (born 18 September 1979, Penarth, Cardiff), is a Welsh drum and bass DJ and producer.
Barrett grew up more interested in films and film soundtracks rather than music, and still cites Wendy Carlos's A Clockwork Orange soundtrack album and the Vangelis soundtrack for Blade Runner as defining musical influences. Whilst studying film making in Newport, he heard J Majik's Arabian Nights which turned the then 17-year-old Barrett on to drum and bass music. Barrett used to work in Cardiff's only electronic record shop, Catapult. A short time after he began to make music, he was given a DJ residency at Cardiff's drum and bass night, named Silent Running. During his residency at Silent Running, Barrett played alongside artists such as Grooverider and London Elektricity.
In June 2002, Barrett's debut album, True Colours, was released on Hospital Records, with "Return of Forever" and "Global Love" finding their way into the UK Singles Chart. His second album was High Society.
Actors: Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Michael Stipe (producer), Jacqueline Bisset (actress), Frankie Faison (actor), Joan Scheckel (miscellaneous crew), Dody Dorn (editor), Carmen Zapata (actress), Martha Plimpton (actress), Nick Stahl (actor), Justin Theroux (actor), Seymour Cassel (actor), Amy Madigan (actress), Anibal O. Lleras (actor), Kimberly Scott (actress), Kristen Anacker (costume designer),
Plot: Frances had been a radio DJ in Florida; she's now living in San Francisco and dying of cancer, with one son living nearby whose work as a photographer is beginning to take off and another, mostly estranged, living in London. She makes a trip to rural Pennsylvania to visit an old lover (and his wife). Meanwhile, Rebecca is searching for her birth mother, who is, of course, Frances. Their lives intersect in other unexpected ways as her search and her work, inspecting the books of radio stations being acquired, progress.
Keywords: adoption, cancer, character-driven, ex-boyfriend, family-relationships, friendship, genre-bending, hot-air-balloon, independent-film, interracial-relationship