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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.
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a UK and US-based rapper, songwriter and record producer of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout", his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the last going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units.
Mills' Nigerian father died when he was young, and he was raised in Bow, in the East End of London in a single-parent family by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says: "I had issues as a kid. I was violent and disruptive. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out, always fighting to keep me in the school system" he attended St Pauls Way Community School.
High Contrast Summer 2015 Mix
High Contrast - Remind Me
High Contrast - Hospitality @ Building Six, February 7th 2014
High Contrast Essential mix 5.4.2003
High Contrast - Calling My Name (Official Video)
High Contrast - Summer Mix 2015 [FULL SET]
High Contrast - Days go by
Hello (High Contrast bootleg remix)
High Contrast - If We Ever
High Contrast - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
DJ Fresh & High Contrast ft. Dizzee Rascal - How Love Begins [Official Video]
London Grammar - Strong (High Contrast Remix)
Adele - Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)
High Contrast - Essential Mix (2007, October)
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I hope you can still hear me
Though you're far away.
I wish you were here beside me,
What more can i say?
So listen every evening,
And I will sing a song for you.
I'll pretend you're here beside me,
What more can I do?
The years may come between us,
But I don't wanna know.
This feeling here between us,
Can only ever grow.
So listen every evening,
And I will sing a song for you.
I'll pretend you're here beside me,
What more can i do?
Please tell meh...
Air, Air-borne can I do?
Air, Air-borne beside you.
Air, Air-borne can I do?
So listen every...