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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.
X Project
General ... fighters have annihilated the enemy.
General.
The general:
Hurry up; tell me what's happened. What's the outcome of the battle?
The subordinate:
Well, it is failed, sir.
The general:
What do you mean 'failed'?
The subordinate:
The Astro fighters launched (from) Pluto Base have been completely destroyed in course of action, sir.
The general:
That means invasion is imminent.
The adviser:
Yes, sir. We don't have time to assemble our ocean fleet now.
The general:
Our only hope is the X Project. Contact our moon base.
The adviser:
Yes, sir. Contact Doctor ... moon base.
The subordinate:
Yes, sir.
The doctor:
I've heard of the bad news.
The general:
Doctor, I need your help.
The doctor:
Nothing I can do, General.
The general:
You must. The Astro fighters have been completely destroyed.
X Project; even the name sounds mysterious.
I wonder what it will mean?
I guess we'll soon know.
The general:
Finally the time has come to launch our secret X Project.
The doctor:
But it's only 90% ready, General.
The general:
Well, in other words it's almost completed.
Any time you like, we'd appreciate knowing what X Project is all about.
The doctor: