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High Contrast Records: 100. Herausgabe
In Kürze: Über die vergangenen 5 Jahren konnte High Contrast Records die Wiedergeburt des Trance Labels symbolisieren. Aus den Aschen des früheren ID&T Music –Labels wurde 2005 High Contrast hervorgehoben und k.
Vollständig: Über die vergangenen 5 Jahren konnte High Contrast Records die Wiedergeburt des Trance Labels symbolisieren. Aus den Aschen des früheren ID&T Music –Labels wurde 2005 High Contrast hervorgehoben und konnte seit dem ersten Tag die Erwartungen der Szene nachkommen. Nun feiert das Label seine 100. Herausgaben! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
HIGH CONTRAST HIT 100
Over the last 5 years, High Contrast has come to symbolize the second coming of the trance label. Rising from the ashes of the ID&T imprint, from their day-one they heeded the scene's call for a style overhaul and orchestrated a new, future-proofed sound-shock. With a committed group of producers ready to proliferate it, and one colossal track to announce their arrival, they set light to 2005's dancefloors.
Now its five years later and they're on the verge of their century... High Contrast has reached their 100th release.
Inside that relatively short time span the label has carved out its own lean, toughened & unique sound-design. Calling on the electronic dance artists that proved themselves during the ID&T years, their core production contingent were given the artistic freedom to go away and find their own new musical space. Individually they returned with one club hit release after another - all boasting the highest levels of imagination and creativity.
In their first 5 years High Contrast have masterminded Rank 1's evolution from 'euphoric trance act' to widescreen nu-trance anthem creators and oversaw Nic Chagall's move out from under the Cosmic Gate umbrella to that of standalone headlining artist. They've also scored a renaissance return from Wippenberg, helped Marcel Woods don his King of Dark Trance crown & seen Jochen Miller become the poster boy for techno-infected-trance (or perhaps that's trance-infected-techno?!). And that in a nutshell is where High Contrast found their exclusive niche. The label is embraced by forward-thinking trance and progressive DJs, but their tracks have also jumped those demarcation lines and been picked up on by spinners like Prydz, Ingrosso, Tong and others (something very few others can claim).
To bring this phase of the label's history to a suitably large climax, not one, not two, but three of their acts/artists have collaborated together for the first time on a track entitled (what else but)... '100'.
Nic Chagall, Rank 1 & Wippenberg have pooled all their production-power to fashion a track worthy of commemorating the hundredth release on the broad-vision label. It's the first time these three heavyweights have teamed up and therefore nothing but a unique collaboration. Rank 1's big room signature, Nic Chagall progressive trance trademark and Wippenberg's progressive beats combined in one track worthy to represent this landmark.
'100' will be out on the 14th of June on digital format on all download stores. A special limited edition gold vinyl will be available from June 21st.
To hear a preview of the '100' you can check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8OGCK6lF10
Quickly followed on the release of '100', just three days later, the label will release the compilation 'The Best of High Contrast - The Story So Far'. 50 Tracks with highlights from the label.
Deciding on the 50 tracks that go to make up the album was no easy task for H.C.s crew. It did in fact involve a good few into-the-night conversations to decide on the ones that would find their way onto the three shiny silver discs. They'll be announcing them soon but before they do take a few minutes to remember these High Contrast Highlights...
Ernesto vs. Bastian - Dark Side of The Moon It's a record made by Ernesto vs. Bastian called 'Dark Side of The Moon', featuring (a then unknown) Susana singing about Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of The Moon'. A head-scrambler, one of the bestselling dance records of 2005 and High Contrast's first ever release.
Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Rank 1 - Life Less Ordinary Was it tech-trance? Euphoric trance? Melodic trance or Electro-trance? Answer: it was all four... De Goeij, Bervoets & MORPH's deconstruction of the genre truly lived up to all the early (PvD-driven) hype. It's the kind of track that would now be called 'a game changer'.
Rank 1 - L.E.D. There Be Light
An anthem in every sense of the word (it was Trance Energy's in 2009)... Stripped-down, and then ruthlessly ramped-up electronic dance music with a riff and bassline that caught you square in the chest.
Jochen Miller - Lost Connection
It had a cover that looked like an '88 acid house sleeve and blended melodic riffs, big stabs and an epically large rave riff into a big-ass festival-pleaser. Tough, uncompromising music was what was called for... which was just what Jochen delivered.
Wippenberg - Chakalaka
One of the greatest dance artist reinventions ever... Wippenberg went from being 'the one who made protohard-hard-house-smash 'Neurodancer' to the man who took a 'trance' label into the record sleeves (and CD wallets) of Angello & Ingrosso, Prydz, Morillo, Dirty South and others.
Also see: last year's 'Pong'
Marcel Woods - Advanced
Advanced was about right... One of High Contrast earliest releases with an instantly recognizable harder-faster riff that can still be heard bouncing off stadium and arena walls today... With more tracks on High Contrast than any other, Marcel Woods is probably the core of the core of High Contrasts' artists.
Nic Chagall - Morning Light
Or 'Monday Bar', or, 'Borderline', or 'I Don't Know' - pretty much anyone of Chagall's tracks could fill this spot. A man who's now almost as well-known as an individual producer as he is as part of Cosmic Gate... Which kind of says it all really...
The compilation 'The Best of High Contrast - The Story So Far' will be available as download on all download stores from June 17th.
www.highcontrastrecords.com.
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