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Sampler - The best of High Contrast : The Story So Far.
The Best of High Contrast - The Story So Far
High Contrast by name, high contrast by nature - within 12 months of opening their doors Holland's leading nu-school imprint had established themselves as one without musical parallel. In 2004, with the overstuffed euphoric trance sound two years past its sell-by, the turntable establishment were demanding something radically different... High Contrast stepped up and gave it to them.
Now 100 releases into their history, with phalanx of debut artists on the march and many an A-list production credentials cemented in place, the label pauses to take a retrospective look at their history to date... On the 13th of August, across 3 discs and 45 unmixed tracks 'The Best of High Contrast' convenes the artisan producers and the music that has thrust the label through the ranks.
'The Story So Far' is summarized as well by the producers signed to the label, as it is by the titles of the tracks on the CDs themselves. Rank 1, Marcel Woods, Nic Chagall, Jochen Miller, Wippenberg & Joop - the artists that have been instrumental in shaping an ahead-of-its-time dance label. Signing to H.C. in its earliest years, by and large they remain there today, creating the type of advanced, adventurous, barrier-breaking dance music others are either unwilling or unable to make.
Disc 1 kicks off in appropriate form with the super-producer teaming of Rank 1, Nic Chagall and Wippenberg and their centenary celebrating '100' From the 100th 'The Story So Far' drops right back to the first release. There has rarely if ever been a record label, big small or otherwise that has scored such a proportionally huge hit with their debut outing. Ernesto vs. Bastian 'Dark Side of The Moon' featured (the then unknown) Susana singing about Pink Floyd's titular track. It went on to become one of the bestselling dance records of 2005 and was High Contrast's 1st ever release. The disc then makes it 3-for-3 with Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Rank 1 'Life Less Ordinary'. Tech, elec, melodic, euphoric; De Goeij, Bervoets & MORPH's deconstruction of a genre became a (Van Dyk driven) juggernaut. From there disc 1 of 'The Story So Far' hits high after high with Joop's 'The Future' & his collaboration with Leon Bolier 'Hold On', Marcel Woods' sales smash 'Advanced' and new Russian dance stars Moonbeam's 'Cocoon' all keeping the velocity levels high.
Wippenberg leads out disc two - an artist whose regeneration and total sound overhaul can be credited to High Contrast rare ability to release music without borders. 'Pong' and 'Chakalaka' are just two of tracks that have crossed multiple state lines to find favour with the likes of Prydz, Tong, Laidback Luke, Morillo and others. The second disc also spotlights the wares of H.C.'s younger generation too, with tracks from artists including Scotland's Terry Ferminal, Sweden's Jonas Stenberg & Germany's Dennis Sheperd. Also docked there are two of Nic Chagall's biggest - the Jonathan Mendelsohn vocalled 'This Moment' and club electrifier 'What You Need'.
Rank 1's mega-selling Trance Energy anthem 'L.E.D. There Be Light' leads the charge for the album's 3rd disc. The final of the 3 it may be but it still bristles with more floor-artillery than most single disc releases can summon. Marcel Woods' 'Musical Madness', Chagall's 'Borderline', Jochen Miller's 'Brace Yourself' (and the equatorially hot 'India'), Ronald van Gelderen's 'This Way', Cliff Coenraad's 'Distorted Reality' and Rank 1's 'Symfo' all take their time to shine.
For any fan that lived through the revolutionary last half decade of trance, 'The Best of High Contrast - The Story So Far' will have resonance. It's the first retrograde of a label that recognized the need for change in a scene and altered its history accordingly. It's out on the 13th of August.
Herausgebedatum: 10. August 2010
Label: High Contrast Records
Katalognummer: HCRCD012
Label: High Contrast
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Diesen Eintrag wurde am 30.08.2010 durch sven
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