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Personnel: Terri Pace, Nolay (vocals); Mike Shankleman (guitar); Dynamite MC, Spoonface (vocals); Tomahawk (spoken vocals).
DJ: High Contrast.
Arranger: Lincoln Barrett .
High Contrast's 2002 debut was entirely unpretentious. Its giddy rookie drum'n'bass skitters went ballistic into vintage vocal sample atmospheres with nary a pander to the electronic music community's savagely permutational itch. In '04, after a year of stellar remix work, Contrast (aka Welshman Lincoln Barrett) returns with High Society, a remarkable statement-maker that drops its share of can't-miss dancefloor moments, but also revels in posing hyperkinetic percussion against gently swelling, almost melancholic basslines. This dynamic in the emotions and music makes Society as much an album as Contrast's first recording was, but also highlights where he's grown. Grime-hopeful Nolay spits hollow-point bullets over the snare reports, snyth cues, and bass pulses of "Angels and Fly" -- it sounds like Future Sound of London backing the boastful, malevolent transmissions of a pirate radio MC. But "Angels"' post-millennial tension is at sharp angles to "Just Say," a collaboration crossing Contrast's usual percussion slap with sunny guitar drop-ins, dubby horn samples, and the soulful patois of garage/dancehall vocalist Spoonface. As catchy as these tracks are, extended drum 'n' bass workouts like "Lovesick" and "Racing Green" keep the rhythms interesting by periodically suspending them in favor of chopped-up and filtered disco and soul samples. High Contrast then builds back up from these breaks, dropping in once again his insistent chattering snares. "Natural High" nods to both electronic music's formative years as well as the artful chill of Air, while "Brief Encounter" and "Twilights Last Gleaming" offer a salve of bittersweet and blissful melodies floating underneath their furious drum tracks. Newbies like the Streets and Dizzee Rascal have been responsible for broadcasting the sound of the U.K. underground into clubs and headphones world-wide. With High Society, it might be High Contrast's turn to push things forward. ~ Johnny Loftus High Contrast High Society Songs | 1. | Lovesick |
| 2. | Tutti Frutti |
| 3. | High Society |
| 4. | Brief Encounter |
| 5. | Racing Green |
| 6. | Natural High |
| 7. | Angels and Fly |
| 8. | Persistence of Memory, The |
| 9. | Twilight's Last Gleaming |
| 10. | Only Two Can Play - (Patois) |
| 11. | Yesterday's Colours |
| 12. | Basement Track, The - (bonus track) |
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High Society Music Review Purchase High Society CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | High Contrast True Colors CDs (2002)
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 $13.89 
This contains 2 CDs, of which the second one is a continuous in-the-mix ...
| | Klute Lie Cheat & Steal CDs (2003)
High Society
$13.89 
Klute is a legend in the drum n' bass world for the strength and precision of his production. This double CD is his first album since 2000's universally acclaimed Fear Of People, and his first domestic release. Includes both a disc of his drum n' bass genius and a full-length album of downtempo beats, You Should Be Ashamed, that further expose the dramatic intensity of his production. Breakbeat Science. 2003.
Recording information: PBJ Studio, North London, England.
Since his first vinyl outings on Ipswich's Deep Red records Tommy Withers, the production force behind Klute, has remained at the very cutting-edge of drum and bass. His recordings for the Certificate 18 label however, were what brought Klute widespread attention; Withers' music moving with a liquid agility and abstract melodics blazing vapor trails above molten landscapes of percussion. Klute's first two albums for the label, Casual Bodies and 2000's Fear of People, successfully expanded upon this groundwork, shying away from any single subgenre in favor of throwing ...
| | High Contrast Fabric Live 25 CD (2006)
High Society
$15.45
Personnel: James Hadfield, Parallel Forces (vocals).
Recording information: Kubicle 2.
Arranger: Conrad Shafie.
Drum-and-bass producer High Contrast constructs a varied and compelling mix of genre classics by artists like DJ Bungle, 8Ball, Ghetto Blaster, and Strength 2 Strength on this pulsating collection ...
| | Roots Of Dubstep CD (2006)
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| | Various Artists Bargrooves - Black CD (2006) (Import)
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| | L Pierre Dip CD (2007)
High Society
$12.59
Recording information: Seven-A.
| | Windham Hill Classics: Journeys CD (2000)
High Society
$6.05
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| | Dinosaur Jr Little Fury Things CD
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| | Celestial Winds Oceans Of Love CD (1995)
High Society
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| | Absolute Steps CD (2001) Import
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$5.59
| | Chris Cagle Play It Loud CD (2000) Bonus Track; Enhanced CD
High Society
$8.45
This is an Enhanced CD which includes regular tracks as well as multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Chris Cagle (vocals); Robert Wright (acoustic guitar, bass, background vocals); Rex Schnelle, Michael Noble, Michael Spriggs (acoustic guitar); John Carroll (eletric guitar); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, viola); Gary Smith (piano, keyboards); Shannon Forrest, Steve Turner (drums).
Engineers: Craig White, Robert Wright, Sandy Williams.
Recorded at Curb and The Crime Scene Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Like many young country music artists, Chris Cagle didn't grow up with country music so much as he did country-influenced pop and rock; his touchstones are the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd, not Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. While his debut album Play It Loud unquestionably deserves to be filed under country, it's best to think of it just as much in the Southern rock category. Listening to it, music fans will be reminded most frequently of the Marshall Tucker Band and, especially, the Charlie Daniels Band. Cagle is most at home on up-tempo tracks like "Country by the Grace of God," "Rock the Boat," and the title track, also showing an affinity for swamp rock on "Love Between a Woman and a Man." Hence the leadoff track, "My Love Goes on and On," released months ahead of the album as Cagle's first single, is a good representation of his style, since it is another driving country-rocker. Necessarily, Cagle mixes in a few ballads, but they are not among the album's most impressive tracks. It may be that, with slower tempos and more emphasis on lyrics, such songs reveal Cagle's formulaic songwriting approach less flatteringly. The cliché-ridden, stereotypical declarations of romantic devotion would require a more distinctive balladeer to put it over successfully. The chief exception is the heart-rending "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out," actually Cagle's first song to be recorded (David Kersh cut it in 1997), which was added to the album for its Capitol Records reissue in June, 2001, along with another bonus track, "Are You Ever Gonna Love Me," and some multi-media content including the video for "Laredo," the album's second emphasis track and second chart hit. Cagle is an enthusiastic and engaging performer on his first album, but not yet a fully developed talent. ...
| | Hamell On Trial Mercuroyale: The Best Of The Mercury Years CD (2002) Import
High Society
$16.45
"Like Billy Bragg With A Bad Attitude"
Personnel: Ed Hamell (vocals, guitar); Eric Bazilian (electric guitar, saxophone, piano); Susan Voelz (violin); Brian Wolff (horns); Phil "Wif Skill" Nowlan (piano); Goatboy (organ); Randy Cantor (Mellotron); Jeff Cole (keyboards); Andy Kravitz (drums).
Audio Mixer: Carl Beatty.
Recording information: Above The Electric Lounge, Austin, TX (1995-1997).
Photographer: Jill Greenberg.
Mercuroyale: The Best of the Mercury Years is a nice set culled ...
| | Ulla Meinecke Wenn Schon Nicht Fur Imme CD (1983) (Import) Germany
High Society
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