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HIGH CONTRAST LAUNCHES FOURTH ALBUM


HIGH CONTRAST, aka d&b producer Lincoln Barrett, releases his fourth album ‘The Agony and The Ecstasy’ on 27th February with a title no doubt referencing the inevitable pitfalls of reaching the dizzying heights he’s achieved. If you doubt his pedigree then we just need to refer you to the album’s fi rst single ‘The First Note Is Silent’, a collaboration with stadium trancer Tiësto and the festival (and Olympic)-rocking Underworld. Not bad for a lad from Cardiff. And he’s not forgotten his roots - the album features local talent Lung, a new signing to Med School (Hospital’s sister label), and vocalist Jessy Allen who appears on the forthcoming ‘I Don’t Love You’ by Organ Grinder on Catapult Records, a tune being spun by the likes of


PINCH INTERVIEW


PINCH, aka Rob Ellis, boss of the trail- blazing Tectonic Records, is one of a few heads in a unique position to dissect the arc of dubstep from its underground roots, cobbled together from overlapping variants of bass-heavy dance music, to its current arrival on the US stage as the soundtrack to sweaty, moshing youth. Born in Bristol, a city whose clubs have long shaken to a soundsystem culture that began with reggae, and switched onto dubstep’s embryonic stages after hearing Kode9 at London’s iconic FWD>>, he’s since been there every inch of the way, spreading the gospel whether it be through his expansive DJ sets, weighty productions or nurturing of game-changing artists. He’s also mixed the superb ‘Fabriclive 61’ (out now). We caught up to find out his candid opinions on dubstep, past, present and future.


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