WAVEFORM

High Contrast — Essential Mix

7 October 2007 · Drum & Bass★ Mix of the Year

High Contrast recorded this Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 7 October 2007 — the 3rd of their 4 Essential Mixes in the Waveform archive. It lands in the mid-2000s, as electro and minimal reshaped dancefloors, and the set sits in Drum & Bass territory.

The mix runs through 41 documented tracks, opening with Coldplay — “Talk (High Contrast Remix)” and closing on High Contrast — “The Ghost Of Jungle Past”. Along the way it draws on labels like Unreleased, Ram - M60D and Syncopix.

Listeners voted it the Essential Mix of the Year for 2007.

Tracklist

  1. Coldplay — Talk (High Contrast Remix) [Unreleased]00:00:00
  2. Sub Focus — Airplane [Ram - M60D]00:05:00
  3. Syncopix — Disc Go! [Syncopix]00:06:00
  4. Muffler — Everything [Spearhead - SPEARDLP 001]00:10:00
  5. Mistabishi — She Lied [Hospital - NHS 271DD 2]00:12:00
  6. Logistics — Spotlight [Hospital]00:16:00
  7. Matrix & Futurebound — Womb [Metro]
  8. High Contrast Feat. J'nay — Forever & A Day [Hospital]00:22:00
  9. L.A.O.S — Harmony [Future Retro]00:24:00
  10. Commix — Faceless (Marcus Intalex Remix) [Shogun]00:29:00
  11. Ian Brown — Illegal Attacks (Rufige Kru Remix) [Self-Released]00:31:00
  12. Lynx — Disco Dodo [Creative Source]00:35:00
  13. High Contrast — Sleepless [Hospital]00:38:00
  14. Logistics — Colour Wheel (Friction+K-Tee VIP) [Hospital]00:41:00
  15. Imogen Heap — Headlock (High Contrast Remix) [Megaphonic]
  16. Matrix & Futurebound — Family (Nu-Tone & Logistics Remix) [Metro]
  17. Nu:Tone — Beliefs [Hospital]
  18. Lil' Louis — French Kiss (Silver Remix) [Unreleased]
  19. Makoto + T-Ak — Voyager [Hospital]
  20. High Contrast — Metamorphosis [Hospital]
  21. High Contrast — Seven Notes In Black [Hospital]
  22. Axwell Feat. Max'C — I Found U (High Contrast's Oldskool Revenge Mix)
  23. Martino Feat. Sacha — Peace Of Heaven (DJ Zinc Deepa Mix) [Bingo]
  24. Mr. L — Oh Yeah [Mr L]
  25. Danny Byrd — Shock Out! (Dubplate Mix) [Hospital]00:74:00
  26. High Contrast — If We Ever [Hospital]00:77:00
  27. Blame — Hindsight [Hospital]00:79:00
  28. High Contrast — Tread Softy [Hospital]00:83:00
  29. Calibre — Thoughtless [Digital Soundboy]
  30. A-Sides Feat. KJ Sawka — Essential [Violence]00:87:00
  31. Switch — A Bit Patchy (Sub Focus Remix) [Unreleased]00:90:00
  32. High Contrast — In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [Hospital]00:95:00
  33. Juelz Santana — There It Go (The Whistle Song) (ID Remix) [Unreleased]00:99:00
  34. Drumsound & Simon 'Bassline' Smith — Harder [Technique]00:101:00
  35. Wots My Code — Dubplate (2007 ReRub) [Advance//D]00:104:00
  36. Chase & Status — Hurt You [RAM]00:105:00
  37. Danny Byrd — Labyrinth [Hospital]00:107:00
  38. Kanye West — Gold Digger (High Contrast Remix) [Unreleased]
  39. Cyantific — Disconnected [Hospital]00:113:00
  40. Ennio Morricone — The Ecstasy Of Gold (L'Estasi Dell'oro) [United Artists]
  41. High Contrast — The Ghost Of Jungle Past [Hospital - NHS 277DD]00:117:00

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