This is one of the all-time, genre defining classics now. Right up there with Bukem's "Music", Goldie's "Inner City Life", Roni's "Snapshot"...it's THAT special.
Tears fall out of my eyes involuntary at 6:07 .. its one of those songs you can associate so many memories with.. good or bad. And yet, I also feel better after listening
YES! YES! It's exactly how I feel. Even think of the title of the song. It's like a song for the end of the world or something, like eternity and fighting through extreme difficult situations. Overcoming extreme obstacles.
I randomly woke up in the night with this song in my head a couple of weeks back. I’ve been wracking my brains ever since to try and remember who it was. So glad that I found it again!!!
Remember the "rewinds" in different clubs it was played - think 20 years ago...and still nowadays the goosebumps @ around 1:50...overwhelming, that track 😍
He signed a dollar bill for me 20? years ago. It was all I had for him to sign, and then Hurricane Katrina took it. But I will never forget dancing to High Contrast in the upstairs of the State Palace (New Orleans). ✌️ And I blasted this 24/7 driving around the city.
My 2nd time being totally immersed in the rave scene. It's crazy to think this was 20 years ago, and even crazier to think my 1st time - the greatest time ever, never to be touched - was 30 years ago. Out to all the original ravers....
I'm 36...first rave was 20 years ago @ the Sanctuary, Milton Keynes! From then I was addicted & raved to DnB EveryWeekend all over London...No longer live in London & my heart aches for it ✌💜🎶
I quite clearly recollect the whole atmosphere in the background of the chill out talking to fellow raver friend’s when I used to speak my mind, so many memories and vibrant feelings of the time attending the odd rave. Now I brock out to PsyTrance whenever I get the money available to me.
Stopped listening to dnb the past nearly 20 years and listening to this again now I'm like 'WTF WHY?' This was like our faaave tune back in the day and godDAMN it sounds just as good now as it did then.. that bassline OOOF! Sooo many amazing fuzzy memories tied to this
I remember recording it on a cassette so we could listen it in my friends dads car. Went for our first ride on gravel roads with this tune playing. We were 13 at the time and I still remember the adrenaline rush when playing this track.
I think as the years have gone by people have been losing their passion to create works of art, but now rather do it for the money. Others like High Contrast never cease to amaze me with tunes that form out of a passion from within.
Will never forget the first time I heard this tune being played on BBC One and then listening to it on a proper sound system the weeks after. Still gives me goosebumps to this date.
This track any many like it from Hospital are like time capsules that transport you to a possible future/alternative present where all dreams come true.
Fabio played this as his NYE tune at the Millennium Dome 2000/2001 Will never forget those times , the best of times. Kids nowadays just have no idea how unlucky they are living in 2021
I swear if anyone is wearing a bracelet of shame they prob getting more time outside than I am atm. Walking round and round my garden feels more like a prison excercise yard. And I cant skank out to d'n'b in front of the neighbours!!!
Introduced my GF to High Contrast the past couple of days and she had the same problem just before bed! She couldn't get Kiss Kiss Bang Bang out of her head! (No pun intended...)
DNB ENTHUSIAST That's true. As long as artists like Calibre & Lurch exist, DnB will surivive, it's hard to commercialize a niche genre like what was done with Trance & House.
edward nigma I've often wondered the same. Or thought. Okay. We'll get dubstep in first. Then people would realize how not good enough it was. Then everyone will jump over to the next best thing. Dnb Liquid. Ah well.
+luminusnite +edward nigma Folks, you are describing scenes that got big and died down again around 5-10 years apart. Its says this came out in 2002- although it sounds more like his 2nd album stuff which came out 2004 By the time "Night - benga/coki" came out high contrast was on his third album
Dubstep was never as big as Drum and Bass, not by any stretch of the imagination. Tbh DnB/Jungle at it's peak, you probably wasn't even born at the time?.
p cha dubstep did get bigger then drum n bass in the late 2000’s to early 2010’s, it’s died down a lot, thankfully. I was alive when jungle/drum n bass hit it’s peak, tbh.
That moment when you listen to the whole album, and come back the start........... Seeing..... Double.... Sssssshhhhhh.... Beautiful album, sorry for after the apostrophe......
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Still feels ahead of it’s time in 2024. Truly epic. Masterpiece.
pure gold last forever !
This track is 18 years old... and still sounds fresh.
High Contrast, we are not worthy.
It just become adult. No worries, just come back and listen. We still here.
My overall fav drum n bass track... the greatest ever
Great comment, so true.
It was definitely ahead of its time.
crazy I had this on vinyl
I love in the 2003 Essential Mix when he mixes this in. It's almost triumphant. With that spoken sample over the top too. Timeless.
Привет. Напиши полное название микса пожалуйста
@@1extra340”high contrast essential mix 5.4.2003” on RUclips. The thumbnail shows high contrast spinning records in a black colored “Circa” shirt
They know what is what…
Timeless as you say
@@1extra340 High Contrast - BBC Radio1 Essential Mix 05.04.2003. Один из лучших миксов, что я встречал.
2023 still amazing! Brings back to good old days
This is one of the all-time, genre defining classics now. Right up there with Bukem's "Music", Goldie's "Inner City Life", Roni's "Snapshot"...it's THAT special.
have to agree %100 *allthough the list of incredible tunes from that era is a lot more extensive for me ;) lol
Commix - Emileys smile
100. Still get chills when I hear this tune . Music that can transport you somewhere else
Adam F - Circles
Well said dude. Old school High contrast is truly something i will never get tired of hearing. Classics
Tears fall out of my eyes involuntary at 6:07 .. its one of those songs you can associate so many memories with.. good or bad. And yet, I also feel better after listening
YES! YES! It's exactly how I feel. Even think of the title of the song. It's like a song for the end of the world or something, like eternity and fighting through extreme difficult situations. Overcoming extreme obstacles.
52 year old break beat soldier here and original old school raver. X this is as good as it gets xx
Your still digging it chunnnnnee totally lush .. keep the faith .. 😄
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Chuunneee for real though..Loving the vibes on this one!!!! 😄
@@profyle766 🙌🎶🎶🔥
Just imagine how many people had a great time listening and dancing to this song. This has to be so fullfifilling life goal!
I randomly woke up in the night with this song in my head a couple of weeks back. I’ve been wracking my brains ever since to try and remember who it was. So glad that I found it again!!!
love those moments! the days you wake up with a song in your head are always the best!
@@lawrencelimburger9160 I wish it would happen more often!
@@tindau9592 woke up with Netsky Rio in my head today! Always a good start!
This tune takes me back to simpler and happier times 😌
Amen to that brother. Shit was just better back then. Higher quality all around.
Agreed
I cried the first time hearing this, second time, and third. This hits on a different level for people who have been through a lot.
feel you man
we wit you bruh
I had that with everything’s different
Then racing green to cheer the fluk up 😉
❤️
One love xxxx
Is it a true fact, that High Contrast´s sound never gets old.
yes
So trueeeeee
Yossarian All facts are true. That's what fact means, something which is true.
Timeless, As if you first heard it yesterday.
becase is pure drum and bass sound
Remember the "rewinds" in different clubs it was played - think 20 years ago...and still nowadays the goosebumps @ around 1:50...overwhelming, that track 😍
1:50 в точку!!!
He signed a dollar bill for me 20? years ago. It was all I had for him to sign, and then Hurricane Katrina took it. But I will never forget dancing to High Contrast in the upstairs of the State Palace (New Orleans). ✌️
And I blasted this 24/7 driving around the city.
Fair play mate, much love from UK
My 2nd time being totally immersed in the rave scene. It's crazy to think this was 20 years ago, and even crazier to think my 1st time - the greatest time ever, never to be touched - was 30 years ago. Out to all the original ravers....
I'm 36...first rave was 20 years ago @ the Sanctuary, Milton Keynes! From then I was addicted & raved to DnB EveryWeekend all over London...No longer live in London & my heart aches for it ✌💜🎶
I quite clearly recollect the whole atmosphere in the background of the chill out talking to fellow raver friend’s when I used to speak my mind, so many memories and vibrant feelings of the time attending the odd rave. Now I brock out to PsyTrance whenever I get the money available to me.
One of the greatest dnb tunes ever Its like I've known it my whole life or heard it in a previous life
This brings me back to high school listening to dnb 24/7 via Bassdrive internet radio on Winamp and loving every minute of it!
Same here bro, big up!
i just realized this is the 1st song on his 1st album. fucking legendary
Finally found it. I was looking so long!!! A true hymn of drum and bass. Thank you HIGH CONTRAST!!!!
One of the most addictive Tracks ever. Them BreakS never tire.👏
Timeless and eternal. Light years ahead of its time. Still beats new release drummers tunes for production to this day. Masterpiece.
As soon as it gets to 1:52 i get major shivers and the hair stands up on the back of my neck have so much love for this Masterpiece
I see you on every great high contrast song :D
+Lotha Fist mate he gets around!!! Hahaha we met through RUclips because we both commented on the same tunes lol
+Lotha Fist mate he gets around!!! Hahaha we met through RUclips because we both commented on the same tunes lol
check out every drum bass track at 1:30+ its 4x1/4 after 16 it changes :D never realized that? :D its 16 tacts -> change and the drop around 1:30
As soon as it get to 0:00 its a masterpiece imo
As the years keep passing I still have the same love for drum & bass 😍 and I keep coming back for the classics.
This tune is still outrageously good!! What a belter, and personally so much nostalgia!!
20 years of greatness
Timeless classic. Best genre around!!!!!!!!!
What an incredible Producer he was at the time...incredible summertime Album.
Music is like wine, the older it becomes - the better :)
I still have this one wax!
Guinness forever Guinness forever
Remember hearing this for the first time when Fabio dropped at a Radio 1 gig in Birmingham in 2001. Loved ever since!
Been my all time favourite tune since I was a teenager many moons ago
Really unique atmosphere. Love it to bits
This is the music that makes you fly in another dimension
Stopped listening to dnb the past nearly 20 years and listening to this again now I'm like 'WTF WHY?' This was like our faaave tune back in the day and godDAMN it sounds just as good now as it did then.. that bassline OOOF! Sooo many amazing fuzzy memories tied to this
Played this tune 1000 times when it came out and for years after. Much love to and biggup the one and only Lincoln Barrett!
18 years later, still banging still relevant and goosebumps
I remember recording it on a cassette so we could listen it in my friends dads car. Went for our first ride on gravel roads with this tune playing. We were 13 at the time and I still remember the adrenaline rush when playing this track.
Cool story man, thanks for sharing
Return of Forever on Hospital Records. Yes 🖤🥀🔥
i must have listened to this over one thousand times in the past
Such a special tune. Love it
Timeless
Still remember hearing this for the first time. Still sends shivers down my back. Such pounding bass
The nicest guy in the world brought me here! Thanks a bunch 🙏
Remember in DC (usa) buying this in tower records . 2004 ? 2005? I dunno . Dnb fan for life homie . High contrast is like a Dj premier to me .
I think as the years have gone by people have been losing their passion to create works of art, but now rather do it for the money. Others like High Contrast never cease to amaze me with tunes that form out of a passion from within.
This and LK 'Carolina Carol Bela' are the greatest drum and bass tracks ever in my opinion.
Still f**king outstanding in Summer of 2019. Stone cold classic!!!!!
It's even better in LockDown!
2021
Beautiful tune. Love this. One of the best drum n bass tracks ever made
Oh my god it’s been years since I heard this, what a tune! So much nostalgia, simpler times!
When nostalgia hits!
The best drum and bass track i've ever heard!
54 year old break beat soldier here. Yes my friend I agree totally
Will never forget the first time I heard this tune being played on BBC One and then listening to it on a proper sound system the weeks after. Still gives me goosebumps to this date.
this track is associated with my first trip to London, Hospitality at the tobacco dock, London Elektricity history set, surreal moment for me...
same here head, changed my mind/ears about music, hope you are still bouncing Alex ;)
When the bassline kicks in it like BOOM!! Eargasm fo real....Tuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnneeee
My first song drum n bass I ever listened to...been listening to drum n bass ever since
Flying in the sky above the clouds..
2020 still such an amazing track 🔥🔥 goosebumps at 1.55
Today and tomorrow this will sound perfect, real classic.
I cannot say anything!! This is simple the best of best Mr. High Contrast
Tomas Furian This is his best tune
+anticipate jordan It's so, so good! Never gets old.
Tomas Furian thats true
one of the absolute finest out there, massive up High Contrast
One of my favorite high contrast tracks
This track any many like it from Hospital are like time capsules that transport you to a possible future/alternative present where all dreams come true.
Fabio played this as his NYE tune at the Millennium Dome 2000/2001
Will never forget those times , the best of times. Kids nowadays just have no idea how unlucky they are living in 2021
When I heard this on 'One on the Jungle' BBC, I went out the next day to buy it on vinyl. this is one of the most amazing songs of all time.
Class. Perfect for 2020 and doing time in my own house...
same :)
yep, class.
Class
I swear if anyone is wearing a bracelet of shame they prob getting more time outside than I am atm.
Walking round and round my garden feels more like a prison excercise yard. And I cant skank out to d'n'b in front of the neighbours!!!
No words just amazing ❤️
Stonewall classic big ups 🎹🎹🎹🎹🔥🔥🔥🔥
Legendary song!!
One of the best dnb tunes of all time
Good old days
thank you very much!
Legendary and forever in hall of fame
this album is a classic ..years old mind ya .
This comment is years old now and still sounds fresh. :)
@@vinylnemesis3822 am i witnessing love at first sight? :P
No one gonna mention how a classic is only a classic if it is indeed... years old lol
this sounds like the future
ZAVIER
hey jeremy
+Zavier Bell this is PAST bro,but best past in my life!
same here :D
Sadly more like the past right now :(
Just woke up and had this song stuck in my head!
same feeling!
Haha same 'ere..... Love this bliss for breakfast.
yeh
same here !
Introduced my GF to High Contrast the past couple of days and she had the same problem just before bed! She couldn't get Kiss Kiss Bang Bang out of her head!
(No pun intended...)
04:19 ...with those strings fading in, absolute killer.
we neeeeeed stuff like this again..
This track gives me major adrenaline. Great workout tune.
I learned how to dj with this vinyl, and many others, will never forget
This defines dnb to me. True Colours is pure gold.
Would love High Contrast to make music like this again! What a tune!
one of the most epic drum and bass tunes ever. nothing else like it
Well constructed classic, have always loved this tune
nearly had so many car smashes cus of this tune wat a banger, out since 2002 mad to think how many
Iconic tune.
This is the track that made me into a DnB head. Unforgettable!
+NesTester2011 Same here. This was the first DnB track that l became obsessed with. Probably prefer the Klute remix though.
+Olly Gardner --->Klute makes everything next level.
Try ltj bukem-progression sessions and earth ;)
Oh yes, RUclips suggestion used to have this on vinyl gave it to my friend as a gift
and everyone i know wonders why i am obsessed with drum and bass
They don't make it like they used to.
Lrdvltr it's still pretty fucking good tho
DNB ENTHUSIAST That's true. As long as artists like Calibre & Lurch exist, DnB will surivive, it's hard to commercialize a niche genre like what was done with Trance & House.
Trance is still underground brother. House however........
Trance is about as underground as the sun unless you're getting into psytrance and it's deeper complex forms.
I still cant believe dubstep got bigger than drum n bass. with masterfully put together songs like this it just makes you sit back and say "huh?"
edward nigma I've often wondered the same. Or thought. Okay. We'll get dubstep in first. Then people would realize how not good enough it was. Then everyone will jump over to the next best thing. Dnb Liquid. Ah well.
+luminusnite +edward nigma Folks, you are describing scenes that got big and died down again around 5-10 years apart. Its says this came out in 2002- although it sounds more like his 2nd album stuff which came out 2004 By the time "Night - benga/coki" came out high contrast was on his third album
Dubstep was never as big as Drum and Bass, not by any stretch of the imagination. Tbh DnB/Jungle at it's peak, you probably wasn't even born at the time?.
p cha dubstep did get bigger then drum n bass in the late 2000’s to early 2010’s, it’s died down a lot, thankfully. I was alive when jungle/drum n bass hit it’s peak, tbh.
What raves did you used to go dude?
Amazing tune! I listen to this nearly everyday and it still sounds as good as the first time! Gets me movin'!!
High Contrast what a legend!! remember when he was in a bar in cardiff starting out.... well done to the lad.
still a haunting tune after all this time
There is just something about it, isn't there?
yeah many of the God Tier atmosphere DnB tunes have that wistful euphoric yet just a tiny dash of melancholy which is what makes it so emotional
The first time I heard this, I teared up. So beautiful.
how this song doesn't have over a million views i do not understand
it's doing pretty damn well for a dnb song tho
we are the lucky one's
DnB definitely like wine!!!!
Pop music is like soda pop. U just want the excitement of something new... and its bad for you :o
perfection
this along with 'if we ever' are possibly the best drum and bass songs ever made. (in my opinion).
Can't believe I haven't heard this masterpiece before
That moment when you listen to the whole album, and come back the start........... Seeing..... Double.... Sssssshhhhhh.... Beautiful album, sorry for after the apostrophe......