High Contrast, aka Linkin Barrett, put South Wales on the drum 'n' bass map with his debut album True Colours, released in 2002.
The album's beautiful update on the dance format took him DJing from Canada to Korea and to remix The Streets, Dkay and Adam F.
In 2003 he released The Basement Track which was one of the biggest tunes of the year.
Now he's back with an equally mesmerising second album High Society, out on Hospital Records.
Once again it raises the threshold of drum 'n' bass from dancefloor smashes to genre bending nuggets of genius.
He is easily the biggest thing in dance in Wales but it might interest some of our older readers more that Linkin is also the son of legendary Welsh promoter 'Legs" Barrett who is dead passionate about his old school rock 'n' roll.
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