High Contrast Presents
Ali Wilson

As this dance music year starts to draw to a close, High Contrast Recordings are ready to put 2011 through the sound barrier with their latest compilation expedition. The man tasked with compiling and mixing it is none other than genre-explorer extraordinaire, Ali Wilson. He’s been given the keys to a trove of the best current and forthcoming crop from High Contrast Recordings and beyond and he’s ready to deal the year some compilation justice!

Wilson engages from the off with the Dyor’s groovy-but-moody ‘On The Road’ and ‘I Die’, the current single from Dennis Sheperd & Alan Morris. The album’s audio initially charts a chunky, proggy path, but don’t get too settled. Tectonic style shifts are afoot! True to his reputation, Ali refuses to hang in any genre locale long enough for the album to get pigeonholed. Erick Strong’s ‘Muffin’ puts a housey S.H.M. stride to proceedings, before Aerofoil & E&G’s ‘Plank Effect’ and Marco V & Damian William’s ‘Essence’ re-point it down a churning, burning tech road. The second mix roars into life from the first beat of Protoculture’s formidable, ‘Liquid Logic’, which stirs the prog-trance waters deep. That overtures a big trance 1-2-3, with Ali slickly dropping ‘Lifetime’ - Ben Nicky’s huge pads-&-chords melodic moment, Snatt & Vix’s cheekily-titled ‘Loco Motion’ and Ben Gold’s likewise highly descriptive ‘Colossal’ one on top of the other. High Contrast Recordings Presents Ali Wilson is a 31-track mix comp, purposefully and skilfully mixed to chip away at dance music’s stylistic borders. Lovers of Cox, Jules, Van Buuren, Prydz and a dozen other eclectic DJs will find plenty of audio to enjoy. Listen without prejudice.

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