There was the general perception from those who were listening to High Contrast in the early 21st century that the quality of his music had gone downhill and he was making it for the kids.
I get the feeling this album was a reaction to that. Overall it feels like more of an old skool rave album than a drum & bass one. The cover suggests it, as does the first actual tune with the name "Windows 95".
It get's off to a good start and I enjoy the old skool feel to it. Not so keen on "Time Is Hardcore" though, more the irritating vocals on it than anything. That's just a blip though and the album quickly redeems itself with "Met Her At A Dance In Leicester".
On his previous album when he started experimenting he was getting to far away from drum & bass really and it didn't work. It sounds like he's trying to experiment here but keeping closer to drum & bass and having the right sort of tempo to his music.
I must admit though I did start losing interest towards the end of the album. Not that the tunes were particularly bad, I'm probably just getting a shorter attention span like a lot of people are these days.
There's a lot of awful commercial drum & bass these days and given High Contrast is big enough to do gigs in his own right it's easy to lump him in with that. In reality he's nowhere near that bad and still has some genuinely decent tunes left in him.
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