High Contrast Hit 100

Nic Chagall has teamed up with Wippenberg and Rank 1 for a very special release: the 100th on their home lable High Contrast! They have pooled all their production-power to fashion a track worthy of commemorating the anniversary release on the broad-vision label.

It's the first time that Nic Chagall, Rank 1 & Wippenberg have combined their forces and therefore nothing but a unique collaboration. Rank 1's big room signature, Nic Chagall progressive trance trademark and Wippenberg's progressive beats fused in one track worthy to represent this landmark.


'100' will be out on the 14th of June on digital format on all download stores. A special limited edition gold vinyl will be available from June 21st.

Over the last 5 years, High Contrast has come to symbolize the second coming of the trance label. Rising from the ashes of the ID&T imprint, from their day-one they heeded the scene's call for a style overhaul and orchestrated a new, future-proofed sound-shock. With a committed group of producers ready to proliferate it, and one colossal track to announce their arrival, they set light to 2005's dancefloors.

Now its five years later and they're on the verge of their century... High Contrast has reached their 100th release.
Inside that relatively short time span the label has carved out its own lean, toughened & unique sound-design. Calling on the electronic dance artists that proved themselves during the ID&T years, their core production contingent were given the artistic freedom to go away and find their own new musical space. Individually they returned with one club hit release after another - all boasting the highest levels of imagination and creativity.

In their first 5 years High Contrast have masterminded Rank 1's evolution from 'euphoric trance act' to widescreen nu-trance anthem creators and oversaw Nic Chagall's move out from under the Cosmic Gate umbrella to that of standalone headlining artist. They've also scored a renaissance return from Wippenberg, helped Marcel Woods don his King of Dark Trance crown & seen Jochen Miller become the poster boy for techno-infected-trance (or perhaps that's trance-infected-techno?!). And that in a nutshell is where High Contrast found their exclusive niche. The label is embraced by forward-thinking trance and progressive DJs, but their tracks have also jumped those demarcation lines and been picked up on by spinners like Prydz, Ingrosso, Tong and others (something very few others can claim).

To bring this phase of the label's history to a suitably large climax, not one, not two, but three of their acts/artists have collaborated together for the first time on a track entitled (what else but)... '100'.