METAFLORA

TRACKLIST A1. Mind Against & Sideral - Criseide A2. Remcord - Entourage Effect B1. Dyzen - Talk To Me B2. Read The News - A Space B3. Losless - Ground Echoes C1. Ivory - There Would Come A Day C2. Beswerda - Out Of The Blue D1. Ae:ther - Disco Biscuit D2. Vaert - High Hopes D3. Momery - Ophelia ft. Running Pine E1. Marino Canal - Ample E2. Nandu - YGIG F1. ENOS - Supernova F2. Sam Shure - Plus Ultra F3. Laroz - Don't Touch ft. Sheera INFO Mind Against launch their eagerly awaited imprint Habitat with a 15-track compilation titled šMETAFLORA›, available as a deluxe transparent vinyl 3LP box set including a 24x12› fold-out poster. Suitably, the compilation features new and emerging artists with whom Mind against have relationships, and recurrent motifs of subtly unsettling melodic house/techno building alternate worlds in soundscapes. Mind Against & Sideral  ˜Criseide™ heralds this new world with portentous pounding beat/bass, the melodic synth singing beneath like beauty surviving under threat, the vocal/lyrics with an edge of alarm: ˜if you think it couldn™t happen to you„™ ˜Talk To Me™ by Dyzen (who also collab™ed with Mind Against on their fabric presents compilation) has stately chords riding a prancing beat while sombre piano and sweet high vocal create a heraldic, post-apocalyptic nu-medieval world, whereas Sam Shure™s ˜Plus Ultra™ has rattling percussion, with melody like a coded message from an abandoned spaceship to which something replies in stark tones„ Marino Canal, whose debut album was released by Nicole Moudaber™s MOOD, and who has support from many big names including fabric™s founder Keith Reilly, features plangent notes veering up, down and off the scale for a disturbing effect in ˜Ample™, while Swiss duo Read The News in ˜A Place™ set a fast, kicking beat against a female voice yearning for ˜a space where I can just be™. Remcord, often played by Black Coffee, Tale of Us and more besides MA, show us why in ˜Entourage Effect™ while Laroz gives a lively melody and raucous chords in ˜Don™t Touch™ feat. Sheera as her cool, raunchy, layered vocals come to the fore.