Various Artists - Metaflora [Transparent Vinyl Box Set]

Habitat Recordings

£54.90

CAT NO.: HBT001LP
FORMAT: 3 x 12" Vinyl
RELEASE DATE: 13 Oct 2023
TERRITORY: Worldwide
BARCODE: 5061002837273
GENRE: Melodic Techno / Techno

TRACK LISTING
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

Mind Against launch their eagerly awaited imprint Habitat with a 15-track compilation titled “METAFLORA”, 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.