MOF 001 Compilation CD Released Summer 2006 1. ERNEST HERB - Ernesto's Dub
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'Compilation albums are critical starting points for both labels and listeners alike. Bringing together hidden talents and a sense that something has been properly curated, the Mind On Fire Collective have gathered together maybe twelve of the city’s more interesting acts. From dub (Ernest Herb) to the cruising mellow live electronica of Moth HiFi, this album proves there’s a determined and quite pleasant underbelly to this city, that all too often seems steeped in white male guitar bands. Making Faces provide a live sounding display of progressive atmospheric noodlings with a superb dubbed up bass line, then the intriguing stop frame hip hop of Live Earth shoplifts the odd jazz riff along the way. TN's Sirconical make an appearance, but it’s the impressive The Musa House Band that seem to have found the missing link between trance and dub reggae. For the sounds of shimmering post-gaze rock the steady and spine tingling Chronic Mammal turn some up with something I can’t say I’ve heard before. Go Lebanon do a similar kind of thing, but with a harder and more frenetic edge, which then explodes into a variety of screaming peaks - ace. The closing track from Absent Minds is a real treat as it gels lo-fi samples and D’n’B break beats with exciting, hammered rap lines.
A refreshing and surprising change from the sound of Fenders and the prevalent Topman templates; Mind On Fire provide a real education for us all.'
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