“From the swirling electronic tones and blunted galactic beats of the opening sequence to the sheet metal stridencies of ‘Postal’ and the dense fuzztones of ‘Bombast,’ Mount Florida make like Killing Joke conspiring with Alex Paterson to play tricks on those with chemically impaired memories.” — Ken Hollings, The Wire [...]

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7/5/00 — Live debut, album completion.
Mount Florida have finally come up with a title for their completed album. Titled ‘Arrived Phoenix,’ apparently it is an in-joke. The joke is so “in” that half the band doesn’t get it. Anyhow the next phase of the Mount Florida experience is the live debut on Saturday July 29, supporting Lee “Scratch” Perry at the legendary Glasgow Barrowlands. Mount Florida say start big and slowly work down to fifth on the bill at the “Pig and Pitcher” open band night. The live debut should be interesting, as with four weeks to go Apple have still to make available the software to enable i-Books to run audio. Could end up being Mount Florida “unplugged!”

7/9/99 — Mount Florida are a Glasgow based duo consisting of M.P. Lancaster and Twitch (also known as Mike and Keith, but they can call themselves whatever they want). Twitch is a DJ with all kinds of time served in the club wars at sonora and pure (Edinburgh), and he's also the guy behind the experimental label, pi. M.P. has been involved in a myriad of art / installation projects, most of them pretty undercover compared to his current endeavors.

The collaborative beast that is Mount Florida have recorded some of the coolest stylistic collisions we’ve heard in a long time, equal parts ambient, cut + paste, dub and dance. Fun stuff, but hardly easy listening. Mount Florida’s first release for Matador Europe, a 12" / CD of “Lost in Satie” is coming this autumn.