After releasing a couple of albums on Beatservice Records, including the criminally underrated (and at times a little ahead of it's time "Ice Acoustic"), Mind Over Mid delivers an interesting but above all a surprisingly diverse dose of self-consious electronics.

The opening "Fall.in" wastes no time in establishing a framework of fairly murky minimal techno with a touch of dub on the side, however the next couple of tracks, due to the addition of vocals, lighten the mood slighlty but at the same time draw dangerously close to being, well, cheesy, for a lack of a better word. This perhaps is most evident on "Echo", where on most days I'd probably would do well without the vocals (distant and sensual as they may be), but then on some random listen I get suckered in by them and feel as they belong. Yet it's the arrival of "Still Low" that signaled a clear change in the mood and made me say "excuse me, what's all this please?", as the driving rhythm was deliberatelly abandoned and I was immersed in swashes of static and white noise in the backgroud.
This modus operandi would be employed for the rest of the album, with some additions and tweeks here and there in the form of some spoken word, occasional beat in the distance, or those hauntingly beautiful piano keys on "But I Say".

All in all, while quite clearly being a part of Helge's overall ongoing search for a clear identity as far as sound is concerned, it's a more than decent release comprising of two highly distinguashable parts with some distinctive high points, not to mention the fact that it can make for a serious argument in the recent debate over the addition of vocal parts in Yagya's album "The Inescapable Decay Of My Heart" album, regardless on whose side you're on.

I am walking around in my snakeskin shoes! Please tell me the artist is using sarcasm. In the later years of the 2000's, Mind over Midi would produce some of the best quality ambient music of the period on diametric and silent season. This just sounds completely MOR. How his music has changed.