Seattle's Mountain Consolidated has truly become a musical hybrid, managing
to bridge the gap between the groove of contemporary urban music and the folk tradition. Delivering intellectual lyrics in a listener friendly,
danceable, "Friday Night" package, Mountain Consolidated have created a
sound that challenges listeners to drop the conventional standards and
labels that have been applied to popular music and draw their own
conclusions.

Singer/songwriter James Nugent conceived the idea for Mountain Consolidated's sound in late 1997. Beginning as an experiment putting Van Morrison songs to drum machines, Nugent, drummer Mike Watt, and bassist/engineer Pierre Ferguson wanted to combine the folk sound they had been influenced by since childhood with they're love of hip hop music. Nugent soon brought his own songs to the table and enlisted long time friend Erik Blood. A Tacoma native with a background in urban music, Blood soon mastered the experimental science of sampling, giving the project a new musical direction. To solidify the band's live sound they called upon former bandmate Swede a slide and steel guitar player and long time friend and organist Ben Erickson.

Mountain Consolidated's demo EP, created in the spring of 1999 and aptly
titled The Highpoint Project, is an autobiographical chronicle of the band's
migration from Missoula, MT to the Highpoint projects of West Seattle. Crowds and critics alike praise the band's ability to blend a background in
roots music with two turntables, an irrefutable groove, and a smart sense of
humor. The Seattle Weekly described Mountain Consolidated's live performance as "a post-modern, Beck-like treat."

Mountain Consolidated's first full-length effort, The MC Stands for
Revolution, is slated for release in May 2000. Drawing on influences like
Walt Whitman and James Joyce, to the Beat era poets, Nugent has created a
contemporarily thematic, literary record.