Mungolian Jet Set - Reports From Earth

Mungolian Jet Set - Reports From Earth http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php Reports on Mungolian Activity on Earth by Reconnaisance Droid Theta en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:03 +0000 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mungolian Jet Set The Reconnaisance Overseer Sir Dhahii The Space Cabriola Uncut Review : We gave it all away .... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253566487 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253566487&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253566487 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:54:47 +0000 Clash Featurette - Mungolian Jet Set http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253565778 Other http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253565778&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253565778 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:42:58 +0000 Examiner.com Review of "We Gave It All Away ..." At a time when most are yearning to be tragically hip, I long for the days of weirdness. Not goofiness, mind you. Just good old fashioned weird. Primus served my needs back in the day, as did the Orb's Dr. Alex Patterson. Both groups were masters of the musical non-sequitur, and their albums were 70-minute adventures of pure aural excitement. Now Mungolian Jetset can take up that crown. We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253723403 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253723403&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253723403 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:30:03 +0000 Zap Town Review of "We Gave It All Away..." If I described every nook and angle that is contained within these two CDs, I would have enough material for a thesis. We Gave It All Away … And Now We Are Taking It Back is simply an electronic experience beyond anything I have heard since The Orb released U.F.Orb or Sasha and Digweed compiled their work from the Renaissance. Perfectly composed, Mungolian Jetset is everything I ever wanted from an electronic release: plush beats, substance, depth, and a special ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253723064 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253723064&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253723064 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:24:24 +0000 Future Music Review : We gave it all away ... By Danny Turner http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253204516 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253204516&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253204516 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:34:38 +0000 The Quietus Review : Mungolian Jet Set - We gave it all away, now we are taking it back Just before I sat down to start collecting thoughts about this extensive collection I was reading a copy of legendary flagship zine of the acid house epoch, Boy's Own. Okay, it was a reprint - I was eight when it came out, I think - but anyway, it talks most favourably of the then-barely-codifed notion of 'Balearic' and its shunning of boundaries in DJ sets, at a time when genres were defining themselves with more regularity ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253203956 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253203956&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253203956 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:13:30 +0000 Big Shot Review pf "We Gave It All Away ..." While most albums tread a fine line between two different genres of music, this eclectic array of cross-fusion electric/organic dance music covers the gamut of experimentalism to pop electronic Ranging from house and disco to soft rock and Norwegian Balearic dub, the ambiance of these highly infections grooves can bring tears to your eyes while drifting through a wormhole of psychedelic splendor. These hazy, über-laid-back treasures will have you lost in introspection by the ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253721781 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253721781&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253721781 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:03:01 +0000 DMC Update Sound Judgement review <a href="http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251442764"><img src="http://mungolian.com/blog/php/soundjudgement.gif" align="left" width="120px" height="10px" border="0" alt="" style="margin: 3px 4px 3px 0;"></a> Mungolian Jetset 'We Gave It All Away... Now We Are Taking It Back'  (Smalltown Supersound) ( 5/5 ) Chances are, if you've any interest in the kind of disco-proggy goodness that seems to attract an inordinate amount of bearded people, you'll have danced to one or more remix from the mysterious Mungolian Jetset, currently receiving some long overdue attention.  They've carved a market for themselves in particularly wigged out electronic dance music that is, at turns, out ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251442764 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251442764&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251442764 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:59:24 +0000 IDJ review <a href="http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251443141"><img src="http://mungolian.com/blog/php/mj-idj-review.jpg" align="left" width="120px" height="112px" border="0" alt="" style="margin: 3px 4px 3px 0;"></a> http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251443141 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251443141&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251443141 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:05:19 +0000 Las Vegas City Life: Review of "We Gave It All Away..." Norwegian psychedelic house merchants Mungolian Jetset -- Pål Nyhus and Knut Petter Sævik to their moms -- specialize in the improbable. Take their remix of "Could You Be Loved" by (oh, that wacky hippie sense of humor) Pizzy Yelliott, which not only pushes Bob Marley's iconic chorus through Mel Blanc voices and a Salvador Dali bassline but melds Melle Mel with 50 Cent: "Don't push me 'cause/It's your birthday, it's your birthday." Throughout this double-CD overview, ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253722499 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253722499&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253722499 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:14:59 +0000 Time Out New York Interview <a href="http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476685"><img src="http://mungolian.com/blog/php/MungJetset_TimeOutNYFeature.jpg" align="left" width="120px" height="169px" border="0" alt="" style="margin: 3px 4px 3px 0;"></a> For larger version, click HERE Reconnaissance Droid Theta http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476685 Interviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476685&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476685 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:42:51 +0000 All About Jazz Review of We Gave It All Away ... Living in an alternate universe, where groove is paramount regardless of where it finds its inspiration, Mungolian Jet Set's debut, Beauty Came to Us in Stone (Jazzland, 2006), found its primary members - turntablist/sonic manipulator DJ Strangefruit, known in this dimension as Pål Nyhus, of Nu-Jazz progenitor/trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's group until recently, and sound sculptor Reider Skar - creating sonic collages that defied any kind of easy categorization. The double-disc We Gave It All ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250944228 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250944228&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250944228 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:31:27 +0000 XLR8R Review of "We gave it all away ...." Mungolian Jetset is everything you love about dance music. Disco? They’ve got it. Techno? They’ve got it. Pop? They’ve got it. Call it mutant or call it Balearic, Mungolian Jetset provides the “boom-chik-clap” in ways that most acts only dabble in. On the double-CD set We Gave it All Away…Now We Are Taking it Back, the collective runs between original tracks and remixes like they own the place, creating a debut the likes of which are ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250941568 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250941568&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250941568 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:43:48 +0000 OC Weekly Review of "We Gave It All Away ..." by Ned Raggett In a genre like electronic dance music - where "faceless" is often used as a criticism - some of the sharpest minds make sure to have an image as arresting as their songs: Think Daft Punk’s featureless robots or Justice’s iconic glowing cross. Norwegian duo Mungolian Jet Set, however, more closely resemble the cast of U.K. TV cult hit The Mighty Boosh, given to elaborate robes and headdresses, not to mention a full complement of ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251475223 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251475223&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251475223 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:00:23 +0000 Vinyljunkie.com review of We Gave It All Away ... This album is on a small list of contenders for album of the year with this long-winded disco cum psychedelic journey down the technicolor brick road to hell. Disk one is the stronger of the two here with a focus on actual songs and the same cheeky sense of humor found on albums by the Orb . Cuts like the mysterious group's collabo with Lindstrøm on "A Blast Of Loser" are redefining the downtempo aesthetic with ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253721526 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253721526&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253721526 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:58:46 +0000 Orange County Weekly review of "We gave it all away ..." In a genre like electronic dance music - where "faceless" is often used as a criticism - some of the sharpest minds make sure to have an image as arresting as their songs: Think Daft Punk’s featureless robots or Justice’s iconic glowing cross. Norwegian duo Mungolian Jet Set, however, more closely resemble the cast of U.K. TV cult hit The Mighty Boosh, given to elaborate robes and headdresses, not to mention a full complement of ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250942005 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250942005&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250942005 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:23:57 +0000 Allmusic.com Review of "We Gave It All Away ..." by K. Ross Hoffman What makes the Mungolian Jet Set's decadently overstuffed productions so sublimely engrossing -- whether encountered individually, as they initially appeared, in piecemeal fashion, on 12"s and compilations over the past several years, or taken as a fluid whole on this gloriously epic trawl through their remix work to date -- is not simply their bent for inspired, unmitigated lunacy, but the surprisingly artful way they manage to fold their far-reaching, campy, perversely unexpected, and downright ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251474264 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251474264&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251474264 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:44:41 +0000 Urb.com Review of "We Gave It All Away ..." by Som Khamsaysoury Mongolia, a country located in East and Central Asia right next to Russia and is nearly blanketed by China. Mungolia? Apparently that's tucked away inner imaginations of two really way off Norwegian dudes. Actually a collaboration between Norwegian DJ Pål "Strangefruit" Nyhus and partner Knut Sævik, together as Mungolian Jet Set they kinda behind the normal concepts of dance and dive into something that's as lush as a tropical forest, but as deserted as Area ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476417 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476417&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1251476417 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:20:17 +0000 Shazam Around The World. Mungolian Jet Set Mungolian Jet Set may well be one of the world’s hardest bands to pin down and decipher. Far from being actual jet setters or hailing the central Asian country of Mongolia, as the name may suggest, Mungolian Jet Set are actually Norwegian DJ Pal “Strangefruit” Nyhus and his collaborators Knut Sævik and Reidar Skår. Mixing jazz, disco, afro-beats, techno and folk with a hefty dose of tongue in cheek prog-rock epicness, Mongolian Jet Set make ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253719813 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253719813&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1253719813 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:30:13 +0000 Resident Advisor: Review of We Gave It All Away ... Score: 4.5/5.0 If you've heard anything about these psychedelic Norwegian disco oddballs, you've probably heard that their music is an eclectic mixing pot of influences. Pop sensibilities, funk, postrock, and '70s cop show soundtracks rear their heads at different times throughout We Gave It All Away, Now We Are Taking It Back. However, the flavour of We Gave It can (very roughly) be described as disco, filled largely (more or less) with Asian/world music instrumentals and ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250619010 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250619010&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250619010 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:10:57 +0000 emusic.com review by Barry Walters of We Gave It All Away ... Travel in dance music is a mostly dying metaphor: Shorter sets and more DJs mean that fewer jocks can effectively sequence their sounds to take dancers on a night-long trip, and disco acts long ago stopped generating LP-length impressions of faraway lands synched to human drums and tremulous strings. Yet as its name suggests, Norway's Mungolian Jetset revives the dancefloor travelogue. DJ Pål "Strangefruit" Nyhus and his keyboardist partner Knut Sævik wear capes and headgear ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250619718 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250619718&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250619718 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:22:21 +0000 Pitchfork Album Review - We Gave It All Away ... Now We Are Taking It Back - 8.1/10 For the past three years, Mungolian Jet Set haven't just been the Balearic disco remixers of the moment, but also consummate performers and storytellers, knowing how to manipulate their audience with an artful slow-reveal of their considerable talents. For a particularly startling run throughout 2007, it seemed like this odd Norwegian duo transformed themselves entirely with each new remix, offering overblown Italo-disco, or beatbox- and accordion-driven electro-gypsy-funk, or dark Jon Hassell-style percussive digital jazz. ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250159603 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250159603&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250159603 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:35:04 +0000 Resident Advisor Interview: Mungolian Jet Set: The flight of the Mighty Mung Whereas their more vaunted Norwegian contemporaries can be neatly pigeonholed as future disco visionaries, it's nearly impossible to categorize the work of Mungolian Jetset. RA chats up the Oslo duo. Despite its freestyle, anything-goes nature—think a star-gazing melting pot of electronic disco, progressive rock, jazz, folk, Balearica, acid and techno with a nod and a wink to both camp pop and contemporary classical music—the music of Mungolian Jetset seems to make perfect sense. Wrap this all up in ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250021520 Interviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250021520&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250021520 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:12:00 +0000 Madison Music Review - Review "We Gave It All Away ..." One of the pleasures of Madison Music Review for me is the exposure I get to new and different music. Occasionally we even receive review copies of upcoming releases. Of course, some albums we don't really care for, and some we think are good but not particularly compelling. But every so often we get a release that really lights us up. This is one of those. I had not previously heard of Mungolian Jetset out of ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250018608 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250018608&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250018608 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:23:48 +0000 RCRD LBL - "Clairevoyage" & "Creepy" Ask any of the more notable Norwegian grooveslayers if there is something about their surroundings that pushes them to create a particular style of music, and they will inevitably answer with confusion and ambivalence. That's fine, even admirable, but it's hard for us to ignore that this admittedly small crop of producers and DJ's all poke at disco in a similarly obtuse and dubby way, much to the wonder of everyone that does not live there. Mungolian Jetset are ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250019799 Other http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250019799&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250019799 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:44:14 +0000 Interview from XLR8R Mungolian Jet Set fellows Pål Nyhus & Knut Sævik take a moment to visit with XLR8R’s Inbox en route to Shangri-La. The Norwegian jet setters remember the King of Pop, discuss the delicacy of “promiscuous self-service,” share Bee Gees trickery, and design plans to grow fat on Italian food. Their forthcoming album, We Gave It All Away...Now We Are Taking It Back , will be out August 18 on Smalltown Supersound. XLR8R: What are you listening to right now? Knut Sævik: ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250008265 Interviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250008265&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250008265 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:31:05 +0000 From article in Time Out Chicago <a href="http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250024455"><img src="http://mungolian.com/blog/php/Toc.jpg" align="left" width="120px" height="100px" border="0" alt="" style="margin: 3px 4px 3px 0;"></a> Cooldown Channeling the up-all-night Balearic vibes of Ibiza beach parties, we've got a couple of tunes for those summer nights (or early mornings) when you're not yet ready to say good night. On the ten-minute excursion "Clairevoyage," Nordic fantasists Mungolian Jetset strike a perfect balance between leftfield, chill-out ambience and midtempo discoid grooves. In August, the duo will release a collection of remixes and collaborations called We Gave It All Away ... Now We Are Taking ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250024455 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250024455&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250024455 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:04:35 +0000 Pitchfork Track Review: "Clairevoyage" The past few years have seen plenty of new bands spring from the fertile mutant-disco grounds, and lots of waggling jams have been jammed, for sure, but if there's one thing the new crop doesn't always bring it's the weirdness (a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, fulfilling but safe DFA 12"'s). Compare your average Hercules & Love Affair track to, say, Kid Creole or Dinosaur L to remind yourself of the bold, bizarre ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250008797 Reviews http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250008797&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250008797 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:39:57 +0000 Mungolian Jet Set: journeys and stories and mastered confusion Mungolian Jet Set has become the main musical vehicle of Norwegian DJ legend Pål "Strangefruit" Nyhus. Along with partner Knut Sævik he is out to find the philosophers stone of dance music, leaving behind all normative concepts and delving audaciously into music’s inexplicable essence. Mungolian Jet Set is duo on a quest, perhaps a little like the mystic Gurdjieff who roamed in the vicinity of Mongolia and joined in competitions to make the mountains sing.       ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250243607 Other http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250243607&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250243607 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:53:27 +0000 Mungolian Jet Set Conquers New York New York City presented itself from its best side with sunshine and warm summer weather as a crowd of over 4,000 people gathered at the P.S.1 in Long Island City, on Saturday August 9, to witness the psychedelic Norsemen in Mungolian Jet Set perform their unique blend of electronica and jazz. Mungolian Jet Set was hosted by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General and performed as part of the P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center’s critically acclaimed music series ... http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250626458 Concerts http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250626458&comments=comments http://mungolian.com/well_of_souls/earthreports.php?entry_id=1250626458 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:15:17 +0000