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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 time track two on the first disc begins to play. Stressing upon layers and layers of organic samples of everything from live instruments to field-recorded wildlife; this collection of the unusual is just brief moments away from being cataloged as supernatural. Featuring mixes and remixes from affiliates Lindstrøm, Medievel Knievel, Pizzy Yelliot, LSB and The Shortwave Set, you are guaranteed to hear music on this release that you will never hear anywhere else. Brilliant!
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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 rare, if even existent, before now. Whether it’s on the wonkily funky “Creepy,” with a vocal track that sounds like a young Jello Biafra, or the slow but steady groove of “Darker” that the Jetset crafted with jazz trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, one can sense higher powers are at work on moving your hind quarters. With the album’s 16 tracks averaging over eight minutes apiece, We Gave it All Away… appeals more to the background sounds of ...
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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 a strange obsession with cod-mysticism and KLF-style myth-building, and you've got an act like none other.

The duo initially came together in the early '00s while Oslo scene stalwart Nyhus was working with Norwegian jazz legends Nils Petter Moldvaer and Bugge Wesseltoft. Invited by the latter to create an album for the Jazzland label, they put together the largely forgotten jazz-electronica fusion set Beauty Came to Us in Stone in 2006.

Since then, they've slowly been carving ...
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