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DJ Strangefruit does not spin platters solely to make music: his turntables directly control the Earth's orbit around the sun, and the Moon's orbit around the Earth. We know this as "The Music of The Spheres". Before DJ Strangefruit, there was no such thing as booty. In full spin, DJ Strangefruit can play up to 299792458 beats per second, thereby seizing control of the Space-Time continuum. At a gig in Bern, DJ Strangefruit once did this, went back in time to 1904, and attempted to explain his sudden and inexplicable appearance there to a rather startled man. The man was named Albert Einstein. For many years, DJ Strangefruit has enjoyed playing a residency gig in Cuba. However, the FBI had to intervene when it was discovered that his gigs were causing "anomalous fluctuations" in the Space-Time continuum. These incidents gave rise to the legend of The Bermuda Triangle. DJ Strangefruit was born in 1304 in a small Norwegian fishing village whose name is now lost to the darkest recesses of history. He went into a hypersleep of almost 700 years because decks had not yet been invented. It is rumoured that DJ Strangefruit was the first DJ to count to 5. This is not the whole truth: in fact, he invented all numbers greater than 4 so that jazz could happen. It has been written that DJ Strangefruit's real name is Pål Nyhus, but this is untrue. It is a lie created by his enemies that he has appropriated for his own inscrutable purposes. Derren Brown tried to hypnotise DJ Strangefruit. When asked about it afterwards Derren said "Bock-bock" and proceeded to dance the Funky Chicken to the beat that was burned into his brain. Knut Saevik is the present-day pseudonym of the legendary alchemist, Fulcanelli. Knut Saevik speaks 6451 different languages and their respective dialects, has discovered 7 new elements for the Periodic Table (but hasn't told anyone yet) Knut Saevik has a retractable leg for traversing tall buildings and his left hand has scissors for splicing tape (he refuses to be drawn into legal wrangles with Tim Burton). According to the legends of the Murphidian Indians (a tribe of Irish American natives of Russia who are often confused with Italians but are quite gracious about it, all things considered), Knut Saevik once remixed the stars in a manner that caused the gravitational pull of three neighbouring solar systems to keep unwanted comets and giant meteors away from Earth. Despite such an achievement, Saevik is more inclined to talk about his collection of left tennis shoes. In the dictionaries of the planet Sala'adin, the word "Humility" has Knut Saevik's picture as its only definition. Knut Saevik has the unique ability to turn scents and odours into musical sounds. However, this has its drawbacks when he finds himself in certain parts of Oslo which smell of kebabs, because then he spontaneously creates The Music of Hunger, causing all who hear it to gnaw their forearms off at the elbow. For this he is - understandably - rarely applauded. Except by Buddhists. Once, Knut Saevik fell asleep on the planet Fraandinex. The diminutive natives of that world mistook him for a city gifted to them by their gods (Marcrax, god of flatulence and Xerzia, goddess of sneeze-like orgasms). By the time Saevik awoke, he had more than 4 million inhabitants in his scrotum alone. From Sala'adin to Munke Timor, Where DJs smoke Thai Sticks, Where working girls wear fishnet tights, It's there you'll find Knut Saevik, It's there you'll find Knut Saevik! Old Mungolian Folk Song (Joan Bæyz version)
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|  Smalltown Supersound is proud to present you to the exschloctic tastes of Mungolian Jetset.
With the album "We Gave It All Away..And Now We Are Taking It Back", the Mungolian collective mixes all of their work, remixes, covers, collaborations and originals into not just one, but in true prog rock manner, two albums( each counting in at 59:15 ), as they are intended to be heard.
The flavours cover everything from house and disco inspired cheekiness via shameless dabblings with soft rock/westcoast, balearic, dub and ambient, psychedelia and techno, all melted into one giant wormhole of sound, or should we say zone.
Imagination is pretty much the key to Mungolian Jetset`s aural ingredients, even imaginary.
Someone said that they might be the spaced-out people`s answer to the Gorillaz. This is not really true at all, but not entirely false either. One of their spokesmen, Paul "Strangefruit" Nyhus keep insisting that they operate as channelers for a parrallel world of Mungsters, an ancient breed of intergalactic travellers in sound, working within the time-space continuum. In that light, they released their difficult third album "Beauty Came To Us In Stone" in 2006, disguised as a debut, this being the second, and the next one being their debut disguised as the "difficult" third.
Confused? Well, so are we, but what the heck.
Although their first ( third ) release suggested a band hell-bent on producing the spaciest jazz ever heard, it has become clear that the Mungolian Masterplan is much darker and insidious, evolving to produce increasingly distinctive yet completely mind-absorbing beats to underpin a whirling vortex of sonic chaos, psychoacoustic bass warping and lavish and unbridled costumery.
Legends of their remixing skills abound throughout the known world and, some might say, beyond.
Defining a Mungolian Jet Set remix is close to impossible, yet the beat is what immediately lets you know that you've arrived in the state of Mung. They probe the track carefully, and locate the Mungolian zone within it, before shaking it into a trancelike psychedelic wormhole that snakes through the souls of disco and bucket brigade dub.
So, apart from all of this gibberish,what kind of album is "We Gave It All Away...And Now We Are Taking It Back"?
It`s all in the title, as it features collaborations and remixes, once given away (most of the tracks featured have been previously released individually on vinyl 12-inches etc.), and now taken back, to be presented in its full Mungolian context.
So here you will find Mungolian Jetset hanging out with Mari Boine and Ronny And Renzo in a lavo within the centre of the earth , the bizarre Lindstrøm/Dominique Leone encounter aka 16th Rebels Of Mung, as well as journeys with norwegian jazz-kraut legends Eivind Aarset and Nils Petter Molvaer, psychedelic meetings at the mixing desk with The Shortwave Set and They Came From The Stars, excessive trippings at an italian nightclub with LSB, hanging out in L.A. june 1984 with Athana, and taking Ost & Kjex to some cabaret show in a giant barber-shop, meeting the ghost of Michael Jackson, reuniting with Lindstrøm in a turkish bath as well as a cpl of exclusive originals and last but not least, their beyond zonked-out cover of "Could You Be Loved" (under the moniker Pizzy Yelliot). Could you really ask for more??
File under: Fantasy
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