(Deep House, Leftfield, Experimental) Mungolian Jetset - Schlungs - 2011, FLAC (tracks) [WEB], lossless

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??

"Mungolian Jetset is back with a debut, cheekily masked as their third effort, but seriously, this is their first album of totally original compositions. Here is the undiluted Mung, neatly naked wrapped behind a pair of strobostatic glasses , like a mature and experienced buxom page3 wench from a 25th century comic book. Infamous for their epic translations, collaborations and remixes for artists such as Lindstrøm, Mari Boine, Nils Petter Molvaer and others, they have already firmly developed their own unique sound, that is equally progressively disco and psychedelically intoxicating, as it is hilariously cheesy but imbued with a mysteriously deep resonance from some far-off planet`s core. Rather than delivering another full-on take of the epic entertainments that have become the staple of their reputation ( or notoriety, depending on who's talking ), they have now taken more scoops of melody, poptastic whimsy and lighter shades of oddness, to hybridize with their already mutated sound. The result is "Schlungs", a series of 8 separate entities united by their sheer MUNGNESS. The epicness remains, but now sits alongside pieces that are more direct, mainlining the exuberant folly that is the sound of Mung; however, this is Mung directly into the frontal lobe.....Lyrically, "Schlungs" involves tales of fatal alien abductions and ghosts of murderous (but snazzily-dressed) transvestites, as well as confessions of dark and illusory multimedia desires and dispatches from the borderline state of the all-consuming hyperrealism of the Internet. Characters from the fringes of reality with odd-sounding yet somehow familiar names wander through the streets of Mungville, and usually break into ecstatic dance before their end is met."