mungolian jet set

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzVeWS5UZ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4gJAynumcE

dude, fabric tomorrow night

i know, i can't go

that's why i said tonight!

oops sorry! anyway, my favourite is still their mix of ost & kjex, it's like yello but even more fucked and lopsided.

though addmitedly i haven't heard it all. is everything as epic as the ost & kjex remix?

or is that admittedly?

as far as I know, they're all Norwegian. Pal worked on a remix of one of my tunes, and is a really cool guy. He's also mega knowledgable about a lot of different kinds of music, and their full-length from last year is more along an experimental/ambient/electronic jazzish axis. The group itself is a multi-media collective, w/music, visuals, costumes, the whole deal.

Their remixes seem to be much more dance-oriented than their own stuff.

yeah.

these guys are killing me!

anybody going tonight?

they're amazing - especially love the LSB remix and Navigator off the album, and the whole concept & presentation is top-notch.

Everything is different, even among the remixes:

- The Lindstrom remix is like if Creedence Clearwater Revival were the flagship band of both summers of love
- The LSB remix is pretty much the biggest, most epic italo effort of the last few years, complete with false Minnie Ripperton vocals (not from the original track)
- The Ost & Kjex remix is weird vocal cut up funk moving into laser-powered dancefloor destruction that, oddly, rips from "Me & Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard".
- The Mari Boine remix is intergalactic slomo psychedelic disco that reminds me early Orb, plus slide guitar

And yes, pretty much everything is as epic as the Ost & Kjex remix.

as well documented on the '11 favourite songs' thread, love everything they've remixed (i think their nils petter molvaer mix deserves a mention too - a dark, broody thumper), not all that mad about the originals that i've heard (off the 'beauty came to us in stone' lp). are there some i should look into?

also, was at berlin club week(12)end a few weeks ago, with todd terje and will saul at the decks - not sure who was responsible, but the highlight came when a sped-up mungolian jet set remix of pizzy yelliot's "could you be loved" head-on collided with radioslave's (i think, can't remember) "drop it like its hot" remix.

the ost and kjex mix is great!!

melodrama + polka + din da da + thunderclaps + peter frampton/yello/rick james bass in two parts ... surely the latest and greatest incarnation of stuff like the firm guys have been mining or jamie lidell or louie autesn. def sounds theatre troupe oriented. cirque du soleil house?

"peter frampton/yello/rick james bass" aka pretty much shamelessly rips "thriller"

so much of the thrill of dance music is knowing exactly what to expect - but not quite HOW to expect it to sound - and then getting it, and that being very satisfying indeed. with these guys i'm always surprised, i never really know what's coming. it feels great.

There's a little bit of Basement Jaxx's aesthetic there as well - if I was to choose a particular song to reference it would be "Supersonic" perhaps, but it's more in that general sonic/stylistic promiscuity, the way that every production veers off in an entirely new and exciting direction as per what tracer says.

Mungolian Jet Set also have this ostentatious epic quality, and I was about to say that's not very Basement Jaxx, except it is on quite a few of their remixes or b-sides... except that perhaps the Jaxx mostly chose between the two impulses (pop vs epic) rather than mashing them together.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when MJS release original tracks in their epic-disco incarnation, and whether they take a different approach (a sharp division between the two seems like par for the course these days when it comes to big remix acts releasing albums and such - refer to Tiefschwarz, Freeform Five, etc.)..

i'm scared to listen to their actual album. i'm scared that it's going to be like, trip-hop gotan project or something.

not that that's so terrible!

the album is much less tasteful than that! it's pretty whacked-out psychedelic jazzy shit, quite dense and nowhere near as accessible as the remixes, apart from the track Navigator, which has a sort of Yello-go-to-Africa vibe and is the most fun thing on there.

SEARCH: Ronny & Renzo - Big Smack & Flies (Mungolian Jet Set´s Medievel Knievel remix)

It's possibly their darkest remix effort yet, a thoroughly torpid tribal groove that stretches off into infinity - even further out than the Mari Boine remix. Totally the dark side of balearic.

It's like if Trentemoller's album had been really really good.

another A+ remix title from the Jetset there

i am pretty much such a fan it hurts. the LSB remix is great, so are all the remixes of Nils Petter Molvaer ("hurry slowly" and "darker")

finally got a copy of the mari boine, and it is indeed orientalist disco sludge mindfuck supremeness. now this "clairvoyage" thing that's up on their myspace, the blurb mentions leone, is that the remix he (or 'you' if you're reading) mentioned upthread?

"finally got a copy of the mari boine"

(insert envy here)

i am referring to an electronic copy, it should be noted. will gladly pass it on to you, tim, if you don't have it already!

That'd be great mitch, I've been listening to it from their Myspace page.

The first half of "Clairvoyage" is great but I'm not sure if I'm so into the karaoke Scissor Sisters of the second half. Will need to listen more.

i dont think i have yr address anymore, tim - send me something at n0blemusic@gee,mail!.com

envy here too...

I can't think of anyone more badly in need of a nice, comprehensive remix compilation on vinyl than MGS.

Er, MJS. Not Metal Gear Solid.

Yeah, basically if you had a comp collecting the Lindstrom, LSB, Ost & Kjex, Mari Boine and Ronny & Renzo mixes (I haven't heard the Nils Petter Molvaer remixes) it'd be my favourite album of the year (and long enough to call an album!)

Their myspace page says they're tentatively planning to play Paris on October 12 - hope I'm in Paris for it!

Paris October 12 is on - anyone up for it?

wish i could :/

OMG their remix Eivind Aarseth's "Murky Lambada" - they are shameless prog whores frankly.

Luvvit. Though it would sink like a lead balloon on the dancefloor. Parts remind me a lot of Jon Hassell.

has anyone actually seen them live yet? how was it?

It was very good in parts, but not brilliant. They mostly played their remixes, but it was very loose and unfocused, with all the individual components wandering in and out of time with eachother. Kind of the performance you expect to see at a function at a modern art gallery.

For balearic kicks, Animal Collective were better and tighter the following week in Berlin.

"Epics & Donuts" (a remix of Altz?) on their myspace page: sounds like Mungolian Jet Set going deep house, although this basically means a stronger 4X4 thump and some warm jazzy piano chords. Otherwise it's as unpredictable and darkly percussive as ever. Maybe 808 State's Don Solaris album as a reference point? Meets current minimal deep house? I wonder if it's quite a deliberate move to show the group can "do" dancefloor monsters. The growly second half is just... ugughghg so good.

It's getting to the stage where they're gonna need a two-disc collection.

You just got "Piece Work" - after how many years - patience.

Listening to it at the moment - just heading into the second half.
I'm worrying about my fixation with the Mungolian Jet Set remixes - Sometimes I worry that I listen to everything through the filter of "what would it sound like as a MJS remix?".

Still, if anybody wants to go in with me to pay them to remix either:

Captain Beefheart - Tropical Hot Dog Night

or

KLF - Justified & Ancient (Stand By The Jams)

I'll take their money.

Several new remixes up on their myspace page. Including a dub of the "It Ain't Necessarily Evil" remix that's even more intergalactic than the normal remix version.

"MARI BOINE - REMIX ALBUM

The remix album "It ain`t Necessarily Evil" will be released March 31st 2008. Includes remix from The Knife, 120Days, Schwarz, Mental Overdrive and Mungolian Jet Set.

TRACK LIST.
01 ELLE` Mungolian Jetset Remix version
02 GOS BAT MUNNO CINAT LEAT Syntax Erik
03 DAVVI BAVTTIIN Kohib
04 BOADEN NUPPI BEALDE 120 Days
05 VOUI VOUI MU Schwarz
06 IT AIN´T NECESSARILY EVIL Mungolian Jet Set
07 CINJAT The Knife
08 SOUIVVA Mental Overdrive
09 ELLE` The original theme song from the movie The Kautokeino Rebellion"

Yaaaay ... esp. as their original remix hasn't been on their MySpace page for a little while, now - I'm suffering from withdrawal.

"moon jocks and prog rocks" on their myspace now, as well as a strange cover of "sign o the times", but the big news is - they're playing PS1's 'warm up' series on august 7! i be there!!

ooooh, thanks for the heads up. the 12" of "it ain't necessarily evil" is gaaawjiss; my flatmate's made me leave it on display in our mantelpiece.

They remind me of the cake music from Brass Eye.

The cover of "Sign O' The Times" is bizarre - sounds like Jon Hassell producing R&B.

Remix of They Came From The Stars I Saw Them's "Moon Song" streaming on their myspace...

...I... don't even know what to say....

Except it's very, very, very big.

It's a solid album but nothing really jumps out at me like their previous efforts. I've listened to it several times in the car the last few weeks and then I put We Gave It All Away... on and it was on a whole other level.

Best track is Moon Jocks which is a shame as that one's about 3 years old.

The Canyons album, besides being very very good, acts as an interesting counterpart to Schlungs: same influences, a lot of the same sounds even, a certain will-to-perversity also, but instead of munchkin vocals all the slightly idiosyncratic vocals could be taken from old records, and all the others are sorta indie (at times it gets a bit Destroyer). It's sort of the album MSJ might make if they went down the more serious route of some of their best remixes (though not as good as an album entirely at the level of "Big Smack & Flies" and "It Ain't Necessarily Evil" would be).

Full speed ahead, new album already?! May 2012

Moody balearic trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7o4fdsJPgI&feature=youtu.be

More details http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=16816

Definitely sounds more like what people want: back off from the humour, emphasis lushness and the dancefloor.

That sounds better.

this is good!!!!!!!!

Haha I came here to post just that. The album is sounding excellent on first listen.

It's really like the flipside to Schlungs - only one ostentatious vocal track and even that is very "deep" in the MJS sense (as opposed to, like, deep house).

If Schlungs took the blueprint of the Ost & Kjex and Dominique Leone remixes often to excess, basically everything here takes its cues and builds on the more serious/spacey but dancefloor friendly side of their sound established by the Mari Boine and Ronny & Renzo and Lulu Rouge remixes.

The last track is massive, like a tribal "Mandarine Girl".

^^ can't wait to hear this...

i've been playing toccata non-stop since first listen, so really can't wait for the album

well this sounds very exciting.. can't wait to hear it!!

aghh this sounds incredible / is incredible based on the one song i have actually heard

So it sounds like they've finally stopped dicking round with annoying Muppet voices and made the album they're actually capable of?

I'm getting caught up in the excitement for this. Toccata is delightful.

Good to hear...

does the free download on their site work for everyone else?

http://www.mungolian.com/well_of_souls/freestuff.php

i've tried about a dozen times but i can't get the download to complete for some reason. sounds intriguing though: Jaga Jazzist vs Mungolian Jet Set - "Kitty Wü" - a special edit of their "Sketches of Spain" version

worked for me, here's a mediafire link: http://www.mediafire.com/?aq07m79fb0pi3f0

thanks, guess i just need a new media player

for half a second skip, i thought you were posting a link to the album and then i woke up and realized you were posting that free song from their website.

If I had a criticism of this album it would be that, as compared to the majesty of its three peaks - "Toccata", the massive house anthem mid-section of "Smells Like Gasoline" (which then unexpectedly subsides into a final arc that sounds like MRI), the enormous closer "The Dark Incal" - the rest can sound a bit diffuse, always gorgeously produced but unexpectedly reluctant to go for the jugular.

But it's lovely listening and I think the three peaks are probably sufficient.

This sounds pretty amazing... and MRI isn't a group I've heard thrown around a lot in the last few years.

streaming here

a new track that is.

An exclusive Mungolian mix? Max, you card:

http://gawker.com/5934742/trax-read-listen-to-an-exclusive-mungolian-jetset-mix

^^ with link to a spin 'mungodelics' stream. bless.

balearic bloggin for the gawker massive

loving this mix ..

the album proper reminds me a lot of yello.

will definitely be picking the new up after the misstep of the previous one.

Really like this. Sounds a lot like Big Smack and Flies from We Gave It Away, or else the remix they did of Lulu Rouge's Melankoli, but the sound and scope are bigger, and the whole thing seems more focussed and ambitious. Smells Like Gasoline in particular builds up in huge rushes, like I Feel Space or In White Rooms, even while being overstuffed with homespun squelches and little details. Great track.

When is this out?

Next week. You can stream the whole thing here: http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-mungolian-jetsets-moody-melancholy-mungodelics

My take:

http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16942-mungodelics/

^^ when i saw the 7.1 I thought it was low, even tho i only listened to the album twice on streaming. but reading the whole review it all makes sense and reflects what you said upwards in this thread in a perfect way.

so far, the only track in the album i could do without is 'people on strong stuff' - especially because of those vocals. maybe 'revolving door' goes the same path with repeated listens.

obv, and as you pointed out the 3 highlights are way ahead of the rest...

I'm trying to keep my ratings down generally.

In retrospect I gave Schlungs too high a score (6.7, I think) out of sympathy, and the only thing that feels wrong to me about giving Mungodelics a 7.1 is it understates how much better this is.

Loving this - even the long dark tunnel bits where not much happens work well because their sound design is so great. I suppose that's one facet of their work that gets lost when they go for all out Muppet maximalism.

Loving this - even the long dark tunnel bits where not much happens work well because their sound design is so great.

yes, exactly... their albums are most effective when they let themselves get creative (up to a point) with the tracks that function as interludes. You find yourself getting sucked into the 'dark tunnel' and then all of a sudden it seems to have morphed into something more maximalist and dancey. I love listening to Beauty Came To Us In Stone in the car.

the last track on this album is SO GODDAMNED GOOD

"Finally the Mungodelics vinyl is here, and she's a beauty. Should already be in shops now. This is a slightly different version than the CD. Some tracks are mixed and it´s close to 15 minutes longer."

Sounds interesting. Usually it's the CD version that's mixed/longer.

holy shit 'dark incal' & 'smells like gasoline' ....holy shit

New track:

https://soundcloud.com/mungmusic/frisco-speedhall-original-mix

Had missed their remix of Beijing group Nova Heart's "Beautiful Boys":
http://site.douban.com/NovaHeart/room/821103/

Out next month:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11079519_10152819617018981_7472910358748339233_n.jpg?oh=900c9650682a598811a51e7af80474bc&oe=557859E3&__gda__=1437887477_4177e6f3139ecb9bacdf21baddc4fe7f

A1. Alfonso Muskedunder (Deetron Remix)
A2. Alfonso Muskedunder (Bullion Remix)
B1. Alfonso Muskedunder (Mungolian Jetset Remix)
B2. Alfonso Muskedunder (Mungolian Vs Tangoterje Dub)

New music!

https://soundcloud.com/smalltownsupersound/mungolian-jetset-quintessential-trips-to-bergen

great groove. I like the slower tempo.

And hey, I got to interview them briefly about it all. Full EP stream too.

http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/31/mungolian-jetset-a-city-so-convenient-stream-interview/

unable to search for this crew now on amazon.
corrects to Mongolian.
checked in both Edge and Chrome - same result.

did they ever better the 2cd mixtape/remix thing ?

it seems not.

had no idea this existed or that they'd done any recent remix work. it's glorious though! just like old times. i immediately assumed it was something from ages ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umqbg1PVVfY

https://open.spotify.com/track/7zr4IGEr7ZPT7j1Dtwftlc?si=f7555105435a4572

New tune!

https://soundcloud.com/mungmusic/mungolian-jetset-tablahell-jam-3dit

I was listening to the pine walk tapes (a michael fierman mix to be specific) and heard this song and was like, wow that's where the "Creepy" hook came from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NakFom64MuA

Thread revive prompted me to read my old pitchfork reviews of MJS releases and I was like “wow… otm”

agreed