Mystic Groove (CD)

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• Release Date: September 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Palm
• UPC: 660200500221
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106482338
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Arranger: Najma.

This ten-track compilation seeks to duplicate the success of ethno-techno classics like Talvin Singh's Anokha and Vedic's Rhythmic Intelligence, using exotic elements from traditional cultures to make transcendental techno for the Global Village. And for the most part it's fairly successful. Nitin Sawhney's "Oceans and Rain" opens the album with clanging cymbals and hypnotic chants set against a backdrop of ambient atmospheres and syncopated programmed beats, while Singh's remix of "Ghoom Charakhana" rides a minimalist Indian groove that puts all the focus on Najma Akhtar's echoing, Bollywood-style vocals. It's when Western artists like Thievery Corporation and Dzihan & Kamien enter the picture that the album begins to lose a bit of its focus: the former's "Transcendence" uses sparse tabla, tamboura drones, and an Indian vocal sample to create a repetitive groove that ultimately goes nowhere, while the latter's "Just You & I" matches a Middle Eastern orchestra riff against a Daft Punk disco beat for a middling exercise in redundancy. As far as techno collections go, Mystic Groove is not necessarily bad, but its disparity of quality means it's not particularly great either, even if individual songs like Hefner's remix of Omar Faruk Tekbilek's "Shashkin" are. ~ Bret Love

With Mystic Groove, Quango presents a global journey into the Asian underground, as well as a recording where lush soundscapes meet the ancient sounds of sitar and tabla and then are juxtaposed over electronic beats and dense synthesizer chordings. This East meets West blending is not a new idea, but in the hands of expert-compiler and Quango owner Bruno Guez this is the ultimate worldbeat various-artists compilation to hit the market yet. Quango compilations are in a league of their own and Mystic Groove is no different. Guez seemingly scours the end's of the earth looking for interesting tracks and expert works that haven't seen the light of day, and then he blends them into a listening experience, and living experience. Mystic Groove features tracks from Thievery Corporation, dZihan & Kamien, Omar Faruk Tekbilek (Hefner remix), Nitin Sawhney, Najma (Talvin Singh remix), MC Sultan, Stoppa & Nobby, Radar, Black Star Liner, and Christophe Goze. This is a wonderfully insightful recording into the new era of electronic. If you enjoy, sort of, down-tempo recordings with an Asian feel then this is definitely the disc to have. ~ Matt Borghi

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