Mongolia, a country located in East and Central Asia right next to Russia and is nearly blanketed by China. Mungolia? Apparently that’s tucked away inner imaginations of two really way off Norwegian dudes. Actually a collaboration between Norwegian DJ Pol ‘Strangefruit’ Nyhus and partner Knut Sovik, together as Mungolian Jet Set they kinda behind the normal concepts of dance and dive into something that’s as lush as a tropical forest, but as deserted as Area 51. We Gave It All Away… And Now We Are Taking It Back is pretty what the album implies, literally, a collection of features, collaborations (including sets with the likes of Lindstrom and the Shortwave Set), remixes that were once “given away” and are now “taken back to be presented in its full Mungolian context” (whatever that means). Within it’s contents, We Gave It All Away manages to thinly tread between dance, jazz and even pop music to give it its own “Mungolian” sound. The album is almost indefinable, despite being culled from various styles, the collection twists so many sounds so much that seems to reach for a broader spectrum. But that “Mungolian” composition is so damn exotic that it’s like venturing into a seemingly limitless alien world where everyone is just parting in one far off dry desolate area. Somewhere, Ghengis Khan probably wishes he would have formed the Mungols instead.

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