Speaking In Tongues

Mumbo Jumbo

Speaking In Tongues

TurboTrance (France)

If you don’t know, Mumbo Jumbo is Mitch Davies and Bilbo Bagginz, aka Cosmosis; and if you don’t know, Mumbo Jumbo produce a kind of funk-trance that’s more like stand up comedy than anything else; there’s punchlines in the samples, punchlines in the stop-start missed beats, even the squelches are  veritable psychedelic Dead Parrot Sketch. Turtlehead sets off one of the themes – of more movie samples than the trailers at your local Warner Village – with not one, not two (well possibly two, psyreviews lost count) Austin Powers samples, laid and dropped over a seriously funky ass beat. Techno Boom Boom Remix is so good for butt wobblin’, psyreviews politely suggests a Jennifer Lopez collaboration, and Jack Bac chucks in samples of Mr Nicholson like it’s popcorn whenever Jar Jar Binks is on the screen. Dumb Ass Groovers is hilarious, and begs to be played on a big rig, with a thousand homer simpsons all expressing anger and displeasure at something or other, over a smooth and even chunky groove. The Live Mix of Mysteronz is wicked, known before on Transient but still kicking here. The energy’s there for the taking and it’s just rising and rising; one imagines Bilbo’s synths floating around the room poltergeist stylee. Fishbone Remix (again known on Transient) is a nice, positive groove shoulder roller, and finally the title track brings things down with, yup, more movie samples. At the end of the day, this may not ignite the peak hours on a dancefloor but it’s damn funny, damn fine, and damn addictive stuff that might just leave Mitch and Bilbo typecast the psytrance equivalent of Cheech and Chong. Which is a good thing.

5/5