Spouting a cryptically convoluted cosmology that's equally as daffy and inscrutable as their genre-defying prog-disco concoctions, Norway's Mungolian Jet Set draw their aesthetic cues from extraterrestrials, shamanic mysticism, and medieval Eurasian warlords, and their musical ones from left-field jazz, schlock exotica, cheesy ambient trance, Balearic electronica, and points beyond. Essentially the warped brainchild of Pål "Strangefruit" Nyhus, a DJ and turntablist who was active in the Norwegian jazz and experimental music scene through the '90s and early 2000s, and electronic producer Knut Sævik, the band started out as a loose techno-jazz fusion collective before morphing into a relatively stable electronic production duo. Commissioned by Jazzland labelhead Bugge Wesseltoft to spearhead a project inspired by electric-period Miles Davis, it took Nyhus, working together with Sævik and a host of Oslo avant-garde instrumentalists, several years to deliver 2006's Beauty Came to Us in Stone, an esoteric, collaborative "future jazz" opus that incorporated elements of club music and some of the fantastical conceptualism that would come to demarcate the Mungolian ethos.