Track Listing

1. Oceans And Rain - Nitin Sawhney
2. Ghoom Charakahna (Talvin Singh Future Sounds Of India Mix) - Najma
3. Transcendence - Thievery Corporation
4. Harmon Special Session XI - Black Star Liner
5. Sweet Lassi Dub - Stoppa & Nobby
6. Sirocco - Christopher Goze
7. Der Bauch - MC Sultan
8. Just You And I - Dzihan & Kamien
9. Caravane - Radar
10. Shashkin (Hefner Remix) - Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117986 in Music
• Released on: 2001-06-19
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
A sultry haze hovers over Mystic Groove, like the heat and scorching sun on a nomadic caravan lost in the desert. Compiling old and new tracks from the Asian Underground, Mystic unfolds slowly but consistently, casting a looming swarm of percolating tables, echoing frame drums, bells, billowing sitars, flutes, dreamy vocals, and that unique drone peculiar to all Indian music. With their floating, mid-tempo rhythms and enigmatic melodies, the tracks are almost interchangeable, but their mission is to chill, not thrill. Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh, and Thievery Corporation offer the prevalent Indian sounds, but Mystic Groove also goes techno-Turkish with Omar Faruk Tekbilek and more leftfield with the exotic Arabian airs of Dzihan & Kamien and MC Sultan. One track bleeds into the next, the pace imperceptibly rising and falling like the tide. Mystic Groove won't help you shake your groove thing, but that doesn't mean it won't mess with your transcendental mind. --Ken Micallef

Customer Reviews

Exotic and Electronic
I bought this CD despite a few negative reviews because the price was reasonable and I recognized the following ambient classics;

track #3 Transcendence - Thievery Corporation
track #9 Caravane - Radar

So I decided to give this CD a shot and was very pleased. It is mostly down to mid-tempo electronica with asian and middle eastern influences. It is easy to dance to and I found it perfect for all the fusion dancing I am doing right now. It is also good just to chill out to or do yoga. In addition to the aforementioned great songs, other tracks that stand out are;

track #2 Ghoom Charakahna
track #6 Sirocco - Christopher Goze
track #7 Der Bauch - MC Sultan

I think Sirocco is the best track on the CD. It is gorgeous and will sweep you away!

I think this CD is pretty good overall and give it 5 stars.

Under-produced electronica
I bought this CD because it had a track with Goze - Sirocco, I loved that track from the Kelly Slate Surfing game.

Unfortunately, this CD suffers from the Buddha Bar/Chill Out/ syndrome.
One or two tracks are good, but you wonder where they found the other 10 tracks, (or that whole 2nd CD in some cases).

Mystic Groove is supposed to take place in a commercialized mid-Eastern Electronica World.
The gee-whiz factor wears off quite quickly.

Most tracks on this CD are plain under-produced electronica. That's a bad combination, because it means a sounds and samples repeated just too much.

There's gotta be better compilations out there, and the only good thing from this one is that I'm searching for other, better ones.

Love it! Love it! Love it!
I love it. My Friends love it. My Yoga Students love it! I get more compliments on "Mystic Groove" in class than I do on any other cd that I ever used for Yoga! People can't help but to look into the room when they pass by...the exotic rhythms just pull them in!