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Not just another downtempo record.
Genre: Electronic: Down Tempo
Release Date: 2006
Mystikos Quintet Record Label: Mystikos Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Easy Listening 4:56 $0.99
Cabra Asa 4:30 $0.99
Xanax Tattoo 5:46 $0.99
Skunk Weed 4:10 $0.99
Big Fatty 4:45 $0.99
Morning In Vaci 5:52 $0.99
The Monkey Room 5:51 $0.99
Flute Whip 5:56 $0.99
What It Is 5:58 $0.99
Last Call 6:24 $0.99
Call It Deep 5:50 $0.99
Zuni 7:22 $0.99
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Album Notes

Based in Indianapolis, the Mystikos Quintet is out to show that there's more coming out of Naptown than basketball and auto racing. This debut effort is a hook-laden, groove-centered homage to Jimmy Smith-era jazz/funk, Miles Davis' muted trumpet and the funkier side of 1970s jazz fusion. Mystikos Quintet also conjures up plenty of rock ingredients to fill out their gourmet stew. All this against a backdrop of the quintet's idiosyncratic take on familiar downtempo elements. Indeed, when it comes to the Mystikos Quintet, the fortunate listener will experience music that's easy on the ears and soothing to the soul—yet deep enough to shake ya rump. So check in and check it out!

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REVIEWS

You saved my marriage!
author: JD SMITH
I'm a jazz freak and my wife is a dance hound. Your music has finally brought compromise to my marriage. Jazztronica! We love it!!!
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groovy baby!
author: lee foley
for all groovers.laidback,fun,jazzy,funky downtempo beats.pure ear candy
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This Loungey Disc is Crisp Like a Granny Smith
author: Mary Garrison @ Indianapolis InTake Weekly
Local group Mystikos Quintet has done what a lot of local acts can't do -- put together an album that doesn't sound so homemade. The fivesome's jazzy, loungey disc is crisp like a Granny Smith, and its polish helps it stand out among other do-it-yourself releases. Mystikos' groove is relatively straightforward: It takes you to the martini bar and back, winding through funky, horn-laden tracks and then slowing it down a bit for the slippers-on-the-feet nightcap. Lyrics are few and far between; it's clear the emphasis is on the instruments. Highlights for me are the album's bookends, Easy Listening and Zuni. The former betrays its name only in the sense that when I think easy listening, I think Richard Marx. Instead, the song is peppy and groovy, laced with sax, piano and xylophone (a surprisingly comforting combo). The album's ender, on the other hand, is soft and slow, laying a mellow flute over a lazy beat. Other songs of note: Big Fatty, which is fitting background music to some 1970-era espionage; and Last Call, which is drowsy like a lullaby.
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ultimate lounge music
author: CDOMAIN
This CD is a genre blurring blessing that manages to sound both rooted in a bunch of different traditions (blues, jazz, and funk) and yet is so NOW. Spin this baby at just about any kind of party. I played it for a hipped out academic crowd and they raved! The debut of Mystikos Quintet is something to shout out about. Bodes well.
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