The Mung Beings

What the Mung?
Who are the Mung Beings?

The Mung Beings are producers Allan Thomasson and Nigel Braddock (from Australia and New Zealand respectively) and Saadiah Fowlkes from New York. The three met in Berlin where they recorded their debut album, to be released on Monkey Records in 2023. Their sound is a mash-up of future soul, conscious rap, electronica and jazz served up with conspicuous lyrics and a positive attitude.

The new single from The Mung Beings, Wake Up, was partly inspired by whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 at great risk to himself, revealed the top secret global surveillance operations being undertaken by the NSA. Since then, rapidly developing technology means mass surveillance is ever more pervasive in modern society. With soundbites from Snowden himself, the song urges listeners to wake up to the fact that we are all being constantly spied upon.

Along with Orwell's 1984, the song also references the classic John Carpenter film They Live, the premise of which revolves around a drifter who discovers that the ruling class are concealing their appearance and manipulating people through subliminal messages to, as in the song’s refrain, “obey consume, conform”.

The Wake UP EP also features four remixes by Broad Oak, Boxroom Rebel, Trouble 40, The Tellurians and Choam Nomsky.