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hey, mia (trapez, loads others i expect) is djing at my local discotheque on saturday. anyone know what to expect from her?

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 29 January 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

no, but you you should go and report back to this thread! m.i.a tracks = niceness.

― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 29 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean mia from germany?

― k (blue), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, mia from germany, did she do that 'tied to the 80s' track, i used to dance in my bedroom to that. i wasn't sure how deep/minimal/thoughtful she'd play it, i want to bring friends with and don't want them all to stare at me balefully.

she must be doing some dates in london too i expect.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Tied to the '80s -- isn't that MRI?

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Out of the MIA stuff that I do know, "Milchreiter"'s (on a Sub Static 12" from last year, I think) my favorite.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that's my favorite, too. i put that one in a bunch of mixes...

― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

also i think there might be some confusion here as there's MIA and M.I.A. - two different artists that are quite different from what i gather. M.I.A. is the trapez/substatic artist

― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This is getting even more confusing... What about the U.K. hip-hop-ish act? "Galang galang galang" etc. Also called "M.I.A."

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

And the 80s hardcore band, which was what I thought this'd be about

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

the two artists i refer to are both from germany

and i think there's a us punk bank by this name, too

xpost

― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

From my understanding, the MIA who runs Sub Static and has releases on Trapez and Traum is the same person. There's also the MIA that's had a couple UR releases.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, it's M.I.A. from germany. will she make me dance? i'm sure i've heard stuff of hers on trapez and itiswhatitis which were okay. i don't want it to be too techy and drawn-out. i mean, she may dj on a totally different tip. i will probably go anyway so will post back monday with update.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think she's done anything on ITISWHATITIS, but as Andy says, she's released stuff on Traum, Trapez, and Substatic.

I've never seen her dj, but judging from her releases I'd wager she'll play on the softer and dreamier side of minimal house.

― Philippe, Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

born free already being discussed somewhere already?
read yr. blogs

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

read yr blogs, ppl

― bamcquern, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:35 (sixteen years ago)

does the synth just sound like suicide or is it a sample? song's alright.

― LaMonte, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

How much of the new album did Rusko produce? If he did the whole thing, it's likely to be dreadful.

― Matt DC, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:54 (sixteen years ago)

well this new song doesn't sound like it had anything to do with him, but it's still definitely dreadful

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

someone tells me this new track has was produced by suicide?

― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 15:58 (sixteen years ago)

read yr threads

― imma sb (samosa gibreel), Friday, 23 April 2010 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

samples suicide def
but did they produce it

― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

this is great anyway

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― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

pretty sure it's just a sample. writing credit is her, martin and alan. it's gash, but they'll get some cash so that's great.

― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

it's cash, but they'll get some gash so that's great.

― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

I get that its cool to hear Paper Planes in indie discos nowdays, but can't she go back to the intense buzzy skeletal beats of Arular, they're so much more fun

Also, poor German MIA

― boxedjoy, Friday, 23 April 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

iDig this. Arular is neanderthal MIA and...and that's saying something given her overall aesthetic.

― Blancminaj (Spinspin Sugah), Friday, 23 April 2010 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

Don't like the lo-fi karaoke thing on her voice in this particular song... I could see how it's supposed to fit with the punk aesthetic of the song but it just sounds like lazy production... hope the rest of the album feels less like a demo.

― Moka, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

And it's a shame because the sample is good.

― Moka, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:52 (sixteen years ago)

this is pretty weak imo

― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 23 April 2010 19:36 (sixteen years ago)

iDig this.

you just came sooooo goddamn close to a suggest ban you have no idea

― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Friday, 23 April 2010 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

ok this is awesome

― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinky_Blink (The Reverend), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT MONEY CAUSE I GOT IT-GOT IT-got it-got it
AND I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT HOOCHIES CAUSE I BEEN IT-BEEN IT-been it-been it

― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinky_Blink (The Reverend), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:04 (sixteen years ago)

lol she has definitely been hanging out with Santigold

― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:10 (sixteen years ago)

she does Santigold better than Santigold does

― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinky_Blink (The Reverend), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:11 (sixteen years ago)

the buildup to this is great

― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:13 (sixteen years ago)

between this and the clip of Gorillaz from The Colbert Report, I am very happy I followed a Pitchfork link today

― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:17 (sixteen years ago)

In 2009, Time magazine placed M.I.A. in the Time 100 list of "World's Most Influential people" for having "global influence across many genres".

― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

"genre influence across many globes"

― yo gotti or notti (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

do we even have entryist pop any more? she ought to be commended for such a leftfield move

collaboration with mika vainio and kk null awaits

― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 April 2010 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

she does Santigold better than Santigold does

Uh... Santigold >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MIA.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 23 April 2010 20:58 (sixteen years ago)

ugh son

― The Reverend, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:02 (sixteen years ago)

i would buy an album of MIA punk songs

― imma sb (samosa gibreel), Friday, 23 April 2010 21:04 (sixteen years ago)

Its modernist punk. It makes me interested. Sounds good.

― Hinklepicker, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

Just sounds like bad Atari Teenage Riot. Nothing really new going on here.

― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 23 April 2010 21:55 (sixteen years ago)

I love the beat but those vocals sound really half-assed.

― adamj, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

Except MIA hasn't done 'bad atari teenage riot' before. Its pop music. Did you expect some sort of Stockhausen experiment? What is new etc, etc...

― Hinklepicker, Friday, 23 April 2010 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

she had this album called kala that pulled from some great honkies: richman, pixies, clash
She made them her own and made them parts of something great

thought she'd do suicide justice. she did not.

― Fellini.Kuti, Friday, 23 April 2010 23:10 (sixteen years ago)

Shit. And here I was just thinking she went and made a song.

So can we get this straight: Is it 'Bad Atari Teenage Riot' or 'Bad Suicide'. Is someone going to say sounds like 'Bad M.I.A?' Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.

― Hinklepicker, Friday, 23 April 2010 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

Prefer these kinds of influences than Beach #**!@$ Boys.

word the fuck up

― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 00:10 (sixteen years ago)

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Damn, i agree with the list too. MAYA over Matangi.

― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:22 (seven years ago)

need the documentary

― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:23 (seven years ago)

Arular and Kala are such treasures

― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 02:25 (seven years ago)

The doc is interesting. It could use an edit but its a compelling watch.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:49 (seven years ago)

i'm still quite proud of the fact that the first thread about her was started by me, getting her name wrong in the process as there was 0
anywhere about her
mya 'gilang'.

― piscesx, Thursday, 29 November 2018 03:15 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwH7u0PhOw New old song, "Reload"! um....... wow lol.

Documentary's online now! Gonna watch soon

― maffew12, Saturday, 15 December 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Loved the documentary, especially the late 90s London stuff.

― piscesx, Saturday, 19 January 2019 04:42 (seven years ago)

nine months pass...

yeah I didn't get all the way to the end, but the documentary is great (I saw it on Kanopy). Really makes the case for her as a pretty unique and important figure

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:03 (six years ago)

thanks for the rec, I enjoyed the doc. Some quite candid scenes especially after the super bowl and with Justine Frischmann

― Graham Kendrick Lamar (cajunsunday), Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:29 (six years ago)

I lol'd long and hard when she called giving the finger at the Superbowl "a spiritual gesture"

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 7 November 2019 22:31 (six years ago)

this thread isn't about that MIA lol

― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:09 (six years ago)

(to begin with)

― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:10 (six years ago)

there are 30-odd threads about M.I.A. and only two or three about MIA, it's not like it's hard to pick one

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 8 November 2019 00:21 (six years ago)

This thread has been about this M.I.A. for 6 years, I’ll be fucked if I’m scrolling through 30 other threads

― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 November 2019 01:13 (six years ago)

two months pass...

Rapper and singer MIA - real name Mathangi Arulpragasam - with her MBE following an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London.

📷Yui Mok/PA Images - contact us at https://t.co/MQUVTcSboi #MIA #Investitures pic.twitter.com/tt0t43E569
— PA Images (@PAImages) January 14, 2020

― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:18 (six years ago)

All royal families should be abolished and locked up, along with all their dumb medals and titles. But if they have to dole them out, then sure, why not one for MIA. Who looks great there btw.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:24 (six years ago)

She always does! State of that fucking Burberry stamp though.

― steer karma (gyac), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:24 (six years ago)

Stamp's a bit much but you're right, she always does :)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:26 (six years ago)

this thread isn't about that MIA lol

― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:32 (six years ago)

And yet :)

(I'd no idea before you mentioned it tbh)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:33 (six years ago)

it has been about that MIA for years

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:33 (six years ago)

(I'd no idea before you mentioned it tbh)

this thread isn't about that MIA lol
― ت (jim in vancouver), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:09 AM (two months ago)

― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:53 (six years ago)

Gah! :-S MIA shining brightly w/ her dumb spoils blinded me.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:59 (six years ago)

14 of the 3,528 posts in this thread (less than .03%) are about that *other* MIA.

This thread is about M.I.A., no matter what sic says

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:07 (six years ago)

there are 30-odd threads about M.I.A. and only two or three about MIA, it's not like it's hard to pick one
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, November 8, 2019 11:21 AM (two months ago)

― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:31 (six years ago)

I can c+p posts from a couple months ago too

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:33 (six years ago)

This is all very exciting guys but

https://i.imgur.com/3XiKMch.gif

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:51 (six years ago)

lol

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:54 (six years ago)

https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTIwNjA4NjMzODA4MTI3NTAw/mia-farrow-9292027-1-402.jpg

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:28 (six years ago)

we created the spinoff thread for the German MIA, preserving the original posts in this thread about her, years ago: MIA aka Michaela Grobelny

― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:39 (six years ago)

hey can a mod add dots to the title so we can finally stop this pedantry every 6 months

― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:40 (six years ago)

I don't see how "MIA dots" is going to help anything

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:41 (six years ago)

lol

― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 14:45 (six years ago)

the dots are already MIA

― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:07 (six years ago)

"MIA..."

― fits, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:16 (six years ago)

This thread combing back with powa powa

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:30 (six years ago)

two months pass...

Is this the thread for M.I.A.? Anyhoo new album OHMNI is out;

https://www.patreon.com/posts/35144818

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:56 (six years ago)

New song, not new album.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:57 (six years ago)

No, this thread is for the German techno DJ/producer. The UK artist is called M.I.A. not MIA.

― Tuomas, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:07 (six years ago)

lol

― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:09 (six years ago)

FFS we repurposed this thread like five years ago and split off a new thread for the German producer back then.

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:10 (six years ago)

MIA

― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:10 (six years ago)

And here's the spinoff thread that is absolutely booming with posts:

MIA aka Michaela Grobelny

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:12 (six years ago)

six years pass...

Lol, no thread revive for M.I.A.'s new Christian album? The NY Times hasn't forgotten her:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/arts/music/mia-kid-cudi-tour-interview-popcast.html

― o. nate, Saturday, 6 June 2026 15:51 (yesterday)

You couldn’t pay me to listen to that

― Whatwhawhawhaehawhahwawhawwww (DJP), Saturday, 6 June 2026 19:24 (yesterday)

The review in Pitchfork compared it to - who else? - that other spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Saturday, 6 June 2026 21:26 (yesterday)

Call me crazy but… I kinda like this album !

― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 6 June 2026 21:57 (yesterday)

djp otm

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 6 June 2026 22:45 (yesterday)

I wonder did she sell many of those tin foil hats on her website that time

― mirostones, Sunday, 7 June 2026 00:04 (nine hours ago)

The review in Pitchfork compared it to - who else? - that other spiritual seeker Alice Coltrane

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Saturday, June 6, 2026 5:26 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

spiritual tin foil hat jazz

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 7 June 2026 00:49 (nine hours ago)

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