M.I.A. - KALA

Also, anyone know who the male MC in the middle of Hustle is?

Oh boy. Can'twaitCan'twaitCan'twait.

her live show just keeps getting worse and worse.

but I can already tell Jimmy is going to be awesome.

ha ha, you've gotta be kidding. sounds like a campy "Dschinghis Khan" cover. ouch.

"Dschinghis Khan" > Half the shit that gets <rep>ped around here.

Holy shit, the cover:

http://www.prefixmag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/mia_kala_cover.jpg

looks like it was done in ms paint?

Uh-oh (she looks cute with her hair in a bob though).

the 8-bit african-esque font is cool

Also what purports to be a tracklisting:

01 “Bamboo Banga”
02 “Bird Flu”
03 “Boyz”
04 “Jimmy”
05 “Hussel [ft. Afrikan Boy]”
06 “Mango Pickle Down River [ft. the Wilcannia Mob]”
07 “20 Dollar”
08 “World Town”
09 “The Turn”
10 “XR2″
11 “Paper Planes”
12 “Come Around [ft. Timbaland]”

Yeah, 6 sounds like a joke title to me too.

i like 'Come Around', esp. her "dundadadun"isms and that menacing synth bass sound that drifts in towards the end.

no, wilcannia mob are this actual aussie rap crew who had a song called 'downriver', which i guess is gonna be that. (it sampled a digeridoo! it sucked! thanks minna!)

i can't BELIEVE they put afrikan boy on there as well. afrikan boy is this not-even-one-hit-wonder grime guy who raps normal over kanye instrumentals except for this one tune where he done a comedy african voice all about "one day i went to lidl, went to shoplift in lidl". all the supersuper mag type fashion hipsters mustve glommed onto it since.

is everyone gonna let tim get away with that dreaming comparison unmolested? altho actually, if mia ends up busting a mock aussie flow on track 6 he'll be scarily otm...

"there goes a tenner" lol

the video for boyz is lots of fun. i just wish the quicktime video would stop freezing up.

this is pretty nice, too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3q5KQHUjxs

Yeah "Come Around" is an awesome track.

"is everyone gonna let tim get away with that dreaming comparison unmolested? altho actually, if mia ends up busting a mock aussie flow on track 6 he'll be scarily otm..."

Ha ha I wasn't saying those tracks were as good as "The Dreaming" or that MIA was using a dodgy cockney-Australian accent (I love this accent even though it only exists in films and that one Simpsons episode). But tell me that the chorus to "Boys" doesn't sound quite similar to Kate's "SEE THE LIGHTS RAM THROUGH THE GAPS IN THE LAND" vocals.

no, wilcannia mob are this actual aussie rap crew who had a song called 'downriver', which i guess is gonna be that.

not a crew, just some pre-teen country-town kids - none of them had ever rapped before or really had any interest in music, they recorded the one song on the prompting of Morganics, a dude who does lots of community outreach social work theatre activism grant money type stuff. Just this week he's released an album he produced for three homeless Tanzanian brothers.

anyway Diplo went and did some outback outreach work type stuff when he was in .au in February, this is likely a result of that.

nu rave cover! oof.

has this leaked yet? when can us mere mortals hear it?

<I>Wilcannia Mob</I>

Oh, that's truly cool they're getting some MIA love.

haha yeah i knew what u meant tim. and i just listened, and cannot disagree. 'sat in your laps' jungle drumz and proto-pharrell shoulder pops could fit too, if pressed.

i do like 'boyz' as it goes, but mia doesnt feel like the main attraction there. would repeat the old "it's the best basement jaxx in a bit" if it wasnt for the fact that the actual new bjaxx ep is some fucking amazing ruff oldskool hotness!

(i never bother with side 2 of the dreaming usually, mind)

taking it's TIME or what?

RIP. Hope you up there living in a mudhut in heaven now, baby doll

Yeah I thought this was supposed to come out last week or something?

I thought you were supposed to come out last week.

zing?

no le4k$ yet either.

i got to hear the whole album today. Definitely not what I expected, and I mean that in a good way.

Darker and weirder than Argula, much much weirder. There is no obvious 'hit' that i could detect, but it's certainly an inventive album. Most of the vocals are reverbed, delayed, chopped to hell and the beats are like a chunky stew. I was actually getting pleasantly uptight in the listening room until Jimmy which is this lite disco house thing. Quite jarring in context.

She does a lot of singing of other tunes within her own. Entire versus of "Road Runner" and "Where is MY Mind."

Runs out of steam before the end, and they're squeezing a TImbaland track just to keep the US market happy (it's weak), but still and album I really want to hear again. HOpe it leaks before the end of summer.

Album kinda runs

it's not weak! love that tune! is it really on the album though? wow. wonder why it didn't end up on the timbatots record? lite disco house? i'll buy that.

Kala just leaked. Look hard and you will find it.

on s0uls££k? look hard ?!

Alright, I've got a scowl on my face and I'm clenching my fists, but Kala is not forthcoming!

sophomore thread slump

I've looked everywhere I can think of, even her fan boards have no idea about a possible leak. Where is it?

yeah, I don't even really care and I am bothered that I can't find this!

it's on my Slsk wishlist and never comes up :(

jesus christ, people, you act like it's xmas eve and you're all 6 yrs old. go listen to something else and be patient ffs

yes, dad.

Oh yeah don't let the Dark Skin fool you, I'm IRISH!

Fuck! I'm scouring Soulseek now and nothing's coming up! What did you search under?

Kala just leaked. Look hard and you will find it.

-- Emily, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:47 (Yesterday) Link

we've been had i think.

All albums should come with a release date and a le4k date. Just to save me the trouble of looking for this once a week...

Wikipedia entries on recent albums tend to be really specific about what date it leaked to the internet, so there's that.

It's kinda depressing that Blaq Starr reportedly produced a song on this record, dude is a genius and deserves better.

Deserves better than being on one of the most anticipated records of the year? Yeah, he got a raw deal on that one.

Deserves better artistically, I'm just saying in my own subjective opinion, not that working on a major label album won't be good for his career.

Curious, have you heard the song yet? I love "Git My Gun" so much.

"one of the most anticipated records of the year"?

(NOTE: I really like Arular but COME ON NOW)

that's "one of the 7,500 most anticipated records of the year"

don't know what the fuss, stuff like 'Lion In A Coma' isn't that far off previous MIA anyway (aside from the singing).

pretty sure its not like a cover album r anything, soundz like yr typical "like radiohead ON ACID" record hype rhetoric tbh

pretty sure its not like a cover album r anything

Clearly. But the rhetoric is silly! And also, it doesn't sound particularly appealing!

it sounds like diplo is just using two in-vogue acts as signposts

but for what

is she gonna start rapping?

inquiring minds

New track with Rusko. I like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqYdWNVyLiU

Sounds good. She needs to learn not to fill up every space on the song with her voice, tho.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/mia_fuck_the_ne.php

interesting. that's going to take a couple listens for me to wrap my head around

it's amazing

Beautiful video.

part of me is waiting for reasons not to love her, and that part keeps getting disappointed. good song.

is this her verizon tech support song?

That one's called “I’m Down Like Your Internet Connection" apparently

Anyone at/going to her album playback in Soho? It's starting right now if you're in town.

I really hope that Rusko track isn't evidence of a new direction.

hype hype

― lex pretend, Friday, May 18, 2007 11:21 AM (2 years ago)

holy christ

i am somehow ceaselessly fascinated that time passes

hoos hoos

"hype hype" is such a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZHJctcO_wM

(yeah, that's the same sticky on production who did "bad gyal", "your eye too fast", "look pon me" last year, uk funky heads)

friend of mine theother day called funky "big pimpin: the genre"

oh, so i guess she didn't record a bunch of drummers in India for 'Bird Flu' like all those interviews claimed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQyMmjMrP4

maybe the live drums did end up on 'Boyz', or maybe the recordings weren't usable but made for a better story then "we ended up just using a sample".

nice catch