OMG, so the new M.I.A. record, ‘Kala’ will hit stores on August 21st and is available for pre-order now. It’s produced by Switch and makes dancey people lose their god damned minds.
I caught up with M.I.A. tonight for her first of two sold out L.A. dates. You can catch her tomorrow if you jostle a ticket on eBay or Craigslist (like I did tonight). After L.A. she moves on to Chicago, then Baltimore. There’s still dozens of dates around the world and you can see if she stops at your city on M.I.A.’s MySpace.
After connecting with Diplo on what came to be her first albums, ‘Piracy Funds Terrorism’ and ‘Arular’, she enlisted the other half of Hollertronix, Low Budget to be her ‘Kala’ tour DJ. M.I.A. is a smart cookie when it comes to choosing colaborators.
And interestingly, anyone buys her new CD single for ‘Boyz’, gets enhanced content including audio of ‘Boyz’ broken down into parts for D.I.Y. remixes. So get to it and send ‘em here (buy on Amazon)! Remixers and would-be remixers should check out our VST archive for some goodies.
First out of the gate with a really great ‘Boyz’ remix was German producer Kimono Cops who set the bar high:
MP3: M.I.A. - Boyz (Kimono Kops Mix)
But, my favorite new M.I.A. remix (of a 2005 track) right now comes from one of our favorite peoples, DJ LuvTek of Los Angeles, whom you might remember from his brilliantly mixed, ‘Do It at the Disco Mixtape‘ which we posted recently. Coincidentally, I checked out his weekly club, Genre for the first time tonight after the M.I.A. show and the shit was proper! Thurr were teenagers making out, gays giving each other hand jobs, stylish dudes, cute girls, drunk brawls and, of course, loud party music for loud party people. What more could you ask for? Seeing a dude get a glock 9mm put to his head while waking to your car afterward? Nope! Saw that too! Genre’s got it all! See wuz up every Monday night at Cinespace in Hollywood; Strictly for the 18+ set.
The tangent was for dramatic effect! Now, without mo’ adieu, hear the LuvTek remix of ‘URAQT’:
MP3: M.I.A. - URAQT (Luvtek Remix)
And if you didn’t catch the Risk One edit of ‘Galang’ then get educated in the M.I.A. archives.
Visit M.I.A. on MySpace.
Buy M.I.A. from Amazon (‘Boyz’ single here).
My friend wants to get a ticket (I already got one suckassss!). Were tickets available at the door- or is CL his only option? Thanks
@LAndon:
A few tickets were available at the door last night, but there was a line around the block to get them and hundreds (or thousands) of people got turned away. The show is early from 8-11 and most of the walk ups missed a lot of the show.
If you had hard tickets you could walk right in with no line at all. So, if you want a good experience where you’re sure to get in and see everything, go through Craigslist at this point.
I made sure to go yesterday ‘cuz there’s a secret Ed Banger Records party tonight with Kavinsky, SebastiAn and Busy P.
Hey thanks. Yeah I got 2 tickets from Craiglist yesterday (30/each, not bad!), but another friend of mine really wants to go. Ill let him know about the walk ups though, that sucks. I also heard about that ’secret’ show on myspace but it was already full!!!! That will be killer, PLEASE give a recap.
“…she enlisted the other half of Hollertronix, Low Budget to be her ‘Kala’ tour DJ. M.I.A. is a smart cookie when it comes to choosing colaborators.”
True… though sticking with Contra would’ve been nice as well.