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- M.I.A. - Makin' It 'Appen
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M.I.A.
XL Recordings, London, UK
In the pantheon of female singers, Maya Arulpragasam could stand in the line of women navigating their way through exotic technicolour soundscapes, somewhere between Ari Up, Neneh Cherry, and Kelis. During her days at college, she leapfrogged from her projects in art and photography to tour as photographer and designer for Elastica's second album, and while documenting the band's tour of the US, M.I.A. and support act Peaches bonded over an MC-505. The subsequent demo of Galang changed hands pretty fast, and once integrated into London's indie cognoscenti, her rebel voice and blend of baile funk, hip hop, and dancehall connected with a host of DJs. Everyone from Timbaland to Diplo sat up to the blazed jabberings of Galang, converting rebel freedom into paranoid urban slang, feminist power, and fighting for the right to blow up the spot. Rolling with Switch and Diplo for most of the tracks on her new album Kala, M.I.A. proves her knack of flipping twisted club sonics is not just in the mind - it runs in the blood.
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