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Rewarm

RE:WARM 012 is a double AA side 12” with remixes of two of the most talked-about tracks from the compilation, Fug – From Little Seeds We Grow & Bobby Lee & Mia Doi Todd – Walking With Trees. None other than 4hero & A Mountain of One were on remix duties for these two wonderful tracks.

For the A-Side 4hero take the wonderfully laidback style of the original track by Fug – From Little Seeds We Grow and turn in a full-on tearjerker. The strings and orchestration on this remix are reminiscent of some of our favourite 4hero moments from over the years. The Drums shuffle along nicely with Jess Williams voice perfectly complimenting this take on the track. This one is set for summer glory by any standard.

Flip this over to the AA side for the complete analogue journey that is A Mountain of Ones spaced out dubs of Bobby Lee & Mia Doi Todd - Walking with Trees. Mo & Zeben take this track by its scruff and give it a full-on tropical overhaul using crazy old fashioned dub techniques, stringing it out into a low end slow motion house dub ready for sun-drenched moments with sand between your toes and the smell of sun lotion on the breeze.

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Blonde Redhead

La Mia Vita Violenta - Reissue

Numero Group

Coloured LP

£23.99

Limited red vinyl.

Cat Number

NUM902LPC1

Release date

16 Jul '21

Format Info

Limited red vinyl.

Art-house kosmische from the battered basements of pre-9/11 New York. Polyrhythmic screamo for underemployed Gen-Xers and trust fund weed dealers alike. La Mia Vita Violenta, Blonde Redhead’s 1995 sophomore effort, in print as a definitive single LP for the first time since… ever.

“These songs combine a raw need, a ready access to neediness, with seemingly incongruous cinematic changes reminiscent of ‘60s Italian pop music and movie scores. They switch between emotional grandeur and eye scratching immediacy.” - Arto Lindsay.

TRACK LISTING

Side A:
A1 (I Am Taking Out My Eurotrash) I Still Get Rocks Off
A2 Violent Life
A3 U.F.O.
A4 I Am There While You Choke On Me
A5 Harmony

Side B:
B1 Down Under
B2 Bean
B3 Withdraw
B4 Young Neil
B5 10 Feet High
B6 Jewel

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$Cover of /\/\/\Y/\ by MIA.$

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/\/\/\Y/\

XL Recordings

2xLP

£15.99
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Cat Number

XLLP497

Release date

12 Jul '10

Format Info

Deluxe double vinyl in gatefold sleeve with lyric sheet insert. Includes four bonus tracks.

After two hugely acclaimed albums (2005’s "Arular" and 2007’s "Kala"), the global success of "Paper Planes", Oscar nominations, and that Grammys performance, MIA is back with a brand new album "/\/\/\Y/\" ("MAYA" in slashes!), which sees her as incendiary and forward thinking as ever. Recorded in Los Angeles, the album features production from Rusko, Diplo, Blaqstarr and Switch, a collaboration resulting in dubstep bass and grinding industrial noise being added to MIA’s unique armoury of electro sounds. Just as shouty and in yer face as ever, this is pop music as a polar opposite to the polished sheen of Lady Gaga and Kylie. "MAYA" draws influence from our technologically changing world, now that our every thought and action is documented and posted for everyone to see. The album is an uncensored screen-grab of 2010.

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/\/\/\Y/\ - Special Edition

XL Recordings

Ltd CD

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Cat Number

XLCD497X

Release date

12 Jul '10

Format Info

Special edition CD featuring a lenticular (the image changes when you tilt the box) slipcase and four extra tracks.

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Mia Doi Todd With Andres Renteria

Morning Music

City Zen

"Morning Music" is the first album of instrumental music from Los Angeles - based songstress Mia Doi Todd. It was recorded and mixed by Todd at her Chateau des Chats studio using drum, harmonium, piano, tin whistle, tamboura, acoustic guitar, and bongos. On the tracks "Samai'I" and "Emotion", she is joined by Andres Renteria on cajon, piano, wooden stool, and udu. 'I started recording the tracks that became Morning Music while I was writing songs for my last album, Gea. Lyrics are the most challenging part of songwriting for me, and I enjoyed recording instrumental improvisations as a break from singing and songwriting. I was borrowing a friend's tamboura at the time, an Indian instrument shaped like a sitar but with no frets and only four strings, and I had just found my first harmonium, a small pump organ also from India. Classical Indian music is on many occasions one of my favorite things to listen to, and I started to experiment with these drone instruments and the transcendental experience they can produce while playing or listening to them. I had just finished a tour with the Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen and was feeling the influence of their captivating melodies and great musicianship. I started playing the Irish tin whistle and using that as a melodic and emotional element instead of my voice, freeing me up from what felt like the confines of words. I began to edit and sculpt the recordings into a series of simple organic tunes. I gave the album to a few friends who enjoyed the calm and meditative attitude which it evokes. They also found the music very conducive to their creative endeavors. I am glad now to share the music with a larger audience.'

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MIA

Arular

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CD

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Cat Number

XLCD186

Release date

6 Oct '08 (originally released 18 Apr '05)

Format Info

CD comes with die-cut outer slipcase.

Having escaped civil war in Sri Lanka, Maya Arulpragasam, aka MIA, spent her childhood on a London sink estate, ending up at St Martins School Of Art. Inspired by the likes of Peaches and Justine Frischman, she burst onto the London scene with the amazing Ross Orton (Fat Truckers) produced raggaclash track "Galang". After a handful of other singles (the XL released "Sunshowers" and re-released "Galang", promo-only "Hombre" and "Bucky Done Gun") she now delivers her scorching debut album "Arular". The tracks are built from a mongrel mix of hip hop, dancehall and electro, creating a backdrop of dislocated beats and pounding basslines for MIA to add her scattergun vocal delivery to, with topics ranging from teenage prostitution and poverty to war and consumerism. Full of in yer face punk attitude, but with depth too, "Arular" is set to be one of THE albums of 2005. Love it!

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MIA

Kala

XL Recordings

2xLP

£12.99
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Cat Number

XLLP281

Release date

20 Aug '07

The majority of MIA's second LP "Kala" was made when she was supposed to be taking time out and travelling. When she ended up in Chennai, India, she spent weeks recording live drum patterns with local percussionists, writing new songs like "BirdFlu" and "20 Dollar", holed up in a studio used normally for Bollywood soundtracks. Subsequent trips found her writing and recording in Trinidad, Jamaica, Australia, Japan and briefly in the US, and then these 'field recordings' were turned into full tracks with the help of Baltimore's Blaqstarr, Aussie hip hopper Morganics, Switch and Hollertronix man Diplo, creating the globetrottin' electro-rockin' monsters you have before you. So while "Arular" was a bedroom dancehall rocker, "Kala" is a different beast, it's the beat of the street itself — the sound of roadside sound systems, taxicab transistors, DVD-wired dollar vans, motorbike couriers and parking lot pull-ups. It's also the sound of MIA digging in as both an artist and a producer.

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