1. Kala'i

Kala'i

Pokemon black and white season 15 episode 41. 1Bamboo Banga4:582Bird Flu Producer Vocal Production –3:243Boyz Mixed By –.3:274Jimmy Mixed By –.3:295Hussel Featuring –4:256Mango Pickle Down River Featuring With –. Producer – Producer Additional Vocal Production –, Scratches Cuts – Written-By –,3:53720 Dollar4:348World Town3:539The Turn Producer, Written-By –3:5210XR24:2011Paper Planes Mixed By –3:2512Come Around Edited By Vocal Protool Editing – Engineer Assistant –., Producer Vocals Productions – Producer, Performer All Instruments, Featuring – Recorded By, Mixed By, Programmed By – Written-By –.,3:54. M.I.A., born Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam, has become one of the most prominent names in popular urban electronic music today.

Her song “Paper Planes” has been a chart-topping hit, featured in multiple movies, including the blockbusters Slumdog Millionaire and Pineapple Express. It wasn’t until the release of this song that she became such a mainstream artist. Nonetheless, her unique and peculiar sound remains, with no plans to sell out to more gentrified rap and electronic music.

Written and recorded in 2006, “Kala,” M.I.A.’s sophomore effort, is named after her mother. Created in stages throughout several continents across the world, in countries including Jamaica, India, Trinidad, Liberia, Japan, Australia, the UK, and the US. Obviously utilized her surroundings in order to produce her undeniably unique “world electro fusion” sound. Featuring production by well-known producers Timbaland, Switch, and Blaqstarr, and Diplo, the songs feel like instant hits but nonetheless shine with exceptional complexity.Filled with sampled sounds and beats, “Kala” oozes with eclectic and exotic rhythms, textures, and melodies. The tracks are a non-stop carnival to your ears, with fast-paced and highly catchy tunes at every stop of the way.

It is a one-of-a-kind journey through clubs, war-grounds, and ghettos, highlighting an array of political topics and never halting in its ability to keep your feet tapping and your body shaking. With songs dealing with immigration politics to terrorism to personal relationships to festivity, the album brings out both celebratory and “rawer, darker, outsider” themes. In essence, it’s the perfect mix of expression, art, and fun, giving you the opportunity to take whatever you desire from it. Still, even if you do not agree with her often controversial political stances, it is difficult to put off any song completely.

The words not always need to be listened to, sometimes the instrumental itself is enough to keep you hooked – at least, in my opinion.The album combines assorted instrumentation, heavy textures, sampling, looping, and layering, while exploring traditional dance and folk styles such as soca, funk carioca, Baltimore bounce, urumee melam (in songs like “Boyz” for example). “Bird Flu” features the sound of traditional Indian tribal drumming, the chanting of little village girls, a contagious “how many” vocal sample, whistling, and even the clucking of chickens.

With these particular sampled sounds and more all packed into one song, it is impossible not to agree that M.I.A. Incorporates noises from everywhere in her music. “Mango Pickle Down River” pulses with didgeridoo, and includes a group of Australian Aboriginal kids, the Wilcannia Mob, rapping with her. “Paper Planes” samples The Clash's “Straight To Hell,” and samples a mix of sound including boisterous gunshots and the 'ka-ching” of cash registers. “Hussel,” taking on an incredibly serious, somewhat dark and ominous tone, combines extreme synthesizer sounds, with the tribal pummel of the rainforest, as M.I.A.

And featured artist Afrikan Boy rap about the universal day-to-day struggle of living in poverty. “XR2,” ringing with a fast-paced horn sample, is an infiltrating, energetic club piece.