M.I.A. to drop new mixtape Bells Collection – "a collaboration with God" - on Christmas Day
M.I.A. is set to drop a a new mixtape titled Bells Collection on Christmas Day as a gift to her fans.
The 16-track mixtape was created and mixed earlier this month in Angel, London and, as a mailout from M.I.A. explains, has "a signature sound that purposefully spans time, geography, race, age, space. A limitless, genre-less, frequency. A true and fresh audio-bell vibration. A ding-a-linging in your ears."
"I present you a gift from the east, star of wonder star of night," M.I.A. writes. "Beauty. Bright. Sacred. Cosmic. Magnetism. A collaboration w/ god..."
New tracks include "NEVER ALONE", "BELLA HADID", "AMEN", "SOLITUDE", and recent viral track ‘FREE PALI’ which samples 2013 track "BRING THE NOIZE". The full tracklisting is below
01. NEVER ALONE – M.I.A / TROY BAKER
02. AMEN – OLIVER RODIGAN
03. BELIEVE A BELL – M.I.A + YUVAN SHANKAR RAJA +
04. BOX BELLS INTERLUDE – M.I.A BOX COMP
05. GOD KIDS NOBELL + GABRIBELL CHICKEN DINNER DJ INTERLUDE
06. BELLA HADID – M.I.A
07. KATHAL (LOVE) – M.I.A + SAMPLE AR RAHMAN
08. BELLS IN ANGEL – M.I.A
09. FREE PALI – M.I.A
10. BROWN G I R L IN THE RING – M.I.A / BLAQ STARR / BONNNY M
11. TABLE FLIPPIN REBELLS – M.I.A
12. UN NENJU (SACRED HEART) – M.I.A KIDKANEVAL
13. ANDAVAN PRAY INTERLUDE – M.I.A / ILLAYARAJA / YESUDAS
14. BABYLON BABELL – M.I.A TROY BAKER
15. SOLITUDE – M.I.A / REX KUDO / SKRILLEX
16. GALAXY – M.I.A / REX KUDO
The mixtape will be available from ohmni.com from 3pm on Christmas Day.
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