M.I.A. has made her entire mixtape catalogue available to stream online for free, including some of her most celebrated work.
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It marks the first time that fans of the British-Sri Lankan artist will be able to access the releases in one place in an official capacity.
The mixtapes included on her independent platform OHMNIMUSIC are ‘Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol. 1’ from 2004 – the result of a collaboration with Diplo and released before her debut album ‘Arular’ the following year with largely uncleared samples – as well as 2010’s ‘VickiLeekx’ and 2023’s ‘Bells Collection’.
Also on the service is ‘Armour’, the standalone track she released in January this year. The reverb-heavy track takes inspiration from the artist’s 2022 conversion to Christianity, and has been described as her “spiritual declaration”.
