Post by uptowndragon on Sept 18, 2009 9:39:46 GMT 7
Free Mika MP3 Download & Mika Game Fun
Pop fantastic Mika will be returning with his brand new album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" this coming 21st September 2009.
In conjunction with its release, Universal Music Malaysia has made a remixed version of his new single "We Are Golden (Mirwais Remix)" available for download for FREE to all Mika fans here in Rentak Sejuta. Isn't that so cool. A perfect Hari Raya Aidil Fitri present to all our viewers.
There is also a fun Mika game available for play while listening to his new track.
Just click the following link to access the FREE mp3 download as well as to play the Mika game:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/1541380/mika_countdown/mikagame.html
‘Pop’s Next Superstar’ Observer Music Monthly June 09
‘Brilliant stadium pop’ Poppregnant dog May 09
Global pop phenomenon MIKA releases his second album ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’ on September 21st through Casablanca/Island Records. This is preceded by the brand new single also called ‘We Are Golden’ which is available as a download from August 17th and physically on September 7th. The new album follows up his debut, ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ which has sold nearly 6 million copies around the world and gone 5 x platinum in the UK for sales of over 1.5 million, as well as winning him BRIT, Ivor Novello and MTV Awards.
The single ‘We are Golden’ is a supernova musical rush - a gloriously epic slice of explosive power-pop - and underlines Mika as a completely unique talent within contemporary music. The track features Mika and the massive backing of the Andrae Crouch Gospel Choir (famously on Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”) and a huge kids chorus who kick with a fantastic lung-puncturing chant of ‘we are not what you think we are, WE ARE GOLDEN!’
The single comes with fantastic mixes from Calvin Harris, Mirwais and Don Diablo, and a video spectacular directed by acclaimed Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund, who has made some of the most iconic videos of the last decade by the likes of Madonna, U2 and Prodigy.
‘We Are Golden’ acts as a perfect opener for an album that is written by Mika and co-produced by himself and Greg Wells. The album was recorded between London and Los Angeles over the last two years, and other guests include The Seawind Horns (Thriller, Off The Wall), Imogen Heap, Owen Pallet from Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire and Stuart Price.
Fizzing with influences from big pop albums of the 80’s and 90’s through to Kurt Weill, 50’s singer Patti Page and 70’s singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, Mika describes the record as more grown up than it’s predecessor. “‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ contained a lot of childhood references. The new album is more adolescent. I thought ‘where do I go back to? Before all this happened, what made me start writing songs?’ I loved that feeling of being 17/18 years old and I wanted to return to that period”. The album is bristling with teenage possibilities and Observer Music Magazine describe is as ‘bursting with melodies and sounding dazzlingly carefree’.
Other new tracks include “Blame It On the Girls” which marries skittering percussion with floor-stomping piano and a swoon-worthy chorus, while “Rain” – featuring droplets of violin plucks from Owen Pallett and additional programming by Stuart Price – is a bona fide dancefloor anthem, Mika’s stunning voice floating effortlessly over pillows of synths. Indeed, from stirring ballads to candy-coated choruses, the new album retains a breadth of vision that speaks not only to Mika’s extraordinary melodic sensibilities, but also to the incredible stories he tells within his songs.
One of the most exciting live performers around, Mika closes the iTunes Festival in London on July 31st, plays Latitude Festival where he performs a special acoustic set and finishes the summer at Bestival with an exclusive full band UK festival appearance.
Pop fantastic Mika will be returning with his brand new album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" this coming 21st September 2009.
In conjunction with its release, Universal Music Malaysia has made a remixed version of his new single "We Are Golden (Mirwais Remix)" available for download for FREE to all Mika fans here in Rentak Sejuta. Isn't that so cool. A perfect Hari Raya Aidil Fitri present to all our viewers.
There is also a fun Mika game available for play while listening to his new track.
Just click the following link to access the FREE mp3 download as well as to play the Mika game:
dl.getdropbox.com/u/1541380/mika_countdown/mikagame.html
‘Pop’s Next Superstar’ Observer Music Monthly June 09
‘Brilliant stadium pop’ Poppregnant dog May 09
Global pop phenomenon MIKA releases his second album ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’ on September 21st through Casablanca/Island Records. This is preceded by the brand new single also called ‘We Are Golden’ which is available as a download from August 17th and physically on September 7th. The new album follows up his debut, ‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ which has sold nearly 6 million copies around the world and gone 5 x platinum in the UK for sales of over 1.5 million, as well as winning him BRIT, Ivor Novello and MTV Awards.
The single ‘We are Golden’ is a supernova musical rush - a gloriously epic slice of explosive power-pop - and underlines Mika as a completely unique talent within contemporary music. The track features Mika and the massive backing of the Andrae Crouch Gospel Choir (famously on Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”) and a huge kids chorus who kick with a fantastic lung-puncturing chant of ‘we are not what you think we are, WE ARE GOLDEN!’
The single comes with fantastic mixes from Calvin Harris, Mirwais and Don Diablo, and a video spectacular directed by acclaimed Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund, who has made some of the most iconic videos of the last decade by the likes of Madonna, U2 and Prodigy.
‘We Are Golden’ acts as a perfect opener for an album that is written by Mika and co-produced by himself and Greg Wells. The album was recorded between London and Los Angeles over the last two years, and other guests include The Seawind Horns (Thriller, Off The Wall), Imogen Heap, Owen Pallet from Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire and Stuart Price.
Fizzing with influences from big pop albums of the 80’s and 90’s through to Kurt Weill, 50’s singer Patti Page and 70’s singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, Mika describes the record as more grown up than it’s predecessor. “‘Life in Cartoon Motion’ contained a lot of childhood references. The new album is more adolescent. I thought ‘where do I go back to? Before all this happened, what made me start writing songs?’ I loved that feeling of being 17/18 years old and I wanted to return to that period”. The album is bristling with teenage possibilities and Observer Music Magazine describe is as ‘bursting with melodies and sounding dazzlingly carefree’.
Other new tracks include “Blame It On the Girls” which marries skittering percussion with floor-stomping piano and a swoon-worthy chorus, while “Rain” – featuring droplets of violin plucks from Owen Pallett and additional programming by Stuart Price – is a bona fide dancefloor anthem, Mika’s stunning voice floating effortlessly over pillows of synths. Indeed, from stirring ballads to candy-coated choruses, the new album retains a breadth of vision that speaks not only to Mika’s extraordinary melodic sensibilities, but also to the incredible stories he tells within his songs.
One of the most exciting live performers around, Mika closes the iTunes Festival in London on July 31st, plays Latitude Festival where he performs a special acoustic set and finishes the summer at Bestival with an exclusive full band UK festival appearance.
