Mylo Returns

It's all about wonky disco this time

20 April 2008 - After three years off, Mylo will be back on our radar this summer.

6 Music caught up with the Scottish DJ and music producer at his East London studio, and he told us the long awaited follow up to his debut record Destroy Rock & Roll, will be out soon:

“I’m just going mad at the moment, finishing the album. I have a deadline of about a month today, as that’s when I’ve booked in my mate Willy to come and help me mix it for a week or two, so that really is a pretty final deadline.”

His debut album took dance floors by storm back in 2005, with anthems like Drop The Pressure taking hold of clubs around the world. This time he has mixed things up, with a few different sounds featuring on the record:

"Broadly speaking, quite kind of wonky disco, synthesizer music, a certain amount of cosmic disco elements to it, some of it kind of slowed down, not too much new rave, I think that kind of sound is starting to date quite quickly."

"Broadly speaking, quite kind of wonky disco"
Mylo on the new album sound

The reason it has taken so long to make this album is partly due to the fact Mylo bought a derelict house and took on the project of making into his new home, where he is also making this album in London’s East End.

He has a few gigs lined up this summer, where he will road test the new material, like Rockness, Get Loaded in the Park, Moby's album launch party in London and also Wild in the Park.

However first off, he will play Mixmag’s 25 ^th Anniversary party next month at East Village in Shoreditch:

“I‘m terrified about getting it finished at the moment. I've taken a few gigs just as a DJ over the summer, so hopefully I will have a chance to try out all the live stuff, but we won't actually play any live shows 'till the record gets released which will be later in the year.

There's always that agonising period of 3-6 months after you finish a record, when you have to wait for it to hit the shops."

"There's a lot of work to be done in terms of label set up and deciding who to sign to in other parts of the world, which could take a bit of time."


Jo Youle