Mylo Feat Freeform Five - Muscle Car (Sander Kleinenbergs Pace Car Mix Edit)
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Myles MacInnes (born 10 May 1978,
Broadford, Isle of Skye,
Scotland), better known by the stage name
Mylo, is a
Scottish electronic musician and record producer.
Early life and education
MacInnes was educated at his local high school on the
Isle of Skye and, after successfully gaining admission and a scholarship,
George Watson's College, a private school in
Morningside, Edinburgh. After completing his
Certificate of Sixth Year Studies, with one course in chemistry and four in mathematics, MacInnes gained admission and matriculated to the
University of Edinburgh. MacInnes had no plan after high school and initially wanted to lay bricks in
Australia, but he was unable to obtain a visa.
At the University of Edinburgh, MacInnes studied mathematics, taking second-year mathematics classes in his first year. Submitting an open application, he then applied to study mathematics and philosophy at the
University of Oxford and was allocated
Brasenose College. In
1999, MacInnes graduated in
Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology with a first-class degree.
MacInnes then commenced studies for a PhD in philosophy at the
University of California, Los Angeles but returned after one year of studies to produce music.
Career
Mylo released his debut
album,
Destroy Rock & Roll in 2004, on the
Breastfed Recordings label, which he co-owns. He produced the album on a computer in his own bedroom.
He has provided remixes for
Scissor Sisters ("
Mary"),
Amy Winehouse ("
Fuck Me Pumps"),
The Knife ("
You Take My Breath Away") and
The Killers ("
Somebody Told Me"). One of his works was a 2004 remix of
Kylie Minogue's
No. 2 UK hit, "
I Believe in You", which appeared on the single that peaked at
No. 3 on the US
Hot Dance Club Play chart. His biggest chart success to date came in the autumn of
2005. This was when the single "
Doctor Pressure", a mash-up of his own song "
Drop The Pressure" and
Miami Sound Machine's "
Dr. Beat", peaked at No. 3 on the
UK Singles Chart. The single performed well in the US, especially on the
Hot Dance Airplay and Hot Dance Club Play charts, where it jointly made the Top 10.
"
Muscle Car", the follow-up single to "Doctor Pressure", was a hit in the UK and
European dance charts, reaching
No. 1 on the UK
Club Chart in
November 2005, and No. 38 in the UK Singles Chart. The video that accompanied the single courted controversy as it featured two supposed
Chinese spies – actually played by
British actors
Bruce Wang and
Alex Liang – inventing an electronic fly to spy on the
American president,
George W. Bush. Mylo did not appear in the video.
In 2005, Mylo released a DJ mix titled Mylo's
Rough Guide to
Rave, and was released as a covermount CD in Mixmag.
He contributed a song, "
Mars Needs Women", to the
War Child compilation album,
Help!:
A Day in the Life, released in
September 2005, and was also featured on the
Canadian compilation album, MuchDance, released in
November 2006. In
2006, the track "
Otto's Journey" was used in a television commercial for
Kraft Zesty
Italian Dressing, which featured
Olympic figure skater
Michelle Kwan at home improvising a salad out of green beans, blackberries, and potatoes.
BBC Radio 1 played a world exclusive of a track by Mylo on
23 January 2009. The title of the track is unconfirmed, however
Radio 1 referred to it as '
I'm Back', because, as
Annie Mac stated, "he (Mylo) sent it to us with the file titled I'm Back". The same month, he released another
DJ mix album cover mount in an issue of Mixmag, this time it was called
The Return of Mylo, which contained his new song "
Wings of Fire".
Mylo's success has been a catalyst for a burgeoning dance music scene in the Isle of Skye. He headlined the
Isle of
Wedge Festival in
2010, held in Broadford.
Acts such as Niall
Munro and
Niteworks cite him as an influence. His brother
Hector is songwriter and guitarist for the band Injuns.
Freeform Five is an
English electronic group led by DJ, producer, and songwriter Anu Pillai. It was his remix of
Isolee’s "
Beau Mot Plage" in 1999 that alerted many to this group.
The Freeform Five DJ mix albums Bisous Bisous II and Misch Masch were released in 2005 and 2006. Over the years, Anu has remixed tracks for artist such as
N*E*R*D,
Brian Wilson,
X-Press 2 and
David Byrne,
Jamie Lidell,
Justin Timberlake,
Felix Da Housecat and The Killers. Freeform Five continue to perform at clubs like Fabric (
London), Manumission (
Ibiza),
Week End (
Berlin), Razz (
Barcelona),
Paris Paris (
Paris),
Lux (Lisbon) and tours in Australia,
Scandinavia,
North America,
Mexico,
Brazil and
Japan.
The 2004 studio album Strangest
Things is an inspired mix of
Prince,
Blondie, and
Kraftwerk (mixed with acid house) with a series of vinyl-only releases including "Perspex Sex", "Electromagnetic" and "Eeeeaaooww". The song
No More Conversations was re-released in
2007 with a new Mylo remix.