On this week’s episode of the Feel My Bicep mixtape series we welcome Mia Koden, the south London-based Sudanese & British music producer and DJ. Having grown up in Ghana and Nigeria hearing reggae, drum & bass and dubstep, to her London days of championing underground electronic music, her new alias brings infectious energy, bass-and-percs-heavy sensibilities with some exciting deviations. Her early 2024 EP ’34U’ has cemented her as a forward thinking producer across low-end electronic territories. Let’s catch up with her & find out what she’s been up to…

Festival season is in full swing right now, so in-between that and making tunes am trying to sleep; see the fam; clear my embarrassing inboxes + to-do list; and do little things every day to stay happy and healthy.

This year I was lucky enough to play on the truly iconic IICON stage at Glastonbury Festival (cute side note BICEP’s live set was a couple hours after me) so decided to bring a slice of it here – “One Hour Of IICON” – for those asking for a recording <3

Because I was opening the stage for the night – including soundtracking the sun setting – I didn’t want to go in too hard. So this mix is cherry picking tunes from a slow building bass n drums odyssey, as always prioritising new music from underground producers (but also showed respect to the originators with a couple classics).

Headed to Pirate Studios for their CDJ-3000s as I set a stupid number of loops + cue points on some of the tracks in here to play around with their arrangements (sorry producer friends!) so I could cram in as much as possible. It’s pretty quick mixing; cutting down 2.5 hours was a MISSION!! So fingers crossed this edition still captures some of the magic of that day.

I’ll soon be releasing a track of mine “Up – Run That” (played it in this mix) as a single raising funds for some Sudanese/South Sudanese causes, followed by freeing up 34U.2, the 2nd EP off this year’s production’s mix Made By Mia Koden Vol.2. Beyond that, I’ve finally started collaborating with some artists which I’m v v v excited about. Thanks for having me 🙂 see you August 2nd xx

1. Ella Fitzgerald ft. The Paul Smith Quartet – Summertime (Live)
2. Max Graef – We Are The World (Test Drive)
3. Ronan – Geodesis
4. Four Tet – Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix)
5. ????? – ?????
6. Slimy x Delta x Obskure
7. Djrum – Plead With Me
8. Mia Koden – Real2Me
9. Smith & Mighty – B Line Fi Blo
10. Danvers – Lojic
11. Mia Koden – F.T.S
12. Conzi – Kway
13. K0JAK – Goodbye Summer
14. Truant – Jack
15. mrshl – 90s Spesh
16. Burna x Elbarto – Backwidda Remix
17. DEFT – Throat
18. Mia Koden – Up (Run That)
19. Mr. Ho – 000 Baby (Om Unit remix)
20. K-LONE – Love Me a Little
21. Smith & Mighty – Jungle Man Corner
22. Delian Sound – Finders Keepers
23. Peven Everett – Gabrielle (Om Unit Edit)