Mylo's new album 'bit like Abba'

By Sarah Jane Griffiths
Newsbeat entertainment reporter

Mylo has described his second album as sounding like "Abba in Space".

The superstar DJ is due to appear at Get Loaded In The Park on Clapham Common in London on Sunday, where he is hoping to unveil a host of new tracks.

He said: "I've got a couple of girls singing on various tracks and the idea we went for there was Abba in Space.

"I've been lax getting things together, and I've done 50 or 60 tracks and then not finished any of them. I'm kind of whittling it down."

"I've done a few random DJ gigs where I've tried things out. I booked up a lot over the summer on the assumption I'd have finished it, so I'm a bit hectic and knackered!"

I don't want to do something completely indulgent now that no-one relates to apart from me. But I don't feel any desire to make the record any more commercial than I want to either Mylo talking about his forthcoming new album

He's hoping to whittle those tracks down a bit further this weekend - testing the reaction from a British crowd at London's Get Loaded in the Park on Clapham Common which he says makes him feel sick with nerves.

"I'm always more nervous about playing in the UK. In places like Hungary they've got no expectations, so I can get away with a lot. Here it's a bit more nerve-wracking," Mylo explained.

"The album should be done by October, but then there's always this annoying gap where you have to wait for it to come out, so it will probably be next year. Which is annoying as it's always nice to release in an Olympic year."

New influences

But if you're looking for more of the 80s Gloria Estefan samples that helped him get to number three with Doctor Pressure (his mash up of his track Drop The Pressure and Miami Sound Machine's Doctor Beat from his debut) you won't find them.

He said: "I've really moved away from using samples as I've done that. So it's a bit less pop, a bit more like spacey bleeps."

The Bollywood influence comes from his newest passion, which Mylo is also promising to unleash on Sunday's unsuspecting crowd.

"Bollywood disco has been my main discovery of the summer. I ordered a whole lot of soundtrack albums from a shop in Brick Lane," he said.

"They've got no respect for copyright of any kind so you have the melody for I Feel Love, then it will turn into Abba, then it will turn into Video Killed The Radio Star, it's brilliant.

"I don't know if anyone else is going to be feeling it, but I really like it.

"Always with these things if it's something you're excited about, it doesn't normally translate very well, and I'll end up getting heckled and cans of lager chucked in my face. But I'm from Scotland, I'm used to that."

Album 'perfected'

The Oxford graduate from the Isle of Skye quit UCLA to put together his first album in his bedroom.

He admits the overwhelming response is one of the reasons he's taking so long over the second.

Mylo produced his debut album on a computer in his bedroom

He added: "It was so weird seeing the last album have a life of its own after it was released.

"I don't want to do something completely indulgent now that no-one relates to apart from me.

"But I don't feel any desire to make the record any more commercial than I want to either. "

After taking so much time off, he hasn't ruled out getting involved in a few more remixes either, after working his magic on tracks from the likes of Kylie, Scissor Sisters and The Killers.

He told Newsbeat: "I don't really know how I actually managed to do those, it was such a hectic time.

"I think most of them I stayed up all night. Some producers give away a lot of their best stuff on remixes and then run out of stuff for themselves.

"I might dip my toe back in it. I was going to do one for Franz Ferdinand that fell through so I'd like to do them. And someone with amazing vocals like Goldfrapp would be really exciting."

Mylo's already been lined up to play the new London nightclub, Matter, from the team behind Fabric, when it opens at the O2 on 19 September.

He added: "Before I put Destroy Rock & Roll out I'd have been happy to sell 10,000 records and I ended up selling something like 50 times.

"I'm a DJ now, so if it sells 10,000 records I'll be fine. No one really buys music these days anyway."