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TRACKLIST:
The Commodores - Easy (Like Sunday Mornings)
Booker T. and The MG's - Green Onions
Stevie Wonder - Fingertips, Pt. 2
Gwen Mccrae - 90% Of Me Is You
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
Zapp & Roger - Be Alright
Vanilla - Keep On Walking
jinsang - dance in the night
Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul
Bonus Points - NY Vibes
Barry White - I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
Akira The Don - Awed Of I
Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
Flamingosis - Cruise Control
Jimmy Norman - Gangster of Love, Pts. 1-2
Sly & The Family Stone - Everybody Is A Star
The Five Stairsteps - O-O-H Child
Ace Spectrum - Just Like In The Movie
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Marvin Gaye - Grapevine • The Reflex Re√ision
Sade - Smooth Operator (Short Edit)
The Reflex - Bad Girls [The Reflex Revision] REMASTER 2016
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up [The Reflex Revision]
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Bad Luck (a Dimitri from Paris Disco Re-Edit)
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music [The Reflex Revision]
Marvin Gaye - Ain't No Mountain [The Reflex Revision] 2016 UPDATE
Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the Beat Around (Drew Pierce Quick Edit)
ARETHA FRANKLIN - Say a little prayer (DIMITRI FROM PARIS EDIT)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost (Dimitri from Paris Super Disco Blend)
Donna Summer - On The Radio
James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On
Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World (Intro)
Prince - I would die 4 you
Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time (Kevin Scott Break Intro)
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Busted and McFly - Build Me Buttercup
Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You
Lulu & The Luvvers - Shout
Don McLean - American Pie
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Dion - Runaround Sue
ABBA - Thank You For The Music
The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
Flamingosis & The Kount - Raise It Up!
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
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BACK WITH ANOTHER BANGER FROM BERTON AND THE DON!
TELL THEM NOW!
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley's poem of 100 years hence!
STREAM https://go.meaningwave.com/TELLTHEMNOW
Art by me!
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HANK is the brand new album from Akira The Don and Charles Bukowski.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/HANK)
HANK (https://go.meaningwave.com/HANK) draws from years of interviews and poems to create 14 beautiful songs - 11 brand new, including the instant classics BLUEBIRD (https://go.meaningwave.com/BLUEBIRD) ft Harry Dean Stanton, LET IT DIE (https://go.meaningwave.com/LETITDIE), and THE CRUNCH (https://go.meaningwave.com/THECRUNCH), along with a gang more that you will come to love, featuring Bukowski’s meditations on life, loss, loneliness, love and all that comes between and after, entwined with an exquisite string soaked soundtrack from Akira.
The set also features a trio of beloved Meaningwave Masterpieces - The Genius of The Crowd (https://go.meaningwave.com/THEGENIUS), plus the Tom Waits-voiced Nirvana (https://go.meaningwave.com/NIRVANA) and The Laughing Heart (https://go.meaningwave.com/THELAUGHINGHEART).
You can read about how Akira came to discover Charles Bukowski and the inspiration behind ...
It’s a new month, which means it's time to count down the most steamed Meaningwave songs across DSPs for the past month, on the
MEANINGWAVE TOP 50
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MeaningwaveTop50)
Chart data is compiled from streams across digital streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and now YouTube and X. We have a gang of new entries this month, along with some major re-entries… is your favorite in the chart? And who’s at number one? Tune in live now and find out!
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LABOR DAY SALE!
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It’s Labor Day in the USA, and in keeping with tradition we have a sale on for the next 24 hours… get 20% off everything with code WORK at checkout now!
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GAINS!
(https://twitter.com/akirathedon/status/1830001558823846150)
Good news! I transcended my goal of being able to lift my bodyweight this week. I wasn’t expecting to hit that for a few weeks… but I jumped 20lb after doing extra bench practice 3...
OCEAN VIEW 🌅 | 6 Hour Lofi, boombap, golden beats mix
(https://linktw.in/UQQKZG)
Going live RIGHT NOW! Come hang with the gang and enjoy six hours of immaculately mixed late summer vibes.
(https://linktw.in/UQQKZG)
In more good news, you can own the beautiful artwork as one of our brand new super useful and super epic MEANINGWAVE DESK MATS (https://www.meaningwave.com/pages/search-results-page?q=Desk%20mat)! Own yours now exclusively via meaningwave.com, and get 10% off your order because its Labour Day Weekend so we have a Labor Day Weekend sale on - use code WORK at checkout!
Enjoy the new single (https://go.meaningwave.com/THECRUNCH) and music video (https://linktw.in/MESaQl) that dropped this morning, and see you at the mix premiere! (https://linktw.in/UQQKZG)
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA THE DON
DSPDC, Mexico, August ‘24