Merry Christmas gang! Just ten days to go till the big day! ARE YOU READY? I AM NOT! But I am excited, primarily because I have a ten-year-old boy in the house and the excitement of a ten-year-old boy at this time of year is a thing so powerful that if one could but harness it, one could light up a medium-sized city for a fortnight.
This is no uneducated guess, since I am a doctor of Christmas, as well you know. Our new compilation album, THE KING OF LOFI CHRISTMAS (https://go.meaningwave.com/KINGOFLOFICHRISTMAS) has had a whopping quarter of a million streams since its release a few weeks back, and I was this week asked to provide a suitably festive mini-mix for the esteemed gentlemen and women over at Blaze TV’s NORMAL WORLD show. I mean, would it be a Christmas Special without an expertly executed 5-minute ultra-mix of the finest Lofi Christmas beats, seasoned with the very finest Christmas movie and TV samples? Of course not.
Watch the NORMAL WORLD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL here (https://linktw.in/SwaUKT)! The King Of Lofi Christmas appears at the end. HO HO HO is GO GO GO!
(https://linktw.in/QPTDAI)
Speaking of jollity, I am as happy as a fat old man atop a chimney to report that THE DON STUDIOS INTERNET ISSUES ARE FIXED and that we are returning to our daily stream schedule TONIGHT (https://linktw.in/HoFZFx), with a celebratory SUPER PARTY SET (https://linktw.in/HoFZFx)… and then we’ll be going DEEP on Saturday (https://linktw.in/QNMvZv) and Sunday (https://linktw.in/mzmKcJ) with a live lofi scoring of OUTWITTING THE DEVIL by Napoleon Hill (https://linktw.in/QNMvZv)… So click those links and hit the reminder button and we shall be LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE, BELOVED WAVE RIDING INDIVIDUAL!
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA, DON STUDIOS MEXICO, DEC ‘23
ELSEWHERE IN THE MU
RECENT LIVESTREAM: ２０２３ - MEANINGSTREAM 455 | STREAM
(https://akirathedon.substack.com/p/meaningstream-455-stream)
MIXTAPE: THE KING OF LOFI CHRISTMAS
(https://akirathedon.substack.com/p/a-gift-from-the-king-of-lofi-christmas)
ALBUM: LOFI CHRISTMAS VI
(https://go.meaningwave.com/LOFICHRISTMASVI)
Timelapse of me drawing my new avatar
Tools: Procreate on iPad with Apple Pencil
Own the NFT at https://opensea.io/akirathedon !
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!
Own the NFT! https://opensea.io/akirathedon
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcome to the quarter century mark. That sure went by fast. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas - THAt sure went by fast! And now here we are in the new calendar year.
My distributor informed me a few days before Christmas that they were shutting shop for a few weeks, so I’d not be able to get any new releases out until January 18th, which put a lil crimp in our NEW MUSIC EVERY FRIDAY schedule…And it occurred to me whilst under the barbell in the gym on New Years Eve, which is where all my best ideas occur to me, to make you a special mix for the New Year. So I did. And that mix is now live for you to enjoy.
GO!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GOMIX)
Patrons and supporters on Patreon, Youtube, and now X can download the mix for free here.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GOMIX)
MEANWHILE! I am taking the extra time I’ve been allotted to make what would have been this week's single extra beautiful. So it’s getting a gospel choir, which I always thought it deserved. And you’re gonna...
“I want you
To understand what it means
To lose your freedom…”
Ross Ulbricht (https://freeross.org/case-overview/) is currently serving two life sentences in a maximum security jail, where he’s been since 2013, for creating the world’s first online digital marketplace based around Bitcoin.
This is his story. Told in his own words, via phone-call from prison, transmuted into music.
Understand what it means - to lose your freedom.
Stream and download the album now on your platform of choice.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/FREEDOM)
Join us live for the visual premiere on Youtube here from 2ET
(https://linktw.in/bMjfSr)
I met Ross’ mother, Lyn, late last year, when I was in Miami to perform my Ayn Rand EP (https://go.meaningwave.com/ANTHEM) at the Atlas Society gala. The World renowned “Pimp On A Blimp” Alex Stein very sweetly invited me to a party being hosted by Tim Pool, where I had a lovely time and met a number of fascinating people, and late in the night I was introduced to Lyn. ...
“You can't pursue happiness
You could pursue a wild animal
You could pursue a ball
That's rolling downhill
You could pursue a car
You could pursue a dog
Because those are all real
But happiness you can't pursue
You could end up happy
But you can't pursue happiness
There are two things
You can pursue
That'll get you there…”
Make some noise for the grand return of Scott Adams () to the Meaningwave Universe! And with a song that couldn’t be more perfectly Meaningwave if it was synthesized in a lab by a team of 100 genius-level Meaningwave scholars 2000 years from now...
CHASING MEANING
(https://go.meaningwave.com/CHASINGMEANING)
…is out now!
I sent it to Scott last week, and he replied straight away, “I love it! But I am biased.” Which is fair. I love it too, and I hope you do too. Hey look! Here’s the music video!
(https://linktw.in/USRVHE)
Wonder where it’s gonna show up in next month’s MEANINGWAVE TOP 50, huh? SPEAKING OF THE TOP 50!
The MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 ...
