FIRST PARTY OF THE NEW YEAR!
New Year Sale now on at meaningwave.com, use code NY24 at checkout for 20% off everything!
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TRACKLISTING
Feel So Good - Mase
Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
This Charming Man (Lofi Remix) - Akira The Don & Morrissey
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn
Got Your Money ft. Kelis - Ol' Dirty Bastard
REMEMBER THE TIME - MICHAEL JACKSON
Sometimes - Erasure
Sex Machine (Bootleg RMX) (Short Re-Edit) - James Brown vs Prince
Ghotst Ride IT (Bonus Track For Japanese Edition) - Mistah F.A.B.
You Got It (The Right Stuff) - New Kids On The Block
Buffalo Dance (Henry Greenwood Edit) - Neneh Cherry
Magic - Yung Gravy
Mr. Wendal (Intro) - Arrested Development
Poppa Large - Ultamagnetic MC's
Justified And Ancient (Tammy Mix) - The KLF
City Living [The Reflex Edit] 2016 REMASTER - The Reflex
Sunshine [The Reflex Edit] 2016 REMASTER - The Reflex
I'm Sprung - Lemi Vice & Action Jackson Twerk Remix - T-Pain
Boasty (Dirty / Intro) - Wiley ft Stefflon Don, Sean Paul & Idris Elba
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
Back To Life (Short Edit) - Soul II Soul
Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers
Fade - feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Post Malone - Kanye West
What's Happenin' feat. Busta Rhymes - Method Man
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' Ta F' Wit (Featurecast Remix) - Wu-Tang Clan
That New Funkadelic (Dirty / Intro) - Ice Cube
Lovefool (Flat Intro / Re-Drum) - THe Cardigans
Keepin' The Faith (Clean) - De La Soul
Wiggle It - 2 In A Room
What Is Love - Haddaway
Rhythm Is A Dancer (Extended) - Snap
Push The Feeling On - Nightcrawlers
It's a Fine Day - Opus III
Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-model) - Orbital
Get Yourself High (Felix da Housecats Chemical Meltdown Mix) - Chemical Brothers
Generate (Radio Edit) - Eric Prydz
Midnight City [Eric Prydz Private Remix] - M83
Ebeneezer Goode (Beat Edit) - The Shamen
Technologic - Daft Punk
Smells Like Seven Nation Army (Cheyenne Giles Chicken Soup Bootleg) (Clean Extended) - Skrilex & Nirvana
Sinnerman (Felix da Housecat's Heavenly House Mix) - Nina Simone & Felix da Housecat
Empire of The Sun - WE ARE THE PEOPLE (MIDNITEMEN REMIX) - MIDNITEMEN
Hallo Spaceboy (Psb Remix) (With The Pet Shop Boys) - David Bowie
California Stunners - Akira The Don & Wade Crescent
I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
MY GOLDEN PATH - Akira The Don & Danika XIX
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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!
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Art by me!
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I worked in a bunch of factories when I was 16/17, after I'd left home.
Sauce factory. Cardboard box factory. Car door handle factory.
The former was the hardest because I was working in the freezers, packing bags of sauce for 12-hour shifts with nothing but local commercial radio and the speed-addled ramblings of my co-workers to entertain me.
The cardboard box factory was the most fun because I got to slide down this three-storey chute into a skip full of cardboard and jump up and down in it to squash the cardboard down. I'd always leave the place shredded with paper-cuts, but that made me feel like a warrior.
The car door handle factory was the worst because it was the most boring - literally just picking a spring out of a greasy bucket and jamming it into a wedge of plastic then passing it to the old lady to my right, for 12 hours, in a giant air-hangar looking-ass hall with a great big clock looming over us, that ticked with all the lugubrious lurching urgency of a ketamine zombie outside a ...
“Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud?
Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud
But while it's still going before he has died
A man may do many things worthy of pride”
With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley’s poem of the same name, MEANINGWAVE is proud to present a new single…
WHY NOT
(https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT)
Why Not? (https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT) is but one of hundreds of poems written by the perennial zone inhibitor and Appreciator Of The Wonder Of Being, and published in magazines and newspapers between the 1910s and 1940s. It is classic Braley, an anthem for the glory of man and all his achievements, past, and yet to come. And now you can sing it.
Oh, and that cover art there? That’s a picture of me back in ‘91 when I was around 11, which is my son’s age.
WHY NOT (https://go.meaningwave.com/WHYNOT) is out now. Download (https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/album/why-not) or stream on your platform of choice now ...
Been in the studio since 4am, guess what album I’m working on?
I shall be sticking to this new schedule ‘till the album’s done, at least, and then we’ll see. Heck, maybe I’ll like it. I liked it today, I gotta say. There’s something magical about going to the studio in the dark, getting an amazing new song mixed while most people are still sleeping, then stepping back outside to find the sun rising. Oh! What a glorious thing!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/OhWhatAGloriousThing)
I worked till 10:30, then cracked open a White Monster - another experiment - and walked down to the gym in the blazing Mexican sunshine. Jamie was leading a Crossfit class, and happy to see me as ever, and I was happy to find the entire squat/bench area unoccupied, and got some work in on my lifting. I don’t know if it was the early start, or the new song, or the White Monster, but despite having been away from the gym for ten days due to a cold that I had no desire to disseminate, I was able to lift slightly heavier ...
