Greetings beloved Meaningwave enjoyer! It was another glorious week in Wavetown, packed with high-energy live shows, and we even got a new music video!
THOSE DAYS ft Jocko Willink dropped this week (https://linktw.in/IdNoSI), a suitably high-powered visual to go with one of the highlights of an album full of highlights, the beloved GET SOME LP (https://go.meaningwave.com/GETSOME). Is a new Jocko full-length coming in 24?! DARE TO DREAM!
There was also a lil short showing some of the behind-the-scenes action that went into the making of the video…
(https://linktw.in/glSZQS)
ALSO THIS WEEK! I was invited onto Chris Boyle, AKA Best Tie Placement In The News Game’s show on OANN, if you missed that live and you have a subscription, you can watch that back here, and look out for clips next week…
(https://live.oann.com/browse#/show/2048)
Meanwhile in the epic arena of MEANING STREAMS…
On Saturday, we had a very cosy and joyful CHILLING STREAM (https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM486), replete with 2 hours of lofi and downtempo Meaningwave classics.
Then on Sunday, we executed an irreducible 2 hour set of nothing but 70s classics (https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM487), from New Wave to Reagge, Disco to Prog, rock anthems and beyond, an unforgettable DJ set that could only be witnessed on the Meaning Stream…
GET AFTER IT! | MEANINGSTREAM 488
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM488)
We kicked off the week with a tight and powerful set of Meaningwave bangers…
ANTHEMS! | MEANINGSTREAM 489
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM489)
Another tight and powerful set stacked with pure Meaningwave Anthems to ignite a raging inferno in the coldest of hearts
UNSTOPPABLE | MEANINGSTREAM 490
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM490)
A powerful themed stream on MAKING YOURSELF UNSTOPPABLE, including some deep Meaningwave Akira The Don lore, going back 20 years…
Jayson Eva said, “A great comeback from 2 early-ended streams. Pure bliss with historical Meaningwave songs. The whole stream was simply UNSTOPPABLE”
NUKES | MEANINGSTREAM 491
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MEANINGSTREAM491)
Jayson Eva says: Wisdom and epicness combined in one stream. 2-hours of nothing but NUKES!
Then tonight, of course it’s our very epic and joyful PARTY (https://linktw.in/HICxBG)… Last week’s incredible PARTY stream - described by one viewer as "The best DJ set I have ever witnessed" - remains blocked on youtube a week later, after receiving 56 copyright strikes and getting blocked in 42 countries, with NO OPTION to mute the offending tracks like usual, for some reason that I do not understand. NEVER FEAR! Supporters on Patreon can watch back the show (https://www.patreon.com/posts/party-285-stream-97360957), and both Patrons and YT channel members can download the audio and video, and enjoy it forever.
CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU!
(https://linktw.in/HICxBG)
New mixtape and music video next week!
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA THE DON, Don Studios Mexico, Feb ‘24
PS - It’s Bandcamp Friday, which means all the proceeds go to Meaningwave and Bandcamp doesn’t take a cut, so if you were thinking of getting an album of 100, today’s a good day!
(https://akirathedon.bandcamp.com/)
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 ...
