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
And we’re back with the Meaningwave Top 50 (https://go.meaningwave.com/MeaningwaveTop50)! Counting down the most streamed Meaningwave songs across DSPS from the month of September! We have a gang of new entries! Re-entries And one song that’s shot up a crazy 42 places!
Join us LIVE for the countdown now (https://linktw.in/ivUtbc), or if it’s not now, enjoy the full Meaningwave Video Chart Show at your leisure!
(https://linktw.in/ivUtbc)
Meanwhile, you can follow the official MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 playlist
(https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5UIGI0QaY5OUtlectWkd2H) on your streaming service of choice here.
(https://go.meaningwave.com/MeaningwaveTop50)
PLUS! You can follow the BOTTOM 50 playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XjYmRnNGPwbN3FNa3JUyZ) the 50 LEAST streamed songs - here!
(https://go.meaningwave.com/BOTTOM50)
Speaking of which, I get messages all the time from people asking what streaming service to use to make sure we get paid the best. To be honest, they all pay so crazily ...
“When I make that error
When I let
Discipline down
There’s only one thing to do
And that’s
Get back on the path
Get back on it!”
(https://go.meaningwave.com/GETBACKONTHEPATH)
As some of you have noticed, I’ve been getting up at 4am for the past couple of weeks. This is antithetical to my usual mode of being, which would have me working until 4am. This goes back to when I was a child, and I’d stay up till 4 or 5 reading under my duvet with a lamp, then have to be kicked out of bed to go to school. Some of my earliest jobs involved having to get up at what I considered ungodly hours - my paper round when I was ten or so, and later my job at Boots The Chemist when I was 14, which had me rising in the dark and walking an hour to get to the job itself, all before the sun rose. I held negative associations with early rising, and so as soon as I had control of my schedule, I went right back into covert book mode and stayed up as late as I could and thus rose accordingly.
But on the rare occasions where ...
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 ...
