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HOP IN THE DELOREAN AND JOIN AKIRA AND THE GANG FOR A TRIP TO THE EIGHTIES!
TRACKLISTING
Lazerhawk - Space Is the Place
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (Psychemagic Re-Edit)
Late Nite Tuff Guy - Say U Love Me (LNTG rework)
The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia
ABC - The Look Of Love (Part 1)
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat (Ken Walker Remix / Re-Drum)
Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz [Dim's Radio Edit. Remixed By Dimitri From Paris]
The Clash - This Is Radio Clash
The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love Action (I Believe In Love)
The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer (Re-Drum)
a-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On T.V. (Extended Version)
The Power Station - Some Like It Hot (Short Edit)
The Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia (Short Edit)
ABC - When Smokey Sings (Rhythm Scholar Stellar Groove RMX / Short Edit)
Duran Duran - The Reflex (Retro Shock Remix)
The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection
New Order - Blue Monday [12'' Mix]
Real Life - Send Me An Angel '89 (Extended Mix)
Duran Duran - Girls On Film (Flat Intro)
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Re-Drum)
The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me
Blondie - Call Me (Original 12" Version)
Gerard McMann - Cry, Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go? (Cutdown)
Jefferson Starship - We Built This City (Short Edit)
A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (AK WARP)
Devo - Whip It
The Jam - The Eton Rifles
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Wham! (George Michael) - Careless Whisper
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go [Intro Edit]
Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing (Intro)
Adam & The Ants - ''Antmusic''
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (Flat Intro / Short Edit)
Paul Engemann - Scarface (Push It to the Limit)
The Go-Go's - We Got The Beat
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (Scooter Epic Intro / Re-Drum)
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Running Down A Dream
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
Spandau Ballet - True (Re-Drum / Short Edit)
The Highwaymen - Johnny Cash with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings - Highwayman
David Bowie - All The Young Dudes
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
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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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 ...
