“It takes time
It takes discipline
To break
The old
You”
BREAK THE OLD YOU
(https://go.meaningwave.com/BREAKTHEOLDYOU)
This is true. To create the epic you that exists in potential from the ashes of the old, does indeed take time, and it does indeed take discipline. But not as much time as one might think. 8 weeks ago the idea of getting up before 9 seemed utterly wild to me. Now I wake up at 4. Usually before the alarm even goes off. I wrote this song at about 5am, during the 4am start of JOCKO 3 sessions that created this new ability in me. In the past, I might have been FINISHING a song at 5am, but starting one? Insanity. And yet here we are, and there is something deeply magical and dangerously powerful about creating before the sun rises, as the world around you still slumbers. All that power in the ether waiting to be harnessed is yours and yours alone.
I can feel it in this song. A bolt of raw, pure, energy, crackling with the power of a brand new day.
There are countless musical inspirations in the record as with all records, but it’s easy to see the influence of Three 6 Mafia, Ghost, and my own Video Highway from The Life Equation. Working in the dawn reminded me of when I stopped drinking and DJing. The clarity was almost scary. It was like taking off a backpack full of rocks and a blindfold. It was so much clearer and easier to know exactly what to do, what weapon to pick, which direction to thrust, ten chess moves ahead, all in bullet time. It felt like the fight scene choreography in V For Vendetta, or a John Wick movie.
BREAK THE OLD YOU
(https://go.meaningwave.com/BREAKTHEOLDYOU)
The single is out now on all platforms (https://go.meaningwave.com/BREAKTHEOLDYOU). It’s from the album, WARPATH that comes out on Meaningwave Records on November 1st. That’s NEXT WEEK.
The music video is on the way - I moved house yesterday, which disrupted my regular creation schedule. So to make up for no music video today, we shall instead have…
That’s right! A special, rare LIVE STREAM, from 7CST. See you there!
(https://linktw.in/vwypHg)
LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
AKIRA THE DON
DSPDC, Mexico, October ‘24
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
“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. ...
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...
“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 ...
