How awesome is that?!?!?!?!

Check my interview with ace trance metal types Silent Descent after the jump.

— Thursday, July 31st, 2008

So, I posted a thing on blob blog this morning about how eerlily similar the artwork for Sac VS Pip‘s new single and video is to Zombie Hamster’s Godzilla Boy. See above.

The internets being a fast place, we had, within hours, a reaction from Zombie Hamster (“I’m a tad miffed at that”) and Dr Dan Le Sac (“Shiz, the similarities are pretty undeniable but not deliberate! apologies mr.hamster…”).

Dr Le Sac went on to post a Zombie Hamster comic on the Sac Vs Pip website, under the headline “We Be Thieves“.

“Check out www.zombiehamster.com,” writes Le Sac. “There are some very striking similarities with the new letter from god vid! Not deliberate but it is pretty damn close to what we did, although Godzilla Boy came first me thinks!”

True story!

Not being a fan of lawyers and their lairs, I think this should be settled in a more interesting and entertaining (for we, the foul consumers) fashion….

Letter From Godzilla Boy One Shot Comic Book!

GO ON! That would be dope! I wanna draw the variant cover!

— Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Sample:

The album is birthed in a bonfire of RZA’s musical themes to date – primal drums, kung fu music, cartoon laughter, Hollywood string loops, all collapsing in on themselves in a pyre that looks like Bladerunner and feels like the apocalypse. From these flaming embers rises the musical phoenix that is ‘Long Time Coming’ – one of the illest things RZA has created to date, music you can bathe in in, lyrics that suggest a Cohenian longevity and reward for ones attention. (I can’t be sure on this, obviously – ask me in ten years if this shit stands up. I predict it will). It sounds like Sonic The Hedgehog falling down a worm-hole. Isn’t this what dude was promising on the fabled Cure LP? What the fuck is this crazy next shit doing on a BobDigi LP?

Read the whole thing here.

— Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Brand new ME from ATD16 – a tale from Miami over Rick Ross‘ Push It beat.

Check it!

Stream:Akira The Don – Push it To The Limit

DOWNLOADS

Akira The Don  – Push it To The Limit (Main)

Akira The Don  – Push it To The Limit (Clean)

Akira The Don  – Push it To The Limit (Acapella)

I’m spitting on other people’s beats for pretty much the whole tape. Recording started this week, any ideas for beats you want me to hit, drop them in the comments.

Lyrics After The Jump.

Akira The Don – Push It To The Limit
July 08

caught in miami
2004
I’m up on roberts bike
and im a little small
and he’s a little tall
i hit a curb i fall
i get back on again
singin this the way we ball
im looking for a kinkos
to do some cd covers
the sun is beating down I’m in a vest and barely covered
robert wrote me directions
and I cant read his writing
but I’m on holiday in MIA
and its exciting
I pedalled and pedalled
sweating and burning metal gleaming
leaving traffic up in my dust
bust the highway speeding
sweat drenched my white vest
saw the kinkos swear to god
copied fifty cd covers
chucked my mixtape on my blog

i push and I push
i ride and i ride
trying to thrive cos I’m alive
put it all on the line
to see what i could find
anglesey to MIA
I’m feeling fine cos its my time

I got my business done
and now its got a little late leave
to wade and roberts place up at the top of little haiti
but like I said I couldnt really make out the directions
think it says 35th street
I head off in that direction
I leave the motorway
Its getting residential
the sun is burning down
then suddenly Im in the ghetto
the buildings start to shrink
the garbage starts to stink
the rooves are corrugated iron
and i start to think
that I dont recognise this place
I must be getting pretty lost
I go to use  my phone but rah the battery’s dead and its switched off
but I find 35 and number 5 I knock the door
a bunch of guys who sat outside aks what the fuck I’m banging for
im at the wrong house
and so i head south
i meet some black kids
on a corner and
we chat they bang

my mixtape in they car
they say I sound like 50 yo
we smoke a blunt they call me London
suddenly they gots to go

and so I cycle off
thinking bout what the kids contested
that if the coppers catch them out past dark
they get arrested
and then i see the vans
driving around so slowly
with they back doors wide open
just like the kids done told me

hours pass still lost suddenly I hit a freeway
Im in the wrong lane oncoming traffic nearly kills me

its gotten late
its gotten dark
im getting chased by dogs (roof!)
noone’ll let me use their phone
the bike seat’s mashed my ass up (oof!)
I’m scared
but then I see a light
this little mom and pop store
i drop the bike and enter
practically fall down on the floor

the guy behind counter smiles
i swear he must be christ
he lets me put my sim card
in his phone
hes over nice
and so’s his lovely wife
miss sunshine he’s J Boogie
invite me to a party I feel like Im in a movie
I get my numbers call up robert
he’s like where you been?
picks me up in his silver buick I’m like this must be a dream

— Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Our pal Adam Fletcher writes:

Mr AKtheD,

Just an update on the bees. I know you’re busy.

I came across the attached paper in a journal I was browsing at work the other day, and it caught my eye. It is the published data from a study reported a year or so ago. It seems a plausible explanation, and the numbers quoted are quite horrifying really:

“However, a travelling wave of disease is predicted to form suddenly, infecting up to 35–100% of wild Bombus, and spread away from the greenhouse at a rate of 2 km/wk.”

To me, it seems that CCD and it’s spread is more likely due to a pathogen outbreak, rather than stressed out bees (pesticides or dirty chemicals). It spreads, for one thing. Crithidia bombi isn’t a virus like IAPV which was held against the wall last autumn, but a single cell trypanosome (related to the more infamous African ‘sleeping sickness’). A gut pathogen, easily regaled upon brother and sister bees. And apparently highly prevalent in greenhouse-reared bees. I did a winter working in an insect-greenhouse a few years ago, and can testify that the glass was full of holes. Some young boys in the village enjoyed throwing bricks.

Without realising, we could all be to blame for the fall in Hagen Daaz profits and the current economic slump we see fit to fear.

???

Adam

Oh crap! Basically. Wikipedia has a pretty extensive page on what they’ve decided to call Colony Collapse Disorder now, which you might wanna check. Shits reached Taiwan now you know. Wow.

— Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Inspired by recent Smoking Gun Dot Com exposes on Akon and Rick Ross, rap website HipHopDX has decided to do a bit of journalism, and has looked into the criminal past of “goon” rapper Plies, who has claimed on record he’s been to jail and suchlike.

Turns out dude hasn’t actually been to jail, and, in fact, didn’t get arrested until he was 29! Whoo!

HipHopDX has obtained documentation from the state of Florida that lists the “definition of real” rapper’s first real run-in with the law to have not taken place until two years ago, on April 12, 2006, when Plies – real name Algernod Lanier Washington, born May 22, 1976 – would have been on the eve of his 30^th birthday and just beginning his ascension to his current status of gold-certified rap star.

Can’t see too many people giving a fuck about this one, however. Check the story out here.

— Monday, July 28th, 2008