My girl Madison out in NY just sent over this delightful festive nugget. I think it might be an EXCLUSIVE! Rah! Enjoy, and check her out here.

Ho ho ho!

— Thursday, December 4th, 2008

DON TV: The Svenhunter At Christmas from akdonovan on Vimeo.

— Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

In 31minutes and 8 seconds…

NOW!

Here it is. A Hard Toke In – The Remixtape.

First person to guess why its called that wins a no-prize!

Anyway. This is is a mixtape comprising of remixes of songs by me and my peoples by YOU, the clever, brillaint, uber-talented readerlisteners of this website.

I was amazed, truly, by the volume, and quality of the submissions. I could have made another, ooh, three tapes easy. If your remix didn’t feature in the end, don’t lose heart – I lost a folder full of them at the last minute, didn’t spot some until the thing was done, all sorts of typically me-ish goonery. Some mixes fitted better with other mixes, some songs I just had too many versions of, some were musically brilliant but the vocals didn’t sit right, all sorts of stuff…

Anyway. This is it. And it is ace.

That this was so sick means there’ll be a part two anyway. I just need to pump out enough new tunes for youse lot to remix. I think we can do it. Right?

Right. So, THANK YOU ALL – everyone who entered, left a voice mail, and all you who come here every time and listen to this stuff. WE RULE!!!!!!!!

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(Check back later for a track by track Imeem stream thing.)

TRACKLISTING

Akira The Don – Dennis’ Intro (Harry Morton Remix)
Akira The Don ft Marvin & Littles – On The Roads (Joey2Tits‘ A Rowdy Road Running Remix)
Akira The Don – Thieving (Blonde Jeremy Deacon Remix)
Akira The Don – Thieving (Pydos In Spydos Remix)
Akira The Don – Thieving (Jack Nimble and Marvin Remix)
Akira The Don – Thieving (DJ Cityscape Remix)
Akira The Don – Wecome To MIAMI (Dr G Remix)
Akira The Don – The Death Of Beef (Pydos In Spydos Remix)
Akira The Don – The Death Of Beef (Dr G Remix)
Akira The Don – Werewolves (Johnny Nothing‘s Wolf in Sharp Clothing Remix)
Akira The Don – 11 In My Mind Still (Outofrhymes Remix)
Akira The Don – Working Together (Dr G remix)
Akira The Don – Bonjour (Pydos In Spydos remix)
Akira The Don – Giro (Radger The Cadger remix)
Akira The Don ft Why Lout? – Boom! (Kaffka55′s Booya Remix)
Akira The Don ft Why Lout? – Boom! (Fucked To Death Remix)
Akira The Don ft Why Lout? – Boom! (Alasdair McLeay Remix)
Akira The Don ft Pixel, Trencha, Big Narstie & Littles – Got Money (DJ Cityscape remix)
Akira The Don – The Don (Dr G remix)
Akira The Don ft Littles – Express Yourself With Blood (White Mike remix)
Akira The Don – Lonesome Feeling (Unabomber Remix)
Akira The Don – Oh What A Glorious Thing (Dr G Remix)
Akira The Don – Oh! (It’s Still A Glorious Thing) (Endre Norviste Remix)
Akira The Don – Bankers (Joey 2 Tits Remix)
Akira The Don ft Littles -  No Matter (Pydos In Spydos Remix)
Akira The Don – Rent (DJ Cityscape Remix)
Akira The Don ft Mary Turner – The Music of The Spheres (Hunchbakkk Remix)

And that image on the sleeve was by Tom Hall Johnson. YEYAH!

— Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

A nice big box of AIDS Ts just arrived, and the vast majority of them have been packed up and are off to the postie in half an hour.

There are a couple left – 1 red medium, 1 blue medium, 2 white XLs.

15 quid, get em while they’re hot.

IN OTHER NEWS!

Remixtape in a  matter of hours, internet connection allowing…

— Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

HO HO HO!

Christmas is go.

Every day until the day itself, I will be unveiling something festive and/or fun. Songs, videos, SURPRISES! ETC… It will be festive as heck, actually. The whole thing will finish on Christmas day with a very special Christmas mixtape, the perfect soundtrack for you present opening.

So. To start, I have been laboring for the past week on a pair of delightful Akira The Don Christmas cards! You can use these as festive desktop backgrounds, and you can buy packs of the actual cards to send to your relatives and loved ones.

They are A6 sized, an come with a handwritten festive greeting on the inside. Oh, and envelopes. And a batblob badge. Each pack contains an equal amount of Blob and Don cards.

A pack of 6 is £4.99, and a pack of 12 is £8.99.

Buy Six!

Buy 12!

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— Monday, December 1st, 2008