Amazingly, I never posted this beautiful image from The New York Times, did I? Well, I was on holiday. And since then I’ve been in daily face agony due to to the medieval yanking of all of my wisdom teeth, which is still causing me great discomfort and has fucked up my sleep patterns. I was up till 3 on painkillers watching Sons of Anarchy last night, then a further two or three hours tossing and turning and failing to be able to turn off the eternal looping beat in my brain, or the rhymes that build themselves atop it.

This guy on Red Ice says all the electrical and wi-fi gear we have on all the time is fucking us the fuck up and contributing to the devolution and holding back of our society.

“Stress and worry or fear keeps you from reaching your higher states of consciousness.”

Word bond son.

“A plane can drop bombs or deliver the mail, it depends on the operator.”

Ditto.

Oh, Oh was plotting Ho Ho Ho Flicks with Aaron Shrimpton last night. It’s that time again…

— Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

New shit from me and Envy! Those that caught the secrete ran-don DONCAST last month caught the first version of this, recorded that very afternoon, which I played on my then-brand new Traktor Kontrol setup, mixing in loop from a Campa song towards the end, which improved it massively, so I added that to the proper version, along with some birds and some doves and some breathing sounds and stuff, and now HERE YOU GO!

Sorry about all those commas. I am full of codeine and my mouth is still full of blood from that operation yesterday. More on which in the next post.

Bonus points for spotting all the samples (there are four records used in this, alongside all the foley). Press the arrow on the soundcloud player for a free download.

PAX!

— Saturday, October 20th, 2012

SALE! ATD AKIRA logo hoodies just £20! Get in quick lest you FREEZE YOUR ASS OFF!

Example: I have a cold right now, which would probably have been averted had I worn my hoodie. Or not got on that airoplane with all those humans recycling the same air for ten hours.

Speaking of airoplanes, I’m getting on one tomorrow, headed in the direction of CRETE.  Pre-baby holiday with my girl. Last time we’re gonna be able to fanny about in the sun without having to consider another lifeform, for a while… OH YEAH!

— Monday, October 8th, 2012

Slowly BUT SURELY my mission to get all my stuff on Youtube contunues with this wee gem from ATD22 – Superhero Music …

Superhero Music Part 2 is on the horizon…

In other news, I downloaded a Spectrum Emulator called Marvin for my Nexus 7 tablet this morning, which has a built in search engine from which one can instantly download 1000s of classic games, and spent a happy hour or so playing River Rescue, Jack The Nipper 2, Skool Daze and Turmoil with my lil brother Alexander Velky, who is visiting from Wales, and sporting an excellent new haircut.

CUT TO SEVEN YEAR OLD ADAM PLAYING RIVER RESCUE ON HIS SAM COUPE… A FLASH, A CRACK OF THUNDER, AND A TEAR OPENS IN THE VERY FABRIC OF TIME… OUT STEPS A FINELY BEARDED, BLONDEHAIRED MAN, OOZING VITALITY AND EXCELLENT VIBES.

“How do you like your games machine Adam?”

“It’s ace thanks mister.”

“In the future you will be able to carry this computer, and 2000 games for it, on a computer half the size of a comic book.”

“Will it have comics on it too?”

“Yes it will Adam, all the comics in the world.”

“Wow! Will I have an amazing beard too?”

“Yes you will.”

“Woooooooah.”

MorrsionCon part three coming up next, read parts one and two if you haven’t already.

Speaking of MorrsionCon, one of the event’s stars, Legendary Artist JH Williams III just said some super nice shit about me on his blog and I am full of joy cos I fucking love his shit and being a “true master entertainer with enough explosive energy to set Las Vegas to burning with unseen but massively felt super cosmic energies of feel good” is EXACTLY what I set out to do. That’s pretty much my modus operandi. So thank you brother.

— Saturday, October 6th, 2012

From Bleeding Cool:

“Akira the Don bounds up on the stage and tears into his set, eager to win over the entire crowd in that first bleeding instant and inspired to antics and banter of increasing magnitude when the roar of adulation is not total enough. Dispensing high-energy rapid-velocity UK hip-hop, he is constant motion and flow of dialogue, diminutive in stature with a dark beard framing wild eyes underneath long bleached blond hair. Ican’t figure out why he looks so familiar to me for the first few songs then suddenly realize he’s Vince Neil’s little brother. He earns +10 Kirby points for the name of his latest album, The Life Equation.”

Read the rest here.

— By Akira The Don on Saturday, October 6th, 2012

Ladies and Gs!

It is my great honour to announce that I will be supplying Mercurial Musical Entertainment at the epoch defining MORRISONCON in Las Vegas from September 28th to 30th, 2012.

I SHIT YOU NOT!

Grant Morrison! Robert Kirkman! Darick Robertson! Jason Aaron! Jim Lee! Gerard Way! Jonathan Hickman! Frank Quietly! J.H. Williams III, Chris Burnham and now, AKIRA THE DON! What a line up!

Alongside DJing, rapping, and being VERY EXCITED for three days, I will also be chairing a very important and historic panel with the good Dr Morrison. OMFG DOT COM ON A HOVERBOARD BUBBA, SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

“Expect maximum rock ‘n’ roll, chaos magic, mind-bending esoterica, sharp suits, surprise guests, and once-in-a-lifetime performances, all wrapped up in the glory that is comics, comics, and more comics. “ - Grant Morrison

Had you told me back in 2005 when I was recording When We Were Young in New York and reading Grant’s The Invisibles and getting into sigil magic that in that most auspicious year, 2012 AD, Grant would be having his own convention in Las Vegas and inviting me to come and play, I’d have probably said, “fucking hell yeah, that is exactly the sort of thing I am expecting to happen in 2012, high fives all round, let us boogie.” Had you told me when I was 12, and had just finished reading Arkham Asylum, I would have likely wept.

Well, here we are, 2012 AD, and yes sir, we shall boogie. This, brothers and sisters, is the stuff that dreams are made of. Now go and rob that bank and buy a ticket, I believe there are a couple left.

PAX!

@!

PS – Roadsigns:

— Wednesday, September 19th, 2012