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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

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So I was out in LA last week, on my way to a Hollywood recording studio with Wade, when our passage was blocked by The Iron Man 3 premiere. I’ve never been near a hollywood movie premiere before. It was pretty creepy, there were all these screetching creatures weilding giant blow up Robert Downer Jnr. dolls.

Anyway, it reminded me I’d started a beautiful and powerful piece of music based around a sample from the first trailer some months back, for no good reason other than stoned enjoyment, and certainly no intended project for it to live on. So when I got back to Don Studios in London I FINISHED THAT THING and then I UPLOADED that thing and now its yours. ALE JACA EST!

ATD, May 2013

PS – @mixroulette won the POPE competition! Message me your adress to claim your prize! Ave!

PPS – Here’s the trailer I sampled

— Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

By Akira The Don on Friday, April 26th, 2013

I ran into Mocky and his beautiful family last night at Paramount Studios’ New York lot in LA, as you do. Which reminded me I haven’t posted this for you to enjoy yet. It sounds as next level fresh today as it did when I first heard it in Mocky’s kitchen last year. B FONK GLORIAN MUNDI, through a SPACE JOY filter, WITH #BASE.

Enjoy.

— By Akira The Don on Friday, April 26th, 2013

By Akira The Don on Monday, March 18th, 2013

Perfect.

— By Akira The Don on Monday, March 18th, 2013

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

GOOD NEWS GANG!

I am going back (back) to Cali (Cali) next month to do MAKE STUFF and MAKE STUFF HAPPEN… and no trip out that way would be complete without a visit to the world famous ISOTOPE COMICS LOUNGE, around the nucleus of which I had loads of adventures last year. So this year we’re upping the drama and having a

FREE LIVE RAP SHOW!

(Click here to download the poster!)

James Sime, take the mike!

Cue this up in another window: ATD29

Straight from the boroughs of East London comes AKIRA THE DON – legendary rapper, producer, cartoonist, internet personality, sbwriel speaker, facial hair sporter and True Elemental Force of Good.

The Isotope is proud to get to kick off our 2013 event schedule year with a live show on our “world’s tallest stage” with this human ball of amazingly magical energy. Following in the grand tradition of the one and only MC Chris @ Isotope, Japan’s Pine*AM @ Isotope, the unsober Uke Apocalypse @ Isotope and Dame Darcy @ Isotope, our intimate concert series shows are always free of charge, packed to the gills, and only thrown when we really, really mean it. Could there be a more exciting follow-up to those amazing international acts than the amazingAKIRA THE DON?

Those of you who joined us for MorrisonCon in Las Vegas already know why Akira was Mister

Grant Morrison’s single most requested convention demand. And wecannot wait to get to introduce the rest of you to him!

 

But is San Francisco ready for The Man Who Cannot Be Contained?!

The epic last time Akira was in SF known around these parts as “the best weekend with the worst hangover of my life” in which The Don recorded an entire new album out of a briefcase, we were lucky enough to join him on the craziestBay To Breakers ever experienced (topped off with Akira performing superhuman stunts and literally saving a girl’s life), and ended the three day bender of biblical proportions off by blowing the doors off the Isotope filming a music video with E-40’s enigmatic tea-and-Ferrari-loving scion Issue.

Akira is on an Exaltation Mission and he cannot be contained! Isotope’s mixologist maestro Kirsten Baldock will be serving up a bevy of bevvys, including the legendary MorrisonCon inspired Transcendence. And DJ Bearzbub will be bringing the pre-show bodyrock on the wheels of steel. Truly SF, are you ready.forthis?

 

AKIRA THE DON @ Isotope
Saturday, April 20th 2013
8pm – Your Bedtime
featuring Opening Jams by San Francisco’s DJ BEARZBUB

AKIRA THE DON – HEY! HEY! IT’S ATD29! (OFFICIAL VIDEO!)

THE DON CANNOT BE CONTAINED!

*APPLAUSE

BOOYA THEN SF! IT IS ON! Let me know if you have any special requests. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SPENDING TIME IN YOUR COMPANY IN APRIL 2013!

 

 

— Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

By Akira The Don on Monday, March 11th, 2013

DAMN SON THIS IS SOME GOAT SHIT RIGHT HERE HOLY COW

— By Akira The Don on Monday, March 11th, 2013

By Akira The Don on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013

DAMN THIS IS AMAZING. Last joint was amazing. This project is looking like a fucking (whisper) classic.

— By Akira The Don on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013