Due to popular demand (I love saying that, especially when it’s true) I’m bringing back a limited run of Thanks For All the AIDS T-Shirts.
These will be in blue and red. A guaranteed conversation piece at any polite gathering!
Preorders will last but a week, and all come with one of these awesome Batblob badges.
38 millimetres, square. Strong metal parts, with a steel pin back. Distinctive, curvy surface that makes your image stand out. Amazingly detailed, sharp print quality.
They arrived today, they’re beautiful.
The T Shirts cost £14.99. We take all major debit and credit cards, and ship worldwide.
To remind you why this is a good idea. Here for you, is the original album version of Thanks For All the AIDS, with the Chris de Burgh sample intact. Dude’s lawyers refused clearance, not dude. Dude told me himself.
Download: Akira The Don - Thanks For All The AIDS (NY Master)
I am confused as to why I haven’t got a photo of Marv, Litts and I. Weird.
Anyway! Bladed was recorded relatively early in the ATD16 recording process. It was pretty much instantly awesome. That Litts doing the “on the rooooads!” Bon Jovi stuff. Oh, Marv’s got a new mixtape dropping any day now, keep em peeled at his website…
Any month that includes a new Akira The Don mixtape is a fine one indeed. ATD 16 is here and as ever it’s free from Akira’s website or for a fiver you can get an individually spray painted CD case complete with your name “Is The Don” on the cover.
Mine featured some wonky spelling and a broken badge, but as if by magic a fresh corrected copy landed on my doormat the next morning.
ATD 16’s easily the best mixtape since ohh… ATD 15, featuring as it does all manner of cover versions, sneak previews of the new album, and general brilliance. On its 20th anniversary NWA’s “Express Yourself” gets reworked East London style with doo-wop, Dot Cotton, and the classic rhyme: “Simmer Simmer, I need a blade for my strimmer“
The Pet Shop Boys “Rent” is also “Don’ed” along with the finest remix of 2008, Akira’s take on Gonzo’s “Working Together“. It’s not all played for laughs, the stark “Eleven In My Mind” is a brooding warning as our civil liberties disappear in the name of fighting “terror”.
Cheers Music Like Dirt!
For you now then, the full singular version of 11 In My Mind Still, complete with intro, outro, and clean fade. Download, acapella and instrumental after the jump.
I’ve had a lot of requests for this one, so here you go. A Lonesome Town is a track from the recently released ATD16 - The Don mixtape, one of the few original productions on there, if you can call chopping up someone else’s song, speeding it up, and slapping a great honking breabeat over it “producing”. Which, I believe, you can. Hallelujah! While the song details growing up in North Wales, the inspiration came form Martin Carr’s Goldrush ‘49, which details growing up in the old west. That’s how ancient Martin is. A HAW!
The song is from Ey La Carr’s forthcoming LP, Ye Gods And Little Fishes (a phrase I used to overuse way back in ye ole day before Narstie’s “true stories” wormed it’s infectious way into my brain). The album is quite brilliant (I have heard it, I’m cool) and is being financed by The People, via Bandstocks. Basically, you hand over a tenner, and become a shareholder in the album, so when it comes out and is huge, you get rich. I think.
Here’s A Lonesome Town.
Stream: Akira The Don - A Lonesome Town
Here’s Goldrush ‘49.
Stream: Martin carr - Goldrush ‘49
Download, instrumental and acapella after the jump.
Brand new music for you from ATD16. You’ve got till the end of the week to get your preorders in. And i’ve got till the end of the week to finish it. It’s getting pretty epic, I have to say.
Stream: Akira The Don ft. Littles - My Life
Download, clean version and acapella after the jump.
38 millimetres, square.
