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…
So, I have written an article on the carreer of Lil Wayne for The Quietus. Check it here.
In other news, Adam Walton interviewed me and Littles about ATD16 for his BBC Radio Wales show last week, and that will be running on Sunday. Adam says:
is a *special edition* of the programme.
That’s a nice way of saying that it is pre-recorded because I will be in the middle of a week off*.
However, there will be much to marvel at: Huw Williams recounts the time he became the first person on the radio, anywhere, to play Stereophonics [from their original demo]; we have the first Unsigned Advice Panel, featuring the Green Man Festival’s Jo Bartlett, record producer Greg Haver & Huw Williams [again, with a different hat on]; Peppermint Patti will be in to enthuse about their favourite music of female origins [but let’s not use the term ‘mofo’], Akira the Don expounds on the glory of his latest mixtape, ATD16, and we have a raw and ace session from The Clay.
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.
Perfectionist warrior that I am, I cycled into hackney with my one hardly-working brake this morning to cop some black paint to mix with the silver. The Your Name bit matches The Don bit now. See? Better.
Right now I’m painting and packing, then I gotta do a photoshoot for Pimp, then I’m going to the Post Office. Tomorrow will be lully.
The Martin Carr stolen inspired song wasn’t the last addition, in the end. I dropped one of my patented revisionist cover versions on there. That’s what it looks like, up top.
T Shirts didn’t turn up yesterday. T Shirt John promised tomorrow, so I gotta stay in all day and wait for them. My girl better not run off with the lighter again, I’ll go pots!
Anyway. I went out yesterday. I know, shock horror. I had lunch with my ole pal Lee, who wrote that book I told you about called Queer Fish In God’s Waiting Room that’s dead good la. We’re going to make an audio book of it, I’m pretty excited about that, it should be ace. Anyway, he bought me a veggie curry, a third of which filled me right up, and introduced me to the concept of AVG’s. I think they were called AVGs. Now I type that I’m not so sure. They sound interesting at any rate. Something about creating a world and a game around whatever project you’re doing, like what they did with Batman, although I was thinking afterwards a lot about that David Fincher film with Catherine Zeta-Jones’ husband in it called The Game. You ever see that? such a harsh film. I would not have been as happy about it all as he was at the end, although he was a dick to start, and it was a life changing experience. I’m cool as chilled day old pizza, me.
After that I was interviewed by a very safe lady called Hells (I meant to ask if that was her Mam or her Dad’s idea, but forgot) for Pimp magazine. She knew about me because her (evidently wise) older brother gave her one of my mixtapes when she was a kid. Damn I’m old! I had one Guinness with a shot of Tia Maria in it and felt dead pissed as I cycled home clutching a big rolled up sheet of stinky waxed cardboard to make stencils with.
So, the mixtape was DONE… then I had a last minute flash of inspiration courtesy of Martin Carr, and lo one last song has just been written finished. I’m tidying it all up now and rendering and all that crap. The CDs will go out with the T Shirts Wednesday.
Word up my people equals. Stuff has been pretty exciting around here of late - been making a LOT of music - the Son Of King Rebel stuff is getting really big. We dropped some orchestral business on I Don’t Love Jesus No More. Sounds Goliath. Narstie’s album is reaching its zenith. And I’ve been recording loads of extra songs for The Don. Shizzio and Littles both dropped some new stuff on it this week, both brung their A games.
I’m working flat out to get the record wrapped for tomorrow. I warn you now, it may be delayed till Monday - some vital packaging ingredients that were supposed to be her yesterday haven’t showed yet. I am chasing. Pant pant.
The T Shirts are arriving next Thursday, which should be pretty exciting, all silver on black and dope as heck.
OK. Let me hit you off with a new remix from the infallible Dr G... This one’s of ATD16’s title track, The Don, and it kicks! Check his skillful vocoder manipulation. Oh, and that picture up there? That’s from the new Tank Girl comic. Dr G’s got his glyph up there, how awesome is that?
