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One cool thing about being this deep into Meaningwave - 100 albums and 534 tracks and counting - is that people will regularly ask me to make things that already exist. Like this message, that was left on an Insta post yesterday that featured an illustration I’d done of Hunter S Thompson:

I actually did a short HSTWAVE mix 5 years ago, back at the dawn of the Meaningwave experiment, and people have been asking me to get it on DSPs ever since. Well, we are coming to close of this most auspicious year of our lord, 2023 AD, and I have finally made a space in the relentless glory of the Meaningwave release schedule, and lo, the first song from that mix, The High Watermark, based around one of the most shimmering of moments in that collection of nothing but shimmering moments that is Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, which I read aged seventeen, and that changed my life immediately, and powerfully, for good and ill…

THE HIGH WATERMARK is out now on all platforms!

In other Meaningwave news! I just finished work on that most beloved of traditions, the annual ATD Christmas album! The release date will be announced as soon as it is back from mastering!

Upon finishing that, I went straight back to work on MEDITATIONS VOL. II, which is in the final stages of creation. I am very excited and awash with joy to be able to report that Pete Parada, formerly of The Offspring and now of The Defiant, has contributed drums to a number of songs on the project…

AND
THEY
ARE
NAPALM!

Speaking of Pete, and The Defiant, they just released their debut LP.  IF WE'RE REALLY BEING HONESTis that other most rare and mythical of things, AN ACTUAL ALBUM that TELLS A STORY and takes the listener on a JOURNEY.... 

It brought to mind flashes of tons of immortal music I love, The Clash, The Jam, Sham 69, Pogues, Squeeze, and contains a gang of instant classics that are gonna require extended versions for people to bellow along to at live shows. Check it out here!

OK! I shall return to mixing MEDITATIONS II. It is the greatest thing I have yet to be anywhere close to, and I am very excited to hear what it sounds like when it’s finished. You are gonna love it, dear reader, by Jove, you really are…

BLESSINGS TO THEE AND THINE!

AKIRA THE DON

Don Studios Playa Del Carmen MK II, November 2023

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