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ＢＡＣＫ ＯＮ ＩＴ - MEANINGSTREAM 566 | STREAM OH MY GOSH! IT'S A RARE AKIRA THE DON LIVE STREAM! LESSGOOOOO! NEW SINGLE, GO DOWN SWINGING with Jocko Willink out now! (https://lnkd.in/gJdzJyPm) TRACKLISTING: Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - GO DOWN SWINGING (Instrumental) Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - GO DOWN SWINGING Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - EVERY SECOND COUNTS (Instrumental) Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - GET BACK ON THE PATH Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - GET BACK ON THE PATH (Instrumental) Akira The Don ft. David Lynch - KALI YUGA Akira The Don - ESCAPE Akira The Don ft. Charles Bukowski - LET IT DIE Akira The Don ft. David Goggins - HATERS (NEVER IN LIFE) Akira The Don ft. Marcus Aurelius - STOP DRIFTING! Akira The Don ft. Charles Bukowski - BLUEBIRD Akira The Don ft. Muhammad Ali - TRUTH Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - EVERY SECOND COUNTS (Instrumental) Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - STAY ON THE PATH Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - STAY ON THE PATH (Instrumental) Akira The Don ft. Berton Braley - WHY NOT Akira The Don ft. Berton Braley - WHY NOT (Instrumental) Akira The Don ft. Jocko Willink - GO DOWN SWINGING Akira The Don - CONFESSION (INSTRUMENTAL) You can also listen to our streams as audio on your podcast feed of choice. (https://lnkd.in/gW884s72) STREAM HERE (https://lnkd.in/gW884s72)

GO DOWN SWINGING…. with Jocko Willink “If you can't win Remember this You have nothing to lose So stand up And go forward And go out in a blaze of glory” THE BRAND NEW IMMORTAL MASTERPIECE INSTANT SMASH HIT MEANINGWAVE ANTHEM IS HERE! GO DOWN SWINGING (https://lnkd.in/gJdzJyPm) WITH JOCKO WILLINK! Words are not enough! Jam this into your ears now! And get ready for the album! I’ve been getting up at 4am for 4 weeks to make it, and it is now MADE! And it is coming out on NOVEMBER 1ST! AND IT IS CALLED… WARPATH Stand by to get some! GO DOWN SWINGING (https://lnkd.in/gJdzJyPm) is streaming on all platforms now! Download it here (https://lnkd.in/g6qen8Ku)! And watch the very epic and powerful music video here! (https://linktw.in/lMivcp) JOCKO SEASON IS GO! GET AFTER IT! LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, Mexico, October ‘24

THE PURPOSE IS YOU…. with David Goggins “The purpose is you You are always the purpose The purpose is always there 'cause the very purpose is you” The fan favorite from the smash hit GOGGINS II album (https://lnkd.in/gRCHB2NK) gets a music video release! Check it out now! (https://linktw.in/LKDyfu) ELSEWHERE! The new shirt dropped! (https://lnkd.in/gxYikrQB) Many of you have been asking, what about it being an iconic Meaningwave catchphrase? HAPPINESS IS A SIDE EFFECT OF MEANING in a choice of 5 colors on a fine cotton shirt! Get yours now! (https://lnkd.in/g-gsmqPf) FINALLY! I am thrilled to report that I completed work on the third JOCKO album at 6:30am this morning. A very epic and powerful single, GO DOWN SWINGING, drops Thursday midnight, and the first teaser from the record, GET BACK ON THE PATH (https://lnkd.in/gY6-7HUK) is on all platforms RIGHT NOW! (https://lnkd.in/gY6-7HUK) JOCKO SEASON IS GO! GET AFTER IT! LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, Mexico, October ‘24

MEANINGWAVE TOP 50! And we’re back with the Meaningwave Top 50 (https://lnkd.in/g9ZviTC9)! Counting down the most streamed Meaningwave songs across DSPS from the month of September! We have a gang of new entries! Re-entries And one song that’s shot up a crazy 42 places! Join us LIVE for the countdown now (https://linktw.in/ivUtbc), or if it’s not now, enjoy the full Meaningwave Video Chart Show at your leisure! (https://linktw.in/ivUtbc) Meanwhile, you can follow the official MEANINGWAVE TOP 50 playlist (https://lnkd.in/g6G_NYpN) on your streaming service of choice here. (https://lnkd.in/g9ZviTC9) PLUS! You can follow the BOTTOM 50 playlist (https://lnkd.in/g5uv9Npb) the 50 LEAST streamed songs - here! (https://lnkd.in/gQdbApD2) Speaking of which, I get messages all the time from people asking what streaming service to use to make sure we get paid the best. To be honest, they all pay so crazily little that it makes little difference. Over 80% of people listen to our music on Spotify, which pays $0.003 per stream - You need to stream a song 1,667 times for us to get $5. (And that's before the distributor takes their cut). Meanwhile, Apple pays $0.005 a stream. So I always say, use whatever’s easiest for you. If you get value from the music, consider getting some merch (https://lnkd.in/gT2ygvRE), downloading some albums (https://lnkd.in/g2D4pEBY), or making a donation here (https://lnkd.in/g_Y34A_f). To those who support Meaningwave, thank you! LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC October 24 PS - In case you missed it, a new single, GET BACK ON THE PATH (https://lnkd.in/gY6-7HUK) with Jocko Willink just dropped! PPS! It’s Bandcamp Friday today, which means all proceeds from sales of downloads go to Meaningwave… So if you’ve been meaning to pick up some albums, now’s a good time! (https://lnkd.in/g2D4pEBY)

GET BACK ON THE PATH... with Jocko Willink “When I make that error When I let Discipline down There’s only one thing to do And that’s Get back on the path Get back on it!” As some of you have noticed, I’ve been getting up at 4am for the past couple of weeks. This is antithetical to my usual mode of being, which would have me working until 4am. This goes back to when I was a child, and I’d stay up till 4 or 5 reading under my duvet with a lamp, then have to be kicked out of bed to go to school. Some of my earliest jobs involved having to get up at what I considered ungodly hours - my paper round when I was ten or so, and later my job at Boots The Chemist when I was 14, which had me rising in the dark and walking an hour to get to the job itself, all before the sun rose. I held negative associations with early rising, and so as soon as I had control of my schedule, I went right back into covert book mode and stayed up as late as I could and thus rose accordingly. But on the rare occasions where I’d manage to rise early, I’d always enjoy it. I knew there was magic in it. This feeling inspired one of my first and best-loved solo songs, the 2004 classic ‘Oh! What A Glorious Thing’ (“waking up in the morning baby!”) (https://lnkd.in/gCQXc2AR), that earned me a handful of record deals and is included in the soundtrack to the Uma Thurman superhero flick, My Super Ex-Girlfriend. I knew deep down that getting up early was a good thing, but I avoided it, regardless, sticking to my night owl routine for decades. When I made the first Jocko record in 2019 (https://lnkd.in/gps7Bb6h), on which he spoke about getting up “before the enemy” (https://lnkd.in/gmHw78c9), I got it, but I didn’t do it. As you know, I didn’t make the second Jocko album until 2022 (https://lnkd.in/e_gJw_DU), and this was because I couldn’t in good faith make one until I’d integrated the main lessons of the first. In 2021, when we landed in Mexico, I started going to the gym every day, finally dialing in that missing aspect of my being, and thus I was able to make that record in good faith. But reflecting after, I knew there was still one thing missing. And so, when it came time to make Jocko album number three, I knew there was only one way it could be done… Before the enemy. This, then, is the first teaser from that album, a song called: GET BACK ON THE PATH GET BACK ON THE PATH (https://lnkd.in/gY6-7HUK) is out now. Download or stream on your platform of choice now, and enjoy the music video here. The album is coming soon. Look out for an absolute NUKE of a smash-hit monster anthem next week. LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, Mexico, September ‘24 PS! It’s Bandcamp Friday today, which means all proceeds from sales of downloads go to Meaningwave… So if you’ve been meaning to pick up some albums, now’s a good time! (https://lnkd.in/g2D4pEBY)

FACTORY HOURS I worked in a bunch of factories when I was 16/17, after I'd left home. Sauce factory. Cardboard box factory. Car door handle factory. The former was the hardest because I was working in the freezers, packing bags of sauce for 12-hour shifts with nothing but local commercial radio and the speed-addled ramblings of my co-workers to entertain me. The cardboard box factory was the most fun because I got to slide down this three-storey chute into a skip full of cardboard and jump up and down in it to squash the cardboard down. I'd always leave the place shredded with paper-cuts, but that made me feel like a warrior. The car door handle factory was the worst because it was the most boring - literally just picking a spring out of a greasy bucket and jamming it into a wedge of plastic then passing it to the old lady to my right, for 12 hours, in a giant air-hangar looking-ass hall with a great big clock looming over us, that ticked with all the lugubrious lurching urgency of a ketamine zombie outside a 7/11 in King's Cross at 5am on a Sunday morning. Each ponderous TICK, each thunderous TOCK like the cranking of a vice, clamping ever harder on my skull. I guess I'm remembering my days working in factories because I've been getting up to go to my studio at 4am every morning for the past few weeks, and those old days were probably the last time I was up at these hours with such frequency. For decades, I associated getting up early with Unpleasant Jobs, and since I've been working for myself these past twenty years, part of that meant I got to get up whenever the hell I wanted. I've finally gotten to the point where I want to get up at 4am. For its own sake. To experience and take advantage of that magical time for myself, to channel its energies into my own work. To remember how far I've traveled. The first fruits of these 4am sessions will be in your ears from tomorrow, Thursday, Oct 3rd, at midnight. GET BACK ON THE PATH Love to you and your family! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, Mexico, October 2024

WHY NOT “Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud? Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud But while it's still going before he has died A man may do many things worthy of pride” With lyrics adapted from Berton Braley’s poem of the same name, MEANINGWAVE is proud to present a new single… WHY NOT (https://lnkd.in/gBsTmu-R) Why Not? (https://lnkd.in/gBsTmu-R) is but one of hundreds of poems written by the perennial zone inhibitor and Appreciator Of The Wonder Of Being, and published in magazines and newspapers between the 1910s and 1940s. It is classic Braley, an anthem for the glory of man and all his achievements, past, and yet to come. And now you can sing it. Oh, and that cover art there? That’s a picture of me back in ‘91 when I was around 11, which is my son’s age. WHY NOT (https://lnkd.in/gBsTmu-R) is out now. Download (https://lnkd.in/gU387SRF) or stream on your platform of choice now (https://lnkd.in/gBsTmu-R), watch the cozy visual on Youtube here, and look out for a suitably epic full-blown music video soon! LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, Mexico, September ‘24

BUKOWSKI BEATS AND THE 4AM SWITCH UP Been in the studio since 4am, guess what album I’m working on? I shall be sticking to this new schedule ‘till the album’s done, at least, and then we’ll see. Heck, maybe I’ll like it. I liked it today, I gotta say. There’s something magical about going to the studio in the dark, getting an amazing new song mixed while most people are still sleeping, then stepping back outside to find the sun rising. Oh! What a glorious thing! (https://lnkd.in/gCQXc2AR) I worked till 10:30, then cracked open a White Monster - another experiment - and walked down to the gym in the blazing Mexican sunshine. Jamie was leading a Crossfit class, and happy to see me as ever, and I was happy to find the entire squat/bench area unoccupied, and got some work in on my lifting. I don’t know if it was the early start, or the new song, or the White Monster, but despite having been away from the gym for ten days due to a cold that I had no desire to disseminate, I was able to lift slightly heavier and longer than last time I was here. This cheered me greatly, and I returned to the studio and finished that song, which I can confirm is an absolute classic masterpiece that will bring you to your knees weeping tears of joy. Speaking of which, BUKOWSKI BEATS is out! (https://lnkd.in/g4wQTTcU) These are the instrumentals for the HANK album (https://lnkd.in/gHEdtQfd), with Charles Bukowski, that just came out (https://lnkd.in/g4wQTTcU), and I know many of you have been eager to get your ears on them, because you’ve been sending me messages expressing just that, so here ya go, ya beautiful thing you, enjoy this fine Meaningwave release…. (https://lnkd.in/g4wQTTcU) …and then hold tight for a BRAND NEW SINGLE next week, with your friendly neighborhood Don on lead vocals… before we move into NEXT ALBUM TERRITORY the week after that, with the first single from that album I’m making right now, a single which I recorded yesterday, and is a thing of glory and wonder that you will treasure like a newborn puppy. I must return to my labors now, but before I go I’d like to take the opportunity to say happy birthday to the great James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. The wife and I are rewatching The Sopranos right now. We’re currently halfway through season one and dude has made me cry like five times already. What an astonishing talent. Just thinking of him looking at those ducks fills my heart to bursting. Godspeed, you beautiful man. Enjoy the new music (https://lnkd.in/g4wQTTcU), hold tight for the next music, and keep an eye out for live stream notifications, just in case I decide to do one because you never know…. LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, Mexico, September ‘24

KALI YUGA... with David Lynch What’s a Yuga? What’s a Satya Yuga? Or a Treta, or a Dvapara? What’s Kali Yuga? Why are we in it? How long’s it go on for? Also Akira, when are you going to put some Gregorian chants in a song again? SO MANY QUESTIONS! And yet somehow, all of them just so happen to be answered right here, with the assistance of the great David Lynch, on this brand new Meaningwave masterpiece… KALI YUGA (https://lnkd.in/gXN_ZMbk) It’s not all bad! But! You could say, we all deserve to be here… during this time… KALI YUGA (https://lnkd.in/gXN_ZMbk) is out now on all platforms (https://lnkd.in/gXN_ZMbk), and you can enjoy the glorious music video, that samples Ron Fricke’s 1985 abstract masterpiece, Chronos, right here. (https://linktw.in/Sregmk) In other news, it’s Mammadon’s birthday. Happy birthday Mammadon! Hold tight for the HANK (https://lnkd.in/gHEdtQfd) instrumentals coming next week, and thank you for all the beautiful messages you’ve been sending regarding that latest album. I am delighted that you’re enjoying it. (https://lnkd.in/gHEdtQfd) LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, MEXICO SEPTEMBER 2024 NEW MERCH IN THE STORE (https://lnkd.in/gJRqR-iD)

HANK with Charles Bukowski - Album Out Now HANK is the brand new album from Akira The Don and Charles Bukowski. (https://lnkd.in/gHEdtQfd) HANK (https://lnkd.in/gHEdtQfd) draws from years of interviews and poems to create 14 beautiful songs - 11 brand new, including the instant classics BLUEBIRD (https://lnkd.in/ghzUVMH5) ft Harry Dean Stanton, LET IT DIE (https://lnkd.in/gJjuXksv), and THE CRUNCH (https://lnkd.in/gHkjZK3R), along with a gang more that you will come to love, featuring Bukowski’s meditations on life, loss, loneliness, love and all that comes between and after, entwined with an exquisite string soaked soundtrack from Akira. The set also features a trio of beloved Meaningwave Masterpieces - The Genius of The Crowd (https://lnkd.in/gZgVhTP3), plus the Tom Waits-voiced Nirvana (https://lnkd.in/gwzfM5Z7) and The Laughing Heart (https://lnkd.in/gnUbJ5M5). You can read about how Akira came to discover Charles Bukowski and the inspiration behind the creation of the record here. (https://lnkd.in/gXKkt_Hk) HANK is out now on all streaming platforms (https://lnkd.in/gHEdtQfd), and you can download it here (https://lnkd.in/gcKBrQMx) (plus it's BANDCAMP DAY, which means all the proceeds go to Meaningwave!) Enjoy this new record. It was made with love. For you. LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! AKIRA THE DON DSPDC, MEXICO AUGUST 2024 NEW MERCH IN THE STORE (https://lnkd.in/gJRqR-iD)