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Mixtape – ATD28: UNKILLABLE THUNDERCHRIST – 14th May

If you’ve not yet had the pleasure, meet Akira The Don. A modern Renaissance man in every sense of the word – cartoonist, videographer, blogger extraordinaire, rapper, producer… Musically he generally fuses insanely catchy pop hooks with hip hop and indie. Signed to Interscope a few years back, but now totally independent he finally fully released his second album ‘The Life Equation’ in 2012 and has had rave reviews for latest single ‘We Won’t Be Broke Forever’ featuring Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) which was part of a madcap trilogy of tracks which all received glorious videos, in typical Don style. ‘The Life Equation’ was produced by synth pop pioneer Stephen Hague (New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Blur).

ATD is also a mixtape maestro and is about to launch his latest ATD28: UNKILLABLE THUNDERCHRIST on 14th May. As the man says “It’s all new material produced by me, Akira The Don, and features guest appearances from grime superstar Big Narstie, whose 100 Bars Of Pain got over 100,000 in 3 days this week, Manchester’s Envy, Bay Area wunderkind Issue, Noam Chomsky’s favorite rapper, Collorado’s Time, Youtube sensation CBoyardee, and celebrated spoken word star Polar Bear, who recently completed a deliriously received residency at the Camden Roundhouse.”

The record takes advantage of the mixtape format by liberally sampling the Lemmings computer game, the Prometheus trailer, Adam And The Ants, Strangelove, Mercury rev, and a recent Fox News meltdown amongst other amazing things. Lead track LEMMINGS samples – natch – LEMMINGS! Akira explains, “It concerns government hysteria whipping, media woman hating and trolling and Fony 2012. It is very catchy and the kids love it.”

Already posted at The Guardian, The Quietus and Bleeding Cool. It’s time you enjoyed the joys of accepting the unkillable thunderchrist into your heart too.

QUOTES:

“Generation-YouTube renaissance man” – The Arts Desk
“Akira The Don is a real mensch” – Chilly Gonzales
“All round superstar” – Andrew WK
“Fucking brilliant” – Grant Morrison
“Spectacular… A real slap upside the head” – The 404
“Glorious” – Subba Cultcha
“The urgent and danceable truth” – Jeff Wells (Rigorous Intuition)
“Triumphant” – Sun On The Sand
“Really, really good pop music” – Comics Alliance
“a monstrous cornucopia of sounds and genres” – The Quietus
“Akira the Don vs Gruff Rhys should have been our Eurovision entry” The Guardian
“a gem” – Artrocker
“one man perpetual motion creativity machine” – Adam Walton, BBC Radio

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