Last year things were looking seriously good for Akira The Don; Interscope had picked him up for an album and were promising that Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and The Neptunes would by handling the production. Though this turned out not to be the case, the album was still recorded. […]

As you can probably guess from the titles, Akira The Don’s new double-A side single features songs whose contend is far, far apart.
Oh! What A Glorious Thing is a happy track, high on life and it doesn’t care who knows it. There are some nice lyrics in it but it’s not […]

Produced by Akira The Don and James Brown (Nine Inch Nails’ engineer, not the godfather of soul), Clones is the first track to be lifted from Akira’s forthcoming album on Interscope and delivers a heartfelt rant against politicians, the monarchy, celebrities and, er, the whole of society (but, as […]

ATD’s unconventional and uncompromisingly honest hip hop is refreshingly based around the vocals and uncluttered by the detritus of too long spent in the studio obsessing. Patrick is (at least semi-) autobiographical and about being young and in a bad scene in North Wales. By contrast there is the charmingly low tech track with the […]