- published: 02 Aug 2011
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Akira The Don (real name Adam Narkiewicz) is an independent British musician. Born in West Bromwich and raised in North Wales, in recent years he has lived in Hackney, East London.
His music and production traverses the boundaries between Pop, Hip-Hop, Indie and Dance. He lists influences including Ice Cube, Billy Bragg, Morrissey and the Wu Tang Clan. His debut album When We Were Young was produced by Danny Saber (U2, Black Grape), James Brown (NIN, Ash) and Emile (50 Cent).
In May 2011, he released his second LP, The Life Equation. The album is co-produced with Stephen Hague and features collaborations with Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animals) and Envy. A collaborative mixtape between Akira and Gonzales is currently in the works.
Akira has produced songs for a number of artists including two top forty hits for Lethal Bizzle, along with songs for Mister Lacey, Envy , Mary Turner, Big Narstie, Littles, Marvin The Martian, Son Of King Rebel, and Pixel.[citation needed]
Akira rapped on and co-produced a remix of a track called Bang with Temposhark in 2008 which appeared on an XLR8R magazine covermount CD. Recent credits include a remix of "Great Britain" by dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip with regular collaborator Joey2tits.
Andrew Robert MacFarlane Nielsen (born October 6, 1982) is an American rapper, known by his stage name MC Lars. He is the self-proclaimed originator of "post-punk laptop rap". He was one of the first underground rappers to sample and reference post-punk and emo bands. John Mayer has credited Lars with coining the phrase "iGeneration", a term used to describe kids born from 1982-2000. He is the founder and CEO of the independent record label Horris Records.
He has recorded for Truck Records in the UK, Sidecho Records in the United States, Big Mouth Records in Japan, and Shock Records in Australia. He was formerly known as MC Lars Horris but changed his pseudonym to MC Lars in 2004 for purposes of simplicity. MC Lars currently resides in Venice Beach, California.
In 2006, he released the single "Download This Song" with it entering the Australian Singles Chart at number 29.
Nielsen has toured and done one-off performances with many different bands and rappers, including The Matches, Lupe Fiasco, Nas, Something With Numbers, Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Army of Freshmen, Gym Class Heroes, Say Anything, Streetlight Manifesto, Suburban Legends, Test Icicles, Jack's Mannequin, Patent Pending, Bayside, Fightstar, Make It Better Later, MC Frontalot, mc chris, Wheatus, The Aquabats, Ludacris, YTCracker, T-Pain, Yung Joc, Cartel and Zebrahead. Some of these bands play the part of Hearts That Hate for the song "Signing Emo" at live shows.
Well I'm a man called Adam
Living in the future
I make all my tunes on a
Computer
I update my website daily
Interscope's the label that pays me
ADSL from the living room, connect to the phone
And I leave that shit running past six in the morning
Downloading songs, soft synths, software and episodes of South Park
Double you Double you Double you
WU TANG CORP DOT COM!
That shit's the bomb!
They just uploaded, like, 36 songs
I'll rip that shit while I read about wrongs on blog sites
Sometimes I get so excited
Search for something, and I find it
And the BPI haven't sued me yet
This is the way we ball
Tower PC
Wireless keyboard
Soundforge
Fruity Loops and Acid
Cracked off KaZaA
I love living in the future baby
This is the way we ball
Cable out the back
Phono two to jack
Eureka!
Into the amp then the speakers
Input
Selector
Aux
Go!
I love living in the future baby!
Well we can scratch CDs, and MP3s
Instantly on this DZ1200 Technics
And if you think that we're lying then check this...
That was Bethan and Huw on Radio 1 the other night
The things we can do!
I burned that off the BBC website
(Birddogg: yeah rite)
Shame they didn't say Birddogg...
The rap Cannon and Ball
Bird Dogg and the Don and
This Is The Way We ball...
Being beheaded (it's true)
And we can call out Mums from the top of the bus
The same phone does sums takes photos and cooks
You can read books on em
I can't believe it's true!
But I was bored at the back of a gig
And so I read Sun Tzu's The Art Of War
Computer games on planes
There's still Cops on Fox
And a cock like me can get on Top Of The Pops