Yeah I've seen this. Someone on facebook sent me a link asking if it was official. Nothing to do with me though so it's not....

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Nike also used Ming The Merciless in one of their adverts. Not as good as the 16Bit commercial though!!!

upstateface wrote:How big is your penis?

hahaha! I'm not too sure. I guess I could whack you in the face with it and we could take a measurement from the bruise

what's your opinion of side chaining? I love sidechaning if it is used well. I'm not a big fan of the whole pumping thing......unless you're Thomas Bangalter, but for a track where there is a lot going on in the bassline and drum department, side chaning can really help give a busy track definition...

sorry if this has been asked already, but any chance for a pic of your studio/setup? much respect man! I would if I had a camera, and the one on my phone is fucked. a film maker friend of mine is wanting to come round and film me making a tune for a project, so I'm sure it'll be on youtube soon.....

Whats the best bit of advice you have been given? and whats the best advice you can give to new producers? The best bit of advice I have been given is treat everyone how you would want to be treated cause you'll meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down! That's also the best bit ...

my question: what is your average gain structure for writing your dubstep tunes? and with this I mean your kicks/snares/bass/sub I know it's not always the same, but I'm just curious:) I'll keep all my gains quite low so that I have a lot of headroom to play about with. My kick is always the first ...

My question is pretty much the same as one of SunkLo's, if you could tell yourself one thing that you know now that you didn't when you first started what would it be? Would love to know the answer to this :) I think it would be something boring like have confidence in your music and stop being so ...

full hardware kit list ;P haha! Not as much as I had a couple of years ago. I had to sell a lot of my expensive stuff to pay bills and my moog recently caught fire and had to be thrown out. Main stuff I use.... 2x Korg MS10 1x Korg MS20 1x Yamaha durm kit 1x Bass Guitar with 3 strings 1x Akai 4000D...

do ou have a method for inducing randomness in your tunes? do you work with audio mainly, or midi? why? what are some of your favorite compositional tricks? if you could have any superpower what would it be? :) Yeah all the kind of random elements are planned. I'll just reverse random bits of audio...

Heyo What monitors do you use? (don't think it's been asked) What's your approach to processing bass? I know you've already sort of answered this but do you try to get something a bit dirty first then modulate it, or add the grit after? I'm curious as to what a usual effect chain would look like an...

Thanx for doing this Q&A Akira! I just have two questions: 1. WHAT FAR FAR FAR GALAXY DO YOU COME FROM?? 2. CAN I GO INTO YOUR SPACESHIP WITH YOU NEXT TIME YOU TAKE A FLIGHT TO THAT PLACE?? In my eyes your one of the most amazing and inovative producer outhere in music land. The sounds go to fa...

Where do you see yourself heading in the next 5 years in music? Also when you process material for basses, how do you work? By adding little fx at each step, or sticking a big bad evil distortion at it? How often do you resample a sound on average? Do you always know where your track is going when ...

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no real questions except... who wrote your bio?? It's probably the most well written one I've seen in a long time other than that, thanks for your contribution to the music we all love Thanks man! Ian from Black Acre records did my bio. I'm shit at that sort of thing and he can write some crazy stu...

5) I wouldn't root for either as I would be too busy making sun ra style free jazz with my vuvuzela Finally, someone who gets it. In all seriousness tho-- the Akira Kiteshi tunes are some of the most consistently fresh, inspiring, WTF--laden juice biscuits that come across my promo inbox. always a ...

I do apologise (see - even yielding to the British spelling to show my humility) for being a wanker first time around... it is just that Tommy is a good friend and good friends are hard NOT to fuck with (same goes with all my classical cats, hiphop cats etc)... But I will put forth a serious questi...

upstateface wrote:Why was boom n pow on red vinyl? Looks dope and thanks for doing this.

Now worries man

The reason Boom n Pow was on red vinyl was because I wanted it on blue but Blue Daisy released his record on blue vinyl before mine so I had to have red haha!....true story!

how do you deal w the struggle of being a musician? did you just decide that you wanted to take production professionally and go for it... how did your realization about what your musical passion/skills come out? what were some of the most important steps in making this dream a reality? what do you...