48 Hours of Fun.
Posted on September 29th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 7:50 am
So Nursehella, A.K.A. Danielle, rolled into Seattle on Wednesday, and it was a blast from start to finish. We pretty much chilled the first half of the first day – had some KFC and 7-Eleven, used some internets, and she listened to OpenSource Lyricist ahead of street date (and she enjoyed it, making me two for two on advance listens for it.) Then after a good night’s rest (I was out on the couch, she was in my bed – my pillows smell like Chanel,) we got some Jack in the Box and recorded our collab. Later, we went to down the Capitol Steps/Optimus Rhyme/mc chris show, and it was fantastical. Got mc’s new CD and got it autographed by Chris and John, and I chatted with the always awesome and friendly Wheelie Cyberman. After the show, it was Denny’s time. Moons over my Hammy with a silly juice/soda drink and great company? That’s how you end an excellent evening if you’re me. Even if I never made anything else out of nerdcore hiphop, the fact I met and befriended a wonderful individual like Nursehella and the fact that people who inspired me to try this know who I am makes it all worth it. Fans, as much as I love the few I have, become the icing on the cake almost, which is probably a good thing. Meanwhile, while I’m stating possibly unpopular opinions in the nerdcore scene, I’m diggin mc chris’ new CD.
PS: Shout out to Feather and her friends, and congrats to her for getting one of mc’s towels and the requisite autograph on it too 😀
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It’s Like A Waltz, Isn’t It? It’s Wonderful.
Posted on September 26th, 2006
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 2:29 am
Been slowly working threw Honey & Clover lately. I really think I’m falling for this show. It hits so me so dead on emotionally at points I have to pause it and breathe for a second. Hence the quote. I think by the time I’m done watching the show, it’ll be in my top 5 without batting an eyelash.
Anyway, I might be out of town for a while starting Saturday afternoon – family stuff. As such, if there is something critical any of you out there reading this blog need from me, email or call or post ASAP. I’m kind of busy as it stands trying to sow up other loose ends (IE: getting the rest of my screeners watched and reviewed amongst other things,) but I’ll try my best to redress any other loose ends too.
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More Podcast Fun
Posted on September 22nd, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:26 am
As in, another podcast interviewed me, namely Solipsistic Nation, an excellent podcast featuring some great music and great interviews. I’m pretty boring, but MC Frontalot puts forth the most poetic description of nerdcore I’ve seen, while the rest of the artists featured also put forth some great thoughts and decribe their interesting and colorful histories. If you like nerdcore, you’ll like this podcast episode. Besides, it has MC Frontalot, YTCracker, Beefy, High-C, Funky49 and Ham-STAR on it too, so it even has nerdcore rappers that have recieved more mainstream media attention than yours truly here.
Meanwhile, the album that will follow Opensource Lyricist is full. I think I might just try to record the vocals for all 18 tracks (2 songs are being moved Opensource to the next CD, and 2 will be orphaned as they will appear on neither album, though I’ll be sure to kick them out on a compilation or as a-series-of-tubes exclusive songs,) in the next couple weeks. I’ll just machine gun threw it and be done with it. I had this period of binge-writing during this summer inspite of being out of town (actually, in part because I was out of town,) and I wrote about 8 songs in the past month, but I think that’ll be that for a little while at the very least. I need to live some more life before writing lyrics again.
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Do not operate heavy machinery.
Posted on September 19th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:18 am
As this audio sleep aid causes drowsiness.
Meanwhile, I need to snipe a bid on a laptop monitor cable. Easier said than done. I have a sneaking suspicion even with Ebay’s lower prices, I will be paying more than the cost of the laptop it repairs for the cable. Ah well. Later today, it’s Fiasco time 😀
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Adverse Meditations On Drum n’ Bass
Posted on September 18th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:24 am
Two things.
1. Google Ads are fun. Amusing to see Lupe Fiasco ads in my sidebar (something those reading via LJ don’t see I suppose.) Oh yeah, everyone who wants to hear a wonderful hiphop CD should buy his CD when it hits on Tuesday. I know probably will should I have funds available. I mean, he raps about giant robots and Lupin the Third, and very excellently at that.
2. My most recent drum n’ bass CD, the violent yet eloquent Haven is now remastered, and available for download in 320kbps mp3, lossless ogg vorbis and just so that no one decides to call me George Lucas for being an audio revisionist the original ogg vorbis release is up too. It’s split into 3 different zip files (one for each format/version,) so you can just download the whole album in a shot with m3u playlist included too. It’s probably the best drum n’ bass CD I’ve done, and it’s certainly the one I’m happiest with at this point, so get it while it’s lukewarm.
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Advance Leak
Posted on September 14th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:28 pm
Since RhymeTorrents v.5 is almost done, I figured it’s safe to leak my contribution, a collab featuring an upcoming nerdcore mc by the name of MCeeP.
Ultraklystron feat. MCeep – There’s The Beef
It’s a nerdcore hiphop/death metal fusion. It’s pretty insane. Full lyrics will be up on rhymetorrents.com once the compilation goes up officially, but it’s basically the same kind of stuff I covered in “Scenester Blues,” just way more fun and silly – this is what I get for freestyling in flame threads.
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I should make an album or atleast an EP this way….
Posted on September 1st, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:40 pm
My local Apple Store has amongst other things:
-A very, very high speed internet connection with no filtering whatsoever, or rather no filtering that I care about.
-A duel-Zeon tower loaded with GarageBand, a USB Midi Keyboard, and said tower is hooked into the aforementioned internet.
Thus, I decided to write a song, and with prodding from my friend Misu, I uploaded it to the net. I did this on thursday. Maybe I’ll keep doing so over time. I figure if I stop by there once a week (easy to do since I’m down in Bellevue anyway every Friday to hang out at Anime Kingdom,) I should be able to make an album or two before the year is up 😉
PS: I did a very mediocre set at the Shark Club. Everyone else delivered like Domino’s on a dozen bottles of Bawls though, so on the whole it was a good evening, and I made some good friends in the nerdcore scene I think/hope. The documentar(ies) should be very interesting though, and both will feature at some decent mc work from me. Just not from the live show, or atleast as much as I would have liked to deliver. Oh well, atleast I have my high-concept Apple Store album 😀
PSS: I did other stuff like hang out in the international district with Feather (the Haruko cosplayer who I turned on to nerdcore back at SakuraCon and who I ran into again at The Pillows show a while back.) She is officially the first person who isn’t me to hear the current revision (no pun intended) of Opensource Lyricist. That was fun. Also, PAX, what little of it I could enjoy between the documentary filming and waiting in line, was a blast. I just wish I could have played some more video games. Atleast I was able to attend some of the panels and both of the concerts though. Also, I beat Monzy at Halo while sitting in the back of a tricked out Scion xB. This would be a 1337 achievement except that he’s interning at Google NYC, so he’s still way 1337er than myself, and he’s generally a really super nice guy as is everyone else I’ve met so far in the nerdcore scene. There is hope 🙂
Addendum: Not so much album as an on-going project that will likely be beyond silly. I mean revolutionary… not really.