Bio/Press
Posted on May 23rd, 2008
Filed under: General Noise — Karl Olson @ 4:51 AM

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, before the dawn of man as we knew him, there was Sir Santa of Claus, an ape-like creature making crude and pointless toys out of…

Ok, that’s not a real bio, but the following wanders about as much as a story from The Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future…

I’m Karl Olson, a musician, a programmer and animation website moderator/staff writer. Musically, I focus on Nerdcore HipHop, though I used to be a Drum n’ Bass/Minimal Techno/Ambient fiend, and before that I was a little wannabe alt-rock kid (thankfully, I’m not so cruel as to inflict the demo I cut when I was 10 on the world… atleast not yet.) I’m still learning to be a good programmer (I’m aiming for a Comp Sci degree;) however I’ve been playing with web design and programming for over a decade now, and yes, it makes me feel a little old to say that. I ended up at Toon Zone, an animation news and discussion site because I’m an intense anime and manga fan, though I love animation of any sort as long as it has some good to offer (story, jokes, high production values.)

As far as notable achievements are concerned, I did remixes of mc chris and MC Frontalot songs, I’ve collaborated with Nursehella, I did a commentary on the Sealab 2021 Season 3 DVD Boxset, a review of mine is quoted on the back of volume 5 of the single disc release of Spiral, I wrote a review of Half-Life 2 for the English-Language edition of Joong-Ang Daily Newspaper, my early electronica work had been downloaded over 100,000 times before I graduated high school, I’ve been interviewed by a couple Canadian college radio programs, one of my ambient songs was used in a now defunct late-night CBC program named Zed, a national radio program in the Netherlands played some of my electronica when I was about 15 or 16, a French House music label solicited a demo from me around at the same age, I was rated as the 10th best Nerdcore artist on a survey at Hipster, Please, I also did a freestyle on SpikeTV’s GameHead after having rapped at Capcom’s Booth at the San Diego Comic Convention and I ended up shooting some mediocre footage that ended up on the PAX2007 DVD which resulted in a special thanks in the credits of one the segments. Oh, I guess I’ve made some good Nerdcore albums too, and I’m in two different documentaries about the Nerdcore scene. Oh, and that resulted in being referenced in and my music getting used in an episode of PRI’s To The Best Of Our Knowledge.

That’s all not as cool as I make it sound. ^_^

Oh, and I guess here is the lame 3rd person perspective bio I use sometimes for stuff like myspace and compilations. I dislike writing that kind of bio:

Ultraklystron (Karl Olson) first started writing music at age 10, mostly inspired by Alternative music. Around about age 13, he became interested in Electronic music, and while writing under the alter-egos of “The Stereo Logic,” “Fun Confusion” and “CouZ-n Carl”, he even managed to get a little attention for his endeavors in that genre (such as having a song featured on the Netherlands’ Radio 2 program “A New Stage,” and a request to use a song in an adult film, though Karl turned that opportunity down.)

After a near lawsuit from a band with a similar name, Karl traded in “The Stereo Logic” for the name “Ultraklystron,” a word that at that time was completely unique (though a Russian software crack group has since co-opted the name.) Around about age 18, he became interested in Nerdcore Hip-Hop via MC Frontalot and mc chris, a happy coincidence as only about a year or two earlier he had become interested in Japanese Animation, providing him with plenty of material for lyrics.

After a few years of on and off work, he completed his first Nerdcore LP, Revision4920. Though original intending to release OpenSource Lyricist as his second album, a bout of inspiration mixed with a serious crush inspired him to write and release the first Nerdcore love album, Romance Language. He then followed that up with Opensource Lyricist, and his most recent release, The Fourth Estate. Currently, he is producing and collaborating with Nerdcore/J-Pop artist Rai, and providing rough backings to Nursehella.

Bleh. That kind of stuff always sounds so egotistical. I assure you all I’m just a guy who is making some songs by himself and with talented friends, writing some code, reviewing some anime and moderating a forum. Just like everyone else on the internet. I was working as a webdesigner and cellphone app developer for a start-up, but the company went on permanent hiatus. Now, I’m back in university wrapping up my comp-sci degree. Again, nothing particularly notable.

You know what, maybe these interviews and reviews of my CDs can explain me better:

If you’re more audio/visually inclined here’s some select performance and interview footage:

Here are the documentaries that have some me in them:

And this book has some quotes from me in it:

Too bad that I’m not notable enough for Wikipedia.

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