Promises I Probably Won’t Keep
Posted on June 14th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:54 pm
IE, the release schedule for projects involving me in a way beyond a one-shot collaboration:
Ultraklystron – Never Yours To Share It / Never Knows Best* – Summer 2007
Ultraklystron – OpenSource Lyricist – PAX 2007
Rai – Grand Guignol – KumoriCon 2007
Ultraklystron – The Fourth Estate – 2008
Ultraklystron – Desu Desu Desu Mixtape – 2008, probably a month or two before Fourth.
*=Not nerdcore. Drum n’ Bass/Electronica double CD of previously unreleased music recorded during the making of Revision4920.
So, this should be nondescript enough to allow me to have some wiggle room. For two of those releases (Open and Never,) the musical content is done. For two others, the content is basically all written and composed (Fourth and Desu, though there is so much time before those releases happen, that the line up on both may change dramatically.) However, to assume everything will go as planned is folly.
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I’m guessing The Fourth Estate is the third LP from you?
Will the mixtape have some freestyle songs with you rapping over hip-hop beats? It would be interesting to hear you rap over Kanye’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”, or Common’s “The People.”
Comment by Mugen — June 21, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
Will The Fourth Estate be stylistically similar to your previous albums, or will it take on a more hip-hop feel?
Comment by Bear — June 21, 2007 @ 2:19 pm
Well, the Fourth Estate is now technically the fourth album (whether Romance Langauge is the 3rd or 2nd is a question I’m even loathed to define, but lets call it #2 while Opensource is #3.) Sonically, parts are a bit more Hip-Hop (sorta like older Tupac, with a lot Lupe and Kanye,) but other parts are going to be very hard southern-style Rap. Other parts still are probably closer to the more Electronica-Rap fusion I’m predisposed to play with.
Meanwhile, assuming I can find some instrumentals without resorting to P2P (IE: when/if I ever bother setting up ITunes again,) the mixtape will have tracks that are really in the traditional mixtape mode. Other songs though (like “slash-b style”) are basically songs that don’t fit with in the context of the album, and/or are also a little too time critical to sit on. One can expect that any specific “I hate this company”-songs will probably on the mixtape. Meme-themed songs will also be on the mixtape. The pure braggadocio tracks by and large will also be on the mixtape, barring a few gems I think are particularly sharp.
At the moment, the playlists are pretty much in flux for both the mixtape and The Fourth Estate. I have about 40 songs (maybe more like 44) complete with lyrics and backings (IE: they just need to be recorded,) I have atleast 10 backings that either need new lyrics written for them or have existing lyrics sync’d/editted to them, and I have atleast 16 lyrics that either need backings written for them or that need to be sync’d/editted to existing backings. So, I have right now atleast 56 songs to play with, and maybe as many 70. That’s enough for a triple disc and an EP.
Add to that the material lyrical material is diverse yet catagorizable (IE: various topics, but their are 5 songs about aspects of conventions,) and it gets to the point where I’ll just have to see what comes out best. A-Grade material get put on the album (probably 15 bucks including S&H,) B-Grade material goes on the mixtape (free download!)
Comment by Karl Olson — June 21, 2007 @ 2:49 pm