Collaboration Default Swap (A New Song With Special Guests!)
Posted on August 27th, 2024
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:22 pm
Tired of your favorite businesses, products & services ruining themselves for short term gains, or being bought on credit by shiftless grifters & then ruining themselves to pay that off while handing out golden parachutes to those already, uh, well-gilded? Same! As are funky49 & Nursehella, so here’s a brand new song all about it, available at all of the usual places (including many businesses that themselves are victims/perpetrators of “enshittification,” because we can’t have nice things):
Bandcamp:
Youtube:
Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music/iTunes & everything else are here at hyperfollow.
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Embedded Systems (New Music, Retro Merch Drop!?)
Posted on August 10th, 2024
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:00 pm
Another year, another new Dn’B LP, loosely themed around being sick in school & going home early to watch garbage TV. Beats all of the Drum n’ Bass albums I’ve done recently with computer programming names I guess. It’s also on all of the usual places, just check the hyperfollow link here, but here’s the Bandcamp and Youtube embeds:
Meanwhile, after a request from an old friend to reissue the old Ultraklystron “Download A Car” meme shirt from the Animatic LP deluxe pre-orders and one or two live shows, I spruced up my apparently extant and definitely neglected Teespring store. I have everything set to make as little money as Teespring will allow with out fiddling chasing things down to the penny. If they had an easy “whatever current cost is plus IDK 50 cents” setting, I’d have gone for that instead:
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New Music Season, Again
Posted on April 9th, 2024
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:25 pm
Available by 4/24/24 on all the other platforms here: Ultraklystron – Lost Languid Muddle on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and more.
Yep, another one.
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New music, new videos:
Posted on June 12th, 2023
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:42 am
First up, the whole album, Deep Neurotic Network, which loosely captures some future tech anxiety mixed up with the usual otaku life nonsense:
It’s also on all major platforms: Bandcamp, Amazon, Apple, Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music & more.
Don’t your favorite platform listed? Check the hyperfollow page for Deep Neurotic Network for updates.
However, there’s also some cheap & cheerful lyric videos to go with this release too, so here’s a playlist of those:
I strictly speaking have lyrics on deck and sorted for another LP already, but I don’t see myself getting to that in any specific time line, so run this one up for now.
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Oh Right More Drum n’ Bass
Posted on March 7th, 2023
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:48 pm
Yep, as we wrap up a long winter, here’s something to warm y’all up.
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An album, social media implosion
Posted on November 23rd, 2022
Filed under: General,Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 12:53 am
First, the last point: everything social I’m doing/have done should be in this hyperfollow link, or at least that’s my plan. I’m leaning towards Mastodon though. Still, open to other parachutes, probably actively posting about them on my accounts too.
Finally, the opener: Yes, still more Drum n’ Bass. “Thank You Resume Speed” is in all of the usual places, including bandcamp.
PS: finally got 500 YouTube Subscribers after 500 14(?) years. Thanks for listening.
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Seasonal Music Update (Happy Halloween)
Posted on October 29th, 2022
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 6:10 pm
I’ll do another post soon, but for now, enjoy this track about the best holiday decoration for any holiday, the 12 Foot Skeleton:
Youtube:
Bandcamp (Free Download):
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Thanks Bots
Posted on May 22nd, 2022
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:59 pm
A mostly complete mirror of music (barring subscriber exclusives & stuff I never put back on Bandcamp) is now up on archive.org thanks to a friendly bot. Call it the creative commons at work.
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Bandcamp, Epic & Me
Posted on March 2nd, 2022
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:44 am
Okay. So in case you missed it, Bandcamp was just bought by Epic Games. Long story short, it doesn’t look like anything is going to change here any time soon at Bandcamp according to the hagiographic press release/blog post they made about it.
As such, I’m going to let things ride for now. Like many of you, I have major concerns about the cut that Bandcamp takes going up the chain to Epic & its major investor Tencent, but honestly, I was never happy to deal with PayPal all the time either. That’s always kind of been a trade off with e-commerce, though the history of Bandcamp’s new corporate parents rightfully gives many people pause. If you’re among them, I understand and support you 100% if you no longer want to support artists via Bandcamp. However, so long as Bandcamp isn’t making artists and listeners do anything that seems any different to the current deal here, it is probably still the best place to support me and any other musician who offers music through that platform, for better or worse.
Conversely, should being on Bandcamp ever force me or y’all into a deal that’s harmful, in whatever form that could take, then I will fold up shop here, or should that some how be an even greater risk, I will heavily encourage everyone to shop elsewhere by any means available to me. I’ll redirect the ultraklystron.com domain too, and I’ll post another update like this with my next steps if things go sideways due to Epic/Bandcamp.
Still, I want to thank you all again for supporting me via Bandcamp since 2009. I hope we all can continue that, and if not, I’m right there with you all. I’ve been through this often over the past 20 years ago with mp3 dot com, amp3 dot com, ampcast, myspace, etc. If this is another loss, at least I can tell you with some certainty that someone, somewhere will eventually find that to be an opportunity to do something good for us all again.
Unrelated: is anyone familiar with selling albums on itch.io? Contact me.
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Oops More Drum n’ Bass
Posted on February 17th, 2022
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 11:55 am
It keeps happening. 10 more 174bpm Drum n’ Bass rollers. Candy themed naming because I am really running through ideas here. Also, I think the LP sounds sweet, ha.
Also on all of the major music stores and streaming services.
And the easy youtube full LP version: