What my peers think of the Fourth Estate…
Posted on May 11th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:37 am
Fellow Nerdcore compatriots Antisoc and Dr. MC Mystery have also done reviews. Both are positive on the record. As such, I’m 4 for 4 on that tip. Maybe I should send a copy to Pitchfork. A 0.0 would be delicious, and even with a horrid score, it’d probably be the first review of a Nerdcore album.
The interesting thing is the lack of song-to-song consensus on the record. It’s definitely struck people in very different ways on that basis, which is probably a sign I actually I succeeded in delivering on diversity, even though I did select towards more clubby beats for the most part. The flipside is that I didn’t expect the album to be so impenetrable lyrically. I thought I’d backed the references off relative to the previous albums (not intentionally either – I just noticed I wasn’t saying “[x] like [insert anime here]” as much when I was writing songs, and the raw number of references had subsided,) or that at the very least, they were coached in broader themes, thus at least still communicating the intended emotion. In fact, there were some songs that were much thicker with references that I omitted. Knowing the album’s dense to people who aren’t me is useful to know. It gives me a much better perspective on why I get the level of response I do my music – my lyrics really do result in an intensely limited audience, lauded production aside.
PS: The new Star Trek movie is fantastic; it delivers on action and on sci-fi. Hopefully, they keep it in Abrams’ hands for atleast another film or two. An alternate-universe Trek was long over due, and well, this was just about the best possible way of pulling it off.
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Another Fourth Estate Review
Posted on May 4th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:02 pm
I think Hipster Please thinks I’m deep. This is likely a highly questionable point-of-view, though it’s always interesting to see what other people get out of my rambling rhymes.
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Since LOL MOE is almost at 10K views…
Posted on May 3rd, 2009
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 5:23 pm
I figured I’d post a new video of me doing some more serious(ish) rapping. The beat is lifted from a Chase and Status song named “Running.” Snoop Dogg isn’t the only guy who can lift a great dub/grime beat.
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the grand watunes experiment / some lyrics
Posted on April 24th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:38 pm
So, through this somewhat new (well new to me,) service, watunes I should have The Fourth Estate available on all the major download stores including iTunes and Amazon.com. I hope this works. If it does, I’ll get the other records out the door as well.
Meanwhile, I finally have a lyrics page up for The Fourth Estate. The rest of the lyrics up for Opensource Lyricist are also up.
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Download Delays
Posted on April 23rd, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:00 pm
Over two weeks later, and I still don’t have the record up for download. Why you might ask, even though I have the internet? (Though, funnily enough I’m at an internet cafe right now.) Well, payloadz is consistantly punking out about choking down the massive zip, and I’m sort of still sussing out info about how to get the album on iTunes and/or Amazon mp3 (especially since I’m not sure whether it’d be worth it on the cost tip.)
I feel bad that a lot of people have already received their hard-copies, and yet I still don’t have downloads up. Sorry about that.
I should probably post up lyrics too. -_-;
PS: Behold, the first review of The Fourth Estate. it’s quite positive.
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Comcast Rage
Posted on April 15th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:15 am
The internet line to my house is outright broken – can I see that a bird or squirrel must have nawed through it. How this hasn’t taken out my TV as well is beyond me, though maybe it’s muxed in the box on the side of my house. There are enough wires being slung over to make that plausible.
Anyway, upon calling Comcast at 10 in the morning today, they said they couldn’t get a truck out for a day. This has delayed the digital release. Sorry about that. Yell at them or something.
PS: I am so looking at FIOS after this. I’d get the Funimation channel too.
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CD’s out
Posted on April 11th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:12 am
It’s for sale in the store for 14 US Dollars for shipment in the US, with a digital download via payloadz (for 4 bucks less,) forthcoming. If you’re impatient and/or you like hard copy, it’s all about the store, or if you’re at SakuraCon, buy it it in person for the cost of the digital release.
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While waiting for my CD to arrive from the replicator
Posted on April 9th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:40 am
You can download the Desu Desu Desu Mixtape that I finally put together. It’s only 10 songs, only one of which you’ve all definitely not heard before, and one of which is just a remix. However, it’s free and weird. It’s also pretty raw production wise.
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By the way,
Posted on April 6th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:00 am
4 new songs are now up at the myspace. If you’re wondering what the new record is gonna sound like, what I’ve posted should give you a pretty good idea of what it’ll be like. Also, some promo copies are now making the rounds. If anyone actually talks about them, I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Also, I’ll be at SakuraCon obviously. If you want to get a hold of me there, you should probably contact me in advance as it sounds like it’s going to be huge and thus difficult to find folks in a crowd.
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Ok, found a solution.
Posted on April 1st, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:07 pm
Re-did the cover art for a standard jewel case, only ordering 50 copies. May or may not make it in time for SakuraCon. If not, ce la vie. It was a less a hard date than a timeframe to ensure I didn’t needlessly drag it out.