Last few days for Rai Preorders – Performances!
Posted on November 3rd, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:18 am
Yeah, pre-orders will end before Aki-Con, and the prices will pop up considerably. As such, you should probably get on that while it’s cheap. Meanwhile, Rai will be at Aki-Con, performing late Sunday. Hold up on your post-convention Denny’s, and stick around for a great show. Trust me, it’s worth it.
If you’re looking for some me performing, come December 13th, you’re in luck as long as you’re 21+. Full details are in the shows section, but the short story is I’m performing with Death*Star again in Seattle at the Jewel Box. Come out, support local Nerdcore, buy a copy of Romance Language 2 and have a great time.
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Simplifying Preorders For Rai’s Record (Edit: It’s Over)
Posted on October 17th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:08 pm
US Preorder ($10 US)
International Preorder ($15 US)
A reminder as to why you may want this: Rai Kamishiro Promo Video Go!
Plus, it’ll save you money, and if you’re quick about it, you might still get the LE version with alternate cover art and secret bonus material – ah, the LE is sold out; however, there are still plenty (ok not really, this first run is going to be fairly limited too) of delicious regular editions to buy too.
EDIT: Pre-order’s are over folks! Check back later for regular order links.
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“When you die, we will have music for years. Nerdcore 2Pack.”
Posted on October 16th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:30 am
– Ben Garbe aka $ucksex of The Former Fat Boys
Ok, that’s probably an over exaggeration. After all, massive back-catalog of music to record and adept production work for new luminaries aside, I am only in the middle of readying both Rai’s debut album, Electric Sheep, and my new record, Romance Language Two. Actually, I’m done with Romance Language Two outside of mixing/mastering (well, I have another 3 or 4 songs I could record for it if time allows, maybe in November.) At the moment, everything I’ve got is being poured into Rai’s debut, and she’s putting as much time as her vocal chords and job allow on this to get it done in time for AkiCon 2009.
BTW, that’ll bring the official count of releases this year for me up to seven. A mixtape, a remix album, two mash up eps, two personal albums and a collaboration album. I won’t rest on that either cause I’m going to help Nursehella however I can with her debut record.
Oh and I’ll find time write another couple anime reviews in there too, and upload my records to bandcamp so all you folks can buy them via the internets. I may not be successful at what I do yet, but stopping me is easier said than done.
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Sequels Part Uno: Redid The Mash
Posted on September 30th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:49 pm
So I made a six song long mash up EP in a weekend earlier this year, and well, I got the itch again, so this time I made a six song mash up EP in 4 hours. I present, Ultraklystron – Redid The Mash:
Badongo – DepositFiles – MegaUpload – RapidShare – zShare
Of course, beyond the fun of me ruining songs from some of my favorite artists is that this has a sneak peak at Romance Language 2, with two songs from said upcoming album on this release in mash up for form. BTW, I have four out of 12 songs done for that record.
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Back Once Again / Free Stuff / Vote For Me
Posted on September 25th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:07 pm
I am back from Victoria, BC after a lovely visit with Danielle. She showed me around the city, and I have to say to all my goth loli friends and my otaku friends – get up there and visit. Between the lovely tea rooms, old architecture and awesome china town, you must see that city when you get the chance. Anyways, she and I had a fantastic time. We saw GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan live, we went to a bunch of cute restaurants (all of which were quite economical,) we watched tons of anime (Ouran Host Club) and we walked all over the city! We even won trivia night at the hostel we were staying at, netting us free gift certificates for the hostel cafe and a local diner, and we also won at the Deal or No Deal arcade game at the first try, netting us cute folding fans. I am looking forward to future visits as well. Victoria’s a lovely city – pity UVic won’t take any of my BCC credits without way too much effort spent.
Next up, in the interest of maybe spurring some interest in my most recent commercial release, The Fourth Estate, I’ve decided to pull a Random and release a shareware, stripped down version of the same record, in this iteration called The Free Estate. It’s only 11 songs (vs. 19 on the actual record,) and it’s encoded in 128kbps mp3 for that late 90s piracy sound. Download it from one of the several links below before the links inevitable dead links happen:
badongo – depositfiles – megaupload – rapidshare – zshare – sharebee
Lastly, you may want to check out the song I’ve done for Nerdcore Rising’s Song Fight. I don’t really want to win (chance to see NYC aside,) but it’s a fun song you should totally check out. Lyrics are after the break.
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It’s a Remix LP!
Posted on August 6th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:50 am
And it’s free, free, free: Download it off megaupload, and if you don’t like megaupload, download it anyway, repost it somewhere else. and then link me to it.
Anyway, it was a fun little exercise, and it’s reflects where I’d probably take a new Rap record. Darker, harder, techier and nastier. I’m growing weary of polished synths, and sample clearance is a chore. Why are you still reading this? Download the album already.
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I accidentally a show, is this bad? / Progress
Posted on July 19th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:42 am
Details are in the show section, but I’ve got a show at The Blue Moon on July 30th. I will try to rehearse up, but this is my first show in a year; it should be an interesting experience as such. Also in attendance will be Death Star and I think also Press Start to Rock and/or Snickerpuss. Kinda fuzzy on those details.
Meanwhile, Rai and I set up a makeshift recording booth at her house, and I lent her a solid USB mic so she can record vocals for her album. This should, theoretically atleast, speed up progress on her record considerably.
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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.