In case zShare isn’t your thing.
Posted on January 28th, 2009
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:53 pm
Everything on nekodashi.info now also has Megaupload links. If that isn’t enough incentive to nose back by the site, my complete mc chris remixes from 2002-2005 are now uploaded as well.
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“Struggle…
Posted on January 24th, 2009
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:01 am
another sign that God love you.” – Lupe Fiasco, “Real” from Food & Liquor
So, my grandfather has been buried in Duluth. That was last weekend for me. It’s still sort of weird to think about it. I imagine it’d be a heavier weight to bare if not for other goings on, though any time I really meditate on it it gets to me, and I cry.
My mom’s vision is currently messed up – a partially detached and torn retina tends to do that. She goes in for surgery next Wednesday. If you’re the praying type, now would be a good time.
I got a hold of Rai, finally dropped off her copies of Final Boss. Maybe with a little luck, we’ll actually get work done such that her album is done well before I go back to school. At the very least, she’ll have a laptop with XP on it, and thus a working microphone for recording. I think we have a much better idea of where it’s headed too, so that should also help in getting things done.
I need to start into sorting though which of the schools I want to go to. I have some days of nothing but long phone calls and boring office visits with college bureaucrats ahead of me. Thankfully, having friends to turn to at the end of those days, plus a good family and lovely girlifriend to talk to helps a lot. It helps me stay grounded, and that lifts me off the ground sometimes too.
It’s weird. Things haven’t been going great at all in a lot of ways lately. It’s been down right crap. Yet, it’s these troubles that remind that I am blessed to have so many good people around me who are there for me when I need them. I haven’t even tapped everyone on that account. I’m probably lucky like that.
To everyone who helps me out: Thanks.
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Speaking of Nekodashi Being Back
Posted on December 25th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:57 am
14 releases are up for download there right now, some of it even in a decent bit rate, some of it never available free previously.
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Nekodashi’s Back/Pay for downloads?
Posted on December 24th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:27 pm
So, as many people know, nekodashi has been down for a long time. Well, I recently picked up the nekodashi.info domain and I intend to eventually put the site back up. Now, this where things get interesting. I don’t think I’m going to buy hosting explicitly for it – I’ll probably just have it redirect to a sub-domain here at karlrolson.com. As such, any music available for free would probably just be hosted on various file sharing services (probably zshare with mirroring on megaupload and rapidshare.)
However, there is a service called PayLoadz that allows you to sell downloads containing anything that doesn’t violate their TOS, including music. My question is, would people willing to pay to download my albums via this service? Keep in mind, this could get stuff like Revision4920 available separately from the Complete Collection, and could even used to allow people to bypass the wait and hassle of the free download sites as well. Theoretically, it might even allow me to monetize individual tracks too.
TL;DR: who here would be interested in paying for deliciously DRM-free, 320kbps mp3 (or I could even do FLAC for some of the content) downloads?
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Carriage Return/Compiled
Posted on December 23rd, 2008
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:20 pm
In as much as my horseless carriage and I have returned to Kirkland. Amazingly, even though the Seattle-area had been long done with snowfall after I had arrived there, driving here seemed (still seems actually) sketchier than the driving I did in Spokane and Castlegar. Maybe it’s the fact that the temperatures hover around melting point, creating exceedingly treacherous and nasty conditions, though I’m inclined to say the people trying to push 40 on sideroad in their SUVs with California license plates may be a contributing factor as well.
Additionally, I have a new song on RhymeTorrents v.8, disc 3. It is available here. Lyrics after the break.
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In case you don’t like Happy Hardcore
Posted on November 24th, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:30 pm
I also did a Drum n’ Bass remix of Random’s “Grow Up”. It’s raw, synthy and dance floor ready. Junglists, start your 1200s.
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11-27-2008
Posted on November 24th, 2008
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:16 am
Three things:
1. Wack Thursday: Savings of an unknown amount on stuff in the store. You want to know how much (if anything) you may save? Check on Thursday*.
2. My birthday: you should wish me a happy birthday that day maybe.
3. Music: There might be some. Again, this necessitates a visit to the website on the 27th. What kind of music if there is music? You’ll have to find out. Maybe I’ve taken up polka. Maybe the Korg nanoPad I got for my birthday has resulted in some brilliant new material on the Minimal Techno tip. Maybe I’ve become a Hyphy artist, and I have a bunch of songs about getting dumb and ghost riding the whip. You don’t know. Maybe it’s only one song from The Fourth Estate.
These are mysteries. Solve them with the help of Robert Stack** on Thursday.
*=These deals will inevitably get leaked on some website, just like Target’s and Best Buy’s. ;D
**=Robert Stack will not in any fashion be aiding you in regards to solving these mysteries, nor will Chris Hansen.
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CVR TN
Posted on November 22nd, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:05 am
Or rather, a cover/remix/reimagining of one of my drum n’ bass tracks (specifically “Sea of Stars” from Never Yours To Share It) by the genius drum n’ bass duo Negative PH. It’s on their just-released new album, OVRMND which is for sale on their myspace. That myspace also has their version of the song, “SOS,” up streaming as well.
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Kick it like it’s 1998…
Posted on November 21st, 2008
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:52 am
So, while I still have been too busy to get my podcast together for Toon Zone in regards to AkiCon, the other little project that came out of it, namely doing a remix of Random’s “Grow Up” in the Happy Hardcore style has come to fruition:
If you remember PLUR, you might want to give this a listen. Thanks to DJ Jimni Cricket for inspiring the mix, and to Random for being cool with said mix.
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Tacoma Concert Trip
Posted on October 30th, 2008
Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 11:15 pm
So, my friend Derek and I ventured southward to catch a show by Nerdcore MC and friend, MC Gigahertz. He put a great show, though he was somehow, inspite of being the King of Absurdcore, out absurded by the next act, and the evening was closed out with the surprisingly awesome post-NewWave/Electro sounds of Love You Long Time.
Photos were taken, and appear after the break.
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