Video
Posted on June 20th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 10:09 pm
Of me performing.
Girls With Glasses.
Poorly.
Boy, no one has ever seen that on YouTube before. However, the audio quality is good enough to hear all of the trip-ups on that video, and that if that isn’t good enough, you can always download the awesome and totally not buggy* DivX Video Plug-In for your browser, and watch it in Standard or Hi-Def. So, a huge thanks to DivX for having myself and various other great Nerdcore acts out to CES perform, and for getting a great filmmaker out there to shoot the event.
*=this is a lie. It crashed my browser repeatedly. However, DivX did pay me money to perform at CES. I’ll cut them some slack.
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I’m Banned
Posted on June 20th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:17 pm
in China:
Nekodashi.com is similarly blocked, as are most other Nerdcore artists and websites. Apparently, geeks rapping are as threatening to China as Flickr and unfiltered search results. So much for my grand plans for Shanghai and Beijing gigs. All sarcasm aside, you can find out if a site is blocked here: Great Firewall of China. It’s pretty interesting.
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Coming Soon?
Posted on June 16th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 6:05 am
OTOH, I’m not that hot on that album cover, and I won’t release it until I make a good one or someone else makes a good one.
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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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Violating Internet(s) Rules 1 & 2
Posted on June 14th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:42 am
I’d say look on RhymeTorrents BBS for the lyrics, but it’s dead, so I’ll put that in the read more (along with another treat.) Anyway, I did this because someone on RhymeTorrents requested an explanation of a certain popular, terrible, English-Language imageboard. I obliged initially with a written freestyle, but I figured I could easily add chorus, make a lazy beat, and have something people listen too, throw on a mixtape (that will probably be called desu desu desu link back too and probably ruin my life with should I ever become a notable MC (ha!)
Meanwhile, apologies to Nursehella for accidentally using “thrillho” in a rap track. I better be on my best behavior from here on out. One more case of intellectual grift, and I fear I really will drive her into the arms of a certain Illy Oi boy. 😉
Side Note: Tube Spark says I display the “most showmanship” in Nerdcore. I think they haven’t seen enough Nerdcore.
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Webdesign & Rick Astley
Posted on May 30th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:06 am
So, I managed to RickRoll a post-gig podcast. BTW, the gig was a blast because even though it wasn’t a perfect set – I’ve learned to just deal with it and keep rolling. Fun times as such, and besides, I really think I nailed most of the set. If you want more details, I’d recommend listening to that podcast, if only because it devolves into straight up insanity.
Meanwhile, I finally managed to setup my friend Jim’s website this evening. It’s still in need of content, but that’ll be coming soon, including lots of awesome cosplay pictures. It was a bit of challenging getting it all running, but it came together eventually.
PS: Here’s a video from the show.
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New Gear / Everything Old is New Again
Posted on May 18th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Reviews — Karl Olson @ 12:55 am
So, my old MidiStudio midi controller has been giving me grief lately, which is a bit of an accomplishment considering it has never worked perfectly – the pitch bend had an issue with returning to 0 from the first time I bought it. I tolerated that problem because I rarely had cause to use the pitch bend, and when I did, I’d just program it in the sequence itself because it was typically sounded better anyway. However, as it’s midi connection began to fail, I realized that the controller was going to need to be replaced (well, I suppose it could be fixed, but that’s easier said than done.)
Now, I was really aiming for just getting an MAudio Keystation 49 – very much like my old keyboard, if not even a bit more minimal barring the convient USB interface. Alas, the only one Guitar Center had in stock was a lemon, something I didn’t discover until after buying it. So I went back, and sucked up the fact I was just going to have to get an MAudio Oxygen 49 – a keyboard that is a lot more feature rich than I was really aiming for (I would have picked up the Korg controller instead if its keys were hinged right, but they aren’t – molded plastic hinges are trouble waiting to happen.) However, it plays really nicely – the action is way better than on the old controller – and the extra features are a bit handy, or at least fun to goof around with.
While I was at it, I picked up a new mic stand that fits my studio a lot better (the old one goes to a certain Canadian Nerdcore Diva.) No more knocking the mic stand over and taking out half my books and figures with it.
Meanwhile, during my journeys today, I also happened upon a new beverage… or did I?
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Sold Out.
Posted on May 17th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:59 am
Not the kind where I have sold out to get a record deal (if only I were so lucky,) but rather the kind where I’m out of copies of Romance Language.
Theoretically, I’ll have it back in print later today (after some sleep and a trip to Fry’s,) but you never know. I owe 10 copies to a certain unnamed website, but I might just do those copies. Romance Language is such a special CD that I almost only want a handful of hard copies floating around.
Of course, then I remember how I’d rather perform new songs than old at shows, and how as such, that means having CDs with those songs on it. Oh well. Expect fresh copies available by this time next week at the latest.
Also, apparently I have a gig on 26th at Waldo’s in Kirkland, WA. It is 21+, but I have plenty of friends who fit that bill. Also, it’s 6 bucks at the door. Less than my sold out CD even.
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Throw Up Ya Hands…
Posted on May 13th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:12 pm
…If you like this music: Ultraklystron – Nerdcore For Life (feat. Beefy)
Yep, I covered Beefy’s theme for the Nerdcore For Life documentary, and thankfully, Beefy, being a man with a good sense of humor, did some guest vocals on it – he takes issue with some of the factual errata that crop up when someone like me covers his song. Younger listeners should be aware that there is some strong language, but other than that, I’m pretty happy with it, so you should check it out. Not even a day’s worth of work, but I think it came out pretty snazzy.
PS: I’m not actually the new Beefy. I will however steal his spot the next time a Nerdcore popularity contest is held. ^_~
PSS: Expect even more cover action in the near future.
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Apparently Last Place Isn’t All Bad
Posted on May 2nd, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:01 am
Thanks to my last position and what I can only assume is a time-pressed editor at Double Viking, a site that mixes Maxim, 2600 and 1up, I managed to get the icon position in their link to Hipster Please’s Nerdcore Artist Top 10. Take that more successful and popular Nerdcore artists who I’ve all met and who I think are cool (except for MC Hawking, who I have not met, but still think is cool.)
