Nerdcore Risen
Posted on July 20th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:24 am
Nerdcore For Life documentary on Mtv Canada
Jesse D, YT Cracker & Nursehella on Mtv Canada
I’m intensely proud of Nerdcore right now, plus a bunch of my friends and my fellow musicians were on Mtv. Well, Mtv Canada. Awesome enough though. I have a feeling something amazing is just around the corner.
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On the note of doing too much in July
Posted on July 18th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:41 am
At San Diego Comic Con, I’m performing at Capcom’s booth on Thursday at 1:30pm. Also playing that day at the Capcom booth right after me will be lovely and talented Nursehella and the ever-so fresh and nerdy Beefy. At the same time on Friday, you can catch Comic Con fixture the Sucklord, nerd rap legends the Former Fat Boys and the original digital gangsta, YT Cracker. Oh, and sometime on Saturday at the Capcom booth, you can check out the Mega Man rap master, Random. Essentially, Capcom’s booth is nerdcore central.
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102 Degree Burn Out Unlimited Over 9000
Posted on July 11th, 2007
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 8:56 pm
So, as the disjointed title suggests, I’m currently streaming hardcore drum n’ bass over borrowed wifi while fighting off the exhausting effects of a long and hot day running around the Spokenya (Spokane) area to acquire a reliable used box truck for the purpose of moving my grandfather’s belongings to the West Side of the Cascades so that his house can be sold, the proceeds from which when combined with the sale of my parent’s house will allow them to finally move into a place large enough to not only contain their hobbies properly, but even have their cars in a garage rather than next to the current house which is in fact garageless. Meanwhile, my grandpa will finally have all the stuff that previously didn’t make it into his suite at the retirement home.
However, enough of that drama and nonsense. Instead, let us rejoice, as you can finally here what everyone who caught the Waldo’s show has been waiting for: me covering an mc 500 times more talented than myself. Of course you can also hear such nerdcore luminaries such as the lovely and talented Nursehella and my protege/mecha-godzilla friend Rai brilliantly cover other artists over mediocre (wait, I mean awesome) backings created by your’s truly and mixed/mastered by that guy as well. Of course, if my production isn’t to your taste (in which case, why are you here?) you can always check out great covers by Beefy, Myf (feat. Kal & DJ Snyder), Shael Riley, YT Cracker and a host of other great Nerdcore MCs who I’m too exhausted to list right now.
Now, to work until Midnight, so I can get up at 6am, thus ensuring I can maybe snag a nap in the basement during the worst of the 103 degree weather tomorrow.
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Hey, Actual Music.
Posted on June 25th, 2007
Filed under: Music News,Pictures — Karl Olson @ 10:36 pm
The first Ultraklystron song for the Desu Desu Desu mixtape, namely Not Your Personal Rapper, rapped over a backing unintentionally provided by Jesse Dangerously as it’s the backing from “Outfox’d” from his album Interalia. He put it up as part of a “rate your cover of me”-thing, but I fail at reading directions and rapped some original lyrics (which are in the “…more” of this post) over the song instead.
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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.