Long Interview and Other Non-Such
Posted on October 10th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:56 pm
I am extremely verbose. Pleonastic even. Still, thank you Z from Hipster, Please for interviewing me.
Meanwhile, I’m in Kirkland (ear infection == not staying in Spokane this week.) If you have anything you need to get a hold of me for, now would be a great time at I’m almost definitely available. Things like recording vocals, or giving me my laptop, or generally even hangin out can be done. 😉
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More Podcast Fun
Posted on September 22nd, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:26 am
As in, another podcast interviewed me, namely Solipsistic Nation, an excellent podcast featuring some great music and great interviews. I’m pretty boring, but MC Frontalot puts forth the most poetic description of nerdcore I’ve seen, while the rest of the artists featured also put forth some great thoughts and decribe their interesting and colorful histories. If you like nerdcore, you’ll like this podcast episode. Besides, it has MC Frontalot, YTCracker, Beefy, High-C, Funky49 and Ham-STAR on it too, so it even has nerdcore rappers that have recieved more mainstream media attention than yours truly here.
Meanwhile, the album that will follow Opensource Lyricist is full. I think I might just try to record the vocals for all 18 tracks (2 songs are being moved Opensource to the next CD, and 2 will be orphaned as they will appear on neither album, though I’ll be sure to kick them out on a compilation or as a-series-of-tubes exclusive songs,) in the next couple weeks. I’ll just machine gun threw it and be done with it. I had this period of binge-writing during this summer inspite of being out of town (actually, in part because I was out of town,) and I wrote about 8 songs in the past month, but I think that’ll be that for a little while at the very least. I need to live some more life before writing lyrics again.
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Do not operate heavy machinery.
Posted on September 19th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:18 am
As this audio sleep aid causes drowsiness.
Meanwhile, I need to snipe a bid on a laptop monitor cable. Easier said than done. I have a sneaking suspicion even with Ebay’s lower prices, I will be paying more than the cost of the laptop it repairs for the cable. Ah well. Later today, it’s Fiasco time 😀
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Adverse Meditations On Drum n’ Bass
Posted on September 18th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:24 am
Two things.
1. Google Ads are fun. Amusing to see Lupe Fiasco ads in my sidebar (something those reading via LJ don’t see I suppose.) Oh yeah, everyone who wants to hear a wonderful hiphop CD should buy his CD when it hits on Tuesday. I know probably will should I have funds available. I mean, he raps about giant robots and Lupin the Third, and very excellently at that.
2. My most recent drum n’ bass CD, the violent yet eloquent Haven is now remastered, and available for download in 320kbps mp3, lossless ogg vorbis and just so that no one decides to call me George Lucas for being an audio revisionist the original ogg vorbis release is up too. It’s split into 3 different zip files (one for each format/version,) so you can just download the whole album in a shot with m3u playlist included too. It’s probably the best drum n’ bass CD I’ve done, and it’s certainly the one I’m happiest with at this point, so get it while it’s lukewarm.
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Advance Leak
Posted on September 14th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 9:28 pm
Since RhymeTorrents v.5 is almost done, I figured it’s safe to leak my contribution, a collab featuring an upcoming nerdcore mc by the name of MCeeP.
Ultraklystron feat. MCeep – There’s The Beef
It’s a nerdcore hiphop/death metal fusion. It’s pretty insane. Full lyrics will be up on rhymetorrents.com once the compilation goes up officially, but it’s basically the same kind of stuff I covered in “Scenester Blues,” just way more fun and silly – this is what I get for freestyling in flame threads.
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I should make an album or atleast an EP this way….
Posted on September 1st, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:40 pm
My local Apple Store has amongst other things:
-A very, very high speed internet connection with no filtering whatsoever, or rather no filtering that I care about.
-A duel-Zeon tower loaded with GarageBand, a USB Midi Keyboard, and said tower is hooked into the aforementioned internet.
Thus, I decided to write a song, and with prodding from my friend Misu, I uploaded it to the net. I did this on thursday. Maybe I’ll keep doing so over time. I figure if I stop by there once a week (easy to do since I’m down in Bellevue anyway every Friday to hang out at Anime Kingdom,) I should be able to make an album or two before the year is up 😉
PS: I did a very mediocre set at the Shark Club. Everyone else delivered like Domino’s on a dozen bottles of Bawls though, so on the whole it was a good evening, and I made some good friends in the nerdcore scene I think/hope. The documentar(ies) should be very interesting though, and both will feature at some decent mc work from me. Just not from the live show, or atleast as much as I would have liked to deliver. Oh well, atleast I have my high-concept Apple Store album 😀
PSS: I did other stuff like hang out in the international district with Feather (the Haruko cosplayer who I turned on to nerdcore back at SakuraCon and who I ran into again at The Pillows show a while back.) She is officially the first person who isn’t me to hear the current revision (no pun intended) of Opensource Lyricist. That was fun. Also, PAX, what little of it I could enjoy between the documentary filming and waiting in line, was a blast. I just wish I could have played some more video games. Atleast I was able to attend some of the panels and both of the concerts though. Also, I beat Monzy at Halo while sitting in the back of a tricked out Scion xB. This would be a 1337 achievement except that he’s interning at Google NYC, so he’s still way 1337er than myself, and he’s generally a really super nice guy as is everyone else I’ve met so far in the nerdcore scene. There is hope 🙂
Addendum: Not so much album as an on-going project that will likely be beyond silly. I mean revolutionary… not really.
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Music is for Complaining.
Posted on August 24th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:20 pm
Or atleast that’s what I did in my latest Nerdcore song, Scenester Blues, where I bemoan the fact that their isn’t more love in the Nerdcore scene. I mean, really, one would think geeks, nerds and other such social outsiders wouldn’t be so egotistical and mean to each other. One would think that there is an inherent unity on the basis of shared experiences – we’ve all been ostracized at some point, thus one would think that such an action would be unthinkable as such. Alas, it just seems like the same kind of in-fighting and social divisions I thought I left as moved towards higher and higher levels of education came back into play the instant scene was created.
I mean, part of it is that it’s really hard to create a harmonious and complete community when you’re mashing various people who previously were working unaware of each other into one group, but it’d be a lot easier if people could just drop the egos for a second and be honest yet polite. I mean, yeah ego and posturing are a large of part of Hip Hop and Rap, particularly in modern context; however, nothing positive comes of it when it’s taken too seriously and gets in the way being respectful to each other, to your peers. It just sours things. I just mean that I know as a group we can do better. Maybe this will inspire something like that. Atleast that’s all I can hope for.
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Returning Music To Myspace…
Posted on August 9th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:15 am
So, it looks like (much to my pleasant surprise) that myspace.com has backed off on it’s policy of completely claiming everything you post on myspace thanks to Billy Bragg, which means my music can live on myspace again (in addition to the recently updated Nekodashi.) I’m even uploading tracks while I’m writing this post.
Meanwhile, I think I’ll go buy Mermaid Avenue next I time order from Amazon to show some appreciation for the man who helped insure that thousands of amateur musicians don’t end up on some crappy compilation or Fox News expose against their will. Besides, from what I’ve heard off the disc (various tracks on the public radio stations here over the years,) it’s pretty great anyway.
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PS: playing on mc chris’ myspace…
Posted on August 4th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:27 pm
Someone asked about my mix on mc chris’ forum because it’s on mc’s myspace, and the question is part of what spurred the nekodashi update. Took me a while to realize that maybe the fact that Chris picked my mix was maybe news worthy. Almost lame that I get more play on his myspace than I get off my own website though, though I suppose that’s to be expect. Ah well, exposure is exposure, right?
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Nekodashi update – 25 iterations of 8 songs.
Posted on August 3rd, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:34 pm
AKA, my mc chris remixes now up for download for this first time in a while, and with gratuitous flavor text on the side. (Flava text? Fava beans? Homestar Runner humor.)
Anyway, on a more serious note, I hung out yesterday with nerdcore artist MC Wreckshin and his friend whose name I forgot (I am still horrible with names. Shoot, I drew a blank on Misu’s last name yesterday even.) It was fun hanging at SushiLand with them, and making an oddly long drive from the Seattle Center to Archie McPhee’s (even if Archie had just closed for the day.) I wish those two the best of luck on their cross-country trip back to Florida, and hopefully they can meet up with a ton of other cool nerdcore mcs and producers along the way.
Now, to trek back to Seattle (my bro and I are going to hit Archie McPhee’s and the Army surplus store.)