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.)
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In liu of an actual update…
Posted on July 31st, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:32 pm
A Crunk Beat I made for a couple other nerdcore rappers who will rapping about Poke Balls IIRC. Should be amusing.
Oh yeah, if you didn’t know, I’m back in Seattle, atleast until Anime Evolution. However, that won’t really stop me from being busy, but atleast I don’t have to be on my feet to review the 4 DVDs (more like 5) in my backlog, the three advance screenings I caught and the interview I have to transcribe. Oh, at the dating sim and related TV series I need to review as well. At least all of my awesome reporting at Comic Con resulted in my reports getting linked by Anime News Network, Anime on DVD, ICv2, some Japanese site I’ve never even heard of and probably more. I’m pretty darn happy about all that, even if SDCC was a bit of fiasco otherwise (I won’t go into details here.)
Oh yeah, I’m also putting together a website with Misu for a friend of mine in LA that if it works will be awesome, and if it doesn’t will still have atleast shown me how to use cart software, so I can set up a more professional interface to the business side of this website. Speaking of which, I have a CD I should send out to tomarrow.
Anyway, if you want to hear more about my LA/San Diego adventures, you’ll probably just have to talk to me. Any writing I do in the next month is probably going to be about DVDs, shows and movies coming to DVD, games or manga related to shows on DVD, interviews in relations to movies coming to DVD and contact info that I need to transcribe so that in the long term I get more DVDs to review, so it’ll be similar to last month, but a different side of the press thing.
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“Probably the coolest guy we met through the whole Expo” – chibi-tokyo.net
Posted on July 14th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:11 pm
So, Slashdot finally talked about the RhymeTorrents compilation. I guess that’s +1 to my nerd HP or something like that. Hopefully, I’m one of the few that ended up in CmdrTaco’s ultimate playlist. On the opposite end of the exposure scale, I was interviewed by these cool dudes from chibi-tokyo.net for their podcast. If you just want to hear me, check in around the hour and 47 minute mark of their AX podcast. I guess they saved me for last. They put together a very good show though, and you should check out their other podcasts – they’re great.
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Z O M G Torrents.
Posted on June 7th, 2006
Filed under: Music News,Reviews — Karl Olson @ 10:02 am
Rhyme Torrents that is, as in the first disc of that compilation is now up online as a torrent. And it’s fairly awesome. It’s by no means perfect, but pretty much everyone raises their game when they aren’t in fact delivering for the first time, though the debut tracks on this CD are fantastic. Particular favorites are as follows:
Nursehella – Nursehellamentary – Absolutely off the hook. With lines like “I’m super evil dead / so won’t you hail to the queen,” combined with her ODB meets Mia delivery and Baddd Spellah’s intensionally raw but excellent production, and it’s got indie radio classic written all over it. It just explodes with personality, and it’s one heck of a track to step on the scene with.
Beefy – Tub of Tabasco – Easily the best rapper in all of Pasco. On a more serious note, he leveled up his game yet again, and the result is just awesome. Funny, energetic and generally great in a party rap way, though there is certainly plenty of wit in their as well.
Monzy – Kill Dash Nine – If you get the reference in the title, you’re already pretty darn nerdy, and after the smart alek 50 cent reference at the very opening of the song (“G STUDENT”,) from there it’s a non-stop barrage of computer references, all in the context of furthering the CS geeksta feud between Monzy and MC Plus+, and with lines like “You thought the seven-layer model /referred to a burrito,” I think there will continue to be “drama in the Ph.D.”
Lil Nix – Off the Markov – Speaking of Comp Sci feuds, Lil Nix swoops in and makes her own claim to be the best Comp Sci mc. The production is a bit plain, but her delightfully jazzy and ambient flow combined with lines like “Homeboy couldn’t program a TI-82,” and “I dream in assembly” result in pretty cool little track.
MC Frontalot vs. Baddd Spellah – Nerdcore Hip Hop 2006 – Absolutely sick. The word “crunk” even applies here – I’m almost expecting Lil Jon to pop out at any minute and be like “NEEEEEEERDCOOOOOOOOORE.” Baddd Spellah just recontextualizes the song excellently, and the additional elements recorded for this new mix are awesome (“In the dos double O six! Uhhh, that’s what year it is, currently.”)
Shael Riley feat Beefy – Miss Information – Filthy, smart alek and insane, but the flows are excellent and the misinformation on various nerdcore mcs is witty and sharp (their jab at me “What’s the problem my son? It seems that you met my friend Ultraklystron! He’s a werewolf, by gum / and he can’t stand Japanese Animation.” The production is pretty pretty solid too.
Oh yeah, my contribution and Rai’s track are the best. Totally 😉
/yes, I will be doing this for each disc as they are released.
//or not.
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Original Content.
Posted on June 1st, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:58 am
This is the beginning of revolution, maybe. 😉
At the very least, I’d like to make it an EP’s worth of content – 5-8 songs. If only because it gives me the excuse to do something other than wait for things to get to a point where releasing OpenSource Lyricist is viable/sensible. Besides, Rai’s fun to work with.
PS: The Nerdcore compilation is apparently looking like it’s going to be out 6/06/2006, so instead of seeing The Omen, check out all 4 discs that’ll be hitting for free on the internet that day. It’ll rock your socks with some 40+ artists IIRC.