Open-Mic Canceled
Posted on May 30th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:49 pm
But atleast I have my data in for the Wired thing and I have my tracks in for the compilation. Rai’s stuff is pretty much squared way too on those points too.
For those interested, the nerdcore article in Wired will be out in August IIRC. Yay!
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Now you can insult me on “the internets.”
Posted on May 25th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:49 am
Or rather you can do it much easier now because I have my own forum courtesy of RhymeTorrents.com
Meanwhile, why am I up at 6:48am? Homework! Isn’t stats class just delicious?
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Open Mics are Gigs Too, right?
Posted on May 24th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:19 pm
And certainly ones at Bellevue Community College are valid gigs, right? No? Really? Well, I signed up for their Open Mic show anyway, and it’s happening on the 30th of May from 11:30am-1:30pm. I’ll probably only get to do a couple songs (maybe more if not many other acts show,) and I’m sure that no matter what it’ll be insanely lame either way, but hey, if you want some delicious, otakutastic nerdcore in a vaguely live scenario, that’s the place to be. I encourage everyone who can turn out to turn out with the usual gear – pitchforks, flaming torches and 18th century colonial slander. 😉
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Progress And Regress Towards Success
Posted on May 18th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:10 am
Boy, I’ve been music-centric lately! I’m sure this might be annoying to people who’d rather hear about other minutiae about from my day to day life, but I’m pretty sure “Statistical Analysis is Boring” would get to be pretty old very quick, so really I assure you, this is more interesting (ok, I’ll put in some “General” stuff in here too.) Anyway, Rai came over (rather, I picked her up at her place on the way to me dropping some old stuff of my little bro’s at Value Village where Rai picked up a couple pair of inline-skates for cosplay, and we picked up my little bro from school after that, and oh yeah, at Value Village I received a call from my friend Ben in Korea about AX stuff — there you go, some general boring blog stuff) to work on the first what will hopefully eventually maybe be an EP or an album’s worth of collaboration, and we got a lot of work done, and really, it’s wonderful stuff so far. In fact, she’s probably a more natural vocalist than myself in someways, or atleast I get that vibe listening to some of my work after listening to the preliminary stuff she’s layed down.
Which brings me to a side point, which is I think I may radically overhaul parts of OpenSource Lyricist. It’ll be slow going because I’m not necessarily a natural vocalist, but I really want it to sound good. Especially since there are collaborations pending for this CD (Tycho almost definitely, Rai probably, Nurse Hella maybe,) I really need to hold my own as much as I can. However, it’s only certain parts that need it, so it’s not like I need to retake everything, just certain glaring omissions in my performances. So, there is title of this post explain: there is progress in my nerdcore work towards success, but sometimes I need to edit undo. Yay non-linear editing.
Anyway, while Rai and I managed to get quite a bit of work done on the song (only need to record one more verse, which might, maybe be recorded by the nerdcore documentary crew,) it was insanely hot and humid in my bedroom/studio because of the record temperatures and because the only way to get a clean enough recording was to shut the window, turn off the ceiling and shut the door, keeping in the heat of two people, one desktop and one laptop – not the most comfortable situation, but yet it was still a lot of fun. The heat left me pretty out of it at points, but really I think it was one of the most rewarding musical experiences I’ve had in a while – maybe even since my live gig. I never thought I’d really be into collaboration to this degree, but some how it’s just satisfying. I can’t wait to do more work like this, and in general I think I want to try to work like this more. When the energy is right, it’s fantastic.
So, after about 6-7 hours of recording work, we had dinner (thanks mom and thanks McDonalds – hmm Salad and Powerade,) and then I took Rai home (with detours to Bellevue Square Mall, the park across from that mall for some inline-skate action and Jamba Juice.) Alas, more general noise. This post delivers. 😉
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Delicious 320kbps mp3s!
Posted on May 12th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:39 am
These will be on the nerdcore compilation, but here they are here in advance for those too impatient:
five to nine
so long kids (alt version)
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J-Nerdcore? In my production cue? It’s more likely than you think.
Posted on May 12th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:07 am
This week has been weird. I mean, I kicked it off with a geek party at a friend’s abode (read: fansubs, youtube and video games,) then I get an email mentioning how a Nerdcore compilation I’m going to be on is going to be featured in Wired and on Slashdot (and oh by the way, legardary rapper Kool Keith under his moniker Dr. Octogon will be on this compilation, so this is no small fry stuff) and to cap that all off, I’m now producing my friend Rai’s first Nerdcore effort, which would be cool enough except that her lyrics are mostly in Japanese with splashes of English, or in otherwords, J-Nerdcore. That’s probably a first in someways, and in general I can’t wait to work on it. Also, I just recieved another e-mail about a Nerdcore update news show that’ll be on YouTube. I guess the Nerdcore is rising up and getting elevated as Frontalot might say.
Oh and not only did 3 people buy CDs from me this week, I ran into one of the people later, and she liked it so much she insisted on giving me 10 more bucks. Talk about shocked – someone thought my music was worth CD-store MSRP. Anyway, that 10 bucks probably promptly be put into my “promotional budget,” I.E.: who do think would be more likely to review a Nerdcore CD that’s just sent to them out of the blue – the Seattle Weekly or the Stranger?
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Klystron BEAM!
Posted on May 6th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:30 am
ultraklystron vs. jj dynomite and ultraklystron – front to the back (k-beam remix)
If you like references to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Ichigo Mashimaro, Gunslinger Girl, Eva, Gundam, Star Trek, Stellvia, Fafner, Skee-lo, the bird flu, Sailor Moon, Lilo and Stitch, Nakayosi Magazine and Sealab 2021 and internet memes with a side of massive boasting, drum n’ bass and shout outs, you might want to listen to the above mp3. If you want a story or lyrical cohesion, look elsewhere. The original mix will be up when JJ Dynomite is done with it. I’ll be sure to link it here 😀
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Oh, And BTW, The New Article On Me Is Finally Online
Posted on May 2nd, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:07 pm
It’s almost more a summary than a review at points, but I think the critic liked it. Maybe later I’ll post a scan from the paper to go with it.
Edit: The Scan
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Pulling My Music From Myspace
Posted on May 2nd, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:42 am
Ok, after reading Overcompensating this week, I’ve decided to pull my music from Myspace. As it stands, there is still the possibility of my music turning up somewhere where I have no ability to control it, and I’d rather not see it on a Fox network (yes folks, Myspace is owned by NewsCorp if you didn’t know that already. We’re all a degree away from Bill O’Reilly and Matt Groening.) I mean, as it stands, the songs I’ve posted could turn up like that. However, atleast it won’t be that easy or obvious for people I think. Probably not. Ah well. Lesson learned.
PS: I’ve manually crossposted this to Myspace.
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In Liu of Some Actual Progress on OpenSource Lyricist…
Posted on April 29th, 2006
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:01 am
A quickie song I banged out in Reason in about an hour or so for a friend who needed it for a piece he was cutting for his portfolio. For those looking for a description as to what you’re about to download, think car commercial techno with violins. It’s very Crystal Method.
BTW, to those interested, I did get another song for OpenSource should my collabs fail to materialize. Just keep in mind I’m not releasing or printing a single copy of OpenSource until I break even on the new run of Revision or I get a collab or two to come together. Until then, patience. Patience and techy Big Beat.