The Full Album Playlist
Posted on May 17th, 2015
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:06 am
Ultraklystron – Full Album Playlist
Bookmark it or just subscribe to my YouTube. It’s only going to have more full LPs and EPs as I write more music. If you’re too impatient for YouTube to get my latest work, subscribe to me on Bandcamp.
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This Is My Aesthetic
Posted on April 4th, 2015
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:11 pm
So, it’s not a super responsive dream site, but it’s clean and lean and will be improved farther on those notes while hopefully adding functionality. Gone are the old style style links in favor of a leaner, more modern look.
Meanwhile, I’ve been on Vaporwave-ish kick, and the results have been available to my subscribers on bandcamp for the past month. However, I’ve also started transitioning them to YouTube and non-exclusivity, so if you want to re-live a sleep misspent afternoon in a dead mall, below it your soundtrack:
Ultraklystron – 100 Hours Free:
Ultraklystron – 101 Hours Free:
Next week should result in 102 Hours Free being released from exclusivity, but 103 will remain subscriber exclusive until June.
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Romance Language 3, Upcoming Redesign & Other News
Posted on February 23rd, 2015
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:45 pm
Download Ultraklystron – Romance Language 3 From Bandcamp.
In other news, I will be redesigning this site after about a decade of keeping it pretty similar. I’m not sure what all I’ll keep and cut. I’m terrible about minding this blog, so I might just throw it into archive mode, or at least defocus it in favor of the social media sites I (begrudgingly yet regularly) update. I might also better integrate the various online listening and purchase options for my albums into an actual, single structure as part of this, but that’s maybe a phase two of any redesign. On a basic level though, I want something with a more modern, more-standards complaint design. I might even set it up to handle mobile without a plug-in, but only if my implementation is better than the plug in.
Still, the redesign is a key to-do since I’m not going to be doing physical releases again any time soon. I’m going to pivot towards focusing on online releases via the new subscription option on bandcamp, and I’m taking on more paid production work for other artists. (If you’re interested that, get at me via one of the options on the contact page.) As such, I want to have a page that’s actually worth visiting since my online presence will probably be my only presence for the foreseeable future.
Anyways, cop that new album, and tell me what you think of it.
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Unwarranted Self Importance
Posted on March 31st, 2014
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:58 pm
This isn’t April Fools’ Day nonsense. Or if it is, all you have to do is press play above or here and spoil it in the comments. Anyways, pay what you want. I assume that’ll be 0 though.
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Bitcoin Accepted Here, Apparently.
Posted on November 29th, 2013
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:43 pm
So I have added BitCoin payment via CoinBase to the web store. It’s rough looking as ever – I really should redo it with div and css, for now, I’m ready to take BTC (though I’m keeping the prices in USD since that’s what I payed for the material in.) I’ll admit I was a skeptic, and I still am a little, but sites like CoinBase seem to provide a reasonable means of giving it a shot, and it’s not like PayPal has been a bastion of honest dealings anyway.
To celebrate the occasion, let’s repost this remix, again:
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Still Breaking Beats
Posted on July 7th, 2013
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 5:27 pm
Besides all of the instrumentals I’ve actually I’d finished and even in some cases circulated to collaborators only to have them choose only handful from what was offered, I also have a number of songs that were done or close to done that I’d never even rendered out because they were little one off ideas while I was in the middle of other projects. However, a little digging let put together the above Drum n’ Bass EP. It’s pay what you want (including free,) so long as you have time download it, you might as well 😀
Regarding those other unreleased instrumentals, I’m going to consider putting those together into a release as well.
Oh, and here’s the YouTube version of the EP:
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Legacy Content
Posted on July 5th, 2013
Filed under: General,Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 8:00 am
All of my back catalog that wasn’t posted to my main YouTube channel is now online here. I decided to split that material off from my main channel as I no longer know which albums these belonged to (well, I didn’t want to dig through CDs at my parents’ place to work it out,) and because most of it is fairly mediocre. Of course, I was only a teenager when I wrote most of it, and there are few decent gems hiding in with the junk there, but there it wasn’t worth binning the content beyond maybe a few YouTube playlists I’ll put together later. Besides, I figured since I could upload it easily thanks to a couple of nifty open source python scripts I tweaked and knitted together (I will post my code online once I clean it up a little,) I might as well do so.
Having posted those songs up, that pretty much only leaves mash-ups, remixes for other artists and mixtapes as the only material I haven’t uploaded to YouTube. I don’t see my self bothering with uploading them at the moment. I now have over 500 songs on YouTube on those two accounts alone, and I figure that’s good enough for the moment.
Otherwise, the main thing going on with me is that I’ve graduated university, and I’m looking for work. I’m doing a lot of programming tests at the moment, and though I’m feeling a little fatigued, I’m pretty sure that’s just anxiety regarding these opportunities. Hopefully, I’ll have something lined up soon enough.
EDIT:
Behold, the best of my worst. I guess that’s supreme mediocrity. 😀
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From Marcy to Medical Mechanica
Posted on May 1st, 2013
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 5:00 pm
May’s Music Release: FLJZ (Jay-Z x The Pillows) produced by Ultraklystron
YouTube:
Download: Mediafire.
Originally this was a collab with Esselfortium, but this was at least 8 years ago when he was first getting his production skills up, so upon his recommendation, I’m only putting my tracks from the EP up. Still, I think holds up oddly well, even though I think I’ve pulled my skills up myself.
In case it’s not obvious, all of instrumental samples were pulled from J-Rock band The Pillows, specifically from their contributions to the FLCL soundtrack. The vocals are Jay-Z’s, specifically often remixed Black Album.
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A Boatload Of New Music
Posted on April 24th, 2013
Filed under: General,Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:15 pm
April’s Free Release:
Ultraklystron – Music For Tablets (Mediafire)
Oh, and this was finally finished as well:
Meanwhile, I’ve just wrapped my finals up. I have countless resumes to send out at the moment (and a lot of leads to follow up on now that I have the time,) but there is still tons of music in my archives for me to finally group together and release, so I should be able to keep up with my goal of a EP or more per month.
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Enigma Decoded – This Month’s Instrumental EP
Posted on February 27th, 2013
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 7:31 pm
Youtube Playlist:
MediaFire Download 320kbps MP3:
Enigma Decoded: A Katawa Shoujo Remix EP
So, I found these tracks hiding in the depths of my hard drive around about the time the game had it’s one year anniversary, and so I figured I should gather them up, give a quick once over before release, and put them out the world. I was going to hold off even longer as the text file in the download would note, but I’ve realized I have so many instrumentals in my back-catalog that I can put out an EP like this a month.
I think I might.