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.
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A Forgotten Trillbit Chiptrap Nightmare Rediscovered
Posted on January 23rd, 2013
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:27 pm
I do tend to write so much stuff that unless I make a point to render it out of Reason and stick in a playlist for future release, I will forget that I had it done. One such example is my latest little freebie EP release, Trillicon Chip:
Basically, I’d written a bunch Chiptunes meets Trap with Dubstep wobble back in 2010 while taking the ferry over to Victoria to visit Nursehella while she was finishing her university degree. Since it was never really intended as anything other instrumental music, I probably banked the five tracks I’d hashed out, figuring I’d eventually get back to them as part of a bigger electronic release. However, it’s hit me that for a lot of what I’m writing, it makes no sense to hang on to it while I write more material, and so when I find something like these tracks in my archives, I don’t see the point in hanging on to them any more. Might as well put them out for the world to enjoy.
In fact, I think I want to stick to regular EPs in future, at least for my instrumental stuff. Check back in regularly through out the year, because this is just the tip of the stuff that I’ve been holding back.
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Lost Items Returned Improved
Posted on January 8th, 2013
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 11:47 pm
Someone dug up a remix I’d even forgotten about making, and a cut nice slideshow to the song. It’s a remix of a song from the Katawa Shoujo OST, and I have to say, it got me thinking that if I do Trap/Moomba/EDM concept EP after I finish the other projects on my plate, I should probably wrap my long standing idea of a Katawa Shoujo Remix/Concept EP into it.
I don’t think I want to do more than an EP’s worth of original material at the moment anyway. Yeah, I have tons of tracks in the back catalog that might be wrapped into a different release, but I think those should be held on to for later for now. I mean, I could easily drop a two or three LP-length beat tapes tomorrow if I wanted to, plus an electronic album. The songs just need titles. However, I figure I should be responsible though first, and see if I can get MCs/vocalists on them first (or maybe even take a crack at vocals myself,) so doing a focused concept EP of fresh material seem like the best next step once I get other projects put to bed. I also think I should try to work more conceptually, at least sometimes.
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Trappings
Posted on January 3rd, 2013
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 12:07 am
The last 3 Ultraklystron tracks for 2012, all of which are Trap EDM, and all of which are free.
YouTube versions:
SoundCloud versions:
SoundCloud set:
If that’s not enough there is always the new pay-what-you-want EP/Single from Rai Kamishiro (which I produced):
And if you’re still hungry for more, you should probably at least listen to the whole of Nursehella’s Second Coming on youtube:
…if not pre-order the hard-copy.
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Long Awaited, Finally Created
Posted on December 13th, 2012
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 12:50 am
Nursehella – Second Coming – The Debut Album
Go download it. I am unreasonably proud of it.
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Three Otaku MC Legends – One Track
Posted on December 5th, 2012
Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 10:31 pm
If the iFrame above doesn’t work: City of Amnesia by Ultraklystron (feat. Richie Branson & Mikal kHill)
That would be myself, Richie Branson and Mikal kHill all on one track about the Big O. This was fun to make, and it came out dope. Cop it when the full mixtape drops in the future, but stream it to death and share it everywhere in the interim.
EDIT – Now with fan tribute video:
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Massive Cyber Monday/Holiday Sales
Posted on November 26th, 2012
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 2:39 am
Digital Savings Side:
Use code HALFOFF at the Ultraklystron Bandcamp for half-off all downloads until December 3rd. This makes many releases of mine only $2.50.
Physical Savings Side:
I’ve done some big markdowns in the store, specifically…
-30% off the Animatic CD with Deluxe Download Code, taking it from $10 down to $7
-40% off the Complete Karl Olson USB Key, taking it from $25 down to $15
-40% off the Complete Karl Olson USB Key and Animatic CD combo, taking it from $35 down to $21
Shipping is still $3 in the US and $7 internationally per item, but those are some pretty big discounts. Get them while the getting is good.