Making Light :: Blog dis record :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:09:39 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 Blog dis record I'm swiping a link from Anil Dash: Jay Smooth of Hiphopmusic.com ("Fair and Balanced Hiphop") has made the first-ever blog... I'm swiping a link from Anil Dash: Jay Smooth of Hiphopmusic.com ("Fair and Balanced Hiphop") has made the first-ever blog... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html Blog dis record -- comment #1 from Carlos comment from Carlos on 24.Jan.04 Word.

]]> <p>Posted January 24, 2004 1:29 PM by Carlos</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38207 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38207 Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:29:48 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #2 from julia comment from julia on 25.Jan.04 In the dozens of tomorrow, the deadliest insult will be "your mama's basement"

]]> <p>Posted January 25, 2004 1:35 AM by julia</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38262 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38262 Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:35:09 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #3 from Faren Miller comment from Faren Miller on 26.Jan.04 I can't find the item now, and Google is no help, but I swear I saw a piece about a new service -- messages delivered to your door, in rap. Weird.

]]> <p>Posted January 26, 2004 10:03 AM by Faren Miller</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38345 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38345 Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:03:18 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #4 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 26.Jan.04 Eeexcellent.

I've been collecting phat Nerdcore beats for a while, now, with a continuously mixed compilation disk in mind. This is in like Flynn.

]]> <p>Posted January 26, 2004 1:19 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38386 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38386 Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:19:12 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #5 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 26.Jan.04 Amen. Let me know when you do it.

]]> <p>Posted January 26, 2004 11:06 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38447 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38447 Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:06:47 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #6 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 26.Jan.04 There's another skiffy detail: Kids These Days are into making rhymed poetry. And then there's that intensely competitive chessplaying style of NYC inner-city youth. When we were drving Ken MacLeod in from the airport -- he'd been on the continent for maybe an hour -- we passed through Harlem, and drove past a basketball court where a bunch of teenagers were packed tight, almost motionless, around one of the Parks Dept.'s reinforced-concrete tables.

"Er. What are they doing?" Ken asked.

"Playing chess," Patrick told him. "It's serious."

Skwid, while this doesn't qualify as phat Nerdcore beats, you may find it amusing.

]]> <p>Posted January 26, 2004 11:49 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38451 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38451 Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:49:42 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #7 from Dop comment from Dop on 27.Jan.04 I'm reminded of 'Weird Al' Yankovic's "All About The Pentiums".

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 6:02 AM by Dop</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38468 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38468 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 06:02:45 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #8 from D. comment from D. on 27.Jan.04 Skwid! You've heard "I've got the password to your shell account" by Barcelona? And the Lords of the Rhymes?

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 2:55 PM by D.</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38505 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38505 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:55:49 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #9 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 27.Jan.04 To be honest, it's a blend of nerdcore hip-hop and geek techno.

Current nominee tracks, in semi-random order:

What's Up Spock - The Great Luke Ski
All Your BASS Are Belong to Us - Paradise Decay
Pac-Man - Power-Pill (aka Aphex Twin)
Doctor? - Orbital
Fett's Vette - MC Chris
Yellow Lasers - MC Frontalot
Optimus Rhyme - Dermato Fibro Sarcoma
Speed Racer (Hardcore Mix) - Alpha Team
NerdX - Benchwarmin'
Blackalicious/Cut Chemist - Chemical Calisthenics
Science Genius Girl - Freezepop
Internet Thugs - Artist Unknown (This track is 4:40 seconds long, and if anybody knows the artist, I'd appreciate finding out who it is)
Red Pill, Blue Pill - Junkie XL/Don Davis
Lords of the Rhymes - The Lords of the Rhymes
MC Hawking - Entropy
Baby Got Brak - The Great Luke Ski
Treephort - Death of a Calculator

No telling what the final list will look like. There are several songs that don't quite fit (Like Lint's punk homage to the Wheel of Time), but I would like to see on there somehow.

All songs, BTW, are either on CDs I own, or were available from the artists as a free download; with "Internet Thugs" being an exception in its status as "unknown."

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 2:57 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38506 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38506 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:57:36 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #10 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 27.Jan.04 And, of course, I bollixed up the Title - Artis arrangement. Optimus Rhyme, NerdX, Blackalicious/Cut Chemist, MC Hawking, and Treephort are all performers.

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 3:02 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38508 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38508 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:02:01 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #11 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 27.Jan.04 D., I have not heard Barcelona, but will endeavour to do so.

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 3:05 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38509 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38509 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:05:49 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #12 from cd comment from cd on 27.Jan.04 Skwid: Wot, no S.P.O.C.K?

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 3:20 PM by cd</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38512 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38512 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:20:34 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #13 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 27.Jan.04 Sorry, cd, but the few samples I can find of them don't really seem like they'd fit. If there's a specific song you're thinking might work with the above...

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 4:46 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38514 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38514 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:46:02 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #14 from D. comment from D. on 27.Jan.04 Skwid, you can download it from their record label's web site: http://www.barcelonadc.com/sounds/shell_account.mp3.

Here's a handy Kottke.org post.

]]> <p>Posted January 27, 2004 5:23 PM by D.</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38518 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38518 Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:23:04 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #15 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 28.Jan.04 Hmm..."Shell Account" is pretty good...might work as a transition into or from "Science Genius Girl," but that may be a bit too much chirpyness.

]]> <p>Posted January 28, 2004 9:19 AM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38581 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38581 Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:19:59 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #16 from Trey comment from Trey on 29.Jan.04 Skwid!! Good luck on your CD project. I was happy to find that 5 of the tracks you listed are in my own collection. Here's another place to check (though you're probably getting tired of suggestions from hip-ass nerds by this point, but oh well) for stuff that might fit your taste and/or needs:
http://www.tfw2005.com/downloads-cat-1.html

Remixed tripped up music based on the Transformers series from the 1980s. Can't get much nerdier than that, yo. Word.

]]> <p>Posted January 29, 2004 2:05 AM by Trey</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38670 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38670 Thu, 29 Jan 2004 02:05:37 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #17 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 29.Jan.04 Mmm, some good stuff on there. I'll probably go with either the original or the 2002 remix of "Let's Roll". Thanks for the pointer.

]]> <p>Posted January 29, 2004 2:27 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38696 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#38696 Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:27:37 -0500 Blog dis record -- comment #18 from Skwid comment from Skwid on 18.Feb.04 Just in case any of you Nerdcore fans reading this don't read Penny Arcade (for some reason I can't comprehend), today's newspost contains some pretty hot linkage down at the bottom, there. I particularly liked Front A Little, and their "Happy Machine Ankle" tune is probably going on the Nerdcore mix...

]]> <p>Posted February 18, 2004 3:09 PM by Skwid</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#40376 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004583.html#40376 Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:09:39 -0500