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A Nerdcore Hip-Hop Halloween Album
High-C writes, "A bunch of us nerdcore hip-hop artists have gotten together and released a Halloween-themed CD. Seventeen creepy, darker-than-they-should-be songs from total nerds, with seven different CD covers. What's not to love? The perfect soundtrack for tonight's Halloween parties. And of course, the track listings are in hex."
The perfect soundtrack for tonight's Halloween parties
I don't know where the submitter lives, but in the U.S. Halloween falls on October 31, which is not tonight.
99.9% of this album's audience will be listening to it alone, most likely in a basement.
If we're talking Nerdcore Hip-hop, I much prefer Optimus Rhyme.
Push Button, Receive Bacon
Just an FYI - the compilation is 5 CDs, and there's a separate torrent for each disc. Right now, volume I's torrent is in great shape, but III and IV need some help. (II's torrent file seems to be missing from the server.)
ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
There's not even any pretense of this not being a Slashvertisement.
Maybe that's why slashdot has labeled it nerdcore.
For those of us who party *and* work, having a party on Saturday (Oct 28) works a little smarter than having one a Tuesday (Oct 31). I mean, when was the last time you want to a Christmas party on Christmas?
So, yeah, I'm partying tonight. Probably won't be bringing to this album, though... Nerdcore rap is scarier than my Pyramidhead costume.
vk.
cuz Oct. 31 = Dec. 25
how much the rest of the word cringes when they see shit like?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
The would have included ogg files that had instructions for creating a beuwolf cluster of linux embedding in the tags of the files!
ACK
but there's an undead army marching in between
I guess I shoulda known better than to go LARP'ing on Halloween
omg.... ponies....
Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
No click zone.
all of you who reminded the original poster that halloween is not for a few days have obviated your level of nerdness.
.... you have made it clear you do NOT go out... EVER.
CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT REALIZING THAT PEOPLE PARTY ON SATURDAY NIGHT
"i stand on the edge of destruction" -shai hulud
I think these halloween decorations would be a perfect compliment to your music ... ;-)
"Use the halloween webcams to view live images of a buncha halloween decorations & lights and also CONTROL them - heck, you can even inflate (or deflate) the giant Frankenstein & Homer Simpson - D'oh! The webcams run 7x24 and you can turn stuff on & off from 1800 to 2200 MDT (GMT-6). Plus you can send "Instant Messages via Webcam" for everyone to see."
Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
I don't know where the submitter lives, but in the U.S. Halloween falls on October 31, which is not tonight.
This college kid I know currently has 7 kegs and a rather large DJ setup in his basement for tonight. I'm running over there right now to let him know the folly of his ways. Anyone got a car and a megaphone I can borrow? I gotta get all the Portland, OR bars to cancel Saturday night Halloween festivities. Cause we were all oblivious that an actual date that nobody gets off from work/school trumps the weekend party.
Oh what the hell, I think we'll just party till noon anyway... I'd invite you, but you wouldn't show up till Tuesday.
Surely their good friend, Mr. Hand, will be joining them.
Nerdy Helloween album ought to be metal. Kids.
my sstream of consciousness
nice
Checked this out but it was more of a halloween rap album unfortunately. Does anyone happen to have music (individual songs or an entire album even) that would work well to play over the speakers as the trick or treaters are roaming around? Looking for spooky tracks. So far Thriller is about the only thing I've come up with. With or without vocals, just some spooky music or sound fx would be fine.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
When MC Frontalot coined the term "nerdcore" it was funny and pithy, but that was mainly because he had a bunch of clever songs which he imbued with all of his original lyrics and nerdy references, and happened to also be good at making music. As in, understanding melody and rhythm and so on, you know to like, make a fucking song.
Every other "nerdcore" thing I have ever seen is a bunch of no-talent jerkoffs doing a crappy imitation of crappy mass-market gangsta rap and throwing in a couple of computer references. They sound like they made the music in their bedroom at their mom's house, and while that is probably true it does not make for good music that any sensible person would listen to by choice.
This is just more of the same.
well, since pretty much EVERY SINGLE COMMENT thus far has been either "duh its not halloween yet" or "nerdcore is shitty music made by wannabes in their basements", I thought I'd try to offer a positive comment here...
(Though, by now, I guess I've realized that if you think you can post something creative to slashdot and actually get something other than knee-jerk reactions and bitter, jaded comments, you're just asking for it... If there's one thing I've learned, it's that Slashdotters can be mean.)
So I just wanted to say: Here are some people who've gotten together and made some music, and published it on the web under a creative commons license, just being happy if people listen and enjoy their stuff. Here's a big THANK YOU for having a great attitude in your work. Tip 'o the hat.
(Actually I don't see a license on their site... I guess that means its Public Domain by default? In any case..)
Why does that word fill me with loathing?
Somebody hold me.
Looks like he's being charged with:
Attempting to enter a vessel by false pretenses:
Fraud by wire:
Trafficking in counterfit labels:
-OMG a 60 Killed Me
-Oh Noes!! Spyware!
-All our base are belong to them!
-Numa Numa
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
Minor point of order -- while I agree with the last sentence of your post, your title & first line make no sense.
obviate (v): to rid of, eliminate, or do away with.
It does not mean "to make obvious".
I'm impressed you can hear the difference; although it seems Fraunhofer (was) better than LAME at the time of the following test (admittedly a few years ago): http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/1q00/mp3/mp3-1.h tml.
In any case LAME is Free, and thereby far better suited to the politically minded nerdcore audience of today.
Also, don't forget our show on Nov. 18th in Tampa. Information is on the Rhyme Torrents forums.
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Here's a hip hop Halloween video to go with the CDs. It's awesome, if only for the appearance of Dragon Mummy and the revelation that werewolves can give people Parkinson's disease. CC licensed BY-NC-ND.
Monster Rap:
http://www.lulu.tv/?p=3904
Maybe the content is nerdy, but really, what intelligent person distributes content using:
:)
RAR - It's a proprietary compression algorithm with no open-source implementations. Real nerds use open compression schemes.
Any compression - Music files do not compress well. The advantage of compression in terms of size is, at most, a few percent for MP3s. There is an advantage in having everything in one file though.
Archive formats within a torrent - I can understand compressing source code or text or other stuff that is actually COMPRESSIBLE in a torrent, but the tiny percentage gain in file size you get from compressing already-compressed music is fully negated by the fact that it is guaranteed that if the torrent content is not in an "immediately usable" form, people are less likely to seed it, because instead of just seeding the content that they have to keep around already to listen to (or view in the case of video), they have to keep one copy around stuck in an archive to seed and a separate copy of the content in a usable form.
I'm not surprised some of these torrents are lacking seeds due to this issue.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
...they refer to themselves as "a bunch of us".
Ah crap, I was hoping the Hawkman would rock the mike again, perhaps with a creepy synth-voice. Don't be frontin or he'll fuck you up with some whack physics.
Ok we all know Halloween falls on the 31st. However, the point you guys are missing is, MOST Parties Happen on the Weekend! .point made Guess Most of you Know Nothing about Nightlife
Anyone else notice the Torgo theme in the song Attack Slug?