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."

Comments

Tonight?

[Rudolf]

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.

Re:Tonight?

[holmoris]

Shouldn't it be a christmas album then? What with Oct 28 being Dec 25 and all.

Re:Tonight?

[gameforge]

I'm the fifth reply. I'm going to do you a favor and NOT repeat the above four posters.

I'm sure you'll thank me someday.

As for nerd music, I'm beginning to think I'm not actually a nerd. Decoding the titles of songs on some CD sounds about as fun as watching a swimming pool evaporate.

It's like, why would you do that when you could go read Mt. St. Helens seismographs, or learn about a new species of tarantula, or take apart the code for a cool open source game engine? You know, or build a light with a photoresistor for your computer case or something.

I guess, once you've converted one long integer to hexadecimal, you've converted them all? I'm sure it's one of those things that's a lot more fun when you're with other people... (thinking) maybe not...

Please, PLEASE please. I'm not trying to spoil anyone's fun, I'm just observing how neat it is that we're all different & stuff. Trying to be funny without actually... being funny. You know...

Nerdcore party my ass.

[Anonymous Coward]

99.9% of this album's audience will be listening to it alone, most likely in a basement.

Do you have any idea

[Timesprout]

how much the rest of the word cringes when they see shit like?

If they were really nerdcore

[ACK!!]

The would have included ogg files that had instructions for creating a beuwolf cluster of linux embedding in the tags of the files!

High Tech Halloween Display for "News for Nerds"

[xmas2003]

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."

This is untalentedidiotcore, not nerdcore

[_vSyncBomb]

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.

Re:This is untalentedidiotcore, not nerdcore

[TellarHK]

There is a lot of shitty Nerdcore stuff out there, but within the piles of tracks accumulated on these albums as well as other varied sources you'll find a decent number of gems. Just about anything by the Futuristic Sex Robotz, Monzy's few tracks, and a few of MC Plus+'s come to mind first. There's also Beefy, Black as Bleech, Ytcracker, Frontalittle Squad, and of course MC's Front and Hawking (which at least sorta counts) for decent tracks. Though anyone with a good geeky (and sick) sense of humor and a good stereo system needs to have some fun blasting the entirety of Futuristic Sex Robotz' "Hotel Coral Essex" album (free download here) at least once. I dare you to listen to FSR's Hey Ladies driving through the center of your town with the stereo cranked and windows down.

wicked, keep it up.

[radarsat1]

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..)

Re:wicked, keep it up.

[1point618]

Actually I don't see a license on their site... I guess that means its Public Domain by default? In any case..

Definitely not. IANAL, but I know enough law to know that no copyright notice is necessary any longer to guard a copyright. The best bet would be to assume that you are given an implied license to listen to the music off the website (and possibly to download it for your own listening since it is available as a RAR downlad, though since they've said nothing about it it is hazy legal territory) and not just assume you can do anything you want with it because no one told you you can't. They have not put it under any license, so by default they retain all copyrights, including the right not to allow any derivative works, or not to allow any copying of the material.

Some of the CD features

[Wiarumas]

Some of the CD's bonus tracks (not serious)

-OMG a 60 Killed Me

-Oh Noes!! Spyware!

-All our base are belong to them!

-Numa Numa

Re:Lame

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Show

[Malevolyn]

Also, don't forget our show on Nov. 18th in Tampa. Information is on the Rhyme Torrents forums.

Re:Title 18, 1036, 1343, and 2318

[TrappedByMyself]

He also has a misdemeanor charge of posting in the wrong thread.

Nerds?

[Andy Dodd]

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.