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A Nerdcore Hip-Hop Halloween Album
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kdawson
on Sat Oct 28, 2006 05:54 PM
from the it's-scary-shudder dept.
from the it's-scary-shudder dept.
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."
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Tonight? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know where the submitter lives, but in the U.S. Halloween falls on October 31, which is not tonight.
Re:Tonight? (Score:4, Funny)
Nerdcore party my ass. (Score:5, Funny)
Nerdcore Hip-hop (Score:2)
(http://www.google.com/)
Torrents (Score:2)
(http://www.civilwar.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 05 2006, @07:45PM)
Do you have any idea (Score:2, Informative)
If they were really nerdcore (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday June 23 2006, @12:04PM)
a snippet o' lyrics... (Score:2)
but there's an undead army marching in between
I guess I shoulda known better than to go LARP'ing on Halloween
omg.... ponies....
obviating your nerdness (Score:1)
CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT REALIZING THAT PEOPLE PARTY ON SATURDAY NIGHT
High Tech Halloween Display for "News for Nerds" (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.komar.org/christmas/)
"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."
Hip-Hop? (Score:1)
(http://www.artemfrolov.com/)
looking for trick or treat (spooky) music (Score:2)
(http://vftp.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday December 09 2006, @09:52PM)
This is untalentedidiotcore, not nerdcore (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Friday June 09 2006, @06:54AM)
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.
wicked, keep it up. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair)
(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..)
Title 18, 1036, 1343, and 2318 (Score:1, Offtopic)
Attempting to enter a vessel by false pretenses: [cornell.edu]
Fraud by wire: [cornell.edu]
Trafficking in counterfit labels: [cornell.edu]
Some of the CD features (Score:2, Funny)
-OMG a 60 Killed Me
-Oh Noes!! Spyware!
-All our base are belong to them!
-Numa Numa
Show (Score:2, Informative)
(http://www.signedlongint.com/)
Nerds? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/atd7/)
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.
MC Hawking (Score:1)
Re:Lame (Score:1)
(http://suso.suso.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday March 09 2004, @12:03AM)
Re:Well damn (Score:2)
Ah, I get it now. Any time Slashdot posts a story about something you can go buy, it's a slashvertisement. Do you keep your pitchfork really shiney?
Re:Well damn (Score:2)
(http://127.0.0.1/ | Last Journal: Saturday August 04, @07:40AM)
I know, I know. IHBT, IHL.
Re:nerds confused christmas & halloween (Score:2)
Re:Lame (Score:2, Funny)
In any case LAME is Free, and thereby far better suited to the politically minded nerdcore audience of today.