A Nerdcore Hip-Hop Halloween Album 108
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."
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.
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You must not party much... (Score:2)
So, yeah, I'm partying tonight. Probably won't be bringing to this album, though... Nerdcore rap is scarier than my Pyramidhead costume.
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Most nerds don't think Tuesdays are a great party night because of work/school. (That's typically when the new Star Trek aired!)
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If someone says, "Today's teenagers are so reckless." They aren't saying just teenagers on this exact day, but referring to modern teenagers in general. If the poster said, "The perfect soundtrack for today's Halloween parties." I don't think there would be much question in regards to what "today's" is referring to. It would just refer to modern Halloween parties. But by using the word "tonight", he has solidified his ne
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I think you mean Oct 31...
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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 pho
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I know, like Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night!
Just kidding, I liked Sports Night
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Usually, on October 31st, you go trick-or-treating with the kids, and adults party the weekend before.
And where I live (Cincinnati), three of the biggest Halloween parties are all being held tonight - Cincinnati Sports League, Hustler and The Morgue. I'm sure there are more, though, but I'm off to the CSL party, dressed as a cross between an Orc and a Ringwraith, while the woman
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Dear GOD, I actually thought the exact same thing as him when I read it too. Like one third of the comments on this story are telling this guy that they intend to party tonight rather than on the 31st.
Did it occur to ANYONE that some people have kids, and those kids are all getting ready for Tuesday? Did it occur to ANYONE that so are their parents? What if, in some parts of the universe, people who have kids all get together, and instead of
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Nerdcore party my ass. (Score:5, Funny)
Lies! (Score:2)
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Hey you insensitive clod, I have cats.
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A True nerd would be streaming it over ssh from his basement to his laptop in the kitchen.
Nerdcore Hip-hop (Score:2)
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Nerdcore Hip-hop (Score:1)
Monster Rap:
http://www.lulu.tv/?p=3904 [www.lulu.tv]
Torrents (Score:2)
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Volume II is most definitely a non-available torrent.
-theGreater.
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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?
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I know, I know. IHBT, IHL.
Re:nerds confused christmas & halloween (Score:2)
Do you have any idea (Score:2, Informative)
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If they were really nerdcore (Score:4, Funny)
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....
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obviating your nerdness (Score:1)
CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT REALIZING THAT PEOPLE PARTY ON SATURDAY NIGHT
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indeminify : Sorry, indeminify is not in the dictionary! [cooldictionary.com]
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High Tech Halloween Display for "News for Nerds" (Score:3, Interesting)
"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)
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looking for trick or treat (spooky) music (Score:2)
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http://oddiooverplay.com/ears/fiends/index.html [oddiooverplay.com]
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Ulver is always a safe card (if you know which ones are ambient and which ones sounds like white noise) try Perdition City, Blood Inside and A quick fix of melancholy EP
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Midnight Syndicate
its like a creepy halloween fx tape, but made into terrific music
this album is the best halloween music for my buck, http://www.amazon.com/Born-Night-Midnight-Syndicat e/dp/B00004SYUU/ [amazon.com] altho, unless yer some weirdo goth, it won't get much use other then the halloween season.
[05:31] * nobody np: Midnight Syndicate: Born of the Night - 12. Haunted Nursery [02:48m/128Kbps/44KHz/MP3]
This is untalentedidiotcore, not nerdcore (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
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I'm listening to "Back in the Day" now, it's GOOD.
ytcracker's Nerdrap Entertainment System album was one of my nerdcore favorites previously, but so far, FSR's Hotel Coral Essex might beat it.
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wicked, keep it up. (Score:5, Insightful)
(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..)
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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) an
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Thanks.
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Ahahahahaha. Absolutely not. Every work is automatically copyrighted by default (even without a (C) anywhere), and it's extremely difficult (read: nearly impossible on the internet) to just BAM make something public domain, according to Prof. Larry Lessig (law prof at Stanford and founder of the Creative Commons). Yes, in our fucked up copyright world, we've taken away the artist's right to make something public domain.
In any case, yes, thanks to the artists f
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There I completely agree.
A big "fuck you" to all those poser nerds, who ain't 1337 enough to respect nerdcore. You're all just frontin', yo!
Ah yes, since their taste doesn't match yours they suck? And you complain about them saying you suck because your taste doesn't match theirs? Pot, meet Kettle...
At any rate, I don't like hip hop, so I won't listen to this either. Only thing is that I'm not going around telling others how badly
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]
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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)
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Nerds? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
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>RAR - It's a proprietary compression algorithm with no open-source implementations. Real nerds use open compression schemes. :)
Well, sure, the practical nerd would use ZIP, the traditional nerd would use .tar.gz, and the modern nerd would use BZ2 -- but are you sure there aren't any open implementations of RAR? What about 7-zip?
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Still, in this case, using *any* compression format on already-compressed audio files is a Bad Idea if you
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This is not accurate.
Download and extract http://files1.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.6.8.tar.gz [rarlab.com] and read the
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It may not be a truly open license, but the source is freely available:
http://files.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.4.1.tar.gz [rarlab.com]
I built it on my Mac via "fink install unrar".
The license.txt file included in that tarball says:
"The source code of unRAR utility is freeware."
and
"The unRAR utility may be freely distributed."
However:
"The unRAR sources
MC Hawking (Score:1)
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In any case LAME is Free, and thereby far better suited to the politically minded nerdcore audience of today.