Tony ([info]quikchange) wrote,
@ 2007-04-23 09:11:00
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Current music:Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey - The Beatles
Entry tags:life, review

Small-world syndrome and nerdcore
What are the odds that, in a city of nearly 800,000 people that I've lived in for only a few months, I would randomly run into 2 different people from the 5-person Linux-UI team, in 2 different restaurants in completely different parts of the city, in 2 subsequent days...? And yet that's just what happened this weekend!

Last night I went to a nerdcore show featuring MC Lars (a Stanford alumnus), MC Frontalot (the godfather of nerdcore) and Optimus Rhyme. Lars accompanied his set with a video projection that depicted, at one point, his own songs being bittorrented! He had some satirical jabs for mainstream hip-hop's materialism and the music industry's general suckiness. Frontalot actually rolled a 20-sided die to decide which songs he would play for his set!


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[info]shade_42
2007-04-23 04:17 pm UTC (link)
I am incredibly jealous that you got to see these guys live. I've been listening to them to the exclusion of most other things for months now.

Questions:

Optimus Rhyme:
Does Wheely circular breath when he raps? They are supposed to be incredible live.
Any new songs/album announcements?

MC Lars:
Any news about his podcast?

Frontalot:
What songs from the new album did he do? I've only heard Secrets from the Future so far.

Did Beefy open for this show? If so how was he?

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[info]quikchange
2007-04-23 05:33 pm UTC (link)
Well, it was you who told me about them in the first place.

I couldn't tell if Wheely was breathing circularly when he rapped but it wouldn't be surprising if he did because he certainly didn't get out of breath by the end of a pretty intense performance. He did attempt some beatboxing when he first walked onstage but then joked that he couldn't really pull it off. I don't recall any new announcements.

I don't think MC Lars mentioned his podcast (but he does have a blog about it that MC Frontalot thinks is "charming and informative").

Frontalot did Bizarro Genius Baby, Origin of Species and I Hate Your Blog, all as part of a spoof RPG (hence the die-rolling).

The opening act was K.Flay. You should check her out - she's pretty cool.

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[info]caffeinemonkey
2007-04-25 12:50 am UTC (link)
Given that there is an extremely strong selection bias in the 2 people you ran into, the odds are probably pretty good :P

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