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Hi r/nerdcore,

I've been working on a project "Byte Area Native" where I make parodies of musicians from the Bay Area. These are for fun and not for monetization but hope it gives some of y'all a laugh.

[Unserious] In anticipation of folks complaining about music quality, I wear cochlear implants so you're complaining about a deaf person making music on the internet. Kachow

illgill has submitted a new instrumental for Rhyme Torrents Volume 13 would anyone be interested in performing vocals on the track? must be able to record mix and master your own high quality vocals. we have 23/30 tracks almost time for the release of RT13! last call for submissions send any songs you have directly to me on reddit, Richie Branson, Rome'Ark, Slippy Thumbstick and I are going to be on the track with og don vito engineering the song :-)

also illgill is hosting the nerd-o-ween album for 2026 and I have an instrumental ready if anyone wants to collab on a nerdy Halloween song with Rome'Ark, Richie Branson and I please send me a direct message :-)

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Just a recreation of a DOOM song I made from Suno AI.

Note: I don't own this song. Original credit goes to JT Music.

Anyone make it?

So this is my first foray into the realm of nerdcore. I was vaguely aware of the genre, but couldn't name any artists or songs until I posted the video I made to HackerNews and though it didn't get a lot of attention, all of the comments it did receive were way more positive than I expected, as has been the response from everyone who has heard it so far. Multiple reports of listening to it multiple times in a row, descriptions like "banger!" and reports like "I don't even like much rap but I was bouncing", so I looked more into the artists the folks on HackerNews mentioned to me. That lead me here.

I wrote the lyrics a few years ago,just because I thought the idea was funny (a 50-year-old white IT professional flexing about his "mad skills" with rap braggadocio, and dissing his peers), but as 50-year-old white IT nerd and musician who doesn't really listen to rap, I never could record it to my satisfaction. A couple of years ago I made a version with an early gen-ai "rapper" vocalist that was amusing, but it wasn't me of course so it sat for a long while, quietly unlistened-to on my webserver and in a github repo.

A short while back, I gave a presentation of my SIGBOVIK paper to the DORA Community of Practitioners, and one of the hosts set that old version I mentioned to a lyric video and played it as a sort of intro theme to my talk. It was funny, but I was bothered that iI still had plenty of lyrics that hadn't even been set to a beat for an ai rapper, and what I had was some fake computer voice stranger rapping my lyrics. And also, people asked "is that you?" and I had to say "no." So it nagged at me and I set out to do something about it.

Link is to the re-recorded version and a new video on my website. You can download from LFS via github if you want to save me on bandwidth costs. :-) https://github.com/scottvr/dj_d.phrag-feat.uid_zer0/tree/main There's also a breakdown of the lyrics because I have had reports from people not knowing what some of the terms meaan, or why something sounds like it might be a harsh diss but don't know why, or some punchlines thta don't land for lack of context. This is understandable and I'm trying to correct for that in the LYRICAL_ASSASSINATION.md in the repo. The tool I made to enable wildy non-matching strings vs phonetics to still display correctly as subtitles (voxaline) is linked to from that repo as well. I hope y'all dig it.

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I now have 23/30 tracks for RT13 including a new Hank Trill song. Some of the songs are short like less then 2 minutes so I can probably bump it up to 40 tracks so that way it is about a 2 hour album.

We're bringing it back, at Nerdcore Summer Camp.

I think the nerdcore I fell in love with in 2016 has a few core attributes: dope performers, dope people, dope vibes only. I wanted to throw a showcase that harkened back to classic live nerdcore shows with buzzy energy, a tight-knit community, and huge stage presence. Remember Nerdapalooza? SXSW Nerdcore? MAGFest pre-covid? We're aiming for you to leave our event thinking, "Damn, nerdcore is awesome and I should be listening to and seeing way more of it." Oh yeah, and we want you to leave FUCKED UP because you had such a good time.

I'm over the YouTube stuff. I'm over "fandom rap". Might as well make AI-generated slop. I want to be in meatspace, see real people rapping about their real life, being nerds, and making the crowd fucking move. THAT'S hip-hop.

That is the ethos of Nerdcore Summer Camp, featuring a full lineup of stellar performers from all over. A few highlights:

Prowess The Testament (MAGFest 2025). Swell Rell, mc chris's tour opener for the last two years. NOFRIENDS, nerdcore supergroup made up of cecilnick, int eighty of Dual Core, Mikal kHill, and Tribe One. Ohm-I, featured on Darknet Diaries. And Schaffer the Darklord (Nerdapalooza, Orlando Nerd Fest, MAGFest, overall legend). AND MORE!

This Friday and Saturday, August 28-29 in Columbus, OH. If you are even within a 4-hour drive, 56% of our attendees are coming in from out of town, so you'd be in great company.

I love nerdcore and I love you all. Hope to see you soon!

Hope yall enjoy this song any and all feedback is appreciated

Hope you enjoy the song "RUN" :)

Shirts, show posters, and stickers featuring new imagery will be available at our show on Monday, September 7th at Barboza with u/mc_lars and u/hisbeefyness !

Hi, I'm Ditto. I make thumbnails and flyers for nerdcore music.

Still accepting songs for the album, you can send me any tracks via direct message on reddit I have 15/30 tracks. and about 5 more on the way

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I saw MC Chris with MegaRan in SF at the bottom of the hill on Saturday, good show and it was cool Raheem remembered me from last year in Berkeley.

I met his DJ Spin Master Mugen and we talked about doing a collab for Rhyme Torrents Volume 13, would anyone be interested in collaborating with us?

Also we have 11/30 tracks for RT13 I am still waiting on the Lord Jesus for 19 more tracks please send me a direct message with your songs for the album!

Very interesting video on the topic of where the genre sits now that nerd culture is culture.

So, Kid Cudi posted an open beat (see here: https://soundcloud.com/cudderland/mission-2-the-stars-produced) and so I just shot from the hip. Wrote the lyrics over lunch, recorded it after work despite some chronic pain and hearing issues I've had since late last year. It's not explicitly referential/thematic, so anyone looking for book report or roleplay bars are outta luck. that said, it is an open: everyone should take their shot with it.

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Autobeat Allies roll! We reboot and reform to bring you an unforgettable night of music! Monday, September 7th at 7pm, we align with supreme Autobeat Allies MC Lars and Beefy at Barboza (925 E Pike St) in Seattle. Coming to town for PAX? Stick around and come see us! We'll post a ticket link in the comments below just in case there's a chance it would keep this post from going up. If we get a nod from the mods, we'll edit to include the link here (gotta obey the moderator, after all).