I’ve just discovered Nerdcore. (Yes you read that right, NERD – core.)

MC Frontalot’s 2005 album “Nerdcore Rising” to be precise.

MC Frontalot is the stage-name of San-Francisco hip-hop musician Damien Hess.

The album is a breath of fresh air.

I heard this album for the first time last night and was immediately impressed with the kind of complex rap flows you would expect from the likes of Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and the Hieroglyphics crew or Jurassic 5, and it’s so refreshing hearing light-hearted humour in a genre saturated with oh-so-serious wannabe-prison-tenants.

The background music on the album is rich with all the vibrant textures you’d expect from a modern hip-hop artist, often with the kind of dark room-shaking synth-bass sounds and tight drums that will raise the eyebrows (and volume controls) of audiophiles everywhere.

Try this for size… (featuring Jesse Dangerously and M.C. Hawking)

And is it just me or does he sound a bit like an ironic Eminem at times…?

And this one’s my favourite one I’ve heard so far…

Anyway, just thought I should share this with you.

Not a classic album by any stretch of the imagination but it’s definitely an album worth owning, if only to reach for it when visited by friends who haven’t heard it… or to humiliate any gangsta rap fanbois that turn up at your party and ask if you have any Snoop Doggy Dogg.

You can buy MC Frontalot – Nerdcore Rising (2005) on mp3 from our Amazon Associate store… Click HERE!

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Is it just me, or is everything crap?

It’s got to the point where I can’t even bring myself to listen to the radio or watch a modern music TV show or channel anymore. Too large a proportion of recent music releases just leave me cold.

So, where to go? Where can I find the hidden gems of the world?

There’s surely an almost endless supply of good music out there that never gets airplay in the modern commercial media.

It is this quest with which I am charged… sick of being brainwashed with the endless turgid drivel spouted by plastic pseudo-musicians on behalf of the suits in the Pop Money (ahem, I mean Pop Music) Industry, I must seek ‘neath every stone to find the tiny minority of music out there that’s actually worth spending my time listening to.

A fan of music for many years, and a musician too, I have searched in vain for a meeting place of similar minds. Somewhere to share one’s discoveries and seek new recommendations. Finally, that place exists… the REAL Music Forum.

Visit the forum and let our quests converge. Recommend rare and wonderful music, and seek recommendations of your own from others who share our quest for better music.

If you know of any recent music releases that you believe will stand the test of time, feel free to recommend them in the forums.

There is good new music out there, but it tends to get buried beneath the endless white noise of the mainstream, but whether old or new, I’m always eager to listen, so please enjoy your stay, dust off your typing fingers (and your loudspeakers), get yourself into the forums and get involved!

Regards,

Muso

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