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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