First Live Show In Over A Decade & A New Song I Won’t Play There.

Posted on July 11th, 2025

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:47 pm

First things first:
Yes, I’m playing live in Victoria, BC at the Phoenix Bar Grill, opening for Nursehella, Bixlee & Skull Cultist on August 1st, 2025. 19+, $20 CAD.

who do i know on here in victoria, bc?

i'm playing a rare* show next month with @karlrolson.com and @skullcultist.bsky.social

*i've literally never done this before**

**oh god i hope it doesn't suck***

***it won't suck

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— ALT-BIXLEE (real) and 41 others (@bixlee.bsky.social) Jul 9, 2025 at 4:09 p.m.

Also, dropped this sludgy, pluggnb track about various romance manga that’ll probably go on my next album, which I’ll start real work on after this show, maybe:

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More Drum & Bass

Posted on February 20th, 2025

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 11:52 am

Also on various streaming services (Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon, Spotify, other services as auto-updated) here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ultraklystron/we-only-have-each-other

Yep, 10 more Dn’B/Jungle Bangers. Lots of fun glitching out the drums. Put a photo of my late cat Hagu on the cover. Miss her.

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Collaboration Default Swap (A New Song With Special Guests!)

Posted on August 27th, 2024

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:22 pm

Tired of your favorite businesses, products & services ruining themselves for short term gains, or being bought on credit by shiftless grifters & then ruining themselves to pay that off while handing out golden parachutes to those already, uh, well-gilded? Same! As are funky49 & Nursehella, so here’s a brand new song all about it, available at all of the usual places (including many businesses that themselves are victims/perpetrators of “enshittification,” because we can’t have nice things):

Bandcamp:

Youtube:

Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music/iTunes & everything else are here at hyperfollow.

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Embedded Systems (New Music, Retro Merch Drop!?)

Posted on August 10th, 2024

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 6:00 pm

Another year, another new Dn’B LP, loosely themed around being sick in school & going home early to watch garbage TV. Beats all of the Drum n’ Bass albums I’ve done recently with computer programming names I guess. It’s also on all of the usual places, just check the hyperfollow link here, but here’s the Bandcamp and Youtube embeds:


Meanwhile, after a request from an old friend to reissue the old Ultraklystron “Download A Car” meme shirt from the Animatic LP deluxe pre-orders and one or two live shows, I spruced up my apparently extant and definitely neglected Teespring store. I have everything set to make as little money as Teespring will allow with out fiddling chasing things down to the penny. If they had an easy “whatever current cost is plus IDK 50 cents” setting, I’d have gone for that instead:

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New Music Season, Again

Posted on April 9th, 2024

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:25 pm

Available by 4/24/24 on all the other platforms here: Ultraklystron – Lost Languid Muddle on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and more.

Yep, another one.

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New music, new videos:

Posted on June 12th, 2023

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 10:42 am

First up, the whole album, Deep Neurotic Network, which loosely captures some future tech anxiety mixed up with the usual otaku life nonsense:

It’s also on all major platforms: Bandcamp, Amazon, Apple, Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, YouTube Music & more.
Don’t your favorite platform listed? Check the hyperfollow page for Deep Neurotic Network for updates.

However, there’s also some cheap & cheerful lyric videos to go with this release too, so here’s a playlist of those:

I strictly speaking have lyrics on deck and sorted for another LP already, but I don’t see myself getting to that in any specific time line, so run this one up for now.

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Oh Right More Drum n’ Bass

Posted on March 7th, 2023

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 1:48 pm

Yep, as we wrap up a long winter, here’s something to warm y’all up.

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An album, social media implosion

Posted on November 23rd, 2022

Filed under: General,Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 12:53 am

First, the last point: everything social I’m doing/have done should be in this hyperfollow link, or at least that’s my plan. I’m leaning towards Mastodon though. Still, open to other parachutes, probably actively posting about them on my accounts too.

Finally, the opener: Yes, still more Drum n’ Bass. “Thank You Resume Speed” is in all of the usual places, including bandcamp.

PS: finally got 500 YouTube Subscribers after 500 14(?) years. Thanks for listening.

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Seasonal Music Update (Happy Halloween)

Posted on October 29th, 2022

Filed under: Music News,Videos — Karl Olson @ 6:10 pm

I’ll do another post soon, but for now, enjoy this track about the best holiday decoration for any holiday, the 12 Foot Skeleton:

Youtube:

Bandcamp (Free Download):

Be sure to check out the whole Nerdcore Halloween compilation series.

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Thanks Bots

Posted on May 22nd, 2022

Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:59 pm

A mostly complete mirror of music (barring subscriber exclusives & stuff I never put back on Bandcamp) is now up on archive.org thanks to a friendly bot. Call it the creative commons at work.

Ultraklystron on Archive.org

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