Dual Core

Notacon has always been an amazing weekend for me, and this year was no exception.  Our show was a ton of fun, Blockparty was great (greets to and from dc5), and as always b9 was an outstanding hostess.  To say I was looking forward to Notacon would be an understatement.

I was actually a bit anxious about the show as there were one or two new tracks to play live for the first time.  Since the first new track went so well, we played the second.  The audience was incredible.  The set was slow to get going due to some issues with the monitors (speakers that face the stage), but they were replaced, levels adjusted, and we took off.  It felt like everyone at Notacon came to the show, and they brought a ton of energy which really amped me up.  It doesn’t get much better than having an audience full of my fellow nerds yelling things like “Hostage Down!” and “Dual Core!”.

Notacon is also a mile-marker of sorts for me.  At Notacon 3 (2006), I found out that other people besides me liked hip hop about nerdy topics and culture.  This was the catalyst to starting the Dual Core music with c64.  In the following years, we had one new album (2007), then two more (2008).  This year we had no new albums…

But we have photos — a lot of new photos since the previous Notacon.  Those photos are from shows in places such as New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, San Diego, Orlando, Nashville, Indianapolis, etc.  I cannot express how fortunate and grateful I am to have visited those places, played those shows, and met the people there.

So congrats all around to another successful Notacon; and thank you to everyone, for everything.  At the end of my sets you can usually hear me say that I love all of you — it’s true, without you all, I would be unable to do any of this.

Also, it’s official.  The new album is on the way.

-eighty