Dual Core

You can catch a new interview with us over at Talk with Tim.  We cover all sorts of information including our origins, our latest work and release Next Level, and lots in between.  Check it out :]

-eighty

Dr. Trevorkian just posted a short and sweet review of Next Level on NerdLust.net.  From the article:

It is a killer piece of work from start to finish and I can’t recommend it enough.

Go check out the review, you won’t “tl;dr” :]

-eighty

An awesome write-up of Next Level has appeared on internet.  This time it is from my newest bff, Beefy.  He has only good things to say,  but I would like to highlight one comment regarding c64:

c64 is almost a hidden treasure (I say almost because in the next year you’re going to be seeing him EVERYWHERE) and together Dual Core is the best thing in the nerd scene right now.

This is true, and one place you will find c64 is at work on Beefy’s projects.  This makes me overjoyed as the two of them make incredible music.  Beefy is by far one of my favorite rappers and definitely deserves serious listen.  He truly is “one hell of a find”.

-eighty

A very positive review of our album Next Level was posted by Justin Hall over at Monster Closet.  In addition to the amazing graphic (left), he had these great things to say about our album:

for two dudes that self-produce all their material, int 80 (vocals) and c64 (beats) have always avoided the fuzzy, cheap, amateur sound that plagues most basement hip-hop. Next Level keeps that tradition alive with production that’s just as professional, clean, and perfectly mixed as anything from the recording industry. the duo’s more in-your-face, confident and brazen than ever – c64’s tracks are all over the map, from the thoughtful (Forever) to the head-nodders (Kick Back), and 80’s rhymes bounce between smirking (Here To Help) and serious (Letter to C64).

there’s a ton to offer all species of nerd – gamers of the tabletop scene will dig Natural 20’s, while Gears fans rejoice in The Hollow as 80 tells the game’s story better than CliffyB did. nerdcore hip hop fans will recognize genre superstars in I Remember and Magnificent Seven. and leet hax0rs will appreciate Kick Back and Life’s Work (which name-drops a couple prominent script kiddies).

Now that any of your previous uncertainty has been discarded, you can feel care-free as you purchase Next Level.

-eighty

Good video podcast from Nerdapalooza 2009 with an interview of yours truly at the end. Camera work and editing done by my man, John La Valle.

-eighty

I just happened to find this post by Lars where he shares some really kind words about us:

I did a collab with int eight of Dual Core and 17,000 nerdcore rappers. Basically, it’s a Twitter song where we all rap back and forth like we’re on Twitter. Cool concept, but when I sent him my vocals, he wrote me back like, “Lars, you sent me silent tracks.” I don’t know how it happened – maybe ProTools is haunted or something. So I sent him my ProTools session for him and his British producer to have fun with. It’s going to be cool. I really love Dual Core because David (int) is a really talented rapper and their production is always catchy and fun to listen to. He transcends nerdcore because he came up in the Scribble Jam / indie hip-hop seen of the mid-west late 90s community. He’s a rapper who just happens to be a computer guy, not the other way around.

Lars is such a cool guy.  Can’t wait to hang out with him again :]

-eighty