97 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Adam WarRock, Alternative hip hop, Beastie Boys, Beefy (rapper), Blackalicious, Boing Boing, Braggadocio (rap), Break (music), Chap hop, Clyde Stubblefield, Commodore 64 (band), Company Flow, Computer, Computer science, Copyright, Dan Bull, Dan Maynes-Aminzade, Deltron 3030, DIY ethic, Dual Core (hip hop duo), EE Times, Experimental hip hop, Filk music, Funky Drummer, Future bass, Gangsta rap, Geek, Genre, Hello Nasty, High fantasy, Hip hop music, Iko The Rainman, Intergalactic (song), It's All About the Pentiums, Jesse Dangerously, Kimmy Gatewood, Kool Keith, List of Cambridge Companions to Music, Mainstream, MC 900 Ft. Jesus, MC Chris, MC Frontalot, MC Hawking, MC Lars, MC Paul Barman, MC Router, MF Doom, Musical composition, Negin Farsad, ..., Nerd, Nerdapalooza, Nerdcore for Life, Nerdcore Rising, Nerdcore Rising (film), Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendocore, Online and offline, Optimus Rhyme, PAX (event), Penny Arcade, Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart), Politics, Programming (music), Raheem Jarbo, Rapping, Recording Industry Association of America, Remix, Richie Branson, Rock music, Role-playing game, Sammus, Sampling (music), Schäffer the Darklord, Science, Science fiction, South by Southwest, Star Wars, Starbomb, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, They Might Be Giants, Underground hip hop, Vanilla Ice, White & Nerdy, Wired (magazine), Wisconsin Film Festival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wordburglar, YTCracker, Zealous1, 1992 in music, 1999 in music, 2004 in music, 2005 in music, 2006 in music, 8-bit. Expand index (47 more) »
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, film/record producer, satirist, and author.
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Adam WarRock
Eugene Ahn, better known by his stage name Adam WarRock, is an American nerdcore rapper.
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Alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses the wide range of styles of hip hop that are not typically identified as mainstream.
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Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.
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Beefy (rapper)
Keith A. Moore (born December 15, 1985) is a Nerdcore rapper from The Tri-Cities, WA better known by the stage name Beefy.
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Blackalicious
Blackalicious is an American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel.
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Boing Boing
Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.
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Braggadocio (rap)
Braggadocio is a type of rapping where the MC is "bragging and boasting"Edwards, Paul, 2009, How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC, Chicago Review Press, p. 25.
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Break (music)
In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.
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Chap hop
Chap hop is music originating from England that mixes the hip hop genre with elements from the Chappist or steampunk subcultures and stereotypical English obsessions such as cricket, tea and the weather.
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Clyde Stubblefield
Clyde Austin Stubblefield (April 18, 1943 – February 18, 2017) was an American drummer best known for his work with James Brown.
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Commodore 64 (band)
The band Commodore 64 (named after the 1980s computer of the same name) was one of the pioneers of the hip hop music subgenre known as geeksta rap or nerdcore.
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Company Flow
Company Flow was an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York City, consisting of Bigg Jus, El-P and Mr. Len.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Computer science
Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.
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Copyright
Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Dan Bull
Daniel G. L. Bull (born 27 March 1986) is an English rapper and songwriter known best for his raps about video games, which he publishes on his YouTube channel.
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Dan Maynes-Aminzade
Dan Maynes Aminzade (aka Monzy; born Daniel Maynes-Aminzade in 1979) is a Nerdcore hip-hop artist and software engineer at Google.
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Deltron 3030
Deltron 3030 is an alternative hip hop trio composed of producer Dan the Automator (as The Cantankerous Captain Aptos), rapper Del the Funky Homosapien (as Deltron Zero/Deltron Osiris), and DJ Kid Koala (as Skiznod the Boy Wonder).
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DIY ethic
DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert.
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Dual Core (hip hop duo)
Dual Core is a hip hop duo composed of American rapper int eighty (David Martinjak) and British producer c64 (Chris Hunger).
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EE Times
EE Times (Electronic Engineering Times) is an online electronics industry magazine published in the United States by AspenCore Media an Arrow Electronics company.
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Experimental hip hop
Experimental hip hop is a genre of hip hop that employs structural elements typically considered unconventional in traditional hip hop music.
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Filk music
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy/horror fandom and a type of fan labor.
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Funky Drummer
"Funky Drummer" is a song recorded by James Brown and his band in 1969.
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Future bass
Future bass is an electronic dance music genre that arose around 2006 in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, China and Australia.
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Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.
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Geek
The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit, with a general pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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Hello Nasty
Hello Nasty is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Beastie Boys.
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High fantasy
High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, defined either by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Iko The Rainman
Jack Paraiso also known as Iko The Rainman, is an American Brazilian hip-hop artist from Boca Raton, Florida.
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Intergalactic (song)
"Intergalactic" is a song by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released as the first single from their fifth studio album Hello Nasty on May 12, 1998.
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It's All About the Pentiums
"It's All About the Pentiums" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Jesse Dangerously
Jesse McDonald, better known by his stage name Jesse Dangerously, is an alternative hip hop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia and operating out of Ottawa, Ontario.
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Kimmy Gatewood
Kimmy Gatewood is an American actress, writer and singer.
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Kool Keith
Keith Matthew Thornton (born October 7, 1963), better known by his stage name Kool Keith, is an American rapper from The Bronx, New York known for his surreal, abstract and often profane or incomprehensible lyrics.
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List of Cambridge Companions to Music
The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.
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Mainstream
Mainstream is current thought that is widespread.
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MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Mark Griffin (born 1957), better known as MC 900 Ft.
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MC Chris
Christopher 'Bruce Wayne' Brendan Ward (born September 2, 1975), better known by his stage name MC Chris (stylized as mc chris), is an American nerdcore rapper, voice actor, writer and improvisational comedian.
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MC Frontalot
Damian Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an American rapper and web designer.
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MC Hawking
Ken Lawrence is a nerdcore hip hop artist who purports to be theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking rapping under the name MC Hawking.
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MC Lars
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as MC Lars, is an American rapper, cartoonist and Stanford University alumnus.
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MC Paul Barman
Paul Nathaniel Barman (born October 30, 1974), better known by his stage name MC Paul Barman, is an American rapper.
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MC Router
Abedah Ritchie (born 5 May 1986), is a former Nerdcore rapper, formerly Kristin Nicole Ritchie and better known by the stage name MC Router.
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MF Doom
Daniel Dumile (born January 9, 1971) is a British-born, US-based hip hop recording artist and record producer from Long Island, New York.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.
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Negin Farsad
Negin Farsad is an American comedian, actress, writer and filmmaker of Iranian descent based in New York City.
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Nerd
A nerd is a person seen as overly intellectual, obsessive, introvert or lacking social skills.
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Nerdapalooza
Nerdapalooza was an annual nerd music and arts festival in Orlando, FL, the first of its kind to invite all genres of the nerd music movement under one roof, including nerd rock, nerdcore hip hop, chiptunes, and video game music.
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Nerdcore for Life
Nerdcore for Life is a 2008 documentary film about the world of Nerdcore hip-hop directed by Dan Lamoureux and produced by Crapbot Productions.
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Nerdcore Rising
Nerdcore Rising is the official debut album by nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot.
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Nerdcore Rising (film)
Nerdcore Rising is a documentary/concert film starring MC Frontalot and other nerdcore hip hop artists such as mc chris, Wheelie Cyberman of Optimus Rhyme and MC Lars, with contributors from artists such as "Weird Al" Yankovic, Prince Paul, and Brian Posehn.
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Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.
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Nintendocore
Nintendocore (also known as Nintendo rock, nerdcore, and video game rock) is a broadly defined music genre that fuses chiptune and video game music with modern hardcore punk and heavy metal and various associated rock music styles.
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Online and offline
In computer technology and telecommunications, online indicates a state of connectivity, and offline indicates a disconnected state.
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Optimus Rhyme
Optimus Rhyme was a hip hop group from Seattle, Washington.
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PAX (event)
PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is an overall term used to refer to a series of gaming culture festivals that involve; tabletop gaming, arcade gaming, and video gaming.
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Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.
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Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart)
The Piano Sonata No.
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Politics
Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Programming (music)
Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.
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Raheem Jarbo
Raheem Jarbo, also known by his stage names Mega Ran and Random, is an American underground nerdcore rapper, chiptune DJ, and record producer.
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Rapping
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.
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Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.
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Remix
A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.
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Richie Branson
Richie Branson (born Marcus Brown II on November 18, 1985) is an American music producer, game designer, and nerdcore hip hop artist from San Antonio, Texas.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Sammus
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (born March 20, 1986), known as Sammus, often stylized as SΔMMUS, is an American underground rapper, former teacher, PhD student and record producer.
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Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.
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Schäffer the Darklord
Mark Shaffer (born November 14, 1974), better known by his stage name Schäffer the Darklord (STD), is an American nerdcore hip hop artist from New York City.
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Science
R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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South by Southwest
South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.
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Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.
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Starbomb
Starbomb is an American musical-comedy group composed of Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht of musical-comedy duo Ninja Sex Party together with Flash animator and Internet personality Arin Hanson.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.
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Underground hip hop
Underground hip hop is an umbrella term for hip hop music outside the general commercial canon.
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Vanilla Ice
Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host.
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White & Nerdy
"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wisconsin Film Festival
The Wisconsin Film Festival is an annual film festival, founded in 1999.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
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Wordburglar
Sean Jordan, better known by his stage name Wordburglar, is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, now based in Toronto.
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YTCracker
Bryce Case, Jr. (born August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced "whitey cracker"), is a "former" cracker most known for defacing the webpages of several federal and municipal government websites in the United States, as well as several in private industry at the age of 17.
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Zealous1
Beau Fa'asamala (born 1983) is an American rapper and producer from Oceanside, California known as ZeaLouS1.
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1992 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.
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1999 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1999.
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2004 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2004.
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2005 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2005.
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2006 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.
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8-bit
8-bit is also a generation of microcomputers in which 8-bit microprocessors were the norm.
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References
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