For nerdy music lovers, there isn’t a much more exciting phase in the English language than “free digital download” — except, perhaps, when that phrase is accompanied by “nerdcore.”

May we present Nerdcore Now Volume One, a free compilation available from community website Nerdcore Now.

The record is meant to attract geeks who might like nerdcore but haven’t been exposed to the musical style, said Nerdcore Now Volume One executive producer and Nerdcore Now webmaster Aaron “Danger Aaron” Mazade.

“In the 21st century so many of our lives revolve around technology and nerd culture,” Mazade said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “We wanted to create a compilation that almost anyone with [an] ounce of nerd in their bloodstream could relate to.”

Now that’s what we call music.

Nerdcore Now Volume One comes complete with all the requisite videogame, tech and role-playing references you’d want.

Kicking off with “Nerdcore Now,” Beefy’s breakdown of his history in the scene, the 21-track release also features music by Death*Star, 8-bit outfit Supercommuter and Milk-Plus and Lady DKX’s rocking “I Can Be Your Supervillain.”

It’s meant to be a successor to the Rhyme Torrents comps posted on RhymeTorrents.com and later RhymeTorrents.org, which were touchstones for many nerdcore listeners and artists. (RhymeTorrents.org became Nerdcore Now last year.)

Artists began submitting tracks for the new record back in November — at the time the project was still being referred to as Rhyme Torrents Volume 10 — and the site has been pulling together the album ever since, said Mazade.

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