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A MUSIC REVOLUTION: FORT MINOR - a dynamic between opposites

FORT MINOR - it's been a long time since I've been excited for an album to release and THIS is the SHIAT. Who better to lead the next music revolution then Mr. Mike Shinoda himself - one of the leads in LP.

Shinoda's rap roots have always had to share space with other elements-until now. Fort Minor is a wholly unique, unadulterated hip hop album, owing as much to Shinoda's polished lyricism as his musical adeptness. The variety of themes, styles, and moods he creates make this "side project" likely to do much more than simply satisfy existing LP fans; it threatens to expose Shinoda as a rap devotee who is as at home in hip-hop as he is in the cross-genre hybrid of Linkin Park.

The Rising Tied, the much-anticipated debut of Shinoda's Fort Minor, will be released by Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros., in Fall 2005. Executive Produced by Jay-Z (who collaborated with Linkin Park on 2004's Collision Course), The Rising Tied is produced and mixed by Shinoda, who wrote every track, played nearly every instrument and "slaved over every detail."

While Shinoda chose the name Fort Minor to reflect the dynamic between opposites - something big and strong vs. something small and slight (or musically dark) - the name of the album is also a play on words. All of the guest artists on The Rising Tied, says Shinoda, are coming up together in the music world. Among them are Machine Shop acts Styles of Beyond and Holly Brook, as well as Common, John Legend, Kenna and Black Thought (of The Roots), among others.

While remaining an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park, the desire to create songs that resonated with his youth as a hip-hop producer and MC led Shinoda to write, then record, a progression of hip-hop-rooted songs. As they began to coalesce into an album bearing Shinoda's solo imprimatur, he also felt it was essential to keep it "organic," making his own samples and breakbeats with live instruments, and avoiding sequenced keyboards. The Rising Tied, channeling some of the signature dynamics and frustration of Linkin Park, reveals a more personal range of themes slagged inside a distinctly hip-hop crucible.

Not to say that it's an entirely homogenized collection. On the track "Believe Me," excerpts from a decaying relationship tremble over a seismic breakbeat, infused with Latin percussion and a cello-bass line that reflects Shinoda's love of classic rock. "High Road," bouncing to Billy Joel-like piano progressions, adopts a humorous tone even as it gives the finger to someone who once told him to "stick to keyboards, don't rap.

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Other news today (besides the hockey) are these sexy new THUMP 2 form Oakley. Thump is basically the mp3 line where the mp3 player is integrated into the glasses. This time Oakley was smart enough by taking an already successful design (Gascans that Chras has) and throwing in teh same technology found in teh Ipod shuffle.... yes this adds to teh list of more things I don't need but good lord they are oh so sexy. With more agressive pricing, improved user design and larger flash capacity i can guess that this will be a holiday hit! Speaking of Ipods, besides the nano jsut releasing, Apple will be announcing something big on Oct. 12 - Speculation going around is a video capable ipod player - interesting. sorry for the lack in updates.... MAYBE I'll be better starting know though it is midterm week next week... blah... happy thanksgiving otherwise! peace - carl

Today marks another special day as teh puck dropped on seveal ice rinks today to mark the official start of the NHL season. Wahoo!!! With over 15 games running almost simultanesoulsy over about four hours, this studnet found it hard to get back to his 30 page essay that is due in a fortnight. How in the world did people do this back in April 04? Cause back then I was jsut doing the 9-5 at good ol Firto Lay nad had all the time in the world... now it jsut feels like guilty pleasure. Anywho, the Flame boys were back on the ice today away from home and against the Wild... let's just say their performance was not stellar but hopeuflly that was enough of a smack in teh ass to get their gear goin for the Blue Jackets on Friday - but seriously boys - we gotta use those power plays a little better to our advantage and kill those penalties a little better. Kipper can only stop so much but even he wasn't completely on his A game tonight... nevertheless it was amazing reviving those feelings by screaming at the TV and once again and proudly showing my beat up flames car flag and looking for other while driving to work and to school. Though with gross gas prices these days, I can't exactly display my triple attack of flags on my car cause the drag is unbelievable - maybe just once in a while. Flame on boys, Flame on. GO FLAMES GO!