So here we are as promised, the revealing info of the DEBUT ALBUM from Film Skool Rejekts, Midnight Movie Produced entirely by yours truly. First off, I wanna give a huge shout to my man 100 Grand: Adrian “Adge 187″ Morales, the sonic genius and mix engineer behind the “thump-mode” of this album. As of right now we are still in the final mixing process, with about one week left until it’s done and wrapped up. Then off to the mastering process (Mr.Capone, I got some work for you). While going into the creation of the musical and conceptual thought process I wanted to do something that I’ve always wanted to do but never done before, and that is; Make an album in the same vein as one of my idols….
I always loved how Prince Paul put his album’s together, most notably De La Soul’s “De La Soul is dead”. So from the beginning of crafting this project I wanted to have it flow like an ongoing story or a musical, if you will. My first task was to figure out what the album would be based around. I already knew that album titled was “Midnight Movie” and I wanted to make an album with ONE concept, which led me on my movie quest. I began my research and started watching movie upon movie and I stumbled upon…
AND THE REST WAS HISTORY. MY IDEA FOR THE CONCEPT OF THE ALBUM WAS BORN. IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN AFOREMENTIONED FILM OR KNOW THE PREMISE, THEN WATCH THE TRAILER BELOW, OR SIMPLY GO TO IMDB. IF I TRY TO EXPLAIN IT IN DETAIL, I WOULD BE HERE ALL DAY!
So with that in mind, I definitely knew where I was gonna go with everything. I told Sheen and Future, and we all came together to brainstorm on some concepts. This all took place in April of 2007. Fastfoward to August 2007, and the principle recording of the album is finished, with only the skits left to be recorded. As of now I feel like this guy…
IN OTHER WORDS, “A MILLION DOLLAR NEGRO WITH A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE”
Now while I was actually producing music for this album, I wanted to create a sound scape very similar to the albums that I was bumping heavilly at the time, with a twist of my own style in the mix. The two albums in particular were…
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Both of these albums had me going berzerk the first time I heard them. With the Prince Paul aesthetic in tact, plus the sonic inspiration of these two masterpieces, I conjured up… MIDNIGHT MOVIE. I personally hope the public likes the album as much as I LOVE IT, as I believe that this album is my MAGNUM OPUS.
MORE INFO ON THIS ALBUM ON PART 2 of this post, with some words from the albums Mix engineer, “Mr.187″ himself. He will break down a new mixing technique that he came up with during the process of the album. IN THE MEAN TIME, I WILL LEAVE YOU ALL WITH SOME TREATS. THE ALBUM TRACKLISTING AND THE ALBUM SAMPLER.
NOTE: MIDNIGHT MOVIE WILL BE AVAILABLE MARCH 25th, 2008.
TRACKLISTING
1.The TV Set (Featuing DJ PRINCE)
2.Strength in #’s
3.F.S. Carry The R
4.Henny (Commercial spot)
5.Black Terminator (Opening Credits)
6.Adrenaline Rush 2 (Featuring Arsin)
7.The Return of Crisis (Featuring Crisis)
8.3 Letters (featuring Crisis and Myalance)
9.Jet Force (TV SPOT#3)
10.Fake Friends (Featuring Crisis)
11.Time Freezer (Featuring DJ PRINCE)
12.Sorry for the technical Difficulties/ Black Terminator(Tunnel Chase Scene)
13.Suicide Broadcast
14.The Return of Arsin (Featuring Arsin)
15.Montega
16.Wannabe
17.Sorry again for the technical difficulties, no more interruptions/ Black Terminator (Climax)
18. Unsolved Afircan-American Mysteries
19.The Assasination of Malcolm X (featuring MINGO)
20.Channel Zero
21. Tunnel Vision(Closing Credits)
ALL SONGS PRODUCED BY CYRUS THA GREAT
