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''American Tragedy Redux'' is the first
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band
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. It is taking songs from the band's second studio album, '' American Tragedy'', and remixing them. It was released on November 21, 2011, by
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. The original tracks on the album were recorded following the induction of Daniel Murillo into the band in early 2010 and lasted until December. The tracks were then remixed by various DJs and musicians during the band's ''World War III Tour'' with
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later in 2011. The album's first single, "Levitate (Digital Dog Club Mix)", was released on October 18, 2011, with a music video being released on October 24.


Background

Following the release of the band's second studio album, '' American Tragedy'', the band announced a remix contest on August 11, 2011, where fans created their own remixes of the tracks "Le Deux" and "Bullet". The contest winner for the "Le Deux" was Dr. Eargasm, whose remix was chosen by the band and is featured on the album. The "Bullet" remix was voted as the best remix and was included on ''Redux'' as an
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bonus track. The band announced in October 2011 that a remix album, titled ''American Tragedy Redux'', would be released on November 21, 2011 as their first remix album. The band created a series of online promotions for the album. First, they unlocked the track list and cover art for the album once the album title was tweeted 10,000 times on
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, which was accomplished by the end of the second day that the contest started. Then, the band released the first single, "Levitate (Digital Dog club mix)", on October 18 once the album art was shared 3,000 times on
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. A music video for "Levitate (Digital Dog club mix)" was released on October 24, 2011 through
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. The last Facebook unlock was a site for pre-ordering the album and ordering merchandise. The band also released the "Comin' In Hot (Wideboys Remix)" on the pre-order site. J-Dog said of the album, "This is our first remix record ever, we got to pick the DJs and re-mixers that the band really likes. Who would have thought that someone you grew up listening to would one day remix your song?" Da Kurlzz gave an interview with ''The Phoenix New Times'' about the album where he states that many of the songs were influenced by older hip-hop and rock music like
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, and
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. Da Kurlzz felt that the popularity in dance and club music was surging and that inspired the band to create ''Redux'', stating that the band was "paying attention not only to the rock, hip hop and pop scene, but the dance and DJ club scene is obviously blowing up once again. There's always new DJs remixing some really great artists, showing people that you can mix those genres together." Upon deciding which DJs and re-mixers to use for the album, Da Kurlzz stated that the band used decided specifically which of their songs would go best with each artist and how the remixed result would sound. He concluded by saying that they chose the artists, "not just because we like their music, but we also think that the sound will really be great for the certain songs that we choose." Da Kurlzz also stated that the band worked carefully with each artist during the remixing process to ensure the best songs for the album. He stated that the remix of "Hear Me Now" by
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, which was streamed by
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on November 14, was the most difficult but that "it ended up coming out great and we're really proud of it..." and that they were able to "go up to him and personally thank avis" Charlie Scene stated that the album came around from touring with several bands, like
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and
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, and seeing their experiments with remixing songs. He added that, "it’s always cool to see owanother artist interprets your music." When choosing remixers, Charlie Scene said, "Jonathan Davis was one of the people we met on tour and we know that he does remixes and that was actually one of the reasons and one of the ways we came up with the idea to doing a remix record." He noted that the music on the remix album is very different, reasoning this by stating, "There’s only omany rock bands that can come out with just guitars and singing over and over again and hardcore screaming... music has to change, it has to evolve with what's going on with society and kids. It's becoming more technical now, it's becoming more digital so I think rock music sgoing to have to become more digital."


Reception


Critical reception

''The Daily Blam'' gave a positive review of the album, noting that the band's sound lent well to remixing and that, "
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have managed to blend rock and hip hop without sounding like trend hoes." The choice in remixers was noted as well as the three opening tracks.


Accolades


Commercial performance

Upon release, ''American Tragedy Redux'' charted on the US Hard Rock Albums chart and the Dance/Electronica Albums chart in its first week of release. It charted at number 15 on the Hard Rock and number nine on the Dance/Electronica charts, respectively. The original ''American Tragedy'', which songs ''Redux'' remixed, also charted on the US Top Hard Rock Albums chart the same week that ''Redux'' debuted. ''American Tragedy'' charted at number 14, one spot higher than ''Redux''.


Track listing

All tracks are written and performed by Hollywood Undead, with specific writers detailed for each track. Each track remixed by various artists.


Personnel

Credits for ''American Tragedy Redux'' adapted from
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, as well as ''American Tragedy''.


Hollywood Undead

*Daniel "Danny" Murillo – vocals, keyboards *Jordon "Charlie Scene" Terrell – vocals,
lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...
*Jorel "J-Dog" Decker – vocals,
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,
bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...
, keyboards,
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,
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*
George "Johnny 3 Tears" Ragan George Ragan (born on June 24, 1981), better known by his stage name Johnny 3 Tears (acronymized as J3T), is an American musician who sings and plays bass guitar for the band Hollywood Undead. Early life Ragan grew up in a rough neighborhood of L ...
– vocals *Dylan "Funny Man" Alvarez – vocals *Matthew "Da Kurlzz" St. Claire – vocals,
drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
,
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...


Additional personnel

*Don Gilmore – production, composer *Griffin Boice – production, engineering, mixing, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion,
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, programming, strings *
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 – production, engineering, mixing, keyboards, programming, composer *Jeff Halavacs – production, guitar *
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 – production, engineering, instrumentation, composer * S*A*M – production, programming, composer * James Diener – A&R *Steve Cornish – production, remixing *Nick Mace – production, remixing *Jim Sullivan – production, remixing *Eddie Craig – production, remixing *Sidh Solanki – production, remixing *Andrew Krier – production, remixing *Beatnick – production, remixing *K-Salaam – production, remixing *Jonathan Davis – production, remixing *Asaf Borger – production, remixing *Dr. Eargasm – production, remixing *Erik Tinajero – production, remixing *David Gill – production, remixing *Joey Jensen – production, remixing *KMFDM – production, remixing *Kay V – production, remixing


Charts


Weekly charts


Release history


External links


Official band websiteDr. Eargasm official website


References

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