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''Secrets from the Future'' is the second studio album from
nerdcore hip hop Nerdcore is a genre of hip hop music characterized by subject matter considered of interest to nerds and geeks. Self-described nerdcore musician MC Frontalot has the earliest known recorded use of the term (to describe this genre) in the 2000 ...
artist
MC Frontalot Damian Alexander Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an American rapper and web designer. He is widely credited as a pioneer of the nerdcore hip hop genre, blending elements of hip hop with themes from ne ...
. It was released on tour and through his website on April 6, 2007. Like his first album, ''
Nerdcore Rising ''Nerdcore Rising'' is the official debut album by nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot. The album was first released on August 27, 2005 at the Penny Arcade Expo. It consists of 16 tracks; six new tracks and ten "classic megahits" that Frontalot had p ...
'', it is composed mostly of new material but does include two remakes from before ''Nerdcore Rising'' ("Gonna Be Your Man" and "Romantic Cheapskate"). The album features extensive references to computer culture and video games. A video has been created for the song "It Is Pitch Dark". The video was directed by
Jason Scott Sadofsky Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970) is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex an ...
, and features a cameo by
Steve Meretzky Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957)
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is an American
Penny Arcade Expo PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming. PAX is held annually in Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. Previously, it was also held in San Anton ...
. The front cover art for the album was done by
Mike Krahulik Michael Krahulik (; born September 25, 1977) is an American artist for the webcomic '' Penny Arcade'' and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker ...
of the webcomic ''
Penny Arcade ''Penny Arcade'' is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik. The comic debuted in 1998 on the website ''loonygames.com''. Since then, Holkins and Krahulik have establish ...
''. Inside art was done by
Jeffrey Rowland Jeffrey J. Rowland (born May 22, 1974) is the author and artist responsible for ''Wigu'' and ''Overcompensating'', two popular webcomics. Originally from Locust Grove, Oklahoma, Rowland now lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he continue ...
, himself famous for a number of webcomics. The track "Livin' at the Corner of Dude & Catastrophe" is about another webcomic, ''
Achewood ''Achewood'' is a webcomic created by Chris Onstad in 2001. It portrays the lives of a group of anthropomorphic stuffed toys, robots, and pets. Many of the characters live together in the home of their owner, Chris, at the fictional address of 6 ...
''. The song "Very Poorly Concealed Secret Track" is actually a remix/re-recording of "The Ping Pong Song" by
Optimus Rhyme Optimus Rhyme was a hip hop music, hip hop group from Seattle, Washington. Optimus Rhyme is most widely considered a nerdcore group because of the nerdy nature of their lyrics. Optimus Prime, The name of the band as well as the stage names of ...
, with MC Frontalot contributing an additional verse.


Track listing


Credits

Additional Musicians *Alec Berlin –
guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
*Andrew Griffin –
drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...
s *Baddd Spellah -
drum programming Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These mu ...
*Brad "Sucks" Turcotte - guitar, bass,
synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...
, vocals * Brandon "Blak Lotus" Patton
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 ...
*Dan "The Categorical Imperative" Thiel – drums *Daniel "DJ Snyder" Wilkes -
scratching Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and Turntablism, turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a phonograph, turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on a DJ mixer may be used to ...
*Doug Cheatwood -
harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...
*Frankie Big Face -
saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...
*Gabriel "Gm7" Alter –
keyboard Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Mus ...
,
organ Organ and organs may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function * Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body. Musical instruments ...
, vocals *Ganda Suthivarakom - vocals *
Jess Klein Jess Klein (born 1974) is an American singer-songwriter. A native of Rochester, New York, Klein learned to play acoustic guitar and started writing songs as a college student in Kingston, Jamaica, while working on a thesis "documenting dub po ...
- vocals *Jessica Neighbor - vocals *
Optimus Rhyme Optimus Rhyme was a hip hop music, hip hop group from Seattle, Washington. Optimus Rhyme is most widely considered a nerdcore group because of the nerdy nature of their lyrics. Optimus Prime, The name of the band as well as the stage names of ...
- vocals *Sam Bigelow - vocals *Sean McPharlin -
theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named aft ...
*Sturgis "The Sturgenius" Cunningham - drums *Whoremoans - vocals Design *Owen Freeman - tray and disc illustration *
Mike Krahulik Michael Krahulik (; born September 25, 1977) is an American artist for the webcomic '' Penny Arcade'' and co-founder with Jerry Holkins of Child's Play, a charity that organizes toy drives for children's hospitals. He goes by the online moniker ...
– cover illustration *
Jeffrey Rowland Jeffrey J. Rowland (born May 22, 1974) is the author and artist responsible for ''Wigu'' and ''Overcompensating'', two popular webcomics. Originally from Locust Grove, Oklahoma, Rowland now lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he continue ...
- back cover illustration


References


External links


Official ''Secrets from the Future'' web page with samples and lyrics
* {{Authority control 2007 albums MC Frontalot albums