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<!--''[[Hybrid Party Of A Thousand Things]]'' is an unofficial digital box set consisting of demos from four Linkin Park albums: ''Hybrid Theory'', ''Living Things'', ''A Thousand Suns'' and ''The Hunting Party''. The title is an amalgamation of the titles of those albums. | <!--''[[Hybrid Party Of A Thousand Things]]'' is an unofficial digital box set consisting of demos from four Linkin Park albums: ''Hybrid Theory'', ''Living Things'', ''A Thousand Suns'' and ''The Hunting Party''. The title is an amalgamation of the titles of those albums. | ||
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not everything is a full song or even sounds like the same song across sequences. | not everything is a full song or even sounds like the same song across sequences. | ||
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I’ve done more work on exporting the sequences from the .prj files from the first upload of stuff (the MPC 1000 Backup folder). I’ve messed around and still can’t find something like the Maschine files where it will play the proper song sequence, so these are structured like “FUGITIVE” was yesterday (which is also included in this new archive). | I’ve done more work on exporting the sequences from the .prj files from the first upload of stuff (the MPC 1000 Backup folder). I’ve messed around and still can’t find something like the Maschine files where it will play the proper song sequence, so these are structured like “FUGITIVE” was yesterday (which is also included in this new archive). | ||
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Essentially, people are still finishing turning all of the sounds and samples into sequences. After that, the job would be to put all of the sequences for each folder or song together to make a 10 - 60 second demo. The only problem is, we don't know how long Mike intended each sequence to run for or the order (e.g. 8 bars in a row of sequence one, 2 bars of sequence two, return to sequence one for 4 bars . . .) so they would only be guesses. | Essentially, people are still finishing turning all of the sounds and samples into sequences. After that, the job would be to put all of the sequences for each folder or song together to make a 10 - 60 second demo. The only problem is, we don't know how long Mike intended each sequence to run for or the order (e.g. 8 bars in a row of sequence one, 2 bars of sequence two, return to sequence one for 4 bars . . .) so they would only be guesses. | ||
These aren't all true demos in the traditional sense. They're more like proof of concepts that Mike probably showed the band. | These aren't all true demos in the traditional sense. They're more like proof of concepts that Mike probably showed the band. | ||
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Stick N Move | Stick N Move | ||
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Victimized | Victimized | ||
Waiting For The End | Waiting For The End | ||
Wretches And Kings | Wretches And Kings | ||
All of this gave us an insight into Linkin Park's writing process. We can see some demos have been revisited while they were creating the next album and how some of the sounds created for a song have been repurposed for others and how Mike is constantly working on new music while on tour, as evidenced by titles such as 'JoBurg' and 'Auckland2013.' Samples created back when the band was first starting are still used to this day either for new songs or during live shows. | All of this gave us an insight into Linkin Park's writing process. We can see some demos have been revisited while they were creating the next album and how some of the sounds created for a song have been repurposed for others and how Mike is constantly working on new music while on tour, as evidenced by titles such as 'JoBurg' and 'Auckland2013.' Samples created back when the band was first starting are still used to this day either for new songs or during live shows. | ||
==Background== | |||
In June 2019 over 9,400 audio files from Mike Shinoda's library of samples and sounds surfaced online. They dated from ''The Hunting Party'' sessions as far back as to the Xero and Hybrid Theory days and many of them were accompanied by project files. In the light of this discovery, the LPLive comminuty has come together in a collaborative effort to figure out how to open the projects and recreate the songs contained in them. Community members LPPanther, michalangelo, letdownagain, ArmoredMexican, graveguard, lpliveusername and SasstielExperience worked hard for over two months in order to bring the demos to life. Justin, Hahninator and bruh009 also have contributed to the analysis of the content and DCrecelius created artwork for each collection of demos. | |||
The result is a digital boxset they've called ''Hybrid Party Of A Thousand Things'' featuring demos created for ''Hybrid Theory'', ''A Thousand Suns'', ''Living Things'' and ''The Hunting Party'' amounting to a total of 228 tracks. There are early versions of previously released songs like 'Castle Of Glass,' 'Darker Than Blood,' 'New Divide,' 'Bruiser,' 'Animals,' 'Guilty All The Same,' 'Lies Greed Misery,' 'All For Nothing,' 'Blackout,' 'It Goes Through,' 'High Voltage,' 'She Couldn't,' 'Technique,' 'By Myself,' 'Space Station,' 'Points Of Authority,' 'Hemispheres,' 'Holding Company,' and the remixes of 'Castle Of Glass' and 'Victimized' from Recharged along with previously known working titles that had never seen the light of day and many completely new titles. There's even an unreleased song created for the LP Recharge game and a couple of demos that seem to have evolved into 'World's On Fire' on Mike Shinoda's Post Traumatic album! | |||
None of the demos are complete songs and besides some voice samples, none of them have vocals. They are simply seeds, early ideas for what the songs would eventually become. Hence why most of them are so short. Also, some of the project files didn't contain a song view, only sequences (patterns), so what you'll get for some of them are simply the sequences being played one after another. This is the case for 'Al_Intro,' 'Invader,' 'Ugh,' 'Hemispheres,' 'Jungle Gym,' 'Return,' 'Mirrors,' 'Slammie,' 'Humanoid,' 'Midnighs,' and many of the A Thousand Suns demos. 'LA' and 'Atari' were left as various tracks because they were special cases where each one of their sequences had a different tempo. | |||
==Disc 1: Hybrid Theory Demos== | ==Disc 1: Hybrid Theory Demos== | ||
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"Album4Snds" is a mashup of ''A Thousand Suns'' samples from "[[Wretches And Kings]]" (''Sample02'', ''Sample03'' and ''Sample04''), "[[Waiting For The End]]" (''Sample16'', ''Sample17'', ''Sample18'', ''Sample19'', ''Sample39PP'', ''Sample39PP2'', ''Sample39PP3'', ''Sample39PP4'' and ''Sample39PP5''), "[[Burning In The Skies]]" (''Sample20'', ''Sample21'', ''Sample22'', ''Sample29'', ''Sample30'', ''Sample31'', ''Sample32'', ''Sample33'' and ''Sample34''), "[[The Catalyst]]" (''Sample06'' and ''Sample38''), "[[Blackout]]" (''Sample09'', ''Sample10'', ''Sample11'' and ''Sample12'') and various drum sounds, almost certainly used on the album as well. | "Album4Snds" is a mashup of ''A Thousand Suns'' samples from "[[Wretches And Kings]]" (''Sample02'', ''Sample03'' and ''Sample04''), "[[Waiting For The End]]" (''Sample16'', ''Sample17'', ''Sample18'', ''Sample19'', ''Sample39PP'', ''Sample39PP2'', ''Sample39PP3'', ''Sample39PP4'' and ''Sample39PP5''), "[[Burning In The Skies]]" (''Sample20'', ''Sample21'', ''Sample22'', ''Sample29'', ''Sample30'', ''Sample31'', ''Sample32'', ''Sample33'' and ''Sample34''), "[[The Catalyst]]" (''Sample06'' and ''Sample38''), "[[Blackout]]" (''Sample09'', ''Sample10'', ''Sample11'' and ''Sample12'') and various drum sounds, almost certainly used on the album as well. | ||
All | All the files inside the "Aubrey707" folder are named "Crazy707" which was possibly an older title for the demo. | ||
"Lorax" is the most extensive project of the bunch with 15 sequences. The eight "Archbshop" samples from it were later used on "[[Animals]]" during the ''[[Living Things]]'' sessions. The demo also shares samples with "Keyz", "Rygar" and the previously mentioned "Sqratch" along with another absent demo called "Shaker" from ''LOOSESAMPLES''. | "Lorax" is the most extensive project of the bunch with 15 sequences. The eight "Archbshop" samples from it were later used on "[[Animals]]" during the ''[[Living Things]]'' sessions. The demo also shares samples with "Keyz", "Rygar" and the previously mentioned "Sqratch" along with another absent demo called "Shaker" from ''LOOSESAMPLES''. | ||
Demos of known Linkin Park songs are also present. "Megatron" is a demo version of "[[New Divide]]" created with various sounds from the ''GBsounds1'', ''GBsounds3'', ''LOOSESAMPLES'' and ''NewFinishesA'' folders. "Packmanny" and "PackmannyNew" are both demos of "[[Blackout]]". The fist being a very early version. The ''Sample33'' used on "PackmannyNew" is taken from "Misty Mountain Hop" by Led Zeppelin. The band has said "Iridescent" got its title from a separate song that never went anywhere but they liked the title so decided to use it in a different song. The "Iridescent" sounds very little like the ''A Thousand Suns'' version and is faster, at 140 BPM. The samples are likely from the original "Iridescent" they scrapped. The track consists of various samples from "Atari", "GBsounds1", "Keyz", "Rygar" and "Rick 808" as well as "Cracker", "Labrat" and "Sqratch" from the ''LOOSESAMPLES2'' folder. "Iri", possibly short for "Iridescent", has the same BPM as the album song, but the demo is mostly drum sounds that fans don't recognize. ''Sample68'' on "Snds1" is a sample later used on "[[I'll Be Gone]]" from ''Living Things''. It is known that the demo for song was originated during the ''A Thousand Suns'' sessions. Chester is shown recording vocals for "LeftRight" on the ''Meeting Of A Thousand Suns'' DVD. | Demos of known Linkin Park songs are also present. "Megatron" is a demo version of "[[New Divide]]" created with various sounds from the ''GBsounds1'', ''GBsounds3'', ''LOOSESAMPLES'' and ''NewFinishesA'' folders. "Packmanny" and "PackmannyNew" are both demos of "[[Blackout]]". The fist being a very early version. The ''Sample33'' used on "PackmannyNew" is taken from "Misty Mountain Hop" by Led Zeppelin. The band has said "Iridescent" got its title from a separate song that never went anywhere but they liked the title so decided to use it in a different song. The "Iridescent" sounds very little like the ''A Thousand Suns'' version and is faster, at 140 BPM. The samples are likely from the original "Iridescent" they scrapped. The track consists of various samples from "Atari", "GBsounds1", "Keyz", "Rygar" and "Rick 808" as well as "Cracker", "Labrat" and "Sqratch" from the ''LOOSESAMPLES2'' folder. "Iri", possibly short for "Iridescent", has the same BPM as the album song, but the demo is mostly drum sounds that fans don't recognize. ''Sample68'' on "Snds1" is a sample later used on "[[I'll Be Gone]]" from ''Living Things''. It is known that the demo for song was originated during the ''A Thousand Suns'' sessions. Chester is shown recording vocals for "LeftRight" on the ''Meeting Of A Thousand Suns'' DVD. "KeroDrums" is likely "Kerosena", another unreleased demo. | ||
"Rick 808" is the hi-hats from "Wretches And Kings" and the BPM matches with the song (Rick likely being Rick Rubin). "Rygar" is likely from when the band tracked the various processed guitar samples for the song. ''RYGAR4'', ''RYGAR5'', ''RYGAR30'' and ''RYGAR32'' were used on it, ''RYGAR21'' on "[[Victimized]]" and ''RYGAR37'' on "[[Bruiser]]". | |||
"Rick 808" | "80 90s Drums", "Album4Snds", "Arest", "Atari", "Aubrey707", "Cracker", "GBSong", "GMajor", "Insect", "Keyz", "Labrat", "Rick 808", "Ronwinter", "Shoeboxer", "Sqratch", "Stonewood" and "What You Have" were completely new titles at the time the disc was compiled. | ||
The files inside the ''BANGS'' folder must be open on Pro Tools. It contains the explosion sounds Mike used live. For folders with .NKI files there are no song files. The .NKI files are patches for Kontakt, a virtual instrument that loads samples and maps them to keys on a keyboard/controller. There were also various folders of sample packs not by Linkin Park. A notable one is the ''NEPTUNES SAMPLES'' folder with samples from the production duo The Neptunes, including sounds from "Grindin'" by Clipse. Mike likely got samples from Chad Hugo when they worked together on "[[Never Let Me Down]]". | The files inside the ''BANGS'' folder must be open on Pro Tools. It contains the explosion sounds Mike used live. For folders with .NKI files there are no song files. The .NKI files are patches for Kontakt, a virtual instrument that loads samples and maps them to keys on a keyboard/controller. There were also various folders of sample packs not by Linkin Park. A notable one is the ''NEPTUNES SAMPLES'' folder with samples from the production duo The Neptunes, including sounds from "Grindin'" by Clipse. Mike likely got samples from Chad Hugo when they worked together on "[[Never Let Me Down]]". | ||
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==Disc 5: Stagelight Demos== | ==Disc 5: Stagelight Demos== | ||
Bonus disc containing the demos released as part of the Linkin Park bundles for Stagelight. Thanks to those samples, fans are able to get an additional taste of unreleased demos included in the other 4 discs such as "Apes", "Spirals", "Lorax" and "Casino" as well as full-length versions of "Bruiser" and "Space Station". Since the "KeroDrums" project from ''A Thousand Suns'' was empty, this disc features the only version of "Kerosena" available. The samples are only available in mp3 format. The lossless version comes with the first six tracks only. | |||
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