Secrets from the Future

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Secrets from the Future
Secrets from the Future cover
Studio album by MC Frontalot
Released April 6, 2007
Recorded Stately Fain Manor, Somerville, and Underhill Downs, Brooklyn
Genre Nerdcore hip hop
Length 51:59
Label Level Up / Nerdcore Fervor
Producer MC Frontalot
Baddd Spellah
Nate Van iLL
MC Frontalot chronology
Nerdcore Rising
(2005)		 Secrets from the Future
(2007)

Secrets from the Future is the second studio album from nerdcore hip hop artist MC Frontalot. It was released on tour and through his website on April 6, 2007.

Like his first album, Nerdcore Rising, it is composed mostly of new material but does include two remakes from before Nerdcore Rising ("Gonna Be Your Man" and "Romantic Cheapskate"). A video has been created for the song "It is Pitch Dark". The video was directed by Jason Scott Sadofsky, and features a cameo by Steve Meretzky. It was publicly screened for the first time at the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo.

The front cover art for the album was done by Mike Krahulik of the webcomic Penny Arcade. Inside art was done by Jeffrey Rowland, himself famous for a number of webcomics. The track "Livin' at the Corner of Dude & Catastrophe" is about another webcomic, Achewood.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Secrets from the Future" – 4:50
    • Backing vocal: Ganda Suthivarakom
    • Drum programming: Baddd Spellah
    • Keyboards: Gm7
  2. "You Got Asperger's" – 5:12
    • Chorus vocal: Sam Bigelow
    • Keyboards: Gm7
    • Drums: The Sturgenius
  3. "Livin' at the Corner of Dude & Catastrophe" – 3:44
    • Guitars, bass, synthesizer, and chorus vocal: Brad Sucks
    • Additional keyboards: Gm7
    • Drums: The Sturgenius
  4. "Bizarro Genius Baby" – 4:26
    • The Baby: Jessica Neighbor
    • Backing vocal: Jess Klein
    • Drum programming: Baddd Spellah
    • Keyboards: Gm7
    • Theremin: Sean McPharlin
    • Scratching: DJ Snyder
  5. "Origin of Species" – 4:01
    • Guitar: Alec Berlin
    • Chorus vocal: Jessica Neighbor
    • Programming: Baddd Spellah
    • Organ: Gm7
  6. "I Hate Your Blog" – 4:04
    • The Blogger: Whoremoans
    • Keyboards: Gm7
    • Backing vocal: Jessica Neighbor
    • Harmonica: Doug Cheatwood
    • Drums: The Sturgenius
    • Scratching: DJ Snyder
  7. "It is Pitch Dark" – 4:56
    • Keyboards: Gm7
    • Drums: The Categorical Imperative
    • Programming: Baddd Spellah
    • Scratching: DJ Snyder
  8. "Forbidden Planet" – 5:11
    • Chorus vocal: Jess Klein
    • Keyboards: Gm7
    • Drums: The Sturgenius
    • Scratching: DJ Snyder
  9. "A Skit About Robots" – 2:05
    • Robot: Kimmy Gatewood
    • Hold Music: Doctor Popular
  10. "Gonna Be Your Man" – 2:58
    • Keyboards and backing vocal: Gm7
    • Bass guitar: Blak Lotus
    • Drums: The Sturgenius
  11. "Very Poorly Concealed Secret Track" – 4:58
    • Baddd Spellah remix of Optimus Rhyme's "Ping Pong Song"
    • Written and performed by Optimus Rhyme
    • Ping Pong Master and chorus vocal: MC Frontalot
    • Programming: Baddd Spellah
    • Scratching: DJ Snyder
  12. "Romantic Cheapskate v.2.0" – 4:10
    • Programming: Baddd Spellah
    • Additional keyboards: Gm7
    • Radio saxophone: Frankie Big Face
    • Date Night Desperada: Darkchylde McGloomypants
  13. "The OMG Skit" – 1:24
    • Programming: Mister Marvel

[edit] Credits

  • Alec Berlin – guitar
  • Andrew Griffin – drums
  • Baddd Spellah - drum programming
  • Brad "Sucks" Turcotte - guitar, bass, synthesizer, vocals
  • Brandon "Blak Lotus" Patton – bass guitar
  • Dan "The Categorical Imperative" Thiel – drums
  • Daniel "DJ Snyder" Wilkes - scratching
  • Doug Cheatwood - harmonica
  • Frankie Big Face - saxophone
  • Gabriel "Gm7" Alter – keyboard, organ, vocals
  • Ganda Suthivarakom - vocals
  • Jeffrey Rowland - back cover illustration
  • Jess Klein - vocals
  • Jessica Neighbor - vocals
  • Mike Krahulik – cover illustration
  • Optimus Rhyme - vocals
  • Owen Freeman - tray and disc illustration
  • Sam Bigelow - vocals
  • Sean McPharlin - theremin
  • Sturgis "The Sturgenius" Cunningham - drums

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