''Secrets from the Future'' is the second studio album from

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artist

MC Frontalot Damian Hess (born December 3, 1973), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an American rapper and web designer. Hess began releasing music as MC Frontalot in 1999. His first successes came through Song Fight!, an online songwriting and ...

. 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 pr ...

'', 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

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, and features a cameo by

Steve Meretzky Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957)
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. It was publicly screened for the first time at the 2007

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. 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 ''

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''. Inside art was done by

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, himself famous for a number of webcomics. The track "Livin' at the Corner of Dude & Catastrophe" is about another webcomic, ''

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''. 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 group from Seattle, Washington. Optimus Rhyme is most widely considered a nerdcore group because of the nerdy nature of their lyrics. The name of the band as well as the stage names of the members and many of their ...

, with MC Frontalot contributing an additional verse.

Track listing

Credits

Additional Musicians *Alec Berlin –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

*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 she ...

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 mus ...

*Brad "Sucks" Turcotte - guitar, bass,

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

, vocals * Brandon "Blak Lotus" Patton –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Dan "The Categorical Imperative" Thiel – drums *Daniel "DJ Snyder" Wilkes -

scratching Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on a DJ mixer may be used to fade between two record ...

*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 inclu ...

*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 pr ...

*Gabriel "Gm7" Alter –

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organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

, 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 *

- 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 afte ...

*Sturgis "The Sturgenius" Cunningham - drums *Whoremoans - vocals Design *Owen Freeman - tray and disc illustration *

– cover illustration *

- back cover illustration

References

External links

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