Roads Untraveled by Linkin Park

Reliving Things Bonus Track

Production: Reflectionist
Guitars: Astat
Mixing and mastering: Michael Macdonald
Art direction: Simple Automaton and minuteforce
Design: Simple Automaton

To download, head over to the forums at LPAssociation.com, or just click this link:  http://tinyurl.com/RoadsUntraveledReflectionist

Thank you to Astat, minuteforce, Simple Automation, and Michael Macdonald!  :D  Also thank you to the LPA for helping release this remix!    

Roads Untraveled (Reflectionist Remix) [LPAssociation.com]

Almost there...

I know where I'm going, but I'm not sure how to get there.

I think I will probably have to resort to arranging in layers like this, making sure everything's lined up and pitched to where it needs to be, then go back over individual tracks to make sure all the chop cuts are "invisible", then render each of those stems as separate tracks and send it to somebody who 1. knows what they're doing, and 2. isn't having to work through television speakers.

Also - for you guys who know the guitar parts in all of the original songs, I am OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS if there are any particular phrases or sections that you think would work in this, let me know the track and timestamp and I'll see if I can find it.

What I've Done				
	120bpm		-

New Divide				
	118bpm		▲ 200 cents / 1 whole-step

Burning In The Skies			
	120bpm		▼ 200 cents / 1 whole-step

A Light That Never Comes		
	115bpm		- 

Jornada Del Muerto			
	120bpm		▼ 400 cents / 2 whole-steps

Until It's Gone				
	115bpm		▼ 100 cents / 1 half-step

Lost In The Echo			
	120bpm		-

Burn it Down				
	110bpm		-

Arrangement Map
	--	m. 000	00:00	4/4
	A.	m. 009	00:16	4/4
	B.	m. 025	00:48	4/4
	C.	m. 041	01:20	4/4
	D.	m. 049	01:36	4/4
	E.	m. 065	02:08	4/4
	F.	m. 081	02:40	4/4
	G.	m. 089	02:56	4/4
	H.	m. 105	03:28	4/4
	I.	m. 121	04:00	[4/4 + 4/4 + 4/4 + 6/4]
	J.	m. 137	04:35	4/4
	K.	m. 161	05:23	4/4
	L.	m. 169	05:39	4/4
	M.	m. 185	06:11	4/4
	N.	m. 193	06:27	4/4

Lyrics

A fire needs a space to burn
A breath to build a glow
I've heard it said a thousand times
But now, I know.

I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
It's in the blackened bones	
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve.

I remembered black skies and the lightning all around me!
I remembered each flash as time began to blur!
Like a startling sign that fate had finally found me
Your voice was all I heard - that I get what I deserve.

So give me reason, to prove me wrong,
To wash this memory clean
Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes
Give me reason, to fill this hole
Connect the space between
Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies
Across this new divide.

There was nothing in sight but memories left abandoned
There was nowhere to hide - the ashes fell like snow
And the ground caved in between where we were standing
And your voice was all I heard - that I get what I deserve

So give me reason, to prove me wrong,
To wash this memory clean
Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes
Give me reason, to fill this hole
Connect the space between
Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies
Across this new divide.

You told me yes - you held me high
And I believed when you told that lie
I played soldier, you played king
Struck me down when I kissed that ring
You lost that right to wear that crown
I built you up, and you let me down
So when you fall, I'll take my turn
To fan the flames as your blazes burn

And I told them - nah, you don't know me.
Lightning above, and a FIRE below me
You cannot catch me, cannot hold me
You cannot stop, much less control me
When it rains, it pours
When the floodgates open, brace your shores
That pressure don't care if it breaks your door
Say its all you can take, better take some more!

But you can tell them all now
I don't back up - I don't back down
I don't fold up, and I don't bow
I don't roll over, I don't know how
I don't care where the enemies are 
I can't be stopped, all I know is GO HARD
But don't forget how I got this far
I held myself up and LOVED my scars.

For what I've done, I start again
Whatever pain may come, today this ends
I'm forgiving what I've done
Forgiving what I've done

I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize, 
I'm losing what I don't deserve.
The blame is mine alone
For bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve.

Bridges 090821 - More Layers!

Back by Popular Demand!  Black Paper--dubbed by Soul from LPL / LPA.  (Thanks, man!)  

This is just a quick mash-up I threw together in a half hour or so--not nearly the level of quality as the Identity Crisis tracks, but in relation, I would call this a 'sketch'.  Unfortunately, there are no stems for Papercut, just an official instrumental, so I don't see this mash-up going any further than this.  I would've loved to expand on this and include it into Identity Crisis

Black Paper (Blackout vs. Papercut)

Mastered by M Macdonald.  

Numb (2003) -http://youtu.be/fWhKywCowf8?t=33m20s
Pushing Me Away (2000) - http://youtu.be/E4KWP6PirQE?t=22m1s
P5hng Me A*wy (2002) - http://youtu.be/aalmFqqsO5w?t=13m10s
In The End (2000) - http://youtu.be/E4KWP6PirQE?t=22m1s
Burning In The Skies (2010) - http://youtu.be/Y38sXQ4F3xI?t=3m

The Breakdown (Numb vs. Pushing Me Away)

Bridges Syncopation 3

This won an LPA MMU contest last year--but I took the track down after a while.  I'm reuploading now, havng realized the LPA links to winning remixes, so that people can hear it if they stumble across the thread at LPA.  The theme of the remix contest was to mash a Linkin Park song with something from the 90s.   

Breaking The Habit vs. The Freshmen

Iridescent Shadow Rough

Featuring Michael Foley on guitars!  Production by Jake Elliott.

Serenity 110314

Check out the original at reflectionist.bandcamp.com

I revisited this track to update it with some of the things I've learned since 2010 when the original track was created.  

Abreuvoir (2015 Ink Version)

This is one of the Linkin Park mash-ups I've been working on (in spurts) for almost twelve years.  The reason that I haven't actually finished it is because there simply aren't enough available resources to do the full concept justice.  Then Linkin Park comes out in 2024, now with Emily Armstrong on vocals, and Collin Brittain on drums, while their guitarist Brad is still in the band, but isn't going to tour.  (I don't know if he's got kids to spend time with, if he just feels old, or if he's laying low in lieu of antisemitism, but it's nobody's business, as long as the guy's healthy.)  

So this is absolutely a work-in progress, you can hear that there are duplicate tracks (because the original mash-up is being used as a template in my project file) and the mixing isn't the best.  Like I said, I'm on arrangement mode, I'm more concerned with how the notes and rhythms line up.  

Then I grabbed an (unofficial, filtered) acapella of Linkin Park's new track, "The Emptiness Machine," with vocals by Emily Armstrong, and laid them over this beat that I built from Breaking the Habit, Given Up, Points of Authority, Wretches and Kings, It's Goin' Down, With You, and Castle of Glass.  

She fits.  It still sounds like Linkin Park.  
I don't know about you, but that's good enough for me - 

She's family, now.  It's done.  

*And don't bother bitching, the theme is ALREADY a response to you.*

--

Forfeit the game before somebody else takes 
You out of the frame, and puts your name to shame
Cover up your face, you can't run the race
The pace is too fast, you just won't last.

To save face, how low can you go?
Talk a lot of game, and yet you don't know
Static on the way to make us all say whoa
The people up top push the people down low
Get down, and obey every word
Steady getting mine if you haven't yet heard
Want to take what I've got? Don't be absurd!
Don't fight the power and nobody gets hurt
But if you haven't heard yet, then I'm letting you know
There ain't shit we don't run when the guns unload
And no one makes a move unless my people say so
Got everything out of control, now everybody go:

You like to think you're never wrong!
You live what you've learned
You have to act like you're someone!
You live what you've learned
You want someone to hurt like you!
You live what you've learned
You want to share what you've been through!
You live what you learn!

Going around like a revolver
It's been decided how we lose
Because there's a fire under the altar
That I keep on lying to

Already pulling me in
Already under my skin
But I know exactly how this ends

I let you cut me open just to watch me bleed
Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be
Don't know why I'm hoping for what I won't receive!
Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine!

I only wanted to be part of something!
I only wanted to be part of something!

I let you cut me open just to watch me bleed
Gave up who I am for who you wanted me to be
Don't know why I'm hoping - I'm so fucking naive!
Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine!

My Addictions [2024 + Emily!]

Is there a better time to start from zero?

2024 Breakdown Tease

Bridges Guitar test 0000

This is why there isn't a 420 version of Fort Minor's Tools of the Trade.

Here's Fort Minor's Tools of the Trade.  
https://youtu.be/rMJtDQDMjkk

I'm tempted to actually chop this up and make some kind of a beat with it, because I learned from the best.  XD  But I'm also considering just making the track available to download for anybody to just remix. Any thoughts?

Tools of the Trade [v420]

The Linkin Park Hype Train

I know, I'm out of control... ;-)

Don't you hold your breath
Because I'm not coming down
The battlefields have left me only scars
And floating in the dark
I'm swimming in the sound
Of voices that should have never been apart

Darker than the blood
Higher than the sun
This is not the end
You are not the only one!

With venom on their tongues
They paint it on the walls
Where justice doesn't have the strength to hold
The higher that they climb
The harder they will fall
And we will break their bones until they fold

Darker than the blood
Higher than the sun
This is not the end
You are not the only 

In the center of the silence, 
Violent thoughts are thrown through
The thick smoke and flickering lights that brighten the room
All the things that you wanted to say 
Get lost and thrown away
You debate and hesitate to speak your mind
Can't turn back once you've crossed that line
But sometimes there's someone you know who just doesn't care
And has to see you go to ever notice you were there
You've got no control over where you go
Taken down a road that you don't know
And you feel so lost that you want to hide your face
You don't recognize the place you're in
Sometimes, the sun doesn't shine your way
And sometimes, the night doesn't turn to day
And sometimes, the light's so bright it burns through the night
To keep the darkness at bay

Darker than the blood
Higher than the sun
This is not the end
You are not the only one 
Higher than the sun
This is not the end
You are not the only one!

No, I’m just taking a shot / ah
Maybe I’m just too eager / oh 
Maybe I lost the plot / ha 
I used to pity some people / I 
Said they were missing a spine / yeah 
Maybe the problem is ego / maybe the 
Maybe the problem is mine / really I’m fine
Don’t get too intimate, don’t get too curious
This is just feeling like it’s not that serious
Stare at the ceiling / feeling delirious
Fuck all your empathy I want your fury ’cause I will just
Tell you I’m better then / better then
Spit out my medicine / medicine, ay
Drunk on adrenaline / -drenaline, ay
And I don’t know why I

I know I can't make it stop
I know I'm out of control
I keep on filling it up to overflow!!

When they come for me, I'll be gone.

Oscillation of Balance [2025]

Oscillation2025 - Drums Ending Arr.wav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2k9wLfHhCA

You're Not Alone - Saosin(*) - Vocal Cover

Feat. Shaquille DeAundre and Marcus Philips on vocals.  If you listen closely, you might hear me a bit, too.  :D  I made the instrumental and spent two days staying up stupidly late before classes working on this song, so you'd better like it.  

ONE (Final)

Nothing special, just did a quick couple of takes to see where the most improvements need to be practiced.  

Lonely Day (Acoustic Cover - 101525) - System Of A Down

This Town Your Grave.m4a

Here is the complete bounced version of the Reading My Eyes, Linkin Park cover project so far. Hardly anything is final, but the big picture is starting to come together.

Jake -- Rap Vocals, Drums, Arranging
Brandon "Broman" -- Melodic Vocals, Screaming
Anthony "Astat" -- Guitars and 'Bass' ;)

I am truly indebted to the both of you. THANK YOU.

At this point, things to do:

1. Re-record rap vocals. Those verses sound rough.
2. Finish drums at bridge--different snare.
3. Add new Guitar and Bass tracks, when received (arrange).
4̶.̶ ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶t̶u̶n̶e̶ ̶v̶o̶c̶a̶l̶s̶ ̶(̶T̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶r̶e̶a̶d̶y̶ ̶g̶r̶e̶a̶t̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶d̶u̶s̶t̶r̶y̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶a̶r̶m̶o̶n̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶h̶.̶)̶
5. Record harmonies (There's a harmony a 4th-5th down in the chorus, and I'm also going to record the melody down an octave [I doubled Broman's vocal, pitched it down, phased it, and kind of buried it for now])
6. Write synths and FX parts.
7. Compile music and effects tracks and send them away to be mixed and mastered.

RME 032016B

Sorry about the track disappearing.  Had to make absolutely sure that everything fit together just the right way.  I tightened up the mix in a lot of subtle ways that I think you guys will enjoy more.

Tracks used:
-Blackout 
-The Catalyst
-Plc.4 Mie Hæd
-Darker Than Blood
-Bleed It Out
-Waiting For The End
-No More Sorrow
-Good Goodbye

Oscillation Of Balance

This is the instrumental track for the mash-up with the same name.  Sometimes the vocal might bury some of the more interesting things about a mash-up such as this.

These mash-ups are not as simple as taking Instrumental A and fitting Vocal B to it.  It's actually a lot of beatmatching separate stems and finding where their individual phrases line up.  Then to make sure they're in the same key (which actually is some hardcore nerdy music theory shit.  For example, A Place For My Head is in Eb Phrygian mode, while No More Sorrow is in Eb Harmonic Minor.  

Yeah.

Also, the song switches from 4/4 to 12/8 at the climax, but the quarter note pulse stays the same.  I kept this mix at 133, which seemed like a good average of BPMs involved.  128, 135, 133, 135, 140.  I erred slower because that 128 is the main vocal from Darker Than Blood.  With vocals, you want to try and move it in time / key as little as possible from its original key.

Oscillation of Balance Instrumental

Originally written by Breaking Benjamin.  
Started out as a cover, but once I found the acapella online, it was alllll over.  

Give Me a Sign (Remix)

I was quite surprised to realize that this was NOT on my Soundcloud...   Hope you enjoy it.  

Linkin Park Vs. Evanescence.  

Numb vs Bring Me To Life

Okay, there are a few stand in tracks here, this is still being worked on.  Here's current progress.  

Enjoy.  Any tips are welcome, hoping to get some of those tracks replaced soon!!

Lying For Nothing (In Progress)

This is an in-progress update of the mash-up of the same nane... More things going on, here... Mostly the integration of more complete vocal parts and an interesting addition near the end...

I don't know how this stuff gets uploaded buuuut thanks to whoever knows how to do this stuff...  You're a wizard.

My Addictions 2019 [Unmastered]

Breaking The Habit
Points of Authority
Given Up
With You
Its Goin Down (Step Up, Dedicated)

My Addictions 2019 [Unmastered Instrumental]

The Breakdown [Full Instrumental]

I took an instrumental I found online and did a couple of takes of vocals, then I put some reverb and delay and mastering on the vocal track.  :)  Enjoy.  

Speed of Sound (Coldplay Vocal Cover)

Bridges :
New Divide (Transformers II 2009)  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnS09oQNexA 
What I've Done (Minutes To Midnight2007) - http://youtu.be/0sUffdcsvaM
Powerless (2012)  - http://youtu.be/4ZHiOcKCyOw?t=33m18s
Lost In The Echo (2012) - http://youtu.be/4ZHiOcKCyOw
Burning In The Skies (2010) - http://youtu.be/Y38sXQ4F3xI?t=3m

Bridges (New Divide vs. What I've Done)

This is really just a rough sketch of a few idea relating to this madh-up.  I know some of it clashes a bit, but I was throwing eveverything here into one project file and my computer had started to lag a bit to the point where ai just rendered what I did have to see what needed to be fixed, and that's what you are listening to now.  :-)

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