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All the live string parts on the albums? Last time I checked, LP didn't have a string section on stage with them... If it's not played by guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, a turntable, or MIDI pads, they use a backing track for it. The most common ones are songs with intros that start while the band isn't on stage, either as the show intro or coming out of the encore. No More Sorrow long intro/One Step Closer extended intro, What I've Done AMBO intro, they have live instruments that come in later but the beginnings of them are all pre-recorded backing tracks. The KRWLNG intro is all pre-recorded except for when Mike raps or plays keys over it. On The Little Things Give You Away, Joe isn't even on stage, Mike literally hits "play" on his keyboard and the backing track of the samples and strings starts. The live versions of Cure for the Itch and Session are almost entirely pre-recorded, the only live part of them is Joe's scratching.

Here's the original Garage Band sample: Believe_Me_sample.mp3 I believe it's a stock loop under the name "Orchestral Strings 08" or something like that.

Most of them have honestly been around for way longer than LPL has. I remember the info about the Rob track with Dan the Automator and the Chester track with the Visionaries being on sites like Forfeit the Game and Pushmeaway as far back as like 2003. The Head Like a Hole collab on Korn Kovers got a lot of press when it was first announced, the U2 remix Mike did was mentioned in a lot of the pre-release press for the Fort Minor project, Ryu told us about the alternate version of Wth>You (although he's said he also recorded verses for like 3 other Reanimation songs at various points, so I think he might not even remember which songs he actually worked on, lol), and the verse on the Whoo Kid mixtape was mentioned in one of Mike's posts on the old Fort Minor messageboards. Yeah, I seem to recall the Humble Brothers being known for working some rather obscure samples into their songs, so I wouldn't doubt it. Also, I doubt the Pokemon movie is the source of that sound either, I swear I've heard it in a couple other commericals/TV shows and stuff like that. It's probably a royalty-free sample that's included in some audio program, kind of like the sample in Believe Me that's a stock sample from Garage Band.

I'm also gonna merge these two topics together, sorry it looks kinda weird chronologically but we really don't need a topic in Site Discussion and a topic in General LP Discussion about the same thing.

It's the quick little whirring noise that's substantially louder than everything else about 14-15 seconds into the song. I forget where it appears in the movie, I think it's in one of the fight scenes with Mewtwo but I might be wrong.

Nope, I'm with you. Chester's voice would be very well-suited for Fortunate Son. But Chester singing ANY classic rock song generally = epic win.

Another random observation: The Catalyst is the name of a club in Santa Cruz, California (I just happen to have a video of Buckethead playing there in my Youtube favorites). While I'm sure the whole album/song title theory has a lot more cred, I thought I'd throw the possibility of a secret show out there.

"The Catalyst" and "A Thousand Suns" could both be song titles, one could be a song title and the other could be the album title, who knows. Mike said this one would be easier, but I still think there's more to it than that. An interesting point of observation, the software that LP's giant LED video screens run on at shows is called Catalyst (or at least that's what they were using as of 2004): http://livedesignonline.com/mag/lighting_walk_linkin_park/ Anyway, if I had to make a guess, I'd say that these lyrics are probably from a song that didn't make the cut, and they just decided to use them for this puzzle. I highly doubt they'd be giving away half a song's worth of lyrics before we've even heard a 10-second clip of the first single. No he doesn't...he has one called Catharsis. I'm about 99.9999999% sure it IS a coincidence. It's not like Linkin Park was unaware of who Robert Oppenheimer was before Chester's stalker came along. I also doubt the guys in the band bothered to look up when Sandia opened and who built it, it was probably just "that place Chester's stalker worked at" to them.

What else would they have used...? They had a drummer, a DJ, and a trio of string players for a live band. Where else would all the guitar, bass, keyboards, etc. come from? Linkin Park has always used backing tracks too.

If A.06 was a demo for Hit the Floor, or any other song for that matter, it would've been listed as such on the LPU 9 tracklisting. The short instrumental version of Stick and Move that appears on LPU9 has even less in common with Runaway than the original Xero version, but they called it a Runaway demo anyway.

Take Ntr/Mssion and Faint off the list, and that's it. Ntr/Mssion is all piano, I think the liner notes on that were just copy-pasted from Opening. There's a quote from Mike in the From the Inside book (I think?) mentioning something about strings on BTH and Faint, but if they recorded them for Faint, they ended up not using them, the ones that appear on the album are programmed. Also, The Rising Tied had live strings on Remember the Name, Feel Like Home, Cigarettes, and Slip Out the Back.

I'll go ahead and predict New Divide, just because it'd be something different. They'll probably have a new song that they use as an opener at some point too. If they go with the rotating setlists right off the bat with the first shows, I'll say New Divide/New Song/One Step Closer will be the 3 openers.

I'm referring to an official release, which never took place for that song. All rips you find of it come from the Grammy TV broadcast.

Uhh...YAWN.

http://www.exhibit24.net/net2.htm - Check the left side of the page, I'm in there among the "A" names. Following an ARG is fun, being included as part of it is even more fun!

Hmm...I'm grasping at straws here, but what if the translation of the binary code is (mostly) irrelevant to the puzzle itself? Look at the image again: http://static.ning.com/linkinparknetwork/img/image001.jpg Why is the image skewed to one side like that? Why does the background of the image have "static" in it? Why is the last string of characters so short? With all the different options in fonts/spacing/text size out there, it's not like it would have been hard to get the string of 1s and 0s to form a perfect block of text. Why are there so many visual patterns in the text itself? In particular, the 1s form several obvious diagonal lines in the image, I've crudely drawn a few of them in Paint to better show what I mean: Is there more significance to this image than the binary code alone? And I'm still trying to figure out what we're supposed to Google, Mike obviously linked us to Google for a reason. I tried searching for the first few characters of the code, but nothing turns up once you get past about 8 digits. I also searched for various portions of the translated text, and didn't spot anything out of the ordinary.

*shrug* Most likely scenario is Warner would've rushed them back into the studio to attempt to churn out another album, in a classic example of "throw shit at the wall and hope something sticks." We probably would've gotten a 3rd album a lot sooner, but it probably wouldn't have been any good.

Mike posting video clips that were filmed 2 years ago is holding up the new album!

I'm still trying to put this into a more coherent phrasing that doesn't sound like it came straight off of Babelfish (if Babelfish had the ability to translate from multiple languages at once). luminosité - French, meaning "brightness" ontplof - Dutch, meaning "explode" edastada - Estonian, meaning "forward" sekaligus - Indonesian, meaning "simultaneously/altogether" airean - Spanish, third person plural form of airear, which means "to air." Being third person plural, it probably roughly translates to "they will release," in reference to the album. sería - Spanish, third person singular of ser, which means "to be," probably meaning "it is" or "it will be" kuin - Finnish, general connecting term that can mean "as," "as if," "than," "like," etc. pracht - German, meaning "splendor," "gorgeousness," "magnificence," "glory," etc. yang - Chinese, meaning "light" kuat - Malay, meaning "strong" sono - Numerous languages, meaning or related to "sound" mäktig - Swedish, meaning "powerful" terra-zerstören - Portmanteau of terra (Latin, meaning "ground/earth"), and zerstören (German, meaning "to destroy/ruin/corrupt"), which is probably meant to translate to "ground-breaking," especially given the fact that it's hyphenated tyd - Afrikaans, meaning "time" Putting it all together, I'd translate it something like this (and this does involve some personal interpretation, so it's up for debate): "At the end of summer, they will explode forward at once with a release that will be as magnificent and light strong. The sound is powerful and ground-breaking." I think "time" may be at the end for the last part to be translated as "most powerful and ground-breaking yet" or something to that effect. Obviously that's not perfect, but I think it makes it pretty clear that while decoding this message was pretty cool, the message itself is pretty much a generic "New LP album at the end of summer, it's gonna sound awesome!" hype-building thing.

That's a screenshot of his laptop running Scratch Live, which is for all his scratching samples, that has nothing to do with the MIDI pads.

I don't think this even means LP will be in attendance at the event, the way that's worded, it sounds like they're just naming some of the artists that are featured on their countdown or whatever. I pretty much guarantee this isn't a live performance. At best, we'll get a short interview out of it.

If Germany gets it on the 24th, the U.S. will get it on the 28th. Germany gets albums the Friday BEFORE everybody else does. Regardless, I don't think this is legit. There have been plenty of things posted on Amazon with release dates that ended up being changed later. I personally don't even think the album will be out in September.

I'm surprised nobody's taken the classic "Almighty Froggie" quote and turned it into "Almighty Proggy" yet.

I'm 100% positive that it IS the only copy of that sampler in existence. The same exact procedure took place with Meteora and Minutes to Midnight, there was never more than one physical copy of the album in existence prior to the CD being sent to the manufacturing plant, and that single copy was flown all over the world for previews with magazines, radio stations, and other media outlets. There are several articles that mention this.

If they would rehearse it and nail down an arrangement the entire band agrees on, I wouldn't mind seeing it return. The PR07 version was a mess though.