Hybrid Theory (EP)
Occupation
- Singing Chester Bennington
- Rap, Keyboard: Mike Shinoda
- Drums: Rob Bourdon
- Lead guitar, bass guitar, background vocals Brad Delson
- E -Bass: Kyle Christener
- Turntables, background vocals: Joseph Hahn
Formation
The CD was then without today's bassist David Farrell, who took time off taken. As a replacement were hired Kyle Christener.
With the help of Jeff Blue, the EP was financed through the Zomba Label Group. However, the band sold the EP with little success, so they began to distribute the CDs for promotion for free. A street team then helped with. This was also sent to more demo CDs, which are very valuable today.
And One is the first song the band with the 1998 addition of beaten singer Chester Bennington wrote.
Cover design
The CD cover is a fold- cover and shows the two sides of a baby and thus the same motif as well as the two years earlier issued Sample Tape Xero. On the right side of the cover, which can also be seen from the outside, the baby's head is represented asleep painted in a shade of brown. When opening the CD is the left side of the cover to the fore, which is the baby in decaying condition. It has the open mouth from which stand out a forked tongue and sharp teeth. The eye is open pupillenlos and wide. This left side cover is held in a violet hue. Between the two sides can be seen a kind heart. The baby is the created by the interweaving of metal and rap product and provides the mental illness schizophrenia is under which Chester Bennington suffered because of his drug use. The baby is to be seen in 2001 turned music video for Papercut.
The booklet contains the ultrasound image of a fetus and the text:
" After eight months, she sure of what one thing: that the baby 's future would be determined by the convergence of its divided past. "
As a producer, Hybrid Theory is listed. In the replica versions of LPU text and ultrasound image were removed, Producer Mike Shinoda alone.
Title list
The Hidden Track Ambient or Secret starts at 9:58 of Part of Me This is a demo version of the title session, which appeared on the Linkin Park album Meteora 2003.
Re-use
Although no songs from the EP came up with the standard version of the eponymous debut album, Hybrid Theory, but some have been published over the years as B- sides as bonus tracks or on a fan club album.
A remake of the title High Voltage is a B- side of the debut single One Step Closer from 2000, but also a bonus track of multiple versions of Hybrid Theory. On resuscitation also a remix, H appeared! Vltg3, which was published with Pts.of.Athrty as a double A- side of a single. This reached the Top 10 of the UK Top 40 at the beginning and a sample of the line "Coming at you from every side" was at the end of the song Nobody's Listening respectively used.
Step Up is a B- side of the single In the End, Pt. 2 from the year 2001. Moreover, samples of them were in Kyur4 th I, the remix version of Cure for the Itch, which on the remix album, published in 2002 resuscitation appeared, and in the published in the same year It's Goin 'Down (X- Ecutioners feat. Mike Shinoda & Joe Hahn ) was used.
In 2004, the band played during the Projekt Revolution tour a medley consisting of Step Up, Nobody's Listening and It's Goin 'Down. This live version was included on the fourth edition of the Fan Club CD series, Linkin Park Underground 4.0.
And One and Part of Me, including Ambient / Secret, in 2008 came to the EP Songs from the Underground.
Since 2004, no songs of Hybrid Theory EP were played more live.
From many quarters for the EP was praised. Sputnik Music refers to the EP as a "must -have" and forgives. Many hardcore fans call it a masterpiece, thanks to the "perfect combination of rock, hip -hop and electronica ."