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FRIDAY
25 November
2005
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BY NIKI CHEONG
MIKE Shinoda really doesnt need another project.
After all, as a member of Linkin Park, he is already
a Grammy winner, has gone multi-platinum and
has sold out numerous concerts around the
world, Kuala Lumpur included. However, he is
also not the type to sit still. It is because of this
nature that Mike decided to embark on a new
project called Fort Minor, in which he gets to go
back to his musical roots.
With numerous other artistes involved in the
project, Fort Minor has recently released its debut
album called The Rising Tied. Mike tells R.AGE all
about Fort Minor and the album in an e-mail
interview.
How different is Fort Minor from Linkin Park? Why
was there a need for you to start this project in the
first place?
Before Linkin Park started, I pretty much only did
hip-hop. I had studied piano for about 10 years,
and learned guitar and some other instruments
along the way, and Id use those instruments to
make tracks for myself and other people. About
two years ago, I started feeling like I needed to
get back to that. After I started making some
tracks, Styles Of Beyond wanted to get involved,
and then Black Thought got on it, then Common,
then John Legend, and then Jay-Z. All of a sudden,
Fort Minor turned into a serious record.
Technically with Fort Minor, youre not playing as
a solo artiste. Does it feel any different working
with a bunch of different people now, as compared to the Linkin Park bunch?
Ive worked with a lot of other people in the past,
especially on the LP album Reanimation. But even
that project was very different from this in the
sense that on the Fort Minor record, the pressure