Rex du Poitou
Original Release Date: 05/08/4795
There is a deep connection between film and music. Both influence one another in profound ways and have spawned many a collaboration. Unfortunately, for both industries, there is malice hidden between the lines. Rex du Poitou was commissioned to provide the soundtrack for what would become a legendary film among cinephiles, Within The Space of Seven Seconds, an engaging ode to the ancient custom of samurai, an ancient Earth warrior and the code they lived by. The film would tell the interwoven tale of a lost ronin (a samurai without a master) and the political undoing of the countryside while monsters, ghosts, and demons roam the land. Rex was brought in to score the film and provide the essence to propel our heroes and villains into an epic showdown. Unfortunately, dear Audionaut, the creative control displayed in the recording studio was one-sided. The eight-armed producer Harold Araneus certainly used his limbs to make major adjustments to the tracks without Rex's input after he was barred from reentering the studio. Rex's contract did not state he had a final cut, a major oversight on his part, and his work was doomed to be fed into a machine and copied into oblivion. What audiences witnessed when the film finally opened was so far removed from the original arrangements that creatures booed viciously, tossing tomatoes (which are traditionally sold at concession stands in certain parts of the universe) at the screen. The film faded into obscurity until Rex had the brilliant idea to release the material on his own; after all, the final product was so different it could barely pass the Rex du Poitou sniff test. He had, with much foresight, copied the tracks to a hidden data brick before his expulsion. The tracks were a bit of a mess, but time and the patience of a samurai could heal them. HYPE, the eventual album title, was a unique diamond in a sea of coal: play the album in sync with the film, transforming it from a paint-by-numbers creature feature into a heart-wrenching, action-packed adventure that grabs you by the ears and eyes and does not let go. Fans revived Within the Space of Seven Breaths seemingly overnight and made HYPE Rex's biggest moneymaker. The album would be played live, with the film projected behind it, for over a decade before a transfer of the film was made available with the soundtrack for home distribution.
Side A
Suicide Forest
Ronin
Enter The Mausoleum
Son of a Dog
Side B
Invasion
The King Has Gone Mad
To Hell And...
Purification & Rebirth