New music isn't coming from Linkin Park anytime soon. Vocalist Chad Bennington is currently shacking up with the Stone Temple Pilots to create a new record and tour, and LP isn't looking to bring anyone else in, so fans will have to look forward to Recharged, an album containing remixed versions of the tracks on the band's 2012 LP Living Things.
The album will center mainly in the worlds of hip-hop and electronica. Among the rappers of note making appearances: Pusha T drops a verse for "I'll Be Gone (Vice Remix)," Rick Ross appears on "A Light That Never Comes Back (Rick Rubin Reboot) and Bun B joins for "Roads Untraveled (Rad Omen Remix)." One the EDM side of things, Steve Aoki handles the album opener, "A Light That Never Comes." Linkin Park's own Mike Shinoda tackles a few original takes on his own work as well.
"I think any of our songs lend themselves well to being remixed," Bennington said. "I think it just comes down to being inspired to do it."
Rick Rubin, a producer well tuned into both rock and hip-hop, helped to move the process along smoothly.
Remixing and similar projects have paid off for the alternative rockers before, especially on the more electronically influenced first few albums, Hybrid Theory and Meteora. The band released its first remix album, Reanimation, in 2002. Most successful however was the band's 2004 project with Jay Z, an EP titled Crash Course that mashed up the hits of two of the biggest names in music at the time.
The new album will be available on October 29.
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