Rise of the Aggrocrag by the Metahumans is an alternative dance album containing various world music influences including baroque pop, breakbeat, dubstep, electro house, jazz poetry, neo-psychedelia, rock and roll, salsa, spoken word, synthpop, trance, western classical, and yoruba music. The album chronicles the main character’s arrival into the electronic music subculture and is centered around his ambivalence towards existing in this newfound world. His trip journeys through themes of alienation, anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse, love, and self-doubt.

Rise of the Aggrocrag (preliminary album art)

PERSONNEL / PRODUCTION NOTES / CREDITS

Released: September 30, 2011 (Pushed back to Oct. 12)
Recorded: April 2011 – September 2011
Genre: Alternative dance / Baroque Pop / Indietronica
Length: 33.1 minutes
Producer: Craig Kalinyak (executive), Ricardo Williams

All songs written, composed, arranged, and produced by Ricardo Williams.

Track 1 (“Intro”) contains excerpts of a brief French monologue by Gigi Parsa.

Track 2 (“Rise of the Aggrocrag”) contains a vocal sample of Eabha Beary

Track 4 (“Amanda Panacea”) contains a vocal sample of Sarah McWilliams.

Track 6 (“…Ascension”) contains excerpts of the poem, “Today at 25″ written and performed by Amanda Wegmann.

Track 7 (“Metaphysical Refugees”) contains an unauthorized sample of Celia Cruz from the song “Guantanamera” performed by Wyclef Jean on the album, The Carnival

Track 8 (“Over the Influence”) contains excerpts of the poem, “Real Love” written and performed by Amanda Wegmann.

Amanda Caban – Vocals on Track 1, 6, and 9
Ricky Cuellar – Guitar on Track 4
Craig Kalinyak “Aggrocrag” – Additional Arrangement / Executive Producer
Amanda Wegmann – Artwork / Paintings / Poetry
Ricardo Williams – Art Direction / Instruments / Poetry / Producer / Sequencer / Vocals

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The album is a conceptual piece; a sonic short film about the birth of an unlikely hero- and I can’t say much more than that since it is in fact, still in production. I’ve recently released the main theme of the album, which Craig (aka Aggrocrag) dropped into his DJ set at Roxy Nightclub’s Takeovr event this past Tuesday. Listen to it below and tell me what you think!

First release from the upcoming album, “Rise of the Aggrocrag”. Coming Fall 2011

Composed and produced by Ricardo Williams
With additional arrangement by Craig Kalinyak (aka Aggrocrag)

Featuring a vocal sample of Eabha Beary

Original photo by TJ Norris (helofoto)

Rise of the Aggrocrag (promotional version) by the Metahumans

Rise of the Aggrocrag (FULL ALBUM COMING FALL 2011)

Ricardo Williams in a television and web commercial spot for the $3.99 Daily Fresh Value Meal® at Subway restaurants.

Enjoy a Fresh Value Meal® any day of the week. It includes a daily 6-inch sub, 32-oz. fountain drink, and a bag of chips or 2 cookies for only $3.99! This offer is available only in participating SUBWAY restaurants in the greater Atlanta region. ©2010 Doctor’s Associates Inc. SUBWAY® is a registered trademark of Doctor’s Associates Inc.

First trailer for Gutter King, released to film’s website on November 3, 2008
http://www.gutterking.tv

Great review of the film: http://extracine.com/2010/07/critica-gutter-king

Video clip formerly featured on the front page of “the Ricardo Williams blog”

The music in the video is a remixed instrumental version of “Jenny Come Back” from the mixtape, “Greetings from Altamonte Springs, FL”. The song can be be heard (and downloaded for free) below.

Behind the scenes of a pre-production photoshoot for the independent feature film, “Gutter King”, directed by Keith Alan Morris. This is a unique opportunity to take a sneaky peak behind the scenes of this upcoming release, while you check your emails or play online games of Poker.dk. Simply watch this short video to find out how make-up is used to transform the appearance of the actors list below.

http://gutterking.tv

Video was shot and edited by Matt Hutchens

Actors featured in make-up:
Jessica Blackmore
Justin Brown
Khris Gibston
Brandi Hanson
Blake Logan
Owen Miller
Erica Ramirez
Mason Sharrow
Ricardo Williams
Mike Yebba

Great review of the film: http://extracine.com/2010/07/critica-gutter-king

“Saints & Sailors” music video; the datawhore version by Ricardo Williams
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Derek Pak + Desiree Goguen + Dashboard Confessional… yeah I had fun making short video clips when i was 19.

2005 was a cool year.

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