¦¦¦ Due to complications with the physical product, "Padded Room" ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ has been pushed back from October 28, 2008 to February 24, ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ 2009. Until then, Joe Budden and Amalgam Digital have decided ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ to release "Halfway House", a digital-only album featuring 14 ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ songs on October 28th as a prequel to the album. The label and ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ the rapper are setting a new precedent with this album, as it ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ will be the first digital-only hip-hop release employing both ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ traditional marketing methods (commercial radio, video, ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ advertising campaigns, etc.) and new media viral marketing ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ initiatives. The album will be released exclusively in digital ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ format on AmalgamDigital.com, iTunes, and other key digital ¦¦¦
¦¦¦ retailers. ¦¦¦
In the future, in a polluted post-apocalyptic society called Eurasia after a war against Europe, the planet is devastated by the effect of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The geneticist Dr. Azuma (Akira Terao) develops a technique called "neo-cell", capable of regenerating the body of human beings, sponsored by an evil corporation. His son Tetsuya Azuma (Yusuke Iseya) dies in the war, but after an accident in the laboratory of Dr. Azuma, Tetsuya revives as the powerful warrior Casshern, while a new breed of mutants called "neo-humans" is generated in the plant. The neo-humans decide to annihilate the humans and raise a new world.
