Spotlight (Jamie Shertick album)

Spotlight (formerly known as DCM701) is an upcoming debut album by film director and musician Jamie Shertick, produced by Shertick and an ad hoc supergroup The Deadlights Collective (featuring artists, "from as far as the Internet itself"), to be released by Dot Records, Jamie Shertick Productions (under it's Matrix 7 Records pseudonym) and Crystal Records.

It was announced to be released in February 2019, for Spotify Premium customers, but on November 20th, Shertick briefly leaked the album and had it up for free download for one hour, partially as a protest for album exclusivity for specific streaming services.

The album features many guest appearances, such as Bon Iver, Sigur Ros and known mysterious singer Shiloh, known for appearing in XXXTentacion's album 17. It's noted for the maximalist approach, a wide variety of genres it covers and the amount of tracks, which is around 150, being a preference by Jamie in order to have enough material to "distract people, while he is doing movies", though not sure about it being distracting enough for a wait until a possible announcement of his second album, if he chooses to make it. He also mentions the possibility of a second album being slim, but plausible.

Confirmed tracks

 * "Trash Man" is an experimental glitch/noise song, that mainly features a sample of Danny DeVito saying "Trash man", taken out of a clip of his TV series It's Always Sunny in the Philadelphia. The song is mainly produced by Shertick, the Ed Banger artists SebastiAn, Mr. Oizo and Justice, Andy Morin and Zack Hill of Death Grips, and Aphex Twin.
 * "Reflections" is an ambient song, featuring Bon Iver and Sigur Ros.
 * "[What Am I Doing?] is a sad song, which covers such things as depression and suicidal thoughts, and it's supposed to connect with Reflections, hence the intro being kinda weird and stuff"
 * "Dedicated to Dad (D2D)" is a synthwave track, solely produced by Shertick, as a dedication to film director Stuart Shertick, Jamie's father.
 * Several freestyle tracks, two with instrumentals from Otis and 4:44 respectively, used with permission. Shertick says to have modified them to his liking for the album.

Background
Shertick mentioned that he started doing the album around the time he started writing movies and producing. He had to halt the production of his comic book, The Agents of WHOMPER, that he co-writes with Brad Chandler, and even temporarily retired from directing, producing and writing, in order to continue the production of the album in perfect speed.

During production, the producers taught Shertick on music production, for the upcoming album, since he knew they wouldn't be back together as TDC for the second album, leaving him to consider solely producing the second album.

Recording locations
Shertick primarily recorded and produced the album at three studios: Lareco Music Studios in Manchester, UK; his friend Sam Blumenthal's house in Paris, France; and Dragon Heart Studios, which are actually the sound studios in Jamie Shertick Productions headquarters. He also does majority of his production at his home, with producers he communicates with, through Internet.

He has also used The Magic Shop (SoHo, England) for a couple of weeks until he found out it was going to be closed the next day. He also used Electric Lady Studios, for recordings featuring his "garage band" Caramel, and several abandoned studios, despite his initial thoughts on using abandoned studios being the whole idea seeming dangerous.

He did a successful pitch on trying out Paisley Park Studios, where he recorded a song written by him and Prince, the owner of the studios, before the latter's death in 2016.

Leak
The album was leaked as a part-protest, part-publicity stunt, on November 20th, 2017. The reception was positive, although some have compared Shertick as a "Soundcloud-like rapper with a too ambitious plan".