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{{Infobox album
  |title =  Not A Trampoline
  |albumart = Not-a-trampoline-midres.jpg
  |disc_Category = Studio Album
  |length = 36:33
  |year = 2014
  |producers = Gregtronic
  |label = N/A
  |cereal = Froot Loops
  |addtlInfo = Engineered by [[Bora Karaca]]<br />Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters<br />Recorded at the LaBORAtory in Los Angeles, California
}}
'''Not A Trampoline''' is the first solo album by [[Rob Cantor]], released on April 14th 2014.

The first single [[Old Bike]] was released on March 4th, 2014 along with a new website,<ref>[http://robcantor.com/ Rob Cantor's official website]</ref> and new Facebook Page.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/robcantormusic Rob Cantor's Facebook]</ref>

==History==
===Pre-Release===
After the [[Good & Evil]] tour in 2011, Rob would continue writing songs with no thought of making an album.<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref> Part of his song writing time was taken up by freelance jobs with companies, as well as small tracks released on his SoundCloud. Eventually Rob and friend [[Ricky Lax]] would try to tackle creating an entire musical in April 2012, [[Mr. President, There’s an Asteroid Headed Directly For the Earth: The Musical]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120512085327/http://studios.amazon.com/projects/9984 Amazon Studios Asteroid Musical page]</ref> These plans would fall apart however after Amazon Studios never picked it up.<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref>

After he had written quite a few tracks, Rob would play these for producer [[Gregtronic]], who enjoyed the tracks.<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref> The duo soon went to work on recording songs at the LaBORAtory, the first being [[All I Need Is You]].<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref> The plans for it was to be a 4-track EP, but the amount of tracks soon piled up and it turned into a full length album.<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref> Despite recording it separately from [[Tally Hall]], the album still featured contributions from Tally Hall bandmates. [[Andrew Horowitz]] helped write and produce [[The Rendezvous]] and [[Perfect]], [[Ross Federman]] helped write the drums on Old Bike, and [[Joe Hawley]] provided his blessing for Rob's recording of [[I'm Gonna Win]].<ref>[http://www.nomorebloodfromaclone.com/2014/04/interview-rob-cantor.html]</ref>

One track that was scrapped from the album was described as a "cool-sounding dance track" named "[[Let Your Little Light Shine]]" that was sadly cut due to it not meshing well with the rest of the tracks.<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref>

===Release===
On March 4th 2014, the album opened for pre-release sales through [http://robcantormusic.bandcamp.com/album/not-a-trampoline Bandcamp] with an unfinished album cover showing Rob with the release date. The music video for Old Bike was released on the same date, the first single from the album.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z4iWAnrMGU OLD BIKE - Rob Cantor. YouTube.]</ref>

March 19th would see the release of another single, [[Ghost]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/robcantor/status/446337242324160512?s=20&t=k6w4s5Fs21grk7ZfZxISdg Rob Cantor tweet about the Ghost single]</ref> Part of the album's rollout was a new part of Rob's website, [[Rob's Street Team]]. This was made to help publicize Rob's music and videos, rewarding street team members with items like demos, pictures, and physical pieces of the videos themselves.
[[File:NotATrampolineBoraCover.png|thumb|right|Not a Trampoline mockup created by [[Bora Karaca]].]]
[[File:Not-a-trampoline-temp.jpg|thumb|right|Album art used on Bandcamp before the album's release.]]
On April 11th, the album artwork was finished.<ref>[https://twitter.com/robcantor/status/454666654203396096?s=20&t=k6w4s5Fs21grk7ZfZxISdg Rob Cantor tweet about the album work]</ref> The album title was inspired by a trip Gregtronic and Rob took after the recording sessions for the album were finished, where they came across some "signage" with assumedly similar sayings on it.<ref name="HITSRobInterview">[https://www.hiddeninthesand.com/blogs/rob-cantor/2014/09/catching-up-with-rob-cantor/ Catching Up With Rob Cantor. Hidden in the Sand.]</ref> The artwork was originally intended to be a single flamingo feather, however when it was mocked up he felt it was too serious, a tone unfitting of much of the album. [[Bora Karaca]] would email Rob around the same time with a cover he created to replace a auto-generated cover iTunes made, which struck Rob as weird but fitting. Rob and Bora would go out to KFC to buy some chicken wings to photograph and made  the final cover that same day.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/729380563761846/photos/pb.100044809980517.-2207520000../796667470366488/?type=3 Rob Cantor Facebook photo of the rough NAT cover]</ref>

The album was finally released on April 14, 2014.<ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/not-a-trampoline/862523351 Not A Trampoline - iTunes]</ref> The Bandcamp release comes with a PDF file featuring lyrics and credits from the album, plus photos of items which definitely aren't trampolines.<ref name="NATPDF">[https://tallyall.club/go/members/Rob%20Cantor/Not%20a%20Trampoline/RobCantor-NOTATRAMPOLINE.pdf Not A Trampoline PDF.]</ref>

==Track listing==
{{Tracklist |
{{Track | n = 1 | title = Ghost | writer = [[Cantor]] | writer2 = [[Gregtronic]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 4:08}}
{{Track | n = 2 | title = Old Bike | writer = [[Cantor]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 3:07}}
{{Track | n = 3 | title = Garden of Eden | writer = [[Cantor]] | writer2 = [[Gregtronic]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 3:23}}
{{Track | n = 4 | title = The Rendezvous | writer = [[Cantor]], [[Horowitz]], [[Gregtronic]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | singer2 = [[Madi Diaz]] | duration = 3:37}}
{{Track | n = 5 | title = I'm Gonna Win | writer = [[Hawley]] | writer2 = [[Cantor]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 2:38}}
{{Track | n = 6 | title = All I Need Is You | writer = [[Cantor]] | writer2 = [[Gregtronic]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 3:19}}
{{Track | n = 7 | title = Flamingo | writer = [[Cantor]] | singer = [[Cantor]], [[Andrew Laurich]] | duration = 3:16}}
{{Track | n = 8 | title = La Telenovela | writer = [[Cantor]] | writer2 = Jhameel | writer3 = [[Gregtronic]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | singer2 = Jhameel | duration = 2:56}}
{{Track | n = 9 | title = In Memoriam | writer = [[Cantor]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 1:11}}
{{Track | n = 10 | title = Let Your Mother Know | writer = [[Cantor]] | writer2 = [[Gregtronic]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 3:09}}
{{Track | n = 11 | title = Perfect | writer = [[Cantor]] | writer2 = [[Horowitz]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 3:21}}
{{Track | n = 12 | title = Lonely (But Not Alone) | writer = [[Cantor]] | singer = [[Cantor]] | duration = 2:29}}
}}

==Liner Notes==
<blockquote><i>
Art Direction by [[Bora Karaca]] & [[Rob Cantor]]<br>
Packaging Layout by Nick DuPlessis<br>
Photography by Nick DuPlessis & Diana King<br>
Photograph of Alan Alda by Greg Kessler<br>
Produced & Mixed by [[Gregtronic]]<br>
Engineered by Bora Karaca<br>
<br>
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters<br>
Recorded at the LABORATORY in Los Angeles, California<br>
Management: Cyndi Lynott for WCP<br>
Booking: Erik Selz for Red Ryder<br>
<br>
Special Thanks: Lindsey Alvarez, Lauren Bar-Lev, Don Bodin,<br>
Alyssa Cantor, Cathy Cantor, David Cantor, Chase Deso, Madi<br> 
Diaz, [[Ross Federman]], Molly Ferguson, Mike Frederickson,<br>
[[Joe Hawley]], [[Tony Hoffer]], [[Andrew Horowitz]], Jan Jaworski, Jeff<br>
Jenkins, Jimmy “Jet” Jenkins, Peggy Jenkins, Jhameel, Ahmet<br> 
Karaca, Zarin Karaca, Ben Ketai, Allison Kurtzer, [[Andrew Laurich]],<br> 
[[Rick Lax]], Andrew Lee, Jana Lee, Hanna LoPatin, [[Steve Loter]],<br>
Cyndi Lynott, Randall Maxwell, Steven Peltzer, Daniel<br> 
Reitzenstein, Dan Rosenberg, Ben Rosenblatt, Ryan Rubin,<br>
Zabeth Russel, [[Zubin Sedghi]], Michael Silver, Kip Smedley,<br> 
James Stonehouse, Scott Uhlfelder, and Ben Wise.<br>
<br>
For Alan, my shimmering Hawkeye in the sky.<ref name="NATPDF">[https://tallyall.club/go/members/Rob%20Cantor/Not%20a%20Trampoline/RobCantor-NOTATRAMPOLINE.pdf Not A Trampoline PDF.]</ref>
</i>
</blockquote>

==References==
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[[Category:Discography]]