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Timbaland's music has always been ground-breaking, if a little commercial. So trust him to have inked a new deal with Verizon Wireless.  Interesting stuff happens when a multi-Grammy award winner links with the second biggest music store (after iTunes).  This project brings Timbaland in as "producer in residence" on board a Verizon Wireless' studio bus. Yes, you heard us right - Verizon has a fully-equipped tour bus converted into a studio with its own studio engineer. The plan is for Timbaland to record his next album on this bus and have it be the world's first album that is distributed straight to mobile. Is this another nail in the record store coffin?!

How cool is this for Jesse Jensema, the engineer aka supervising producer on the studio bus. We got parts of an interview with Jensema from a trade magazine: "This bus has been my home for three years...I live in a recording studio! The best part is it comes to you, you don't have to go to the studio." Jensema also added, you also have the same environment, people and vibe. "The vibe is where the creative juices flow from...We're pretty versatile and we can manipulate the bus to do whatever it needs to."

That's cool, but what we want to know is will he get some points on Timbaland's album...