NIN.
i wish a lot of other top selling veteran artists would be this forthcoming and direct. and i mean DIRECT.
in this post, trent releases details about his new remix album - he basically gives you the options at hand, one of which is the entire record in multi-track format, allowing anyone on earth who is able - to remix the whole damn thing. instead of whining about mp3 file sharing, he is actually trying to progress the form.
and radiohead thought they were clever. even if you loathe nin, read this... it is another example of how artists are responding to the ever dematerializing state of the record industry, - not to be confused with the music business.
this album is a collection of remixes of year zero, the convoluted concept record-alternate reality game-viral marketing breakthrough - which came out in april.
trent is going so far as to include a fan remix as one of the tracks. not only is there an innovative dvd-rom release, the vinyl collection of 3 discs only has 5 sides. yep. 5 sides. the comments he makes to his fans are humorous. the faint , ladytron and saul williams remixed a few tracks. like radiohead, nin is at the forefront of a push to liquify the grip that major labels have on distribution streams and pricing structures.
pitchfork's article about nin's break with label -
"reznor hammers another nail in the industry's coffin".
coverage of nin's new independent status.
mr. self destruct = the music industry
trent complained last year that UMG (universal music group) apparently price-gouged nin fans in certain markets. this likely caused intense friction between nin, media group (the largest music label entity on the planet) and interscope.
he leaked songs himself via alternate marketing schemes, such as leaving a jump drive containing an mp3 file - in a men's restroom in london, near a venue nin played later in the day... not to mention the 30 or so web sites developed to further the alternate-reality-story-thread of year zero.
from the nin site, trent's statement -
Here's some information on Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D [direct link].
We are releasing it on Interscope Nov 20th through the traditional retail outlets. There are three different formats:
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
iTunes, I assume Amazon's MP3 store (I'm the last to know about these things) and maybe others. This should be priced "regular", whatever that now means.
track listing for these:
1. gunshots by computer: saul williams
2. the great destroyer: modwheelmood
3. my violent heart: pirate robot midget
4. the beginning of the end: ladytron
5. survivalism: saul williams
6. capital g: epworth phones
7. vessel: bill laswell
8. the warning: stefan goodchild featuring doudou n’diaye rose
9. meet your master: the faint
10. god given: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
11. me, i’m not: olof dreijer
12. another version of the truth: kronos & enrique gonzalez müller
13. in this twilight: fennesz
14. zero sum: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
VINYL
A nice package with three discs. Good quality vinyl, blah blah blah - really it's just cool. The package is a six-panel gatefold vinyl jacket to match Year Zero along with an insert.
track listing for this configuration:
Side 1
1. gunshots by computer: saul williams
2. the great destroyer: modwheelmood
3. my violent heart: pirate robot midget
4. the beginning of the end: ladytron
5. capital g: epworth phones
Side 2
1. the warning: stefan goodchild featuring doudou n’diaye rose
2. meet your master: the faint
3. god given: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
4. vessel [mix 1]: bill laswell
Side 3
1. capital g: switch
2. me, I’m not: olof dreijer
Side 4
1. the good soldier: sam fog
2. vessel [mix 2]: bill laswell
Side 5
1. capital g: ladytron
2. another version of the truth: kronos & enrique gonzalez müller
3. in this twilight: fennesz
4. zero sum: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
(no Side 6)
PHYSICAL CD / DVD ROM
This costs a bit more than "regular" and contains a CD that has exactly the same track listing as it's DIGITAL DOWNLOAD counterpart (see above). The package is a six-panel digipak to match Year Zero along with an insert. It also contains a DVD ROM (not a movie) that contains every track from Year Zero in multitrack format for you to do with what you please. Mac or PC.
We've included:
Pre-formatted for Apple GarageBand
Pre-formatted for Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Demo version of Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Generic WAVE files at 16 bit 44K that can be loaded into any audio editor
I can make this easy for you: if you just want to hear the tracks as cheaply as possible, get it digitally. The highest fidelity will likely be Amazon (through legal means).
If you want something that's aesthetically cool and will enhance any collection, get the vinyl. Trust me, it looks great. The extra tracks are fairly minor embellishments to the whole (and surely someone will upload them instantly).
If you want higher quality tracks legally, a nice package AND a complete multitrack of the whole record, get the physical CD / DVD ROM.
**insert comment from NINSUX: "I thought he said all the multitracks were going to be posted online, now he wants us to PAY for them??"
Relax, friend. One second after this package goes to the manufacturing plant someone will kindly upload those missing multitracks and everything will be OK. If they don't soon enough for your liking, just yell loudly out the window and I'll do it myself.
As for the record itself, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. Remix records can be disposable garbage (of which I myself have been guilty of to some extent) but this collection feels good to me.
I reached out to heroes, friends and strangers. I encouraged those I approached to do anything and insert themselves as much as possible into the track. Some of the stuff that was done earlier led me to choosing other people to balance things out.
The Pirate Robot Midget mix is a fan's work - I thought it was great, it filled a need and I asked permission to use it here. It's always interesting for me to hear my work reinterpreted - I hope it is for you as well. Upon the release of this, we will be launching the first portion of the new nin.com at
remix.nin.com
We have been working on this quite a while now and I think you'll like it. It will begin as a home for listening to, sorting through, discussing and uploading remixes the community has made. Hopefully it will be as elegant, useful and fun to use as we envision.
TR
posted by Trent Reznor at 8:01 PM.
08 October 2007: Big News
Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the
following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally
free agent, free of any recording contract with any label.
I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the
business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very
different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a
direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.
Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.
Exciting times, indeed.
i wish a lot of other top selling veteran artists would be this forthcoming and direct. and i mean DIRECT.
in this post, trent releases details about his new remix album - he basically gives you the options at hand, one of which is the entire record in multi-track format, allowing anyone on earth who is able - to remix the whole damn thing. instead of whining about mp3 file sharing, he is actually trying to progress the form.
and radiohead thought they were clever. even if you loathe nin, read this... it is another example of how artists are responding to the ever dematerializing state of the record industry, - not to be confused with the music business.
this album is a collection of remixes of year zero, the convoluted concept record-alternate reality game-viral marketing breakthrough - which came out in april.
trent is going so far as to include a fan remix as one of the tracks. not only is there an innovative dvd-rom release, the vinyl collection of 3 discs only has 5 sides. yep. 5 sides. the comments he makes to his fans are humorous. the faint , ladytron and saul williams remixed a few tracks. like radiohead, nin is at the forefront of a push to liquify the grip that major labels have on distribution streams and pricing structures.
pitchfork's article about nin's break with label -
"reznor hammers another nail in the industry's coffin".
coverage of nin's new independent status.
mr. self destruct = the music industry
trent complained last year that UMG (universal music group) apparently price-gouged nin fans in certain markets. this likely caused intense friction between nin, media group (the largest music label entity on the planet) and interscope.
he leaked songs himself via alternate marketing schemes, such as leaving a jump drive containing an mp3 file - in a men's restroom in london, near a venue nin played later in the day... not to mention the 30 or so web sites developed to further the alternate-reality-story-thread of year zero.
from the nin site, trent's statement -
Here's some information on Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D [direct link].
We are releasing it on Interscope Nov 20th through the traditional retail outlets. There are three different formats:
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
iTunes, I assume Amazon's MP3 store (I'm the last to know about these things) and maybe others. This should be priced "regular", whatever that now means.
track listing for these:
1. gunshots by computer: saul williams
2. the great destroyer: modwheelmood
3. my violent heart: pirate robot midget
4. the beginning of the end: ladytron
5. survivalism: saul williams
6. capital g: epworth phones
7. vessel: bill laswell
8. the warning: stefan goodchild featuring doudou n’diaye rose
9. meet your master: the faint
10. god given: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
11. me, i’m not: olof dreijer
12. another version of the truth: kronos & enrique gonzalez müller
13. in this twilight: fennesz
14. zero sum: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
VINYL
A nice package with three discs. Good quality vinyl, blah blah blah - really it's just cool. The package is a six-panel gatefold vinyl jacket to match Year Zero along with an insert.
track listing for this configuration:
Side 1
1. gunshots by computer: saul williams
2. the great destroyer: modwheelmood
3. my violent heart: pirate robot midget
4. the beginning of the end: ladytron
5. capital g: epworth phones
Side 2
1. the warning: stefan goodchild featuring doudou n’diaye rose
2. meet your master: the faint
3. god given: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
4. vessel [mix 1]: bill laswell
Side 3
1. capital g: switch
2. me, I’m not: olof dreijer
Side 4
1. the good soldier: sam fog
2. vessel [mix 2]: bill laswell
Side 5
1. capital g: ladytron
2. another version of the truth: kronos & enrique gonzalez müller
3. in this twilight: fennesz
4. zero sum: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
(no Side 6)
PHYSICAL CD / DVD ROM
This costs a bit more than "regular" and contains a CD that has exactly the same track listing as it's DIGITAL DOWNLOAD counterpart (see above). The package is a six-panel digipak to match Year Zero along with an insert. It also contains a DVD ROM (not a movie) that contains every track from Year Zero in multitrack format for you to do with what you please. Mac or PC.
We've included:
Pre-formatted for Apple GarageBand
Pre-formatted for Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Demo version of Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Generic WAVE files at 16 bit 44K that can be loaded into any audio editor
I can make this easy for you: if you just want to hear the tracks as cheaply as possible, get it digitally. The highest fidelity will likely be Amazon (through legal means).
If you want something that's aesthetically cool and will enhance any collection, get the vinyl. Trust me, it looks great. The extra tracks are fairly minor embellishments to the whole (and surely someone will upload them instantly).
If you want higher quality tracks legally, a nice package AND a complete multitrack of the whole record, get the physical CD / DVD ROM.
**insert comment from NINSUX: "I thought he said all the multitracks were going to be posted online, now he wants us to PAY for them??"
Relax, friend. One second after this package goes to the manufacturing plant someone will kindly upload those missing multitracks and everything will be OK. If they don't soon enough for your liking, just yell loudly out the window and I'll do it myself.
As for the record itself, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. Remix records can be disposable garbage (of which I myself have been guilty of to some extent) but this collection feels good to me.
I reached out to heroes, friends and strangers. I encouraged those I approached to do anything and insert themselves as much as possible into the track. Some of the stuff that was done earlier led me to choosing other people to balance things out.
The Pirate Robot Midget mix is a fan's work - I thought it was great, it filled a need and I asked permission to use it here. It's always interesting for me to hear my work reinterpreted - I hope it is for you as well. Upon the release of this, we will be launching the first portion of the new nin.com at
remix.nin.com
We have been working on this quite a while now and I think you'll like it. It will begin as a home for listening to, sorting through, discussing and uploading remixes the community has made. Hopefully it will be as elegant, useful and fun to use as we envision.
TR
posted by Trent Reznor at 8:01 PM.
08 October 2007: Big News
Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the
following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally
free agent, free of any recording contract with any label.
I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the
business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very
different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a
direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.
Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.
Exciting times, indeed.