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Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms
alset_tech writes "Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) has released the new single from NIN's upcoming album as a GarageBand file for fan remixes. Though by no means the first time a major-label artist has released a track to the public for remix, this is the first time such a project has been as open to the common user. The repercussions to 'traditional' IP views in music could be beneficial to all. Note that the license agreement does not allow commercial use of the included sounds. From the download text: 'What I'm giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for 'the hand that feeds' in GarageBand format. This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into. I imported and converted the tracks into AppleLoop format so the size would be reasonable and the tempo flexible.'"
Back on their Infotainment disc: the last two tracks were all 123 samples used in making the album. Of course this was 1996 so there wasn't ProTools, GarageBand, or Reflex out there in the common market. Still, it was open-hooded music.
I'm happy Trent did this. Too bad the disc is pretty underwhelming.
What is music when you despise all sound?
How about, gee, releasing the original ProTools session under that EULA for those of us who don't own or use GarageBand but do happen to have a real audio package? What a concept! I guess it wouldn't be all "neato" and stuff if it weren't in an officially Apple-sanctioned format, though.
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Yeah, and programs that only run on Linux aren't open source because they only run on 5% of the computers worldwide.
You sound like a jealous Wintel troll.
Maybe you're just angry because you're wasting another Saturday hunting down all the spyware and viruses in your Windows box instead of using your computer to do something creative.
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Public remixes happen all the time. Trent is just one of the first big artists to partake in it. Lots of indie artists release their audio tracks so others can make remixes.
.mid for sequences and wave or aiff files for the audio data so users of all systems can remix their work, and not just apple users who represent 2% of the world. Most really avid musicians use hardware samplers and sequencers anyway and not crash prone computers to make their work.
However most people use the standard and well-supported formats of
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I'm an avid Mac fan and also and avid listener of industrial music, but I hate NIN.
What annoys me more is people who know I love Macs and Industial music automatically assume I MUST be a NIN fan.
It will take more than a free song and a reminder that he uses Macs to change me into a NINny.
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This is probably the most insightful post in this thread. Reznor is far more interesting in conjunction with other artists, but it depends on the other artists too. Foetus has done a remix or two, but they really weren't that great (of course, Foetus is great solo - so I blame Reznor for this failure, or perhaps even for failing to recognize a mediocre Foetus effort and refusing to publish it).
Maybe Sleazy Christopherson could imbue some remixes with the needed magic.
Some buffoon down thread thinks the Fragile material was brilliant while I find it nearly unlistenable and very tedious.
I give the whole new NIN nails thing a big yawn. Throbbing Gristle has already been more interesting within the last 12 mos.
This guy was the first big artist to record the soundtrack for a computer game (remember Quake 1?)
Eh...any claim about the first "big" artist to do something is fairly underwhelming, as always there were a number of "small" artists who did it long before.
Now he's the first one to release a song as a GarageBand file.
Again, many other artists have done similar things in other format / for other programs. Nothing new here...
He brought industrial music (or something like this) into the main stream.
Very short-term memory. Bands like Kraftwerk and some of the bands to follow New Wave in the 1980s did this much more significantly...
Be brought forward some new huge bands like Marylin Manson and Filter (I'm not arguing if they're good or bad)
But you should (argue if they are good or bad)...there's nothing impressive about a bad band. MM is only well known because they were the first band to sign to TR's new label, when TR was still an active and visible performer. Whoever he had signed first was garaunteed to suceed.
But he is just going to release his fourth album in almost 20 years of career.
Which is ridiculous with the extremely large gaps between releases...
He made 2.5 good albums, and a bunch of remixes of that small amount of material, and coasted on it for years and years and yaers. I LOVE his first albums. Absolutely. They were great. But when you do nothing for half a decade after that, and then come out with something that is just mediocre...eh.
There's even a WHOLE movie that's based off the images of the video for "Closer" (Ok, so the movie sucks and the video wasn't Trent's work, but still)
Well: a) as you admit, it's not TR's work...b) you admit that it's bad...and c) it's not even remotely original...Hell, Michael Jackson made a long movie for Moonwalker.
So what's your point here?
For me, this guy is the most influential musician of the last 15 years.
How on earth could you think so? I can name dozens of other artists more influential on other artists and the music industry (for example: Tori Amos...she pretty much *made* a genre feasible for many to follow after her). I can name dozens of artists that have been more innovative (for example, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, and David Bowie). I can name dozens of bands that has sold more albums by orders of magnitude. And so on and so on...and any genres of music that he could've possibly been classified as in the past, have changed unbelieveably much such as to not even be really applicable anymore...
So what has TR done that's so influential? Made 2.5 good albums, and then just wandered off to do next to nothing for years and years...how is that influential?? Lots of people haven't even heard of NIN nowadays, which admittedly is sad, but hardly influential.
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