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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.'"
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Maybe he will release his stuff too, being that's the Christian thing to do and all
Probably not as anyone knows Christianity is a very hypocritical religion.
it's not open-source when the song is released using a proprietary format that only works on 2% of computers worldwide...
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
I have no spyware or viruses on either of my windows systems. I use my system for hobbyist/semi-pro video editing and I am glad I did not buy a g5 because they can only hold 2 internal hard drives. I have 4 250 gig drives in my p4 system and I built it myself with optimum fan placement and have no problems.
Linux is not an option because they have no professional audio visual programs.
I have made some money filming and editing wedding videos and if I had bought an expensive apple system I'd still be paying it off now instead of making a profit from my work. It just doesn't make business sense for me.
It's too bad trent reznor hasn't released an album in 5 years and needs to stoop to being an ad boy for apple products. I remember when he was a talented rock star who could live solely off the momentum of his music. His new album sounds quite weak.
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
"The Hand that Feeds" marks NIN going to mainly a metal act. NIN is now very pedestrian, boring beyond compare. Take for example, Pretty Hate Machine. An amazing synth-pop album mixed with small doses of metal(Head Like a Hole) and maybe even rap(Down in It). Then, Broken. Metal done right, not done in a With Teeth way. Then take The Downward Spiral, my personal favorite album of all time. Nothing about this album is pedestrian. No one had heard this kind of thing before. Although "Closer" is the most popular song, I daresay that's the worst song on the album-the entire album tells such a story of loss, depression, suicide, and eventually hope that you could never forget it no longer how hard you tried. Then, The Fragile. That marks NIN getting shitty. Still pretty good, but getting shitty. Oh well. I need a new idol.
in the press release TR states:
"After spending some quality time sitting in hotel rooms on a press tour, it dawned on me that the technology now exists and is already in the hands of some of you."
- uh, this just dawned on him?
and "This is the entire thing bounced over from the actual Pro Tools session we recorded it into."
- I find the fact he did everything in ProTools and then ported it into gB a rather curious statmement...if gB is so rockin' why didn't he just use gB from the start?
- oh yeah, because gB sucks and he's only doing this for publicity...got it...
As the final act in a long guerrilla marketing campaign consisting of multiple "leaks" of songs to torrent aggregators and P2P networks, press releases about the fight to not leak the album, and "leaking" the entire album, Warner Records tried to get some attention by posting a song from the album in Apple's Garage Band format.
Music fans expect this to be followed by lots of interviews where Reznor will try to convince people that he isn't just a stale leftover of the 1990's alt-rock scene, where he made a huge splash by offering tame knockoffs of songs by lesser known industrial rock groups like Ministry after he failed to take off as a mainstream techno act.
Fat goth teenage girls across America are expected to rejoice, everyone else will just continue not caring.
So that means we will get three new remixes, from all three of you!
That'd be especially great if Trent Reznor and NIN didn't blow rotting chunks of semen. Talk about your tonedeaf, talentless, noise polluters. He's only doing this because it's the only way anybody would listen to his whiny, synth-guitar crap.
Garbage Band 2 format, eh? How appropriate.