His Doojness (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} doujoux) wrote,@ 2008-05-07 21:34:00 |
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NIN's new album.
Of course i've got something to say about the Nine Inch Nails album The Slip. Yes, i've got a copy. Distributed as a FLAC by the band themselves. Over BitTorrent, because it costs them less bandwidth if it's shared between users.
It's a groundbreaking release for a major act in many ways, not the least of which being that as i was driving to work today and thinking hmm i'd have done that bit differently trent, i realised that thanks to remix.nin.com offering the track separations of the entire album i actually could do it differently. So i have.
There's one track on it that i'm quite fond of (the token sprawling ambient track) called Corona Radiata, but the track just before it, Lights in the sky, was a good remixing candidate for me because there was so little to remix and i just needed to write some music to unwind with. I find on the remix site that other versions are even wider of the original than mine, and that there are some pretty cool ideas floating around here. It's brilliant hearing familiar songs taken to pieces and put back together in so many ways.
And i'm not even that big of an NIN fan, to be honest; i might have Further down the spiral somewhere in my collection still, but i've owned The downward spiral (everyone my age did, i think), The fragile and the remixes of The perfect drug. I even bought the Lost Highway soundtrack off 2 the Ranting Gryphon's brother which was all Trent. I've got the original Quake with NIN soundtrack somewhere in my collection too. I've always had time for Trent and NIN though — you can't accuse NIN of ever being musically uninteresting, and anyone who can get Alan Moulder on the desk will at least have something technically listenable.
And now, thanks to Trent embracing Creative Commons and remix culture, i can make it sound how i damn well like. :)
Of course i've got something to say about the Nine Inch Nails album The Slip. Yes, i've got a copy. Distributed as a FLAC by the band themselves. Over BitTorrent, because it costs them less bandwidth if it's shared between users.
It's a groundbreaking release for a major act in many ways, not the least of which being that as i was driving to work today and thinking hmm i'd have done that bit differently trent, i realised that thanks to remix.nin.com offering the track separations of the entire album i actually could do it differently. So i have.
There's one track on it that i'm quite fond of (the token sprawling ambient track) called Corona Radiata, but the track just before it, Lights in the sky, was a good remixing candidate for me because there was so little to remix and i just needed to write some music to unwind with. I find on the remix site that other versions are even wider of the original than mine, and that there are some pretty cool ideas floating around here. It's brilliant hearing familiar songs taken to pieces and put back together in so many ways.
And i'm not even that big of an NIN fan, to be honest; i might have Further down the spiral somewhere in my collection still, but i've owned The downward spiral (everyone my age did, i think), The fragile and the remixes of The perfect drug. I even bought the Lost Highway soundtrack off 2 the Ranting Gryphon's brother which was all Trent. I've got the original Quake with NIN soundtrack somewhere in my collection too. I've always had time for Trent and NIN though — you can't accuse NIN of ever being musically uninteresting, and anyone who can get Alan Moulder on the desk will at least have something technically listenable.
And now, thanks to Trent embracing Creative Commons and remix culture, i can make it sound how i damn well like. :)
