NIN Ghosts I-IV

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Member Since: Jan 18, 2003

nyone hear it yet?

i'm likin' the free version a lot. instant sell on the next version up for me, which i'm going to buy right now.

i'm eyein' up the more expensive version too, though. that one comes with the isolated multitrack files

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String bender
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Since: Unknown

Mar 08, 2008 02:30 am

I haven't picked it up yet but I will. I just picked up the Year Zero remix, Halo 25 CD the other day. That one also had the isolated multi-track files on it. I am a big fan of the way he is experimenting with music distribution methods. They already sold out of the limited edition $300 version. At any rate, I like they he is offering so many options and the multi-track files too.

SM7b the Chuck Noris of Mic's
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Since: Jun 20, 2002

Mar 08, 2008 04:08 am

I'm enjoying it, but i'm also a huge fan . trent has always tried to keep ahead or up with new means of distributing music and hearing what fan say. I think it's a great thing that he's not under TVT any more.

Brother Number One
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Since: Jan 22, 2008

Mar 08, 2008 05:32 am

This sounds interesting, what it all about then. My wife is really into NIN, we've been listening to Year Zero Remixed a lot lately

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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Mar 08, 2008 05:51 am

i didnt seem to like year zero. i just listened to it once, and something turned me off right awayy and i just wrote it off. this one grabbed me right away, though.

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Mar 09, 2008 04:46 pm

Already ordered the big version a month ago. Got the 36 tracks in FLAC and they are all killer. So far I've liked everything I've heard on it. I'm on an A list so I get first alerts on everything he does. Got an early release of a few of the tracks and knew right off I wanted the whole thing.

I've been on the multi-track thing for awhile and have done a couple remixes as well.

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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Mar 09, 2008 11:25 pm

gah! jealous of your multi files. i just ordered them as mp3s. gonna show us any remixes?

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Mar 11, 2008 09:32 pm

Ya, I'll share some. I emailed him to find out if I can legally post them someplace else other then on the remix site he has.

I've been remixing NIN since Pretty Hate Machine actually. I don't honestly know what got me so into Reznors stuff. I think it was all the intricate stuff in the mayhem on his early stuff. Then I got even more into him after some of his sound track work, especially on Lost Highway.

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Since: Jan 18, 2003

Mar 12, 2008 05:48 am

it's a certain license that lets you do whatever with his album, i'm almost certain.

it's prolly the same thing that got me into him, the intricacy, like you said. i'm listening to ghosts now again, and i feel that reznor might write songs at the level of ... frequency bands or something. i mean, it's rare to be so 'loose' with the sounds you use. he has a great sense of many things about songwriting. a sense of harmonic tensions for one thing, when they must mount and subside and plateau. it's like he's using that 'module' in one part of his mind and then filling in the blanks with novel instruments he creates himself, just to satisfy certain frequency needs. the timing of the parts plus the harmonic tensions within the parts, plus the specific sounds that he creates, they all work together. it's a kind of songwriting that is working at multiple levels. i think he is free of certain habitual constrictions. he seems completely aware of like five or more different levels of sound at the same time.


Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002

Mar 12, 2008 10:39 pm

Good description forty. I think that is what really got me into him as well. That is how I work on instrumental stuff. Building the music around the sound. And I agree that is probably how he pulls it off. Manipulating every aspect of it from the tones or sounds used for beats, which are not always drum related to the actual sound themselves. A simply piano becomes something completely different when he uses it.

I think the sound designer in me was the part that was mostly attracted to his music at first. Then it evolved from there.

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Since: Feb 05, 2008

Mar 12, 2008 11:10 pm

I just bought it and haven't gotten a chance to listen to it throughly. Jeordie White is one of my all time favorite bass players so I'm sure I'll love it.

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