04.19.05
Trent Opens Up
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (or Captain Dreamy, as I like to call him) has gone and made his first single available for remixing. It’s a straight ahead port of ‘The Hand That Feeds’ who’s only restriction is that people don’t use it for commercial purposes. It’s getting quite a bit of kudos from people around the blog-sphere, including Boing Boing:
For quite some time I’ve been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks – to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what’s there. I tried a few years ago to do this in shockwave with very limited results. 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. I got to work experimenting and came up with something I think you’ll enjoy. 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.
I wish it was something a little more accessable, like a zip file of individual tracks as wavs or mp3, but it’s still a great and exciting step toward remix culture.
libel_vox said,
July 9, 2005 at 9:23 am
Update:
My wishes have been granted. Amazed by the success of the first remix giveaway, Trent has done it again for the second single (a darn fine track, BTW – Only). I’ve always wanted to bare this at super loud levels but the refrain had a few choice f-bombs that weren’t suitable for work or home. Now I can fix that… and maybe drop the vocals against the ‘I dream of Genie’ theme.
The problem of the first single – only being for GarageBand Mac users – is gone. Formats include GarageBand, Ableton Live (the critics darling), Pro Tools, and Sony Acid (Yeah!).
Happy mixing!
mutednoise » Reznor on Changing Music Culture/Consumption said,
May 24, 2007 at 9:25 am
[...] Yes, I’ve referred to Trent Reznor as an intellectual ‘Captain Dreamy’. And I’ve mentioned the alternate reality game (arg) that he deployed for his latest album, ‘Year Zero’. However, a recent interview with him ‘down-under’ has surfaced on the Lefsetz Letter (the email counterpart to the Lefsetz blog) and their are just too many great details not to share. It details a clash of cultural norms brought on by shifts in technology pitting corporations against their customers – with the artist caught in the middle. It must be an odd time then to have a new album, Year Zero, out? [...]