Months ago, Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) released his Year Zero album (which is a pretty great album).
Along with this, he released the multitrack audio files for each songs so fans could remix them at will. Multitracks: Well, in a regular song, there may be a track for vocals, a track for guitar, a track for bass guitar, a track for drums, etc. With Nine Inch Nails, there may be up to twenty tracks going into a song. In an unprecendented move, he released all the tracks for fan to rip apart and put back together in a new form (otherwise known as remixing).
Anyhow, a fansite 9inchnails.net went ahead and opened up a contest to build remixes and the results are compiled in a release called The Limitless Potential, a 2 CD set with 21 tracks which are remixed from all open-source multitrack files. 99% of them are from Year Zero but there are a few from their With Teeth album.
I’m listening to this album and so far it’s really, really good (if you like remixes). NIN is notorious for releasing remix albums for all their albums (usually making their own or having others perform a new mix) and if they were smart, I think they should look to the fans remixes for an official release. I am intrigued with some of the creations out there and would like to try my hand at a few of my own using Garageband.
Anyhow, if you are a fan of NIN, I highly recommend you head out and download this album. It’s download only – no tracks are available for purchase.
iplaying: Vessel (Losing Control Remix) – Pushing Reality – The Limitless Potential
4 replies on “The Limitless Potential”
did you change your font size?
No, your eyes are going.
not the eyes, the brain! somehow the computer changed the settings in “view” to smallest text I changed it back all is ok!
Thanks for the heads up,
I just downloaded the album yesterday…it’s reminded me how much I like the latest album. I think I may just go back to some NIN for a while. Funny how you are revisiting the Pumpkins at around the same time…..