Trent Reznor Rules

they are the best....i love them ...nin for ever!!!!

trent is the shit! his new cd is awesome. he is 1 of the only talented artists out there and i love him.stay sexy trent! :P

Okay, I know this may sound weird, but ever since investing the NIN new album, I've suddenly had a notion to get involved in creating music using my mac. I did a google search, and was led here to discover he in fact used GarageBand. He's inspired me once again, this time to start composing music. He broke the ego barrier between musician and producer by doing it all himself. FYI: I do not work for Apple. Thanks, Trent, for your music.

This is horrible! Encouraging creativity in spite of the trouble it could cause? I always knew Trent was evil!

While Trent may be doing something that is "innovative" to the masses the trading of remix kits by artists in the industrial/trance genre's is nothing new. I've remixed all my favorite bands at one time or another. a search on google for "remix kit" turned up 448,000 hits. Hardly innovative. Isolated vocals are all that's needed and at times that's all I'll end up using from the original mix. The point of a remix is to create something completely different than what the original artist imagined. Using the original instrument loops or prerecorded loops from apple is no better than buying a $3000 synthesizer and using the pre-programmed patches. There is no talent involved in rearranging what the artist recorded. Go to http://combichrist.com/fight.html and download my friend Andy's remix kit. Support some REAL innovative industrial music and try a remix with that. Trent hasn't been innovative since "pretty hate machine".

This is an idea that I've had knocking around in my head ever since the introduction of digital format audio. Rather than playing around with the eq on your HiFi amp, it would be nice to be able to tweak the individual elements of the mix to your own personal taste. Turn up the bassline, turn down the vocals, etc. Artists could even release tracks with too many parts so that people can choose which ones they want. It's an interesting idea, and it breaks down the barrier between the listener and recording artist. Music making is so much easier these days, and I feel that if listeners are encouraged to take a more educated approach to music, then it can only benefit the music industry. People will listen to more music, and the music will be better. A creatively involved listener is a good listener. It's what makes a performance different to a rendition. A dialogue with the audience. Can I see a future with no more tacky three chord pop songs? It's a dream, but a good one. In this case it's hardly utopia. Garage band is a bit of a silly program. It sounds nasty, and generates horrid clicks and pops, and creates horrible digital aliasing at will. But you can open the files up in Logic. Far better. I've always felt that NIN were great on concept and production values, but that the actual songs were a bit lame. The guy isn't a great singer either. We're moving towards a multimedia network computer based way of dealing with culture, I can see this catching on. No more single function black boxes, no more uneditable hard media. Everything will be done from a computer, whether a portable handheld wireless gadget, or a desktop box. And the content will all be interactive and editable. Plasticised culture. If you as an individual don't like something, you can change it. Wicked! No more monopoly mass media. Random access and editablitiy. It takes the guess work out of marketing. Just leave it up to the consumers to grab and change whatever they want.

This is too right on time! Trent, whoever you are, you have delivered the conclusion to my capstone project on the "Implications of Digital Rights Management Upon Business, Creators and Consumers of Digital Music." DRM is very scary because once applied to a songfile, its effective controls on how digital assets are consumed after-sales lasts FOREVER. Copyright with DRM does not expire to the public domain and public domain is in jeapardy, too. Fortunately, you have provided the most perfectly legal circumvention solution to the mandated lockdown of all intellectual properties: just compose originals and let people have at it. Brilliant. You will reap many rewards and go down in history, or at least a citation in my report. Thanx a mil. Bye. cs charmaignescott.com

So very cool. Talk about throwing a finger to the RIAA. Gotta love it.

OPEN SOURCE MUSIC... It's all down hill from here!

Ever since those damn typewriters came out, it's been so much harder for us real writers to get published ;-) It is true that the market has been flooded with idiotic writing, though. Just look at this page: imbeciles whining and shrieking because the free market philosophy is, well, including people that don't have enough money in their pockets for an orchestra and a Gibson double-necked SG.