Nine Inch Nails Gets Creative With Radiohead-Style Release.
Trent Reznor has been telling the whole world how happy he is to be free from his record label. Now the Nine Inch Nails mastermind has unveiled a post-label strategy that takes Radiohead’s In Rainbows concept further by leveraging BitTorrent and releasing songs under a Creative Commons license that permits purchasers to remix the tracks.
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Trent Reznor has a habit of teasing the hell out of his fans. Most of us have grown accustomed to waiting half a decade for new music but things recently have been a helluva lot more productive for the Nine Inch Nails camp. A couple of months ago, the official Nine Inch Nails site began updating by featuring Trent and co. hard at work at… something. No one knew what it was and most speculated that he had begun work on the sequel to Year Zero.
Over the course of the past two weeks, more teasing eminated from the site with Trent posting cryptic messages like “Two weeks”, “Soon” etc. A new Nine Inch Nails in two weeks? Yeah right Trent.
And the two weeks came and went. And here it is… a new Nine Inch Nails album! A NEW NINE INCH NAILS ALBUM!!!!
The official site went live at 9PM ET with the several versions of the new instrumental album entitle ‘Ghosts I - IV’
You can get the first 9 songs from the 36 track project for free or you can purchase the entire album digitally for a mere $5.
Straight from Trent… “…This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as… something.
The team: Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder and myself with some help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. Rob Sheridan collaborated with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create the accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.
We began improvising and let the music decide the direction. Eyes were closed, hands played instruments and it began. Within a matter of days it became clear we were on to something, and a lot of material began appearing. What we thought could be a five song EP became much more. I invited some friends over to join in and we all enjoyed the process of collaborating on this.
The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we’re able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we’ve ever created.
More volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future…”
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