Nine Inch Nails - Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D - released tomorrow

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This comes out tomorrow I believe. Anyone else looking forward to it? I think my psychic powers tell me it's very good, and is actually better than the original Year Zero album (check out the Capital G remix, it is bangin' as it were...)

10 October 2007: everything you wanted to know about Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D but were afraid to ask

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Here's some information on Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D.
We are releasing it on Interscope Nov 20th through the traditional retail outlets. There are three different formats:

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
iTunes, I assume "£$%^$£ MP3 store (I'm the last to know about these things) and maybe others. This should be priced "regular", whatever that now means.
track listing for these:

1. gunshots by computer: saul williams
2. the great destroyer: modwheelmood
3. my violent heart: pirate robot midget
4. the beginning of the end: ladytron
5. survivalism: saul williams
6. capital g: epworth phones
7. vessel: bill laswell
8. the warning: stefan goodchild featuring doudou n’diaye rose
9. meet your master: the faint
10. god given: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
11. me, i’m not: olof dreijer
12. another version of the truth: kronos & enrique gonzalez müller
13. in this twilight: fennesz
14. zero sum: stephen morris & gillian gilbert


VINYL
A nice package with three discs. Good quality vinyl, blah blah blah - really it's just cool. The package is a six-panel gatefold vinyl jacket to match Year Zero along with an insert.
track listing for this configuration:

Side 1
1. gunshots by computer: saul williams
2. the great destroyer: modwheelmood
3. my violent heart: pirate robot midget
4. the beginning of the end: ladytron
5. capital g: epworth phones

Side 2
1. the warning: stefan goodchild featuring doudou n’diaye rose
2. meet your master: the faint
3. god given: stephen morris & gillian gilbert
4. vessel [mix 1]: bill laswell

Side 3
1. capital g: switch
2. me, I’m not: olof dreijer

Side 4
1. the good soldier: sam fog
2. vessel [mix 2]: bill laswell

Side 5
1. capital g: ladytron
2. another version of the truth: kronos & enrique gonzalez müller
3. in this twilight: fennesz
4. zero sum: stephen morris & gillian gilbert

(no Side 6)


PHYSICAL CD / DVD ROM
This costs a bit more than "regular" and contains a CD that has exactly the same track listing as it's DIGITAL DOWNLOAD counterpart (see above). The package is a six-panel digipak to match Year Zero along with an insert. It also contains a DVD ROM (not a movie) that contains every track from Year Zero in multitrack format for you to do with what you please. Mac or PC.

We've included:
Pre-formatted for Apple GarageBand
Pre-formatted for Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Demo version of Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Generic WAVE files at 16 bit 44K that can be loaded into any audio editor

I can make this easy for you: if you just want to hear the tracks as cheaply as possible, get it digitally. The highest fidelity will likely be *&&%^$ (through legal means).
If you want something that's aesthetically cool and will enhance any collection, get the vinyl. Trust me, it looks great. The extra tracks are fairly minor embellishments to the whole (and surely someone will upload them instantly).
If you want higher quality tracks legally, a nice package AND a complete multitrack of the whole record, get the physical CD / DVD ROM.

**insert comment from NINSUX: "I thought he said all the multitracks were going to be posted online, now he wants us to PAY for them??"
Relax, friend. One second after this package goes to the manufacturing plant someone will kindly upload those missing multitracks and everything will be OK. If they don't soon enough for your liking, just yell loudly out the window and I'll do it myself.

As for the record itself, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out. Remix records can be disposable garbage (of which I myself have been guilty of to some extent) but this collection feels good to me. I reached out to heroes, friends and strangers. I encouraged those I approached to do anything and insert themselves as much as possible into the track. Some of the stuff that was done earlier led me to choosing other people to balance things out. The Pirate Robot Midget mix is a fan's work - I thought it was great, it filled a need and I asked permission to use it here.
It's always interesting for me to hear my work reinterpreted - I hope it is for you as well.
Upon the release of this, we will be launching the first portion of the new nin.com at
remix.nin.com
We have been working on this quite a while now and I think you'll like it. It will begin as a home for listening to, sorting through, discussing and uploading remixes the community has made. Hopefully it will be as elegant, useful and fun to use as we envision.

TR

posted by Trent Reznor at 8:01 PM.
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heavy-rotation said:
[...]I'm buying it for the Live multitracks mainly :)
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I'm buying it for the multitracks exclusively :D

I can't stand remix albums. Hell, I don't even like most remixes; they're almost always more fun/rewarding for the perpetrator than the listener. Y'know, like jazz is. Stop me when you think I'm getting too contentious. :D
 
simisker said:
I'm buying it for the multitracks exclusively :D

I can't stand remix albums. Hell, I don't even like most remixes; they're almost always more fun/rewarding for the perpetrator than the listener. Y'know, like jazz is. Stop me when you think I'm getting too contentious. :D
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I don't normally like remix albums, but there are some damn good remixes on this album.

And the Ladytron mix is one of the worst songs on the album :p
 
Bumping this thread because Trent has just started this website:

http://remix.nin.com/

SO damn cool, has all the songs off the new album, links to all the multi-tracks, and is a website where everyone can make and upload their mixes of NIN tracks. It's such a brilliant idea.
 
Carzy said:
m (check out the Capital G remix, it is bangin' as it were...)
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which one do you mean ? il like 2 of them.:) but to be fair everything that dave "switch" taylor and paul "phones" epworth touches is gold so im guessing you mean one of their 2.

switches production is just immense on everything he does


the ladytron mix is awful !
 
Damn forgot to the order the DVD edition - best sort that now :D

The remix site is excellent. Some old classic remixes there and some nice new stuff - kudos to the man!!

I'd personally love a proper release of the live version of non entity that you can see on youtube - one of those songs that just makes you lose yourself in the music.
 
Actually back to the site itself, quite possibly the most revolutionary thing I've seen in a good few years.

The beginning of the end :).
 
"andy" said:
which one do you mean ? il like 2 of them.:) but to be fair everything that dave "switch" taylor and paul "phones" epworth touches is gold so im guessing you mean one of their 2.

switches production is just immense on everything he does


the ladytron mix is awful !
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The Epworth one.
 
I 'm having an issue in trying to extract the files in the Ableton folder.
I installed Ableton and tried to extract the files as the read-me said, but i get the error:

"project.cfg cannot extract check that the file is not in use"

Skipping it and moving to another file i get similar errors, the only files I can get out of the archive are the .aif files.

Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong? Is it me?
 
I've just tried this using WinRAR, and apart from it coming up with a 'couldn't create Mac-specific icon thingy' type error, everything's there - project.cfg, .aifs, the lot.

Which decompression program are you using?

EDIT: I've also just tried it with Windows' own Extract... tool [right-click then drag to hard drive/Extract...] and again, it's worked.
 
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Listening to the remixes on the album for the first time, I am confronted with what for me is a terrifying thing to have to deal with: the Morris/Gilbert version of Zero-Sum is the only track that I really, really like.

This just... shouldn't be. I mean, no. I detest New Order nearly as much as everyone else [over]rates them. Nothing makes me wish that Ian Curtis were made of more stern stuff than New Order. And yet theirs is my favourite track.

I might have to seek counselling.

Rest of the tracks? Meh. I wish Aaron Funk or Justin Broadrick would have had a go at remixing. But hey, I didn't buy it for other people's remixes anyway; I think what Trent's done here should be applauded and rewarded :)
 
Thanks for trying that mate, turns out it was powerarchiver that's not compatible, god knows why i didn't think of taking that out ;).

Thanks for your help/idea :).
 
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