Nine Inch Nails will be releasing their highly-anticipated album With Teeth on May 3, 2005. The new single The Hand That Feeds has already hit the airwaves worldwide. But the coolest news regarding this release was released today.
The Nine Inch Nails anthology has been notorious for releasing albums that have remixed versions of previously recorded material. First, there was Fixed, which featured remixed songs from the EP Broken, and then there was Further Down The Spiral, which included remixed tracks originally featured on the album The Downward Spiral. This does not include all the remixes that were featured as B-sides on the other halos.
I have known for many years that Trent Reznor was a Mac nut, and the majority of his albums have been recorded digitally using Pro Tools on Mac platforms. Having "worshipped" Trent's music for a large portion of my early adulthood, I was always interested in the recording and production process of his masterpiece works. Today, I got my first glimpse into the layers upon layers of raunchy guitars, screeching keyboards, angst-driven vocals, and loops of static.
Today, Trent Reznor made available to the world, the recording session for The Hand That Feeds as a free download via the NIN website. The song has been encoded in Garageband format, so anybody with a current version of Garageband (i.e. Garageband 2) can import the session, and make their own remixes of The Hand That Feeds. How cool is that? To my knowledge, no recording artist has ever done anything like this before.
Without wasting any time, I downloaded the recording session to my computer. I have an older version of Garageband, so I was unsure if the session would even play on my computer. I did get a great number of errors while the session loaded, but I managed to get the file to play. I also got a number of errors due to the lack of available RAM (I would suggest having a minimum of 1 gigabyte of RAM before you attempt at editing the session), but I was nonetheless ecstatic. I can't wait until I can start messing around with the loops and create my own Nine Inch Nails remix.
This has got to be the coolest thing I have seen in the longest time. Bravo, Trent.
