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Jump to Review Halo 26, Ghosts I-IV has just been announced at the nine inch nails website. It's a collection of 36 instrumental tracks created with no clear agenda, with the entire process being driven by impulse and improvisation. Of it, Trent says: 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 ...

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Another year come, another year gone. After spending 2006 evaluating the status of my iTunes library and trimming some fat, I took the opportunity in 2007 to explore a lot of new material. And I must say that overall it was a pretty good year for both my library and for music in general. I had added 1,891 songs to my library by the end of October, which marks ...

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For nearly as long as there's been an Internet, fans have been contributing to the nine inch nails experience. There's something about the music that seems to inspire a devotional following (probably has to do with expressions of angst, contempt and alienation wrapped appealing pop sensibilities). Youthful rebelliousness and antiestablishmentism runs deep through both camps. Indeed, the rise of nin and the net seems to have coincided perfectly with ...

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So Amazon recently threw its hat into the thunderdome of online digital music sales. The store's big brand name and huge retail operation instantly make it one of the top tier marts for digital music. As Amazon MP3 is seen primarily as a challenger to the iTunes Store's throne, I originally wanted to do a compare and contrast with that gorilla, but later thought that unfair to eMusic, who ...

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6627904867875032821 Ethan Winer plays all 37 separate parts on A Cello Rondo, including the percussion, on his cello. He also composed the song. The music is about 6 minutes long and the end of the video shows his digital music editing and some of his film setup. Not only is the production quite smooth, showcasing the power of modern technology to allow a single person to (relatively) easily create complex ...

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A short seven months after the release of his debut record, Diplomatic Immunity, the unfathomable intergalactic negotiator and groove machine has returned with a most urgent message. You see, The Phantasmal Farm is in danger and in need of saving. The pull of the 8th Dimension has that place of transcendental epiphanies in its grasp and only you, yes you!, can save it. The Polish Ambassador implores you to download ...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNNzGhzIAVo From the album Pixel Revolt (2005). Download MP3. Man, I am obsessed with this song. Seriously, it's been on repeat in my head for the past seven days. I can't decide what I find more compelling, the musical arrangement, melody and composition of the song or its fascinating subject matter. I heard it for the first time a week ago, while partaking in my weekly Podcast Friday™ podcast listening spree and ...

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This song is perhaps the greatest mystery in the entirety of my music collection. It's a fairly sophisticated remix of the song Twift Shoeblade from Mouse on Mars' third album Autoditacker (1997). The tempo is a little faster, the arrangement has a little more punch and it has been resequenced slightly. Not to snub the original at all, but I must say I pretty much prefer the remixed version. ...

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A number of people pointed out to me recently that Radiohead's seminal masterpiece, OK Computer, turned ten years old a couple weeks ago. That's right, it's been a full decade since the band began to cement its reputation as "world's greatest rock band." Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday, my friend Dan was imploring me to give Radiohead a shot. At this point in the ...

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