Things Falling Apart

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Things Falling Apart

EP by Nine Inch Nails
Released	November 21, 2000
Recorded	Nothing Studios, New Orleans
Genre	Rock IDM
Length	53:22
Label	Nothing Records
Producer(s)	Trent Reznor
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (0.4/10) link Rolling Stone 7 Dec 00
Nine Inch Nails chronology
The Fragile (1999)	Things Falling Apart (2000)	And All That Could Have Been (2002)

Things Falling Apart (also known as Halo 16) is an album by Nine Inch Nails released in 2000. Things Falling Apart is the sixteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is the companion remix disc to The Fragile. The unofficial U.S. promo CD for Into the Void is also labeled as Halo 16.

The remix of "10 Miles High", originally a Fragile B-side (although it can be found on the triple vinyl release), is almost identical to the album version, except that the left and right channels are reversed, the introduction is shortened, the end section has a guitar track featured in the middle of the original, and the volume is generally louder than the original.

"Slipping Away" is a remixed version of sections edited out of a track from The Fragile ("Into The Void"). "Into The Void," in its original form (with what would become "Slipping Away" intact), was nine minutes long.

"The Great Collapse" is an outtake from The Fragile with the chorus from "The Wretched".

"Metal" is a cover of the Gary Numan song originally released on his album The Pleasure Principle. This song, though not written by Reznor, seems to sum up the experience of The Fragile-era Nine Inch Nails with its melding of man and machine, human and computer, realtime and sequenced. Though this track is a cover of "Metal" it also contains elements from other tracks on "The Pleasure Principle," namely the track entitled "M.E."

Further working on the aesthetic concept of man and machine coalescing and colliding, the overly (and somewhat) precise nature of PCM Digital Audio is exploited. Like previous remix albums, this employs extreme use of audio experimentation (heavy glitching effects on "The Frail (version)". The last track, a Starfuckers, Inc. remix, involved heavy use of layering, reverb and delay, low- and hi-pass filtering, buffer effects, vocoding, warping and distortion until it resembles crashing at the end, almost like Charlie Clouser's DAW could not take it anymore.

1 Releases
2 Track listing
- 2.1 CD version
- 2.2 Vinyl version
3 External links

[edit] Releases

Nothing Records / Interscope Records 0694907442 - CD
Nothing Records / Interscope Records 0694907441 - 12" Vinyl

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD version

"Slipping Away" (remixed by Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder) – 6:11
"The Great Collapse" (remixed by Reznor, Moulder) – 4:42
"The Wretched (version)" (remixed by Keith Hillebrandt) – 5:52
"Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Adrian Sherwood) – 5:11
"The Frail (version)" (remixed by Benelli) – 2:47
"Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Dave Ogilvie) – 6:06
"Where Is Everybody? (version)" (remixed by Danny Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv) – 5:07
"Metal" – 7:05
"10 Miles High (version)" (remixed by Hillebrandt) – 5:11
"Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Charlie Clouser) – 5:09