Nine-Inch Nails – Trent Razor

Nine-Inch Nails – Trent Razor

Nine Inch Nails could be one of the bands of today that are strongly influenced from Kraftwerk. However, Nine Inch Nails is generally only a one-man band when run in the studio. How far you can go with rock and electronic music defines the band Nine-Inch Nails. Trent mixes everything from Drum Sets, Synthesizers, Keyboards, Guitars, Bass Guitars, Vocals, and other sound effects in the songs he writes in the studio. He then gets his bands together when he goes on tour to play those songs live.

David Bowie and Trent Razor created a song together called “I’m Afraid of Americans”. I think that it is interesting that David Bowie wanted to work with Trent Razor because he saw that Trent had developed a similar sound to Kraftwerk but with a much modern sound and with today’s musical technology.

Nine-Inch Nails was able to gain a widespread popularity by offering downloadable stems of his work as well as streaming his music for free online when the time was available to do so.

Trent Razor also wrote the score to The Social Network, which won an Oscar later that year.

Trent’s unique ability to get amazing effects but blend them in well with what ever else is going on in the song are quite outstanding. When you hear a song done by nine inch nails you immediately recognize it because of the band’s unique-trademarked sound.

I have been following Nine-Inch Nails for quite sometime and have always wanted to see them live but have not had the opportunity yet. This is one of the few bands that have unlocked the potential to MIDI, and have shown that even just one person can run the whole show, and that they do not need anyone’s help when recording a project by themselves.

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