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
Professional reviews
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. http://www. ... Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single, but are too short to qualify as albums. ... “NIN” redirects here. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Government  - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area  - City  350. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a genre of electronic music derived from dance music of the 1980s and early 1990s which puts an emphasis on novel processing and sequencing. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and John Malm, Jr. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and a modern day Renaissance man. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 1. ... A typical example of Pitchforks main page, as of 12-12-06 Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K, pitchy, or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 2. ... “NIN” redirects here. ... The Fragile (also known as Halo 14) is a double album by Nine Inch Nails released in 1999. ... And All That Could Have Been (also known as Halo 17) is a live album set and double DVD released by Nine Inch Nails in 2002. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks distributed to the public. ... “NIN” redirects here. ... A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ... The Fragile (also known as Halo 14) is a double album by Nine Inch Nails released in 1999. ... Into the Void is a single by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released in 2000. ...

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. 10 Miles High is a Nine Inch Nails song, written by Trent Reznor with instrumentation by Trent Reznor and Keith Hillebrandt. ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Chemical structure of the vinyl functional group. ... Label for 2. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The volume of a solid object is the three-dimensional concept of how much space it occupies, often quantified numerically. ...

"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 Fragile (also known as Halo 14) is a double album by Nine Inch Nails released in 1999. ...

"The Great Collapse" is an outtake from The Fragile with the chorus from "The Wretched". An outtake can be a take or scene, as of a movie, or a television program, that is filmed but not used in the final cut, usually for pacing reasons. ...

"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." Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on March 8, 1958) is an English singer, composer, musician and electropop pioneer. ... The Pleasure Principle is a 1979 New Wave / electronic album by Gary Numan. ... Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and a modern day Renaissance man. ...

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. PCM is an initialism which can have different meanings: Phase Change Material Pulse-code modulation, a way to digitally encode signals representing sound and their video counterparts Potential Cancer Marker Communist Party of Mexico Plug Compatible Manufacturer Power-train control module, a computer in a car which controls the car... Digital audio comprises audio signals stored in a digital format. ... Starfuckers, Inc. ... This article is about audio effect. ... In telecommunications, delay encoding is the encoding of binary data to form a two-level signal such that (a) a 0 causes no change of signal level unless it is followed by another 0 in which case a transition to the other level takes place at the end of the... A low-pass filter is a filter that passes low frequencies but attenuates (or reduces) frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency. ... A high-pass filter is a filter that passes high frequencies well, but attenuates (or reduces) frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency. ... A vocoder (name derived from voice encoder, formerly also called voder) is a speech analyzer and synthesizer. ... A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. ... Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician whose activities include playing keyboard and drums, programming, engineering, and mixing. ... A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. ...

Releases

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

Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and John Malm, Jr. ... Interscope Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMGs Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. ... Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and John Malm, Jr. ... Interscope Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMGs Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. ...

Track listing

CD version

1. "Slipping Away" (remixed by Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder) – 6:11
2. "The Great Collapse" (remixed by Reznor, Moulder) – 4:42
3. "The Wretched (version)" (remixed by Keith Hillebrandt) – 5:52
4. "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Adrian Sherwood) – 5:11
5. "The Frail (version)" (remixed by Benelli) – 2:47
6. "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Dave Ogilvie) – 6:06
7. "Where Is Everybody? (version)" (remixed by Danny Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv) – 5:07
8. "Metal" – 7:05
9. "10 Miles High (version)" (remixed by Hillebrandt) – 5:11
10. "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Charlie Clouser) – 5:09

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and a modern day Renaissance man. ... Alan Moulder (born 11 June 1959) is one of Britains premier alternative rock record producers. ... Starfuckers, Inc. ... Adrian Sherwood Adrian Sherwood (born 1958) is a British record producer best known for his work with dub music as well as for remixing a number of popular acts such as Coldcut, Depeche Mode, Primal Scream, Pop Will Eat Itself, and Sinéad OConnor. ... Skinny Puppy is a prominent industrial band, which formed in Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1982. ... Daniel Patrick Lohner (born December 13, 1970 in Corpus Christi, Texas) , most commonly known as Danny Lohner is an industrial musician who plays bass guitar, guitar and keyboards. ... Telefon Tel Aviv is a New Orleans-based electronic music group (relocated to Chicago in 2001) primarily known for their work in the intelligent dance music genre. ... 10 Miles High is a Nine Inch Nails song, written by Trent Reznor with instrumentation by Trent Reznor and Keith Hillebrandt. ... Charles Alexander Clouser (born June 28, 1963 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is a musician whose activities include playing keyboard and drums, programming, engineering, and mixing. ...

Vinyl version

(disc 1)

1. "Slipping Away" (remixed by Reznor, Moulder) – 6:11
2. "The Great Collapse" (remixed by Reznor, Moulder) – 4:42
3. "The Wretched (version)" (remixed by Hillebrandt) – 5:52
4. "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Sherwood) – 5:11

(disc 2)

1. "The Frail (version)" (remixed by Benelli) – 2:47
2. "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Ogilvie) – 6:06
3. "10 Miles High (version)" (remixed by Hillebrandt) – 5:11
4. "Metal" – 7:05
5. "Where Is Everybody? (version)" (remixed by Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv) – 5:07
6. "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Clouser) – 5:09

External links

• nin.com
• Halo 16 Lyrics
• nincollector.com: halo sixteen
• discogs.com: Things Falling Apart (US CD)
• discogs.com: Things Falling Apart (US 2x12")