THINGS FALLING APART

:''For other uses see Things Fall Apart (disambiguation)''
'''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 the track "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.

Contents

Releases

Track listing

CD version

Vinyl version

External links

Releases

★ Nothing Records / Interscope Records 0694907442 - CD

★ Nothing Records / Interscope Records 0694907441 - 12" Vinyl

Track listing

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

Vinyl version

(disc 1)
# "Slipping Away" (remixed by Reznor, Moulder) – 6:11
# "The Great Collapse" (remixed by Reznor, Moulder) – 4:42
# "The Wretched (version)" (remixed by Hillebrandt) – 5:52
# "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Sherwood) – 5:11
(disc 2)
# "The Frail (version)" (remixed by Benelli) – 2:47
# "Starfuckers, Inc. (version)" (remixed by Ogilvie) – 6:06
# "10 Miles High (version)" (remixed by Hillebrandt) – 5:11
# "Metal" – 7:05
# "Where Is Everybody? (version)" (remixed by Lohner, Telefon Tel Aviv) – 5:07
# "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")