Showcase: ToToM
Nine Inch Nails fans also have a strong history of remixing songs. nin.com's remix website has created a platform for thousands of fans, of all tastes and competencies, to try out their mixing skills, vote for their favourite tracks, and create their own playlists. Perhaps the most prolific remixer in the community is mash-up artist ToToM, who has combined NIN songs with the work of Depeche Mode, Dr Dre, and Justin Timberlake.
Here, he explains what got him interested in NIN mashups, and his latest project, "The Shup"
As years go by, for quite a number of NIN fans as well as for bootleg listeners, people probably consider me, ToToM, as the official NIN mashup producer as I've been producing mashups featuring NIN since spring 2005 when I made "Get Down Only" making real the disco feel into Only, by mixing it to Kool and the Gang. It got played very quick in the two major bootlegs radio shows, respectively hosted by DJ Zebra and Party Ben at the time which gave me enthusiasm to keep on what was a foolish idea first. I rapidly produced and released With Boots which many NIN fans have adopted as the usual remix album which comes after each studio album. After that, I tried to release an album for each studio album (Ghosts excepted) that got released, approximately a year after each.
This time, with "The Slip", I tried to concentrate on getting the best idea possible for each track, which sometimes took months (I had a few tracks ready before getting the right idea for 1,000,000 -- I tried 4/5 ideas before that -- which triggered ideas for the rest of the album). I didn't want to make something as huge as Bootleg is Resistance, three albums still waiting for a "Best of" that's sleeping into my drawers, and get back to a shorter album which would look just like With Boots.
Reading the positive feedback it's getting for the moment, it seems OK. 1,000,000 waited a long time before I found the introduction track to Justice's album could easily fit and make a great introduction track for this album. Nite Discipline, Head Down Rother and Banging You were the first one made for this album, the last one being "Nirvana Radiatool" as I didn't plan to make something with Corona Radiata until the end. The most difficult mashup to make was No Demon Lost as I had to mix the vocals a bit differently by tightening them up together in the final part (for the music geeks, transforming 6-time measures into 4-time). Anyone can guess the simplest to make was Echoplex 2.
Anyway, The Shup consists in 9 tracks plus 2 bonus tracks, there are already two videos made by SledgeMurdock. A talented and good friend of mine, Churchill-Lies, is behind the artwork. Here's a tracklisting and a view of the artwork, you can still reach the previous albums and the rest of my work through my website, http://www.totom.dj/ .
01. Genesis - 1,000,000 B.C. (Nine Inch Nails vs. Justice)
02. Banging You (Nine Inch Nails vs. Dr. Dre)
03. Nite Discipline (Duran Duran feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland vs. Nine Inch Nails)
04. Echoplex 2 (Nine Inch Nails vs. Blur)
05. Head Down Rother (Nine Inch Nails vs. Death in Vegas)
06. Metal in the Sky (Nine Inch Nails vs. Gary Numan)
07. Nirvana Radiatool (Tool & Nirvana vs. Nine Inch Nails)
08. The Four of us are Heartless (Kanye West vs. Nine Inch Nails)
09. No Demon Lost (Nine Inch Nails vs. LCD Soundsystem covering Joy Division)
bonus tracks :
10. March of the 1,000,000 Pigs (Nine Inch Nails vs. Nine Inch Nails)
11. Break the Echoplex (Nine Inch Nails vs. Britney Spears)
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After this, I'm hoping there will be new NIN material soon to get my hands on but anyway, I still have a couple of ideas for albums to make (NIN vs. NIN, or a compilation of mashups featuring NIN material before WT, maybe a TDS mashup album...), They probably won't see the light before quite some time. Anyway, you can still have a listen to the >80 mashups I made featuring NIN beginning with the newest ones from "The Shup".
-ToToM
