Track Listing

1. Gunshots by Computer: Saul Williams Mix
2. The Great Destroyer: Modwheelmood Mix
3. My Violent Heart: Pirate Robot Midget Mix
4. The Beginning Of The End: Ladytron Mix
5. Survivalism: Saul Williams Tardusted Mix
6. Capital G: Phones 666 Revolutions Mix
7. Vessel: Bill Laswell Mix
8. The Warning: Stefan Goodchild Featuring Doudou N'Diaye Rose Mix
9. Meet Your Master: The Faint Mix
10. God Given: Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert Mix
11. Me, I'm Not: Olof Dreijer Mix
12. Another Version Of The Truth: Kronos Quarteet & Enrique Gonzalez Muller Mix
13. In This Twilight: Fennesz Mix
14. Zero-Sum: Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert Mix

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19849 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: CD+DVD, Enhanced
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 191 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D--or "Year Zero Remixed", if you don’t do leetspeak, is the latest example of Trent Reznor’s urge to see Nine Inch Nails material dissected, reworked, mistreated and reinterpreted by his friends and peers. For many artists, remix albums are by their nature slightly uneven collections, lacking the common thread that makes a good record a consistent piece of work-–yet past NIN offerings like 1995’s Further Down the Spiral have somehow bucked this trend, and Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D is no exception. This isn’t, you suspect so much to do with any similarities between the artists--everyone's here from British synth-poppers Ladytron to beat poet Saul Williams to minimalist classical ensemble Kronos Quartet--as it is the consistency of Reznor’s vision; no matter how thorough the audio mangling, his damaged humanity still has a habit of poking through the gaps. Highlights include the smudged ambience of Fennesz’s take on "In This Twilight" and the immersive, abstract techno of Olof Dreijer’s 15 minute remix of "Me I’m Not", but the real coup here is two mixes by Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert of New Order that pull off machine-like synth-pop and drifting vintage electronics ambience leaving Reznor’s vocals wholly intact. –-Louis Pattison

CD Description
Industrial mastermind Trent Reznor fulfils his contract to Interscope Records with this new version of his dystopian concept album, featuring remixes by such luminaries as Bill Laswell, Paul Epworth, Christian Fennesz, Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert (ex-New Order) and Olof Dreijer (The Knife). The release also includes a DVD-ROM with multi-track WAV filesof every song from 'Year Zero', allowing fans to remix the tunes themselves using software such as Ableton or GarageBand.

Customer Reviews

interesting but inessential
Finally, Trent Reznor is free. After fifteen years with Interscope, the slave has desperately tried, in his way to be free. Since 1992, the world has changed. The Internet happened. No longer do artists need or even want the conduit of a major label to press their records, to sell their material. The choking stranglehold over the media that previously was dictated to by the capitalists owning the means of manufacture and supply are over : finally, to misquote the old Communist cartoon, Worker Destroys Parasite.

To make a record you don't need a studio, or a record contract, or an advertising budget. Register a website, make the songs at home, press the button marked "uplaod". The slave owns only himself. And with this, the both superfluous-and-necessary remix album, Nine Inch Nails finally release themselves. "Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D" is a collection of remixed versions of the preceding album (the rather excellent, paranoid, and intriguing "Year Zero"). Following in the tradition of "Fixed", "Further Down The Spiral", and "Things Falling Apart", the newly prolific Reznor appears to have kicked the flab of addiction and is now heading straight on a path of unbridled creativity. (This year alone has seen a full length concert DVD, a new studio record, this remix package, and the free download release of "Niggy Tardust" - the album he made in collaboration with Saul Williams, as a free download)

But is "Year Zero Remixed" actually any good? Well, I would hesitate to say it's good. As a listening experience, it follows the template of the previous NIN Remix albums by being a frustratingly uneven collection of alternate versions that sounds like a compilation instead of anything as cohesive as an `album'. Artists selected to remix include - in some instances - the rare epitome of people following the remixers remit and reworking material to sound like a brand new song. In other cases, as is more often the situation, the existant material is reworked to create gloomy and extenuated mood pieces of minimalist repetition or moulded into a largely monotone selection of dated industrial grooves : Bill Laswell's vinyl only remix of "Vessel" is a bit of a dull dirge, to say the least. Intruigingly, possibly the most interesting, and least typical remixes come from Stephen Morris / Gillian Gilbert from New Order (and lesser known pop act The Other Two), who present `God Given' and `Zero Sum' in a miserablist pop mould. But it still sounds like Nine Inch Nails. Ultimately as soon as you put Reznors voice onto anything it automatically sounds like Nine Inch Nails : even if he were singing "Shiny Happy People".

Which he isn't. "Year Zero" was one of the albums of 2007 : a political, literate work of science fiction styled fantasy that acted as the soundtrack to an imaginary tale of ruthless paranoia and tinfoil hat conspiracy. "Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D" meanwhile, is just a different look onto the same scene, a new frame for a work, a revised, reworked, rethought approach to the established knowledge. As an album, it's not quite an artistic success, but a selection of largely interesting revisions. Think of it as a extended selection of remixes, an additional, interesting curio, and you will be pleasantly surprised. Interesting, but inessential.

Peopl have got it all wrong
It seems to me that every reviewer has the wrong idea. The remix album isn't supposed to be seen as a straight-up NIN album but that of an interpretation by the remixer. Trent Reznor has no creative input and so this album should be listened to as a various artist tribute type record. I personally have yet to be disapointed with any of the remix albums, this being no exception. Great music remixed to create more great music in styles which Trent Reznor would not delve into himself. Top marks!

where year zero = 5+ (z3r0remixed = not good at all)
As the first reviewer stated. The limitless potential is better. Much better. Download it and listen for yourself. The two piano based versions of me i'm not on TLP alone make it a more worthwhile and interesting listen than this. There are a few decent tracks on here but nothing that the average bedroom remixer couldn't do with the sample packs provided on the dvd. If you bought things falling apart when it came out then you're likely to see this album in the same light as that when it's compared to the fragile. A random selection of dance/groove orientated mixes equally spaced with a few more experimantal idm/glitch influenced takes. Dance music for people who dislike dance music. Maybe i'm stuck in the dirty old days of downward spiral remixes where the tracks were taken to the extreme in various directions rather then merely underpinned with a 70's big beat groove and shredded slightly in the vocal department.

3 stars from me but that's only on the grounds of there being a dvd full of wavs to mess about with if you're into the idea. Which if you are it'll keep you amused for a lot longer than this collection of so/so random remixes ever could. Without the dvd consider it a 2 star affair. Comfortable but devoid of the thrills you might be hoping for on the ride.