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Nine Inch Nails presents Ghosts I-IV, a brand new 36 track instrumental collection available right now. Almost two hours of new music composed and recorded over an intese ten week period last fall, Ghosts I-IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails across a variety of new terrain.

This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as...something.

The team: Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder and myself with some help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. Rob Sheridan collaborated with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create the accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.

We began improvising and let the music decide the direction. Eyes were closed, hands played instruments and it began. Within a matter of days it became clear we were on to something, and a lot of material began appearing. What we thought could be a five song EP became much more. I invited some friends over to join in and we all enjoyed the process collaborating on this.

The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we're able to present to the world in ways that confines of a major record label would never have allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we've ever created.

More volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future.

-Trent Reznor, March 2, 2008

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