Episode: 211 Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross + NIN

Very High Frequencies goes instrumental on this week’s episode. VHF-211 (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross + NIN) features a selection of music released on soundtracks for two David Fincher directed movies, The Social Network (2010) and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) as well as instrumental tracks released by Nine Inch Nails, both prior to and after Atticus joining the band in 2008. We especially examine the instrumental NIN double LP Ghosts I - IV (2008) which features former King Crimson member Adrian Belew on several tracks playing lead guitar and performing some programming as well. 

Trent Reznor included non-vocal tracks on his releases beginning with the second NIN non single release, 1992’s Broken EP. We here at VHF managed to squeeze in songs from eight different NIN releases and still check out some of the interesting soundtrack songs from The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (triple album) which marked the beginning of Trent and Atticus’ long and fruitful side job making music for film and television. 

In an interesting bit of serendipity Trent Reznor has just announced that he and Atticus will be releasing music for the upcoming Disney franchise science fiction flick Tron, this time as Nine Inch Nails, so this show is just Part One no doubt.

Join Not Dead Yet Mike for this episode of VHF, may I say it’s excellent as a workout mix because there’s no vocals, it’s all about the beat and the groovy music. Pump it up!