r/nin • u/postulatej • 1d ago

Opinion Chu Ishikawa's influence on Reznor

Been listening to the Tetsuo soundtracks by Chu Ishikawa and the first "Tetsuo: the iron man" soundtrack really sounds like a direct heavy influence on early NIN. One of the songs sounds alot like SIN off of PHM. I can almost hear some march of the pigs at certain moments. Just sounds like Ishikawa's industrial sonic pallete influenced Trent quite a bit. I think I like the tetsuo 3 soundtrack the most.

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u/FaustHammer92 1d ago

IIRC Trent based the Becoming off of Tetsuo the Ironman. He definitely was a fan of the movies and even did the Bullet Man Theme, which I'm guessing you already knew.

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u/postulatej 1d ago

Yes I love that song! Didn't know that bit about the becoming but that makes sense.

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u/uncultured_swine2099 1d ago

Yeah, Trent talked about that movie and David Lynch films as early cinematic influences on his music. I could hear some Tetsuo harshness in TDS and Fragile.

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u/jmtd И 15h ago

I’ve definitely heard the bit that sounds very like sin in Ironman. I’ve struggled to track it down on the ost though 

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u/postulatej 8h ago

it is track 2 TD (Tetsuo Dance).