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Originally Posted by Mike33
Agreed. I've always been a fan of NIN.
I see Trent as a cool producer that took synthesizer based music in another direction (dark). You had Kraftwerk (a German group) in the 70's that pioneered synthezer music, which inspired Afrika Bambataa to use synthz to lay down the foundation for hip-hop in the late 70's early 80's, then you had Michael Jackson use it to make pop music (Thriller), and finally Trent Reznor to make it cool for the "life suck I want to kill myself, whatever" generation of the 90's.
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Skinny Puppy was a major direct influence on Reznor himself. Listen to some early 80s S.P. and it's virtually indistinguishable from NIN's early work... S.P. in turn were also influenced by throbbing gristle, kraftwerk and such, so it all comes back to the source in the end.