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=====DVD=====
#"1,000,000" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:12#"Letting You" (Live Rehearsal)- 3:57#"Discipline" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:12#"Echoplex" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:51#"Head Down" (Live Rehearsal)- 4:04
====12" Vinyl====
*Mixed by Alan Moulder
*Programmed by Atticus Ross
*Engineered by [[Michael Tuller]], Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder
*Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California
*Hair: Cori Bardo
*Project coordination: [[Brett Bachemin]]
*Assistance: Alynn Dotson
*Management: Rebel Waltz
The album site requires a password to be submitted where the link to the download page can be sent to. The site itself states:
<blockquote>as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album '''one hundred percent free''', exclusively via nin.com.</blockquote>
<blockquote>we encourage you to [http://remix.nin.com/ remix] it, share it with your friends, post it on your blog, play it on your [[podcasts|podcast]], give it to strangers, etc.</blockquote> [[Multitracks]] for the songs were then posted for download from [[remix.nin.com]]
According to a [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/20818072/nin_release_free_album_online Rolling Stone article], the album was finished May 4th and sent to Sudjam, the company that manages nin.com, at 9:30 p.m. for a midnight release.
In a nin.com update on June 26th, 2008, it was reported that since the album's release on May 5th, 2008, over 1,400,000 people had downloaded ''The Slip'' from theslip.nin.com. That number represents individual people, and excludes multiple downloads from the same order.
==Multitracks==
The [[Multitracks|multitracks]] for the single "Discipline" were made available on [[remix.nin.com]] at the same time it was released as a free download. Multitracks for the remaining songs on ''The Slip'' were made available on May 5, 2008 as a free download from remix.nin.com.
==Touring==
''For more information, see [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]''
The album (as well as ''Ghosts I-IV'', which was released the same year) was supported by a tour that visited North and South America. This tour was notable for having the most ambitious production of any NIN tour before or sinceup to that point, using groundbreaking lighting and video technology. The middle portion of the set, referred to as the "Ghosts" portion, utilized some of that album's unorthodox (for NIN) instrumentation such as marimba, banjo and small percussion.
== Relation to ''Year Zero '' ==Like ''Ghosts I–IV'', the release of ''The Slip'' came as a surprise to most fans, who were expecting the next release to be a continuation of ''[[Year Zero]]''. Reznor has indicated in interviews since the release that a ''[[Year Zero]]'' sequel was still in the works.
Aside from [[Art Is Resistance]] logo in the artwork for "Letting You", there are no clear, direct references to characters or events in ''Year Zero''. Some tracks share similar themes, such as abuse of power ("Letting You"), an avatar of destruction ("Demon Seed"), submission to authority ("Head Down"), imprisonment ("Echoplex") and the appearance of entities in the sky ("Lights In The Sky"). Other songs, however, like "1,000,000" and "Discipline", seem completely unrelated and feature more "traditional" NIN themes of personal turmoil. It remains unclear which portions, if any, of ''The Slip'' should be considered canon in the ''Year Zero'' storyline.
==External Links==
*[http://theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com]
*[http://wwwportraitofdecay.net/theslip.nin.com theslip.nin.com] archived at Portrait of Decay*[http://nincatalog.com/index.asp?halo=27 the-slip/ ''The Slip'' at nincatalog.com]
*[http://theslip.apocalyptech.com Un-official The Slip owners database]
*[http://dl.nin.com/kml/slip_dls.kml Google Earth KML file] to show worldwide download stats
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