WELCOME TO THE NEGATIVLAND FORKLIFTERS CLUB Good Hello Forklifters. In this announcement you will find–
1. NEGATIVLAND PRANKS CLEAR CHANNEL Not as serious or as big of a deal as this article makes it sound, but Jack is having fun. Go here to read the details - http://www.ink19.com/news/2003/35/345.html Pass along to anyone you think might be amused.
2. NEW CD RELEASE FROM SEELAND THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE Columbus, Ohio's legendary ECC predated the entire "mash-ups" phenomenon with an unholy marriage of Public Enemy and Herb Alpert back in 1996 ("The Whipped Cream Mixes" 7"). Now they're back with a brilliant 29-track plunderphonic cookbook of instant classics, including "Rocked By Rape" (which earned ECC a cease-and-desist from CBS News, later dismissed), an inexplicably hilarious and rousing anthem ("I Want a Cookie") and even pieces dedicated to each primary meal of the day. Originally issued in a different, nascent form (known as "V.1" and handed out by the ECC as a CD-R), Plagiarhythm Nation has been totally remastered, re-tooled, re-configured and expanded upon for Seeland release. A playful and brilliantly executed album that significantly ups the ante for the cut-up genre. To order "Plagiarhythm Nation" on-line with your credit or debit card, go here For US snail mail orders, send $13.50 in check or well-concealed cash to -
3. ANOTHER NEW CD RELEASE FROM SEELAND BOB OSTERTAG Long-awaited follow-up to Mr. Ostertag's first solo CD release (Like a Melody, No Bitterness, also on Seeland). Once again, this notorious digital-hatchet-man of San Francisco has unleashed a mind-melting, CD-player-laser-shorting-out masterpiece of manipulation. DJ of the Month is a 40:48 non-stop maelstrom of severely manipulated sound sources, radically altered beyond all recognition in a truly sonic tornado. Bob's liner notes recommend that the listener "skip it altogether" if he/she does not have an uninterrupted 40:48 listening environment available, and we couldn't agree more. This is meditation on burning coals, thoughtful reflection as windowpanes fall on you from collapsing buildings above. And the front cover is signed by John Ashcroft.
4. AND YET ANOTHER NEW CD RELEASE FROM SEELAND XEROPHONICS Now here's music which is unarguably COPIED - deftly organized ditties which have been collated, toned, and jammed by one Dr. Stefan Helmreich, who masterminded this new "genre". That's right - 13 great songs assembled entirely from the sounds of office copying machines, with track titles such as "Toshiba 2060" and "Xerox 5425 (Bookmark 35)". Oddly soothing music to sweep the cubicle by! To order XEROPHONICS on-line with your credit or debit card, go here. For US snail mail orders, send $13.50 in check or well-concealed cash to -
5. NEW 7" SPLIT SINGLE ON SEELAND/ELECTRO MOTIVE MONO PAUSE / AAVIKKO The first collaborative issue by Seeland with the Electro Motive Records label is a groovy little vinyl disc, "El Cebo" b/w "Of Stomping Men", featuring the SF East Bay's "situationist" freak band Mono Pause (which includes Peter from Negativland) covering Finland's super-eccentric 80's-keyboard-driven monster band Aavikko, and vice-versa. Each band has utterly mutated the work of the other, and the result is a beautiful, off-kilter mix of non-Western instrumentation, cheap keyboards, sultry horns and salty textures across two very different sides. To order "El Cebo/Of Stomping Men" on-line with your credit or debit card, go here. For US snail mail orders, send $4.50 in check or well-concealed cash to - ********************************************************* 6. OTE ON CD AS MP3 Complete episodes of Negativland's weekly live improvised radio show, Over The Edge, are available on CD-Rs in mp3 format. Any show on the OTE sales list can now be purchased as an mp3 CD for $13 each, regardless of whether it is a 3 or 5-hour show.For These OTE mp3s are uninterrupted recordings of the whole show on one CD-R in mp3 format from a 128 kilobit stream digitized directly from the KPFA broadcast mixing board. $13 each includes shipping by carrier of your choice, UPS or US Postal. You can order OTE mp3s on line using Paypal. For an Over The Edge sales list, show descriptions, and ordering info, go to negativland.com/ote. Note - mp3 orders will go to a new and different address from the cassette order address.
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