NEGATIVLAND: A Big 10-8 Place (+ No Other Possibility bonus DVD)

Seeland 003 CD/DVD
1983 (reissued 2007 with bonus DVD)

At last, the re-re-issue of Negativland’s long out-of-print 1983 release, A BIG 10-8 PLACE. Three years in the making, and with ten-thousand-million-billion analog tape splices, it's an audio odyssey through Contra Costa County made of painstakingly assembled sounds and ideas. As sheer sound collage, it remains unlike anything else we've ever made (only DEATHSENTENCES comes sonically close to it).

This re-re-issue comes packaged with a 60-minute bonus DVD of Negativland’s first foray into video, NO OTHER POSSIBILITY, featuring material shot before, during and a few years after A BIG 10-8 PLACE was released (and originally available on VHS).

This 1983 album was originally issued on LP, and then re-released on CD in the early 1990’s with all the original packaging (wraparound sleeve, ’land’ collage, poster map, bumper sticker, hand embossing, a baggy of lawn clippings; a winter version had tanbark wood chips instead). But now, after being out of print for over seven years, this new re-re-issue surfaces, this time in a standard design mass produced version. Sorry about that, but after making over 11,000 of these by hand over a period of 17 years, we finally gave up. If you want to find the original LP or CD versions, look on Ebay and GEMM. And be sure it has all the stuff in it it’s supposed to have!