NEGATIVLAND: Escape From Noise (+ booklet and sticker)

Seeland 006
CD, "Is it Over Yet?" booklet
& "CAR BOMB" sticker
1987 (reissued 1999)

If there is one Negativland CD that someone you know owns, it’s probably this one. This 1987 SST Records release was a surprise college radio hit, and, some say, years ahead of it’s time. "Escape From Noise" is one of our bestselling and most accessible projects, where we took the tape splicing skills honed on "A Big 10-8 Place" into ever more musical directions. In 1999 Seeland Records reissued "Escape From Noise" in a reworked package designed for the CD format. Negativland always intended the original cover artwork to be for the LP format only, and we were never happy with the "original" painted cover image reduced to such small size on the first CD issue. This new version features that artwork full size as the front cover, with the remainder of the artwork reformatted throughout the package by ace designer and Negativland satellite member Dan Lynch. This new version of "Escape From Noise" is not remastered or remixed in any way, nor is there any extra material added.

SST Records may still be selling this album in an unauthorized bootleg edition for which we haven't received royalties since 1992. Please buy it from us instead!