Negativland: Big 10-8 Place CD (Seeland)
2007-12-01 12:42:00 Long awaited re-issue of Negativland's legendary 1983 difficult listening conceptual suburban epic. Over three years in the making, and with ten-thousand-million-billion analog tape splices, this insanely cut-up and uniquely weird release remains the hands down favorite of many fans of Negativland's work. This re-issue comes with a 60-minute bonus DVD of Negativland's "NO OTHER POSSIBILITY" video, which was made in the mid-80s.Since 1980, the 4 or 5 or 6 Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sound, image and text. Mixing original materials and original music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture and the world around them, Negativland re-arranges these found bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural archaeology and "culture jamming" (a term they coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice... |
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