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Negativland announce reissue, new studio album 5 December 2001
Originally released in 1990 on cassette by SST, the new version is a re-edited, massively expanded 155 minute double-CD set on the band's own Seeland label. Vaughn was a fictional wannabe radio super-jockey who in 1984 temporarily took over Negativland’s weekly Over The Edge radio program on Berkeley public station KPFA-FM. His Moribund Music Foundation launched two controversial shows in place of Over The Edge—bemusing and even angering some fans of the surrealist/sound-collage series—titled The California Superstation and Dick Vaughn’s Moribund Music of the ’70s. The former was a hit-oriented AOR show, while the latter was a ’70s nostalgia project which forms the core the Volume 4 LP. However, new material on the set includes pieces taped by Vaughn after his tragic death, according to the band. Negativland have also announced a new studio album titled Death Sentences Of The Polished And Structurally Weak, due early next year. The box set will include a 40+ minute CD along with a book consisting of materials found inside junked cars in automotive wrecking yards. Don Joyce, who emcees Over The Edge on KPFA these days, says the disc “...is something of a sonic departure for Negativland, being a solid electronic re-composition of abstract noise and illegible sentences from the dead. The whole project is NOT funny!” On a yet-more-serious note, Negativland’s Mark Hosler last month served on a panel at Duke University’s Conference On The Public Domain, at which he delivered a 10,000 word manifesto titled Two Relationships To A Cultural Public Domain in which he lays out his philosophy on the subject. Check our link for the full PDF text of the presentation. | Negativland | | Conference On The Public Domain | | Hosler essay (PDF) | | discography | | sample | | top of page | |
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