Negativland is Negativland

Negativland

Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song...

's first album, released by Seeland Records

Seeland Records

Seeland Records is an independent record label created by Negativland in 1979 to release their own recordings. It is a reference to the song "Seeland" by the band Neu!, who also gave Negativland the basis for their name, Sea-Land Corporation, a freight company, and the micro-nation of Sealand,...

 in June 1980. Each copy of the album has a different cover. This required a small run of only 15,000 copies. It is on iTunes

ITunes

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 and Napster

Napster

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 with a cover depicting marshmallow soufflé in a bowl. Unlike all other Negativland albums, this album has no titles for the songs, just numbers. This is the rarest Negativland album, next to the misprinted Dispepsi

Dispepsi

Dispepsi is an album by the band Negativland. It was released on July 29, 1997 by Seeland Records, Negativland's record label. It is structured to be a statement against the major soft drink companies and contains many samples of advertisements therefrom....

 albums and the U2 E.P

U2 (EP)

U2 is an EP by the experimental music and sound collage band Negativland, released in 1991. The EP and the band gained notoriety when lawyers representing Island Records, the record label of the band U2, sued over misleading artwork and the use of unauthorized sampling.-History:After Helter Stupid,...

.

This album was recorded when Mark Hosler

Mark Hosler

Mark Hosler is an American musician who is a founding member of the sound art collective Negativland.- Career :Through his public speaking, lectures and extensive interviews, he serves as the primary spokesperson for the group...

 and Richard Lyons

Richard Lyons (musician)

Richard "Pastor Dick Seeland" Lyons is one of the members in Negativland. His personas in the band include Dick Vaughn, 5-time Cali Award winner; auto trivia expert...

 were in high school and at the age of 17.

Track listing

All songs by Mark Hosler/Richard Lyons/David Wills.

1. 1 (1:01)
2. 2 (1:25)
3. 3 (2:16)
4. 4 (1:22)
5. 5 (5:19)
6. 6 (1:18)
7. 7 (0:57)
8. 8 (1:01)
9. 9 (2:02)
10. 10 (1:36)
11. 11 (0:47)
12. 12 (0:33)
13. 13 (1:55)
14. 14 (0:38)
15. 15 (2:12)
16. 16 (3:17)
17. 17 (1:12)
18. 18 (1:34)
19. 19 (5:04)
20. 20 (1:09)

Personnel

• Mark Hosler
  Mark Hosler
  Mark Hosler is an American musician who is a founding member of the sound art collective Negativland.- Career :Through his public speaking, lectures and extensive interviews, he serves as the primary spokesperson for the group...
  
   - tapes
  Tapes
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  , electronics
  Electronics
  Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
  
  , rhythms, Booper, clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  , organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  , loops
  Music loop
  In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , etc.
• Richard Lyons
  Richard Lyons (musician)
  Richard "Pastor Dick Seeland" Lyons is one of the members in Negativland. His personas in the band include Dick Vaughn, 5-time Cali Award winner; auto trivia expert...
  
   - tapes, electronics, rhythms, Booper, clarinet, organ, viola, loops, guitar, etc.
• David Wills - synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , voice, tape
• Peter Dayton - guitars, viola
• W. Kennedy M. (Bill McFarland) - guitar
• Joan Alderdice - bellbeating