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2002-06-11 21:39StaticBeats [idm] The Lost Electronic Broadcast Network
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2002-06-11 21:39StaticBeatsI've done some snooping about and tracked down the location of EBN - better known as the E
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I've done some snooping about and tracked down the location of EBN - better known as the Electronic Broadcast Network. These guys created some positively mindblowing videos and singles and later an album that were ahead of it's time and yet still very similiar to what ColdCut did years before. Here are some links for your pleasure: http://www.oddcast.com/oddcast/site/infopages/channels.html This is the current home of the only remaining member Joshua Pearson - now operating as OTV News http://www.guerrillanews.com/ebn/ This is the home of the EBN Lost Tapes. Wonderful resource with tons of videos background and information http://www.dqc.org/~chris/ebn.html Herein lies 3 downloadable Quicktime movies: Emergency Broadcast Control System, 3:7:8, and A Lad Insane I've been wondering for years what happened to this group but the Guerrilanews website sums it up with the following helpful info: Created before the modern web-based media revolution, E.B.N.'s unique brand of musical sound-byte mayhem was so startlngly original that U2 asked the upstart video producers if they could open their Zoo TV tour with We Will Rock You - one of the cuts featured on this page. Soon after, they were signed to TVT Records, releasing the VHS tape "Commercial Entertainment Product" in 1992 and the enhanced CD "Telecommunication Breakdown" in 1995. Always too far ahead of its time for its own good, E.B.N. was not able to sustain a viable income strategy which could keep up with the massive expenditures required for R&D and special hardware and software systems and, in 1998, discontinued operations as a group. Recently, however, founder Joshua Pearson created a suite of videos about the 2000 elections in the traditional E.B.N. style... these videos, called OTV News, are now viewable at OTV News. Currently, Pearson is working on special projects with GNN co-founder Josh Shore.