On Mon, 11 Apr 1994, Roy Badami wrote:
quoted 15 lines Negativland settled with Island to avoid a long costly court case that>
> > Negativland settled with Island to avoid a long costly court case that
> > they probably wouldn't win. Even if they did win, the attorney fees
> > would have bankrupted them.
>
>
> Quick question: who are negativeland, what have they done, and what
> kind of music do they do....?
>
> I ask because I heard some weird trippy vocal samples (no music) on
> the radio (something about how many time zones there were in the
> USSR....) and the person whose show it was told me it was
> negativland.... is this the same thing....?
>
>yeah... that sounds like that was probably them... negativland are swell
and bizarre... i believe they have a fairly regular radio show in san
francisco... generally, they put together crazy samples from various
sources (often commercials and newsbroadcasts) to which they sometimes
add music... i personally think they're pretty darned swell although many
(most?) people would describe them as irritating... check out "helter
stupid" if you want an interesting documentation of a wacky prank they
pulled involving a song called "christianity is stupid". the last thing
i've heard from them is "free" and that's pretty neat too... one out of
every thirty or so of their "songs" might be considered idm if you were
in a really strange mood...
jwombat