Seeland

Phipps Pt.

Songs We No Longer Sing

Seeland

Phipps Pt. is the duo of Lovage Sharrock and Jon Leidecker (Wobbly, Negativland, Thurston Moore Group). Falling somewhere between precise songcraft and free improvisation, acid folk and ambient electronics, the music Sharrock and Leidecker create is an ongoing conversation between two singular artists and longtime friends listening and responding to one another with care and curiosity. Songs We No Longer Sing—the duo’s second studio album—is a song cycle which moves across vignettes of consumption, lust, grief, and what it takes to push through life at a moment when so many forces are marshalled against living. Sharrock’s gossamer vocals and delicately finger-picked guitar find their complement in Leidecker’s careful approach to processing both, so that input frequently becomes indistinguishable from output. The album’s electronic glitches, buzzes, whirrs, and drones burnish rather than obscure Sharrock’s plaintive melodies and imagistic lyrics. Phipps Pt. work their sonic material into a final composition whose design, no matter how abstract, never erases the traces of the human hands behind it. Sharrock often says at the start of a performance that Phipps Pt. is “an idea and a place that we are going to together.” Full of strange beauty and unexpected emotional candor, Songs We No Longer Sing issues a similarly generous invitation to the listener to partake in many return visits.

Negativland

Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet And Television

Seeland

What does a Negativland album sound like when it’s missing all of those voice samples? It sounds like Speech Free. A triple vinyl / double CD release of library music for advertising, this new album by Negativland has had every last trace of language carefully removed from the mix. But what does that really mean? Having become a rock music adjective for their work in mass media collage, where voices are seized from the airwaves and woven into musical conversations more true than anything that normally makes it on the air, Speech Free is a complete re-imagining of the music that was hiding in plain sight beneath the branded “cultural jamming” on their last two record albums. Entirely composed and performed by the band with an all-star group of guest musicians (including Prairie Prince, Ava Mendoza, Matmos and others), these productions explode out of even the tiniest speakers as some of Negativland’s most listenable barrages of pure ear candy yet—all they had to do was remove all of that speech! As marketing research suggests, these catchy tunes will work well as new jingles and musical beds, perfectly suited for voiceovers discussing anything from commercial products to political campaigns. Everyone knows that most target audiences regularly indicate a preference for moderately subversive content—and this release provides that audience with precisely the right amount, now that all of this “usable music” has been personally guaranteed by Negativland as Speech Free.

TISM

Collected Versus: The Complete TISM Singles

Seeland

In its twenty-year career, Australian band TISM became possibly the most notorious band in their country’s history, mixing the satire of Frank Zappa, the art-project long-game of the Residents, the songwriting chops and wit of Sparks, and the culture-jamming panache of Negativland. Now, forty years after forming and eighteen years after their last gig, an unsuspecting America can finally enjoy the pop-dance-satire band from Oz they never knew they were missing, as experimental music label Seeland Records proudly presents the TISM singles collection Collected Versus in a 2CD set that brings their greatest “hits” to U.S. audiences for the first time. TISM albums such as Great Truckin’ Songs Of The Renaissance, Hot Dogma, Machiavelli And The Four Seasons, and De Rigueurmortis became chart hits while the band wowed live audiences with a series of absurd performance art happenings that inspired equal parts head-banging and stage-diving, danger and glee, laughs and total confusion. Born of the early-1980s music scene of suburban Melbourne, the band was a hit onstage and on the pop charts, with the seven men of TISM remaining anonymous for decades. Performing in balaclavas and rocking stage names like Humphrey B. Flaubert, Jock Cheese, Eugene de la Hot Croix-Bun, and Ron Hitler-Barassi, their provocative live shows became the stuff of legend, as they blasted their fans with infectiously catchy guitar-laden electro-pop leavened with bottomless cynicism and dark laughs. Career highlights included appearing on a children’s TV show to promote their song “Saturday Night Palsy” and gradually increasing the size...

Negativland

No Brain

Seeland

Four songs in just under nine minutes: what do they have in common? They’ve got No Brain, and they’re the new vinyl EP from your grandparents in Negativland. Just as all those decades of Media Literacy courses finally seemed to be sinking in, along came Social Media to scramble one’s lines of sight on where all these voices are really coming from. Every tactic modern citizens used to resist the one-way feeds of Broadcast Media—from skepticism, to research, to signal jamming—is just as easily used against them in today’s all-way environment. The four songs on this record juxtapose the voices of media experts from the ancient ’90s with voices culled from the modern landscape of Social Media—from the users still operating under the old rules, to the rationalizations of tech CEOs who invented the software that’s eaten them. How does one follow the money on a free platform? Who’s got the megaphone? Can non-sequiturs exist? What takes less time to update: a website’s auction to determine which ads are being loaded onto your page, or your own perceptual mechanism making a call on everything you don’t need to know?  All of this and more, made hypnotically catchy through Negativland’s time-honored use of funny noises and weird beats, could be coming soon to a nervous system that is You.

Sagan

Anti-ark

Seeland

Sagan is Blevin Blectum (Blectum From Blechdom), Jay Lesser (live touring member of Matmos) and Wobbly (collaborator with Negativland, Thurston Moore Group, Dieter Moebius & Tim Story, Fred Frith, Huun-Huur-Tu, etc)—three solo artists from the San Francisco Bay Area’s legendarily weird electronic music scene, coming together in shared love of Space. Fifteen years in the making, their second album Anti-Ark arrives—a recursive love letter to the early decades of space travel and the High Frontier, when the lines between hard scientific research and emotional wanderlust melted away to reveal an optimistic vision for mankind’s shared future. Explosively kinetic, searingly romantic, the album draws on the trio’s formative influences: the electronic space music which Carl Sagan’s 1980 TV program Cosmos brought to a global audience. Sagan channels the Cosmos sound universe into new compositions, performed live and then folded in on themselves through countless edits into a molecular quilt. The album’s micro-bursts of ambient, meditative and kosmiche are woven into new and denser signals—flying by as if picked up by some satellite hurtling through every civilized universe, moving faster than known physics allows. Any given ten second stretch of Anti-Ark contains a greater density of sound design than might be typically deployed over the course of entire tracks—an attempted inventory not of the objects within the ecosystem, but of the relationships between them. Set against today’s closing windows of opportunity, each sound here contains its own melody and serves as a note within a larger one, a stream of that information...

Negativland

The World Will Decide

Seeland

Negativland’s mirror image sequel to last year’s True False, The World Will Decide turns the focus away from the very human inability to accurately define reality, and towards the technologies being built to do a better job at it. But if sorting true from false seemed like a full time job back when all one had to keep track of was one’s own mind, life alongside the machines built to connect everyone only seems to multiply the uncertainties. On The World Will Decide, those uncertainties are made almost deliriously danceable: a netweb of densely sampled voices melting speech back down into music and back again, into what everyone can agree are the real questions—did that firefly really land on your finger? Would you like to be arrested? Does this app connect you to people, or replace them? Is this post an example of inauthentic behavior? Do people have to die? Or, as one of the many sampled voices on this work assures the listener: we can really feel like we’re here.

Negativland

True False

Seeland

What is True False? True False is Negativland’s full length return to all original music that could be mistaken for actual songs, albeit ones sung by dozens of sampled vocalists who have never met. The first of two interconnected double albums, 2019’s True False tackles concerns that will be familiar to any surviving fans of the band: our nervous systems, our realities, and the evolving forms of media that inevitably insert themselves between us. Shootings, bees, the right’s rules for radicals, dogs pretending to be children, climate control, the oil we eat, and the right of every American to believe whatever they want to believe are all explored—it’s never the content, always the edit. This album is one’s own inescapable subjectivity made catchy as witness to the entrenched political beliefs of the left and right cleanly switching sides in under one generation, and it’s the first Negativland album to come with a lyric sheet. Juxtaposing Occupy mic-checks with US militia rallies, FOX news hosts and ecoterrorists, and the listener’s sanity with the home-viewing habits of Negativland’s lead vocalist, the Weatherman, when the word “true” is put next to the word “false,” a broader reality come into focus. Who’s even in Negativland these days? Didn’t half of them die a few years ago? For this album, the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills, Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker, as well as our dearly departed Don Joyce, Richard Lyons and Ian Allen. Containing tapes from the earliest years of the band (including...

Saint-Pelvyn, John

A Clerical Error In Shasta County Shouldn’t Have To Ruin A Saturday Night

Seeland

For years, the only way to hear the music of John Saint-Pelvyn was to search him out in one of Minneapolis’s notorious underground venues, or unearth one of his long out-of-print cassette releases. Finally, this double 10-inch record, a co-release between Seeland and Electro Motive Records, brings his idiosyncratic and very personal music out into the open air. Primarily a guitarist, the root of his playing is akin to traditional stride, but rich with quivering whammy bar wobble and shimmering feedback. He often plays the tailfin strings of his archtop like one would play harmonics, or retunes seamlessly mid-stream to create a shifting temperament across the length of a piece. An affinity for the likes of John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane-Connors and Sandy Bull can be heard, but the comparisons quickly fall away as one takes in his ambidextrous musical sensibility. He will sing otherworldly vocal duets with the theremin, while simultaneously accompanying himself fingerpicking, or will throw modulated feedback tones across otherwise inviting harmonic landscapes based on blues and folk motifs, overshadowing them with clouds of squelch that loom like an approaching post-noise squall, but ultimately swell and punctuate more like the tone clusters of Henry Cowell or the lyrical saxophone of Frank Lowe. Despite Saint-Pelvin’s penchant for playing multiple instruments simultaneously, he is accompanied here by notable guests including Naomi Joy of Mother Of Fire, and Ka Baird of Spires That In The Sunset Rise. At its heart though, A Clerical Error is a solo album. With the death...

Negativland

Over The Edge, Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel

Seeland

Negativland’s newest album is the summation of years of on-air research and development of the Chopping Channel: A place on the dial where music—and lots more!—was swallowed, digested, exhumed, consumed, and presented for sale at prices that didn’t last long. Broadcasting live from Negativland’s legendary Over The Edge radio program, this album brings you cultural appropriation at its most typical, with jokes that aren’t that funny because they aren’t really jokes. Atop a relentlessly atomized mix of thousands of fragmentary samples of indeterminate origin, re-mulched into one continuous and time-saving stream of music, the salesmen (and woman!) of the Chopping Channel dare to sell you the music you’re already listening to, as well as the culture you’ll need to survive in the years to come. A cavalcade of special guest hosts, including Mark Gergis (Porest, Mono Pause / Neung Phak), alongside regulars Bud Choke and Help Suit, breathlessly parade the goods you need and instant-compose new modern music classics. The Over the Edge program is history’s longest-running freeform radio show, as heard on Thursdays at midnight on KPFA FM in Berkeley, California. Originally helmed by the late Don Joyce, and now by Jon “Wobbly” Leidecker, it’s the latest release in a series of Negativland albums carefully crafted from on-air recordings, and represents the last released work completed with Don Joyce before his death in 2015.

Negativland

It’s All In Your Head

Seeland

Negativland’s new album finds the group tackling their biggest subject ever: why humans believe in God. Millennia-in-development, this ambitious and densely-crafted double-CD is packaged inside an actual Holy Bible which has been appropriately repurposed into a “found” art object. It’s All In Your Head intends to entertain, inform and provoke, mixing found music, found sound, found dialogue, guest personalities and original electronic noises in a compelling and thoughtful musical essay that looks at monotheism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, neuroscience, suicide bombers, 9/11, colas, war, shaved chimps and the all-important role played by the human brain in our beliefs. Reading the attached Bible is optional. The audio is presented as a live radio broadcast (modeled after Negativland’s weekly Over the Edge radio program on KPFA FM in Berkeley, CA) that, in an effort to gain listeners, proposes that there is no God. This theater-of-the-mind project has been carefully crafted from basic tracks recorded live in front of blindfolded studio audiences, and documents the unique style of live collage performances that Negativland has been presenting on stages, and on radio, since the formation of the group in 1980. Following its last major release, the Our Favorite Things compilation DVD in 2008, Negativland has kept busy with its weekly radio program, lectures, art gallery shows and live performances in the US and Europe. Currently in the works are several different studio albums, including Negativland’s all-electronic Booper Symphonies, two brand new Over the Edge album releases, and a new touring live show with upcoming performances...

Firesign Theatre

Duke Of Madness Motors

Seeland

Library of Congress inductees The Firesign Theatre are the legendary comedy group behind such albums as Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers and I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus. Between albums from 1970-1972 they also hosted three weekly radio series on L.A. radio: The Firesign Theatre Radio Hour Hour, Dear Friends and Let’s Eat. Dear Friends spawned both a hit 1972 double-LP on Columbia Records—which all their fans memorized—and a twelve-LP syndicated series, with a dozen original broadcasts each spread over two LP sides—printed in a radio-only edition of 100 copies and bootlegged like hell ever since. Bizarre, freewheeling and hilarious, the original artifacts are today a $1000 investment on eBay that most fans have only ever experienced through nth-generation cassette dubs or cruddy internet bootlegs. Now Seeland Records and The Firesign Theatre are finally reissuing them all—and a whole lot more besides—in an insanely comprehensive release that will have Fireheads everywhere crying “Deputy Dan has no friends!” Duke of Madness Motors is a book / DVD package that takes a long-overdue trip through Firesign’s Dear Friends golden age of improv radio, when hanging out with the Firesign Theatre was as easy as extending an antenna. The DVD is a data disc with over 80 hours of MP3s covering every episode of every Firesign broadcast, 1970-1972, all completely restored and remastered, plus all the syndicated programs and some juicy bonus extras. Meanwhile the book contains a 108-page, full-color history of the era including an 8000-word essay,...

Evolution Control Committee

All Rights Reserved

Seeland

For more than 20 years, The Evolution Control Committee has held a reputation as one of the world's leading mashup bands. Long before computers made it easy to be a copyright criminal, The ECC was violating copyright laws the hard way with releases like their Whipped Cream Mixes (which set the standard formula for mashups to follow a decade later) and Rocked by Rape, sampling CBS anchorman Dan Rather (and earning a legal Cease & Desist in the process). Now the group goes even further with their post-mashup album All Rights Reserved... which you are legally forbidden to hear. "The label's lawyers had concerns," the band's TradeMark Gunderson explains. "Although we felt tracks like our 'What Would You Think If I Sang Autotune?' were clearly Fair Use, the legal department thought they were lawsuit-bait." To give the label and the band an extra line of legal defense, the album includes a Listener License Agreement, a set of terms and conditions like those seen in while installing computer software. "Fair Use or not, a track like 'Stairway to Britney' could easily offend a litigious party," says Seeland Industries lawyer Sandy Kryle. "So we thought the safest terms would forbid anyone--everyone--from listening. Period." Time will tell whether the legal protection helps, though mashup artists like Girl Talk haven't suffered without it (so far). Still, with exposure like a full radio, web, and print promotion campaign from Evolution Promotions and European / worldwide performance dates in the future, The ECC might well put that license...

Seti-x

Scrambles Of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record, Remixed By Extraterrestrials

Seeland

In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts, fastening to each a phonograph album containing sounds and music of Earth. In 2010, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Exile (SETI-X), a dissident offshoot of the better-known Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, received transmissions believed to be extraterrestrial remixes of these records. The Scrambles of Earth CD contains the 70 minutes--in some 24 sound segments--that SETI-X has so far been able to reconstruct. The scientists of SETI-X, finding their colleagues skeptical and their institutions unwilling to vouch for or make available the sounds they had received, at first sought contact with the principality of Sealand, in hopes that this micro-nation dedicated to stewarding controversial data might channel extraterrestrial sounds to a broader public. With no response from Sealand, SETI-X, through a serendipitous Google typo, discovered an ally in Seeland Records, which has historically brokered the release of sounds of uncertain provenance but wide cultural relevance. Scrambles of Earth collects what appear to be "remixes" of the Voyager Record; although the evidence has yet to be fully evaluated, these may represent the first audio signs of alien intelligence.

Evolution Control Committee

Plagiarhythm Nation 2

Seeland

***Columbus, Ohio's legendary ECC predated the entire "mash-ups" phenomenon with an unholy marriage of Public Enemy and Herb Alpert way back in 1996 ("The Whipped Cream Mixes" 7".) This is 29 tracks of instant classics, including "Rocked By Rape" (which earned a cease-and-desist from CBS News). 

Monopause / Aavikko

El Cebo / Stomping Of Men

Seeland

***Oakland's Mono Pause covers a jaunty tune by Finland's Aavikko, and vice versa, on this high-quality vinyl 7". Mono Pause has puttered around with genre-bending compositions and ethno-musicology (as Neung Phak) since 1993; Aavikko has artfully blended cheap synths with furious live drumming in their icy land since 1997.

Negativland

Big 10-8 Place

Seeland

***Three years in the making, and with ten-thousand-million-billion analog tape splices, Negativland's third studio album is an aural odyssey to Contra Costa County. The favorite of many Neg-fans, it's an insanely complex sound collage classic. Reissue includes "No Other Possibility" BONUS DVD, featuring material from the album's time period and much more.

Negativland

Death Sentences Of The Polished And Structurally Weak

Seeland

***Actual wrecking yard detritus - found notes, cassettes, laundry lists, etc - forms the basis of this poignant 64-page full-color book with read-along CD soundscape. The album is a return to pure noise collage, closest in spirit to "A Big 10-8 Place" but utterly unique in the Negativland canon... no words, just sounds.

Negativland

Dispepsi

Seeland

***Two-and-a-half years in the making, this collection of original music, songs, and collaged advertising brings the Negativland brand of thirsty cultural critique to the parched and dehydrated psyches of the neXt generation of young consumers everywhere. "Dispepsi" applies Negativland's found sound style of modern noise to one of this planet's best known saturation advertisers of liquid trivia.

Negativland

Fair Use - The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2

Seeland

***In 1991, Negativland's infamous U2 single was sued out of existence for trademark infringement, fraud, and copyright infringement. In 1992, Negativland's magazine-plus-CD "The Letter U and the Numeral 2" was sued out of existence for trying to tell the story of the first lawsuit.  This crazy, convoluted history is told in a 270-page book, complete with a studio album created uniquely for this release.

Negativland

Free

Seeland

***Found sounds, stories, and songs about a well-known convenience store, torture, the quality of urban life, Cadillacs, firearms, the bible, interstate trucking, geriatric discomfort, big dogs, bicycle safety, alcohol consumption, driving in circles, death, organ buttons and what it means to be free.

Negativland

Helter Stupid

Seeland

***This is Seeland's re-issue of Negativland's 1989 notorious ax-murder hoax project. In part one, Negativland exposes their own manipulation of the media when a startling prank of theirs swells to monstrous proportions, while part two has everything you once needed to know about radio's selling of the past in a future which hadn't happened yet, but is now old news.

Negativland

No Business

Seeland

***Negativland clipped, transformed, and re-imagineered all the found sound they could get into their computer, and out came "No Business." A lovely die-cut sleeve houses a CD tribute to stealing on the internet, file-sharing, jamming popular culture, nose cream and one very insistent piece of pie. It also comes with a 56-page essay about the cultural public domain which isn't one bit funny... and a rubber novelty device! 

Negativland

Our Favorite Things

Seeland

***Created with 18 other filmmakers from all over the USA (and one a capella group from Detroit), "Our Favorite Things" is a collaborative project that takes Negativland's sound explorations into the world of film and video. 27 years of Negativland juxtaposing paranoia, torture, control, power, guns, fear, suicide, cola wars, mental illness, and intellectual property issues with the lighter side of dopey advertising, cartoon characters, cleaning products and Jesus. Includes bonus a-capella CD!

Negativland

Over The Edge 1 1/2 - The Starting Line

Seeland

***Used car salesman Dick Goodbody hosts a very unusual automotive quiz show with the help of The Weatherman and the rest of Negativland. This single CD comes in a double CD box with a giant fact filled poster and a fluorescent vinyl key chain from Dick's Auto Hive. SEELAND 016 CD 53762-0016-2 In-house proselytizer Pastor Dick Pastor Dick tries to recoup some stolen money with a promise to get drunk on the air...and he really does! New additions in this reissue of a 1990 cassette include: Pastor Dick's Fellowship Dinner stand-up routine, the problems of driving a Dodge Demon, an expanded Bible Quiz, Pastor Dick's expose on the cult of Mormonism... and it comes with an honest-to-God 16 page religious pamphlet!

Negativland

Over The Edge 1: Jamcon '84

Seeland

***First in a series of albums edited entirely from "Over the Edge", Negativland's long-running FM radio program (29 years and counting!!) Here, illegal radio antics abound as Crosley Bendix hosts a tumultuous convention for jammers and coins the now-popular term, "Culture Jamming".  Much bonus material, including a live remix of a speech by then-President Reagan.

Negativland

Over The Edge 2 - Pastor Dick: Muriel’s Purse Fund

Seeland

Negativland

Over The Edge 3 - The Weatherman’s Dumb Stupid Come-out Line

Seeland

***Come out of your closet with The Weatherman and The Clorox Cowboy as Negativland tackles the subject of gay repression in a very unusual way. Includes a new special folded insert and a brand new and very detailed 24-page Weatherman Dictionary!

Negativland

Over The Edge 6 - Willsaphone Stupid Show

Seeland

David "The Weatherman" Wills is a founding Negativland member, and rabid documentarian of his own family.  This charming and peculiar double disc set is the definitive overview of the Weatherman's amazing collection of recordings of all kinds.

Negativland

Over The Edge 7 - Time Zones Exchange Project

Seeland

***Negativland tackles international affairs and helps Radio Moscow spread free-market thinking to the (at the time) brand new former Soviet Union. An enigma wrapped up within a fantastic "plot" (constructed out of scripts, appropriated media, and anonymous radio call-in participation) which actually came true!

Negativland

Points

Seeland

***This is Negativland's second album, originally released in 1981. These are more early suburban noise/music/text/loop pieces from the formative years of the 4 (or 5) Floptops.

Negativland

These Guys Are From England And Who Gives A Shit

Seeland

***Unauthorized reissue of the notorious "U2" single which got Negativland in so much hot water, expanded to full LP length with relevant material which both pre-dated and followed the banned release. All otherwise unavailable material from live and studio vaults!

Negativland

Thigmotactic

Seeland

***Negativland's Mark Hosler, with assistance from bandmates and friends, crafts a pop record with a decidedly surreal bent: eccentric, toe-tapping, electronic, folk-pop, noise songs strung together to form a cohesive listen, with themes emerging around meat, feet, pants, milk, cows, trucks, Herb Alpert, Richard Nixon, and even love.

Negativland + 180 Gs

180 Dgs To The Future

Seeland

***Debut CD by a capella Gospel R & B Doo-Wop group, The 180-Gs. You'll be all ears as this talented posse from inner Detroit sings out heavenly cover versions of Negativland's best (and least) known cut-up collage work from throughout their career!

Negativland + Chumbawamba

Abcs Of Anarchism

Seeland

***Once-ever collaboration between these two culture-jamming groups, one of whom happened to have a much bigger megaphone, which they were kind enough to let the other one shout through on this 22-minute EP. Three collage pieces in which both dig at each other in the same sandbox.

Ostertag, Bob

Dj Of The Month

Seeland

***The second volume of BOB OSTERTAG's solo electronic improvisations recorded for Seeland. A live-recorded electro-jam of expressive, radical and ahead-of-the-curve electronics from a man who's been exploring the electronic genre for longer than the past five-minutes.

Ostertag, Bob

Like A Melody, No Bitterness

Seeland

***Long-time Bay Area improvisor Bob Ostertag's "Like A Melody, No Bitterness" is his first CD of solo improvisation. This CD is a tribute to his sampler that he spent the last decade mastering as an instrument - a shattering sonic stew; the hyper-cut experience of listening to yourself chewing broken glass.

Ostertag, Bob

Say No More Vol. 3 & 4

Seeland

***The continuation of the "Say No More" project, where live recordings were then AGAIN collaged into a studio composition, then THAT composition was performed live. As with Vol. 1, this set consists of two previously released LPs, "Verbatim" and "Verbatim Flesh and Blood".

Pantychrist

S/t

Seeland

***PantyChrist is New York City drag queen and performance diva extraordinaire Justin Bond, Tokyo's premiere noise DJ Otomo Yoshihide and San Francisco sampling genius Bob Ostertag -- all under one splendiferous roof. This CD is absolutely queer in every dimension, including ones we hadn't ever thought of!  

Plunderphonics

69 Plunderphonics 96

Seeland

***A masterpiece of collage from Canada's John Oswald, expanded from his infamously banned 1989 CD, and bound in a gorgeous 61-page hardcover book. From the Swinging Sixties to the Numb Nineties, two hyper-dense discs cover the gamut of progressive musical endeavour, where punk meets classical, schmaltz marries metal, jazz divorces rap and electronica kills world.

Poptastic

Teen Pop Noise Virus

Seeland

***A deranged production team has meticulously composed and recorded an entire catchy teen-pop album by a fake coed "boy band", only to destroy it with electronic effects. This uniquely unusual project, like the band itself, was spawned from the warped minds of Chris Fitzpatrick and Thomas Dimuzio, who leave only shards of the original "band".