Formats
SEELAND032 - CD
753762003221
Details
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.
Tracks
1. Bud Choke?s Smiling Voice
2. This Is Raymond Bien
3. The Man from The World
4. Trash Drum Biscuit Cred
5. The Stain of Music
6. Two Beautiful Car Horn
7. Homes And Bombs
8. Spiritual Transformation
9. Ethnic Prosthetics
10. Family Friends Laundry
11. Stop
12. Become What You Hear
13. Candle and Cradle
14. They Know How Busy You Are
15. The Violet Flame
16. Everything?s Fine
17. Food and Water
18. Almost Every Time