EVOLUTION CONTROL - 'ALL RIGHTS RESERVED'

Formats

• SEELAND533 - LP

  753762053318

• SEELAND533CD - 2xCDs

  753762053325

Details

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 agreement to the test. "We're not crazy about the idea of suing our fans," says ECC band member Christy Brand. "But it seems to work for the RIAA." "But many musical observers trace the official beginnings of the British bootleg [mashup] scene to The Evolution Control Committee, which in 1993 mixed a Public Enemy a cappella with music by Herb Alpert." -The New York Times, May 9, 2002 ? CD version has a full-length commentary track (yep, like director commentary on DVDs) and includes a bonus disc of outtakes, video footage and remixable versions

Tracks

1. Listener License Agreement
2. What Would You Think If I Sang AutoTune
3. Pertaining to the Beat 4. The Shakes
5. Don?t Let the Devil Blow Your Mind
6. Stairway to Britney
7. Machine Love 8. Pwn Monkey
9. Listener License Agreement Reminder
10. IGA Giant Pineapple Party
11. Freaky People 12. California Dreamings
13. Like You Use Me
14. Feel Like Breakin? Love
15. Hillbilly Beatboxing 16. Fock It
17. Is That All There Could Be?
18. Media Trust

Press

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EXCEPTER - 'LATE'

Formats

• WOODSIST046 - 12"

  655035003610

Details

The 23rd Excepter record: The Late EP. The Black Rust Rush Tour of "High Noon" lore. One track recorded at Oberlin Dionysus Disco, Fall 2009, in I-94 palindrome dub by R/N. One track recorded at 382 Jeff Street by Lala with the TR-808. 2009-2010 edit. Two tracks live on "Presidence Day" at the Glass Lands, February 16th, 2010, by Derek Maxwell, sound engineer. The Late EP returns Excepter to Woodsist. All four tracks are previously unreleased. The Tank Tapes are included as a complimentary bonus digital download with the record. Excepter is New York City's premiere improvisatory, vocal-and-electronics cosmic beat-box band. Whether on stage, on record or on video, Excepter never gives the expected, and this is no exception? ? New EP from New York experimental group ? Includes a free digital download of the 2007 cassette-only release Tank Tapes

Tracks

1. OBOH
2. LAL8
3. Anastasia
4. Cat Piss and Licorice
Download-Only ? Tank Tapes
5. Joanna
6. Targets
7. Jordan
8. No Pilot
9. Black Ground
10. Lypse 3

Press

?Tank Tapes displays Excepter?s more inarticulable qualities
... it?s stranger, looser, more beautiful.? ?Pitchfork

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JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN - 'BAD LADY GOES TO JAIL'

Formats

• 62GONE - LP & DL

  600385204712

• 62GONECD - CD

  600385204729

Details

Who is John Wesley Coleman? He describes himself as "garbage collector, golden boy." Those four words might fit him best. Coleman currently makes pizzas in Austin, Texas, lives in weird territory, and is part of an invisible, non-scene made up of his other Austin band Golden Boys, North Carolina's Spider Bags and Memphis' Limes-all groups with their own takes on sprawling, psychedelic, country-tinged rock. The artists he covers, largely street-level commentators of life below the poverty line, are telling; on his last album, Steal My Mind, he did Lester Bangs and Warren Zevon songs; this time, it's Nikki Sudden. Of course, a few years back he released a completely blasted version of George Michael's "Faith" that was seen as a piss-take but actually spoke to Wes' mindset. Coleman has been compared to Lou Reed, Mr. Bangs, Daniel Johnston and even Pavement, who adopted some of the spaciousness of country life after their initial spizzle grotted out. But who wants to hear Pavement now? Owning cars that don't break down makes one complacent, and luckily Coleman hasn't had to deal with that yet. Hanging out at bus stops gives the man with eyes a whole lot of material to work with. Bad Lady Goes to Jail covers a whole variety of desires, from Coleman's desire for police to stop assaulting him to the desire to dance with his woman, to the less-specific "Something in My Brain Wants Something." To balance the wandering heart, he also offers more mundane observations in songs like the self-explanatory "Christians Drive Like Shit" and "My Friend Dan," a straight celebration of one of his buddies. There's a glorious shimmer that runs through Coleman's sometimes ramshackle music, a graceful melding of enthusiastic melodies and a rushed instrumental attack that frames off-beat lyrics sung by someone who can find moments of excitement in some pretty unlikely situations. Instead of living in the gutter and looking at the stars, he's living in the gutter and looking at the crazy people stumbling down the street. And loving it! Vinyl has DL code, and is oneway..GONER is rocking the hits this year!

Tracks

1. Bad Lady Goes to Jail
2. Fields of Love
3. Lazy Baby
4. Oh, Basketball
5. Get High Babe
6. Go, Baby, Go
7. Something in My Brain
8. Come on Cops
9. My Friend Dan
10. Can?t Stop Dreaming
11. Christians Drive Like Shit
12. New York

Press

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