#negativland — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #negativland, aggregated by home.social.
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Negativland’s U2 single was the first music I ever dl’ed from the Internet. It was 1993. I ftp’ed it from a server in NC, split it onto 14 floppy disks, rebuilt it at home on my FreeBSD machine, played it through my sound card and recorded it to tape.
Years later I bought an unopened CD version of it from the music store in the hometown of the guy who introduced me to them years after it was sued out of existence.
Of course I opened it.
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oh wow!!!
The negativland performance at the Internet Archive in the Bay Area is being broadcast live!!!
Tune in. They're awesome!
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🎶🤦♂️ Oh wow, #Negativland sold more albums than expected—stop the presses! This groundbreaking tale of a band that figured out how to sell records like it’s 1980 is surely what the Internet needs right now. 🙄 #Revolutionary #NotReally
https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/11/negativland-culture-jamming-and-the-art-of-making-something-new/ #MusicIndustry #RetroSales #InternetBuzz #HackerNews #ngated -
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/11/negativland-culture-jamming-and-the-art-of-making-something-new/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721548
#HackerNews #Negativland #CultureJamming #Art #Innovation #Creativity
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#NowPlaying Watch what just might be your copy of #Negativland’s debut album reissue as it’s pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-O58ofxoJY
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#Upcoming 46th anniversary reissue of #Negativland’s 1980 debut LP from original stereo master tapes found buried in the archives after Don Joyce’s death. Available in a limited edition of 1,000 vinyl copies with unique, one-of-a-kind, handmade covers in batches of 250. https://negativland.com/001
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ooh. Bay Area folks are in for a treat. The Internet Archive is hosting a live #negativland show on Sep 16.
https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/11/negativland-culture-jamming-and-the-art-of-making-something-new/
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Feels like I should have some #Negativland fans somewhere in my feed. This is a really cool package for a re-release of their first album:
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So, somehow I didn't know there was a #chumbawamba / #Negativland collab
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Wed, September 16th, 2026
@internetarchive
(300 Funston Ave, SF)#Negativland will perform an Over the Edge-style show live!
Doors: 6pm / Show: 6:30pm
Q&A afterwards🎟️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/negativland-live-at-internet-archive-tickets-1994683818998
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Is not your type of music! 🤔
For almost 20 years I've been exploring what I simply call #sampling #music . It's an underground style of #electronic music created from thousands of #audio, sliced and put together.A very cleaver idea to create music!
Artists such as #negativland , The Bran Flakes, Animals Within Animals and many others have built a scene based on #creativity rather than commercialism. Here's The first DJ set I did from my favorite tracks.
https://youtu.be/mTQUaR-1Yxk?is=JVG9YJ5E7Rlfrx7Z
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Can't leave the day go by without the track of the day....
#Negativland - Fourth of July
For all of Internet warriors 🤣
#sampling #music #4ofjuly
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ilvi_rqv4yo&is=QHbOm57JRvHjVzIT -
🎧 Band: Negativland
🎶 Track: More data
💿 Album: The World Will DecideAm a believer of that title ☝️
More data... more truth.
All of the data... and all of the truth, right?
https://youtu.be/sTWD0j4tec4?is=KLwemAp_jdWtW2rrFollowing up my yesterday's post on sampling music, today I would like to share some more truth... not your data!
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 🎧 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
#negativland #theworldwilldecide #sampling #samplingmusic #activism #thetruth #avantgarde #music #vinyl #myvinylcollection #records #pixelfed #fediverse #mastodon -
God bless Casey Kasem and a little dog named Snuggles
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🎧 Band: Negativland
🎶 Track: Fourth of July
💿 Album: True FalseWARNING... Distressing Lyrics Content!
(Do not listen in the morning!) 😄What is the problem?
Are people the problem?
Is America a problem?
Facebook and Twitter are part of the problem?
What is the problem?
She has a problem!?
#activism #political #issues #negativland #socialmedia #network #anarchy #humanity #america #sampling #social #4thofjuly
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🎧️ Band: Negativland
💿️ Album: True / False
Double albumTrue False is part of my extensive Negativland collection. One of my favourites, together with "The World Will Decide"
Highlights are "Forth Of July" "Certain Man" "Mounting The Puppy" among other great tracks on this vinyl. They are masters of slicing, cutting, and sampling. If you dont know the band, I highly recommend a listen ;)
#Negativland #ExperimentalMusic #Vinyl #Vinylcommunity #activism #electronicmusic #sampling #avantgarde
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime Negativland: 🎵 Michael Jackson #Negativland ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify ▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
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Usually I don't get singles on my record collection but I couldn't resist to this little precious.
Band - Negativland
Track - No BrainTaken and remixed for the 45 rpm purposes, this track is originally part of the album: The World Will Decide.
#experimentalmusic #negativland #music #nobrain #recordcollector #follow #fediverse #analogue #soundcollage #avantgardeaudio #culturejamming #audioart #mediamanipulation #cutuptechnique #noiseart #rarevinyl
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Dazu muss ich auch nix schreiben. Die Story sollte bekannt sein.
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords #Negativland #U2 #FU2 #Stupidland #SST -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MJWg-kKEG30
Negativland "Why are we waiting?"
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FRIDAY, October 31st
From 7:30 – 9:30 PM
@ Yale CCAM Sound Art Series
(149 York St, New Haven, CT)"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by #Negativland + SUE-C
Free, open to the public, but limited capacity – first come first serve!
https://ccam.yale.edu/event/ccam-sound-art-series-negativland-sue-c
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Yes our consumerist culture sucks. But social media can be a way out, not only make it worse. #WTFpod #MarcMaron #negativland #ccmusic #SocialWeb
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Negativland's "Helter Stupid" is a stone cold classic at the intersection of media pranks, culture jamming, experimental music, and 1980s Satanic panic. The guy in the song (whose motivations were lampooned by the album's title track) was just released from prison this week.
I wrote a paper about "Helter Stupid" for a media studies class I took in college. Crazy. https://onlys.ky/negativland-and-me/
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Negativland – Dispepsi (1997, US)
Our next spotlight is on number 1004 on The List, submitted by dwenius. By the time this experimental sound-collage/plunderphonics band and multimedia collective had released Dispepsi, they had already got a bunch of media attention linked to a mass murderer case, and had experienced a multi-year legal battle with U2’s label and their own (along with some FBI nonsense) for an innocently(-ish) named and now withdrawn EP. Dispepsi continues the group's aural mischief (and thankfully without any legal repercussions), taking a swipe at the so-called “Cola Wars” and advertising in general by parodying and sampling Pepsi and Coca-Cola commercials, among other things.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/05/02/negativland-dispepsi-1997-us/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/i/386725068
Happy listening!
#Negativland #experimental #plunderphonics #SoundCollage #1990s #ColaWars #music #1001OtherAlbums
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Negativland – Dispepsi (1997, US)
Our next spotlight is on number 1004 on The List, submitted by dwenius.
Named after the NEU! track of the same name, Negativland is an experimental sound-collage/plunderphonics band and “multimedia collective”, the original version of which was formed in 1979 by Mark Hosler and Richard Lyons while they were still in high school. By the time they released Dispepsi, their 8th album, they had already gone through a couple interesting episodes involving a hoax press release that got a bunch of media attention linked to a mass murderer case,[1] as well as a multi-year legal battle with U2’s label and their own (along with some FBI nonsense) for an innocently(-ish) named and now withdrawn EP.[2]
Geez.
Dispepsi is a concept album that takes a swipe at the so-called “Cola Wars” and advertising in general by parodying and sampling Pepsi and Coca-Cola commercials, among other things. As per the liner notes:
All of the cola commercials that were appropriated, transformed and re-used in this recording attempted to assault us in our homes without our permission.
Hoping to avoid another legal battle, the original release didn’t actually have the album name on it, and the liner notes instead provided a phone number for fans to call “for the correct spelling and pronunciation of the title of this CD”, lol. Thankfully, unlike U2 and Island Records (and the band’s former label, SST Records, wtf – see footnote 2), Pepsi wasn’t threatened by whatever an obscure art collective that was part of a parody religion[3] and enjoyed nerding out on FM radio[4] was doing. And so, this album, unlike their U2-inspired EP, was allowed to live, and the band continued (and, I think, continues?) to do cool shit[5] and fight for fair use.
Whether this band is new to you (like it is for me) or is an old favourite, give this one a spin today!
- Songlink: Negativland – Dispepsi
- Discogs: Negativland – Dispepsi
- Website: Negativland
- Bandcamp: Negativland (does not include Dispepsi)
- Unable to afford touring their Escape from Noise (1987) album, Negativland put out a hoax press release stating they legally couldn’t tour because the track “Christianity Is Stupid” had inspired mass murderer David Brom…which in turn led to them releasing a concept album, Helter Stupid (1989), making fun of the media coverage on said hoax press release. ↩︎
- Negativland released an EP titled U2 (1991) that sampled and parodied U2’s song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” alongside a recording of radio DJ Casey Kasem having a meltdown while rehearsing a bit about U2, which led to the band being sued by U2’s label (Island Records) and publisher, and in turn led to: the EP being withdrawn; the band releasing a magazine and accompanying CD called The Letter U and the Numeral 2 (1992) about the matter, which directly led to the band being dropped and sued by their own label (SST Records, wtf); Kasem threatening (but never actually enacting) legal action if the EP ever popped up again; the FBI getting involved after a Negativland fan threatened Kasem; the band releasing a book with an accompanying CD called Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 (1995) chronicling the whole thing; and a documentary being made about it (Sonic Outlaws [1995]). Whew. ↩︎
- At least some members Negativland are part of the Church of the SubGenius, which uses “culture jamming“, an anti-consumerist tactic whose name band member Don Joyce coined. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius ↩︎
- “Over The Edge” was a weekly, free-form audio collage radio show on KPFA FM (Berkeley, California), hosted by Negativland’s Don Joyce from 1981 until his death in 2015. Archived episodes at: https://archive.org/details/ote ↩︎
- I mean, Laurie Anderson herself named their 2020 album The World Will Decide one of her five favourite albums, so they’re clearly doing something right still. ↩︎
#1990s #ColaWars #experimental #music #musicDiscovery #Negativland #plunderphonics #soundCollage
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Did a vanity search for my old zine on the @internetarchive , and what should turn up but my two appearances on Over the Edge, "The Radio Journal of Ride Theory"?
6 hours of audio; you've been warned!
https://archive.org/details/OTE_20001116_Radio_Journal_of_Ride_Theory_I
https://archive.org/details/OTE_20001123_Radio_Journal_of_Ride_Theory_II
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#NowPlaying Thirty-eight years later and this #Negativland song is *still* fucking relevant wtf haha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sx28VggsKE
