Name: Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet & Television
Brand: Negativland

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SEELAND037

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-12-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

753762003719

Total Cap

3 / Black / LP

Artist

Negativland

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Seeland

The experimental-music and art collective known as Negativland has been recording music/audio/collage works since 1980. Comprised of Richard Lyons, Mark Hosler, and Peter Conheim, they have produced a weekly 3 hour radio show called "Over The Edge" since 1981. They also host a World Wide Web site since 1995 and perform live on occasional tours throughout America and Europe.
Negativland's unique musical practice incorporates found sounds and musical samples into their collage compositions. Their contemporary interest in collage is prompted by the fact that art and commerce have now merged to a degree where corporate commerce finances, grooms, directs, filters, manufactures, and distributes almost everything we know of as culture.
Similar artists to Negativland include Renaldo & The Loaf, The Residents, Snakefinger, Chrome, John Oswald, Sun City Girls,Throbbing Gristle,
The Tape-beatles,Pere Ubu ,This Heat,Faust,Nurse With Wound ,Coil ,Scraping Foetus off the Wheel,
The Bran Flakes,Bongwater,Bruce Haack,Cabaret Voltaire,Wolf Eyes,and Psychic TV.

Seeland Records is an independent record label launched by Negativland in 1980 with a release of their self-titled debut album. The name of the label is derived from German krautrockers Neu! third's album called "Neu! '75".

Most albums in Seeland catalog are self-released by the band, but occasionally they also publish works of fellow artists, including Bob Ostertag, John Oswald, Evolution Control Committee, etc.

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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.

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

Music GB