Negativland
A Big 10-8 Place (LP)
LabelSeelandGenreExperimental
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM Cover is a large poster and includes a bumper sticker and several inserts. Negativland's 1983 third album pushes their sound collage approach to new extremes of density and complexity. The band incorporates more recognizable musical elements while maintaining their fundamental media critique. Songs reference and sample radio, television, and advertising while simultaneously deconstructing these same sources. The album's title refers to police radio codes, and the band extensively uses shortwave radio and scanner recordings as raw material. Negativland were creating what would later be called "plunderphonics" - art made entirely from media detritus and cultural refuse. Essential for understanding how underground music anticipated and critiqued digital culture before most people owned computers.
Release notes
℗ and © 1983 by Seeland Records. The release includes a large poster, a brown/ocher insert with credits, a “Negativland” bumper sticker, two small paper slips, and a relief-stamped “A Jammer Can” transparent inner sleeve. Early copies additionally include a sandwich baggie of lawn clippings. Other copies may include wood chips instead.
| A1 | Theme From A Big 10-8 Place | ||
| A2 | A Big 10-8 Place Part One | ||
| B1 | Introduction | ||
| B2 | Four Fingers | ||
| B3 | A Big 10-8 Place Part Two (180-G) |
- Ian
- Design, Concept By [Figured Out], Written-By, Performer [Made By]
- Mark
- Design, Concept By [Figured Out], Written-By, Performer [Made By]
- David
- Narrator (B3), Written-By, Performer [Made By]
