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Originally posted by Noitall:
Negativeland is a band. http://www.negativland.com/

'Negativwho?
What is Negativland? As a group (Mark Hosler, Chris Grigg, Don Joyce, David Wills, and Richard Lyons), they do create music, but calling Negativland a mere "band" doesn't do them justice. On their recordings, they appropriate, dissect, juxtapose, scramble, reassemble, and regurgitate sonic material culled from a variety of sources--anything from network and shortwave broadcasts to private phone conversations and family recordings made in the kitchen. They mix this with an equally eclectic variety of instruments--keyboards, guitars, effects boxes, samplers, tape loops, squeeze toys, and so on. The end result is incredibly funny, often making a wry social comment; but it also has a strange coherence among its myriad layers, unparalleled by similar efforts of other groups.

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I am glad you brought up Negativeland.
For you and anyone else who is interested in this kind of 'Music', I have two excellent suggestions.

1. Severed Heads - Especially the early stuff.
They are similar to NL, but much more abstract and mind-bending.
Recommended titles (to start) -
'Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live In the Past' or 'Blubberknife'.
The later stuff is more techno but just as good.
I have a feature on S.H. here:

Severed Heads Feature

Trust me, you will never be the same.
Also, don't miss Tom Ellard's side project called 'Co Kla Coma' which continues in the earlier S.H. vein.
All the info is there.

The next one is a newer, much more obscure artist.
This one is even more similar to NL, but probably the weirdest of all.

2. Amphibifudd - This shit is Prime Mindfuck. Do not let it slip by.
I have a feature and a brand new interview with the mastermind behind this madness here:

Amphibifudd Feature

Amphibifudd Interview (guess who's a Voivod Fan?)

Both of these artists provide plenty of samples of their wares and downloadables for the taking.

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Originally posted by Nuclear Vampire:
Violence And The Sacred was a "group" that my high school buddies and I found on Brave New Waves (CBC Radio). Very fucked up, trippy, disturbing stuff. Here is a website about them: http://www.indegraph.com/hotel/viosac/
I actually recorded a full 90 min cassette worth of my own brand of "experimental noise music" some years ago. I have been meaning to digitize or redo some of it, but haven't gotten around to it. I called the project Cachexia and the cassette (which features the other guys from the band I was in at the time and some friends) is called Auditory Insanity. The basic jist: Too much LSD, weed and Beer.

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I went to the site, but the sound samples were not functional.
That's a pity, because they sound interesting -
("Throbbing Gristle enthusiasts"? -gotta love that)

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Originally posted by Emlyn K Helicopter:
Ah, Negativland! Wasn't this the band sued into the ground by U2?

(not actually U2, they liked the 'treatment', but the evil record company!)

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