WELCOME TO THE NEGATIVLAND FORKLIFTERS CLUB Good Hello Forklifters. In this announcement you will find–
1. NEGATIVLAND VS. THE RIAA ON NPR
1. NEGATIVLAND VS. THE RIAA ON NPR A feature on Negativland and the RIAA will be on NPR's Morning Edition radio show. Listen in on September 1, 1998, to your local NPR affiliate station. Negativland and the RIAA will both be interviewed about the situation Negativland has been publicizing (and if any one wants to tape this and transcribe it for us for use on our website, that would be great! Let us know.) Also look for a story on this same topic in the next few days in The Washington Post. And we have been told that at a recent huge corporate music convention in Florida (MIDEM), representatives of the RIAA were all commenting on how many letters they have been receiving about Negativland! Apparently, they were very concerned about this. So....your letters are having an effect.......keep 'em coming!
2. NEW OTE CD FROM SEELAND We did it. It exists. Don't ask how, but it got made (and don't think that this means that Negativland is in the clear now, because we aren't! We just got lucky). OVER THE EDGE Vol. 3 -- THE WEATHERMAN'S DUMB STUPID COME-OUT LINE (Seeland 019) CD only (double CD) -- As most of you reading this probably already know, this release was delayed because our pressing plant refused to press it (see our website for the whole story)...after being refused by three other plants , we finally found one who wasn't paying attention to what was actually on this disc.....and so, at last, here it is! USA / Canada - $17.50. Europe/Mexico - $20.50. Elsewhere - $22.00. Order online here Price includes first class postage in the USA.
3. SQUANT IS HERE! It's only reflected light...but Squant HAS COME to NegativWorldWideWebLand! One World Advertising spared no technical grants in their generous assistance to the no-longer theoretical goal of making Squant a reality for non-Asians. Actual Squant pigment is not yet mass produced and marketed here in the U.S., but North Americans can still experience the new primary color right now at NegativWorldWideWebLand. Our site will be the first to present actual color photo examples of Squant, aided by the exclusive NewHew plug-in necessary to display it. Crosley Bendix refreshes your memory with the Squant story, and Rolin Wandbagon, our man in Indonesia, has the pictures and how they got there.
4. NEGATIVLAND TO BE USED IN COCA-COLA COMMERCIAL? - We have learned that the track "Michael Jackson" from the last Fat Boy Slim CD (on Astralwerks) samples from the Negativland track "Michael Jackson" from our 1987 release "Escape From Noise" on SST Records. Stupidly, Fatboy Slim went to SST Records to get permission to use this sample. SST charged him $1000, which they are keeping all for themselves, of course. Besides the fact that Fatboy could have kept his $1000 and taken it from us without permission and we wouldn't have cared, the Negativland sample he used was itself appropriated by us without permission from a religious flexi-disc issued sometime in the 1970's. (In fact, a Negativland member LITERALLY stole this record from the basement of a church in Concord CA.) The entire track has now been licensed by Fatboy Slim to be used in a Coca-Cola commercial!!! So Negativland now finds itself to actually be in a REAL cola commercial.....too bad it wasn't Pepsi.......
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