Negativland has always been about media literacy; their sound collages and pranks are not only humorous but reveal something about how media function. But in recent years, as the world has changed around them, their  relationship to this aspect of their practice has had to evolve. What was subversive in the 80s is mostly met with a shrug today. While sampling has become less essential to their work, the group continues to reappropriate and recontextualize human speech, and in an age of AI voice clones, the importance of using actual voices becomes even more significant. Last fall, I sat down with Negativland’s Mark Hosler and Jon Leidecker (Wobbly) at Krakow, Poland’s Unsound festival to discuss the history of their long running group, the importance of radio, and how the changing mediascape has transformed the meaning of their work as collage has gone mainstream. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)
Negativland - “Is It Or Isn’t It” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
SP INTRO
Don Joyce - “We'll Be Right Back [excerpt]” (Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches,  2020)
Negativland - “Content” - (The World Will Decide, Seeland, 2020)
Negativland - “5” (Negativland, Seeland, 1980)
Negativland - “The Answer Is…” (Points, Seeland, 1981)
Negativland - “Christianity is Stupid” (Escape from Noise, SST/Seeland, 1987)
New Order - “Blue Monday” (Blue Monday 12”, Factory, 1983)
Negativland - “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2, Seeland, SST, 1991)
Sarah Davachi - “ghosts and all” (Vergers, Important Records 2016)
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Negativland - “[Excerpt]” (Live at Unsound, 2023)
Edgard Varèse  - “Poème électronique” [1958] (Poème Electronique And Other Selections, EAV Lexington, 1973)
Karlheinz Stockhausen  - “Kontakte” [1958–60] (Kontakte, WERGO, 1963)
Wobbly - Failure Analyst (Failure Analyst, Bandcamp, 2024)
Christian Marclay - “Excerpt” (Live on Night Music 1988)
Charli - “Apple” [tiktok] (brat, 2024)
Negativland - “Failure” (The World Will Decide, Seeland,2020)
Negativland - “True or False” (True False, Seeland, 2019)
Negativland - “The Stain of Music”  (Over The Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel, Seeland, 2016)
Negativland - “Death Is Optional” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
Negativland - “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For” (U2, Seeland, SST, 1991)
Negativland - “Algorithmic Me” (Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet and Television, Seeland, 2022)
Chopping Channel - “Happiness Is The New Productivity” (Independent Therapy, 2016)
Bana Haffar - “Castles in Beirut” (Castles in Beirut, Bandcamp, 2019)
Negativland - “The World Will Decide” (The World Will Decide, Bandcamp, 2020)
Over the Edge - “1991/06/06” (⁠The Best of Over the Edge⁠, Archive.org, 6 June 1991)
E L U C I D  - “[excerpt]” [2020] (SEERSHIP!, PTP, 2022)
Ween - “I Hate Morrissey (Home Demo)” (Boognish Rising 2013 Sampler, 2013)
Negativland - “A Nice Place To Live” (Points, Seeland, 1981)
Chopping Channel - “Safe Place Orientation” (Independent Therapy, Seeland, 2016)
Don Joyce - “We'll Be Right Back [excerpt]” (Mort Aux Vaches, Mort Aux Vaches,  2020)
—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

SP* Episode 39: REVERSE POLARITY - with Negativland [podcast]

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Sounds by @avsluta 🌸
Visions by @marcomaldarella 💫

Buy Music Club: https://www.buymusic.club/list/ie-introspective-electronics-w-avsluta-x-netil-radio-jul-25

TRACKLIST:

Dan Thorman – DYSB
Michele Di Martino – RE.75°05′59.91″S 123°19′57.38″E
Soria – Albatross
SØS Gunver Ryberg – The Presence_Eurydike
Danny – Leaf B
Michel Banabila – Aunt Nadira
Sanjib – Angel's Entrance
HVL – Cycle 8th Reprise
Purelink – First Iota (feat. Angelina Nonaj)
Biosphere – The Way Of Time (On And On)
Massi NPL – Hong Kong
funcionário – corrente
DJ Trystero – Untitled 9
N Kramer & Magnus Bang Olsen – Limbic Fresco
rookas – Flamma
Quiem – Sun At Paral-lel
perila – give it all
Purelink – Yoke
Krystian Shek – Never Complain (Dub Mix)
Sanjib – No Space No Time
Danny – Leaf A
Christian Duka – Crescere

Introspective Electronics w/ Avsluta x Netil Radio | Jul 25

Out now: flowtape.bandcamp.com/album/survivors-vol-3
VA playlist: soundcloud.com/flowtape_records/sets/survivors-vol-3

The track: "Based Oscillator", represents Survivors vol.3 V/A FLOWTAPE
Artist: @chris-mitchell

А1. Gegen Mann - Dam Ester Move
А2. Velax - Inside Conflict
А3. Alpha Sect - Emergencia
А4. Randstad - Energy Worker
А5. Nechkin - Better Place

В1. Krokakai - Esters Eye
В2. Artem Lastname - Wasted State
В3. Invalid User - Nada
В4. Chris Mitchell - Based Oscillator
В5. Boris Barksdale - Fruit Punch

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Chris Mitchell - Based Oscillator

There’s a quiet gravity in voices often left unheard — a shimmer that stretches across hidden constellations of sound. This mix moves through those spaces, gathering textures like fragments of dreams, drawing a line between fragility and force. It is music as a shelter, a tide, a whispered uprising.

Recorded by slyn, co-founder of the FLINTA-focused label and platform Gravity Pleasure (alongside Slowfoam), this selection is composed entirely of works by FLINTA artists. Each piece resonates with its own distinct weight, yet together they form a continuum that honors presence, resilience, and care within experimental and ambient music.

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Amulet 063: Gravity Pleasure

Organic soundscapes, field recordings and melodic ambience from composer Sophia Zhuravkova. 
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Ethereal, dub infused trips, morphing otherworldy tablas into hypnotic grooves and broken beats. 
Low key bangers from grimwig's recent set at the infamous Sound Room in Public Records, NY.

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SP* Episode 39: REVERSE POLARITY - with Negativland [podcast]

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