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NEGATIVLAND’S 1980 SELF-TITLED DEBUT REISSUE
45th ANNIVERSARY LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 VINYL COPIES! PRE-ORDER IT NOW!
WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH YOUR PRE-ORDER:
1000 vinyl copies with handmade one-of-a-kind covers
Hand numbered and hand stamped (underneath the front cover)
Fancy full color inner sleeve
Remastered CD version in gatefold jacket
40 page making of/track-by-track-breakdown magazine
Reproduction of twelve page ASI questionnaire/script
The Poppy Seed Tape (mp3)
Two unreleased Negativland tracks from 1980 (mp3)
Wallpaper wallpaper for laptop, desktop or smart phone
Comes in heavy duty 5 mil protective sleeve
Bandcamp version cuz the fancy version ain’t cheap
Hear this album correctly for the first time ever!
Carefully remastered by Tom Dimuzio and Negativland, this reissue is created from the long thought lost original stereo master tapes that were found buried in our archives after the death of Negativland member Don Joyce.
We barely knew what we were doing back in 1980 when we first mastered this thing, so the record now sounds like many coats of paint have been stripped away, and it has a wider stereo image.
Handmade one-of-a-kind covers!
Like all past versions of this album on both vinyl and CD, each cover is 100% one-of-a-kind, handmade by Negativland from original pictures cut out of late 50/early 60s homemaking and home improvement magazines, and wallpaper samples cut out from 70s/80s wallpaper sample books. No two front or back covers are alike. Scroll down to see the first 250 covers.
Hand numbered and hand stamped in a hidden spot (hint: lift the front flap), this comes in a heavy duty 5 mil crystal clear protective sleeve.
From 1980 to about 1990 we made 9000 of these on vinyl, and from the early 90s until 2000 we made 6000 as a CD, each cover unique. This reissue will bring the total number of vinyl copies to 10,000.
Limited to 1000 copies.
Once these are gone, that’s it.
Richard helped make some of these new covers!
Some of the front cover images and back cover wallpaper used to make these new album covers were cut out and trimmed by now deceased founding member Richard Lyons, many while he was in hospice with nodular melanoma.
A CD VERSION?? YES!
When this album was first made (long before CD's and streaming), we decided that there would never be a standard mass produced version for sale, and that the only way it would ever be available as a physical object for sale would be with one-of-a-kind covers. When we made a CD version in the 1990s, that, too, had handmade one-of-a-kind covers. All these decades later we are not going to second guess our original concept, so this remastered "mass produced" CD version is intended as a bonus that only comes with the vinyl (so you can have your own digital version in addition to the LP version). It will not be for sale separately. Hopefully you still have a CD player somewhere, but we will also email you a unique code so you can download the album.
TRACK BY TRACK BREAKDOWN!
Comes with a 40-page 11” x 11” magazine that includes deep dive interviews with founding Negativland members Mark Hosler and David Wills about the origins of the group and the making of the album. From the depths of their fading memories, this includes an excruciatingly detailed track-by-track breakdown of the entire album, and a reproduction of a hand written 1980 letter from Richard about the making of the album.
HOW WE MET!
Reproduction of the ridiculous twelve page Audience Studies Incorporated telemarketing questionnaire/script that Mark, David and Richard were using on the job the week they first met.
POPPY SEED TAPE!
An mp3 of the original Poppy Seed Tape that was transcribed to create the inner sleeve.
TWO UNRELEASED TRACKS!
Some never before heard sounds from 1980. David Wills - synthesizer and parakeets, Mark Hosler - organ sounds and echo effects, Richard Lyons - saxophone, Dave Carden - voice.
NEW LABEL!
A second color has been added to the LP label art. Fancy!
COFFEE CAKE!
The original crudely printed Coffee Toffee Torte recipe insert (along with the Poppy Seed conversation on the reverse side) is now a full-color reproduction of the original stained recipe itself, and is on a heavy weight inner sleeve instead of an 8.5 x 11 insert.
THE PRICE
** PRE-ORDER. WE WILL BEGIN TO SHIP THESE STARTING IN LATE JUNE.
Handmade, hand-numbered and hand-stamped, one-of-a-kind record cover with full color inner sleeve, 40 page magazine, and 12 page questionnaire.
Purchase includes remastered CD version in gatefold jacket.
You’ll be sent a link to download some digital Wallpaper wallpaper, plus mp3s of The Poppy Seed Tape and 2 unreleased Negativland tracks from 1980.
Yeah, it’s kinda high. The amount of time, effort and money it’s taken us to make this last ever batch of 1000 one-of-a kind works of art is beyond insane, and was a fourteen year long effort interrupted by various members dying or nearly dying. You’ll be a “mini-patron-of-the-arts” in your support of Negativland if you buy it. THANK YOU! (but keep scrolling if you can’t afford it and still want to hear the music)
THE QUESTION WE THINK EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE ASKING US
“Can I pick out the cover I want?”
We tried (and tried), but we could not figure out a way to make that practically or affordably work. Rest assured that expert calloused hands at Seeland Records Mail Order HQ will lovingly pick out a handmade cover just for you, and we’ve worked extra hard to make sure that every cover is extra great. We’ll slowly be posting all 1000 front and back cover images from this reissue on this page so you can eventually enjoy them all.
The first batch of 250 covers are below.
OKAY, BUT I CAN'T AFFORD THE VINYL AND YOU ARE NOT SELLING THE CD AND I STILL WANT TO HEAR WHAT THIS VERSION SOUNDS LIKE!
We've heard this concern from enough of our fans and supporters that we are making the audio available on Bandcamp for $10.
WILL IT BE STREAMING?
Once the vinyl sells out, we'll add the album to all the usual criminal cabal streaming services. (And just a reminder - if you listen to music via any streaming subscription service, the artists you listen to and enjoy are paid almost nothing. It truly is a criminal cabal).
FIRST 250 FRONT COVERS OUT OF 1000
FIRST 250 BACK COVERS OUT OF 1000
Digital transfer and splice repair by Red Channel, remastering by Thomas Dimuzio, lacquer cut by John Golden, vinyl pressing by Citizen Vinyl, CD pressing by A to Z Media, reissue graphics and design by Shawn Wolfe and Negativland, video and video editing by Jennifer Bennett, Steev Hise, Mark Hosler, David Wills and Richard Lyons, web design by Jennifer Bennett and Negativland. Cover photography by Jennifer Bennett.