Seeland Records
2005
No Business
About This Album
After their excursion into pure industrial/white noise, Death Sentences of the Polished and Structurally Weak, the Floptops return with another in their irregular but continuing meditations on the nature of copyright, patriotism, and artistic reinterpretation. In that sense No Business is one of the least surprising albums Negativland has yet done, but one entity's repetition is another's source of continuing inspiration, and the end results are familiarly entertaining. It's not much less that this type of approach can be done so much as it is how it is done -- and on that front all is well. From the opening chop-up of the Beatles' "Because," retitled "Old Is New," the sense is that of old pros -- however much they might shy away at the thought -- are once again at their craft. The most pointed and involved piece, the nearly ten-minute long "Downloading," finds the band turning their collective eye once again on music industry paranoia, with everything from disgraced Grammy president Michael Green's self-righteous waffling about the activity's supposed evils, to found sound sources ranging from the BBC to an 'unknown death metal band' (plus previous target The Little Mermaid).
Track List (try tracks 4 and 6)

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