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THE DROPLIFT PROJECT
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thirty masterworks of audio collage,
media appropriation, and other illegal tricks
for those who can _HEAR_ the difference
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Chances are, if you bought this disc in a store, it wasn't there because the store owner put it there. Once we had these CD's printed, we went into record stores in selected locations the world over, leaving copies in the bins for you to find. We used this "droplift" technique in order to protest the current state of copyright law in this country.
Why? Because our art is composed largely of uncleared samples. Each artist on this CD is involved in a relationship with media appropriation, found sound, and the art of collage.
For the last hundred years, artists have recognized the wide possibilities afforded by taking elements of the world around you -- newspaper clippings, photos, magazines, and even manufactured objects -- and recombining them to form works that are exciting, new, and often comment on who we are and what the times we live in are like. The artists on this CD do the same thing with sound.
We cut the TV, radio, tapes,recordings we've made, music we've creatively altered and purloined, samples we've found and hidden again, and even each other, to weave our own sonic tapestries that describe our lives and our times.
Unfortunately, the prejudices of others and the big business of music make what we do rather difficult to get out there. Rather limp and bullheaded interpretations of copyright law and irrational fears cause the music industry -- and its world of lawyers -- to ignore and threaten us.
All of which gets in the way of our work, and your enjoyment.
The artists on this disc want you to hear what we've made. We don't think there's anything illegal about it, so we did what we could to get it into your hands. Open your ears and let us inside for a moment, you'll see.
The Droplift Project is an art-response to the current relation of artists and lawmakers to the techniques of appropriation, collage, and sampling in music. It has been designed to play on your Compact Disc Audio Equipment without modification. Your ears, attention-span, and brain may require slight adjustments for maximum enjoyment of this Quality Product.
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Tim Maloney - "Thunderclock"
Naked Rabbit - P.O. Box 36673, Los Angeles, CA 90036
www.nakedrabbit.com
Turntable Trainwreck - "Cubicle 38 Droplift Blues"
RH - 1551 Jefferson Street, Madison, WI 53711
ICQ 50387838
Phineas Narco & Ronald Redball - "Free Will"
Phineas Narco / NCN - c/o KFJC - 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
voicejail@yahoo.com and
i.am/dapper
The Button - "Familiar Faces"
Jay Kennedy & Sam Harmon
www.pressthebutton.com
staff@pressthebutton.com
Reggae Death Squad(tm) - "Rub My Face"
www.rds-tm.org
rds@rds-tm.org
OBE - "Recycled Flashback"
billtmiller.com/droplift/
Workeshoppe Radio Phonik - "Cute Ass"
fmstereo@broadcast.net
fmstereo.freeservers.com/wrp.html
Alamout Black - "Traitors"
Alamout Black is Ian Monroe, Craig Iannello, and Scott Schmitt
Alamout Black lives in Florida.
www.mp3.com/alamout
oracle@phlo.net
Chris Ball - "Urgent Day Off"
1420 9th St. #4
Berkeley, CA 94710
www.ball2000.com
ball2000@ball2000.com
Project Data Control - "Blame the Media"
previously unreleased
datacontrol.cjb.net
datacntrol@aol.com
Brain Science - "Monkey Business"
www.ovenguard.com
Mind - "Let's Play a Game"
www.sensoryresearch.com
Social Security - "Loder Runner (Droplift Flakes)"
modified from a track on an upcoming as-of-yet untitled MTV-
based Asstaco production.
ss@area23.com
ss.area23.com
Bonefish Sam and his Power Orchestra - "Mr. T. Adventure Story"
from the album "All The World & All The Tones"
Bonefish Sam, PO Box 772 Boise, Idaho 83701
bonefish@bonefish-sam.com
www.bonefishsam.com
Andy MacMillan
GiantBeer66@hotmail.com
www.mp3.com/acm
www.mp3.com/sicfus
Ben Burck - "Sailor Mom"
c/o Naked Rabbit World Power Foundation
P.O. Box 36673, LA, CA 90036
benburck@yahoo.com
EMP-T - "Son of Satan"
empt11@hotmail.com
equatorial - "Long Slow Malcolm"
Steve Steffler- PO Box 418, Onoway, Alberta, T0E1V0 Canada
generica@antisocial.com
listen.to/equatorial
www.mp3.com/equatorial
The Doom Patrol - "Year of the Rabbit"
thedoompatrol@hotmail.com
www.mp3.com/thedoompatrol
Dad's New Slacks - "Ice Teal"
(excerpt from live radio mix performed 8/27/99,
WMPG, Portland, ME)
PO Box 4722, Portland ME 04112-4722
dads@me.freei.net
the Cranial Fishers - "No Need to Fear"
cranialfishers@geocities.com
www.sensoryresearch.com/craigco/cranialfishers/
Entropical Utopia - "Asshole"
eu@free-music.com
free-music.com/ent
Seditious Halibut Media - "Marilyn Hanson Part 2"
monstor@uswest.net
(c)(P)ee - "King Brian"
pee@droplift.org
www.emotionmixer.org/music/
Quiet American - "Checkmate"
www.quietamerican.org
ghede@well.com
Escape Mechanism - "Elf Song"
previously unavailable
3010 Hennepin Ave. S. (#145), Minneapolis, MN 55408
escape@detritus.net
www.detritus.net/escmech
Kumquat - "Everyone is Afraid of Clowns"
bigkumquat@aol.com
www.nofuncharlie.com/kumquat
Stop Children - "To the Fullest Extent of the Law"
stopchildren.droplift.org
stopchildren@droplift.org
M-Sli(c)k da ninjA - "Wannabe (DE((c)on)ST(r)U(c)TIVE (r)EMIX)"
ninja@free-music.com
free-music.com/ninja
Additional Resources:
Droplifting CD's into stores unawares is more than just a prank. If you
are interested in some of the fairly serious issues regarding copyright,
artists' rights to use media fragments, music industry reaction to
sample-based works, and other such heady things, we encourage you to check out The Droplift Website at
www.droplift.org
Snuggle This! is an online compilation of similar tracks by many of the
same artists. You can find it at
www.sensoryresearch.com/craigco/snugglethis/
The Droplift Project is N(c) 2000 and is entirely in the Public Domain.
This Project was coordinated and assembled electronically. Most of the
participants have not met, and conceived and executed this disc over
the Internet.
This project mastered and designed by Tim Maloney at Naked Rabbit Mystery Studios, P.O. Box 36673, LA, CA 90036.
Bonus Secret Mystery Track "We'd Bruise" by Tim Maloney, consists of a single commercial recut and rearranged for clarification of the "original."
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THE DROPLIFT PROJECT
featuring these artists...
01 Tim Maloney Thunderclock
02 Turntable Trainwreck Cubicle 38 Droplift Blues
03 Phineas Narco and Ronald Redball Free Will
04 The Button Familiar Faces
05 Reggae Death Squad(tm) Rub My Face
06 OBE Recycled Flashback
07 Workshoppe Radio Phonik Cute Ass
08 Alamout Black Traitors
09 Chris Ball Urgent Day Off
10 Project Data Control Blame the Media
11 Brain Science Monkey Business
12 Mind Let's Play a Game
13 Social Security Loder Runner (Droplift Flakes)
14 Bonefish Sam Mr. T. Adventure Story
and his Power Orchestra
15 Andy MacMillan
16 Ben Burck Sailor Mom
17 EMP-T Son of Satan
18 equatorial Long Slow Malcolm
19 The Doom Patrol Year of the Rabbit
20 Dad's New Slacks Ice Teal
21 the Cranial Fishers No Need to Fear
22 Entropical Utopia Asshole
23 Seditious Halibut Media Marilyn Hanson Part 2
24 (c)(P)ee King Brian
25 Quiet American Checkmate
26 Escape Mechanism Elf Song
27 Kumquat Everyone is Afraid of Clowns
28 Stop Children To the Fullest Extent of the Law
29 M-Sli(c)k da ninjA Wannabe
(DE((c)on)ST(r)U(c)TIVE (r)EMIX)
THE PERFORMANCES IN THIS RECORDING HAVE BEEN MASTERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE VERY FINEST SOUND EQUIPMENT IN EXISTENCE. USE OF THESE PROCESSES WILL ENABLE YOU TO RECREATE, IN YOUR HOME THE NEAREST THING TO A LIVE PERFORMANCE. BE SURE TO USE ONLY STEREO EQUIPMENT FOR STEREO PLAYBACK. MONOPHONIC RECORDS WILL ACHIEVE A GREATER DIMENSION WHEN PLAYED BACK ON STEREO SETS. TO AVOID THE POSSIBILITY OF WARPING YOUR VALUABLE CD COLLECTION, STAND THEM ON END WHEN STORING AND NEVER LAY FLAT. THIS DROPLIFT CD HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR USE IN ALL COMPACT DISC PLAYERS. THIS CD COMPILED AND EXECUTED ELECTRONICALLY, AMONGST PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER MET IN PERSON, OVER THE INTERNET.
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