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- Summary: The experimental Bay Area sound manipulators combine one of their more entertaining cut-and-paste CDs of recent years with a book examining fair use and copyright issues. Also included is a whoopee cushion.
- Record Label: Seeland
- Genre(s): Indie, Experimental
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The music won't knock you on your ass, but the overall delivery is a real treat, if you go in for this sort of thing.
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The WireCaught somewhere between the big yucks and the thoughtful overview are moments of genuine strangeness that are both captivating and unsettling. [#255, p.59]
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As opposed to the didactic nature of the booklet, the audio portion of No Business tends more toward arch satire of the ongoing debate over fair use in digital media, creating a précis of its contradictions and ideological schisms rather than advancing a particular thesis.
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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.
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As "art", the album is fine. It's quirky, it's humorous, it makes its point.
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Like most of Negativland's oeuvre, No Business makes valid points via sometimes-annoying sounds.
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AlanRAug 10, 2005The music industry needs to take these guys seriously some day.
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