artwork by Ben Didier

commercial ad hoc track notes some tracks link to an mp3 file please see the illegal art catalog for ordering information track 1 title: Music for Selling author: The Evolution Control Committee duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds notes: Produced from 100% decommercialized sounds. "Decommercialization" is an important process in combatting the epidemic of hypercommercialization. As we lose the public square of the 19th century to the shopping malls of the 20th and beyond, we must conduct senseless acts of random decommercialization. Talk is cheap, but let your mind be free: Free your mind, and your Mastercard will follow. [Gold star for effort to DJ Pantshead (ECC) with this track] track 2 title: Mount & Do author: Office Products duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds notes: none track 3 title: #5 (Life Without) author: Roux Partout duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds notes: (poem) life without challenge . rats that listen to Mozart run . the maze faster . rats in a maze the man subjects . Mozart runs faster . than what . life without challenge . #5 doesn't like Mozart . doesn't run faster . jump the wall and . bite the man . #5 subjects . #5 challenges life without . if you don't stop . they live you . if you let it . it thinks in you . stand up . jump the wall . bite the man track 4 title: Real CM deep inside Your Life author: Orange Head duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds notes: none track 5 title: Sales Pitch '67 author: Pimmon duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds notes: Source of material - "Commercial Radio Archives 1967" track 6 title: The Avalanche author: Jörg Piringer duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds notes: Assembled from two commercials for Hartlauer, a local Austrian company which is one the most disgusting firms selling consumer electronics in europe. track 7 title: Breathe author: Experts Of Legitimization duration: 41 seconds notes: none track 8 title: Found After 2 Days author: Hayleck duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds notes: none track 9 title: Trademark Messaging author: Realistic duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds notes: The source sounds were extracted from various TV and radio commercials from the 1970s through the 1990s. Recorded and sequenced on a Mac in 1999 by James Towning. track 10 title: Bunny Tarnish author: Peakaboo Hudson duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds notes: Sample taken from the omnipresent Intel sonic logo. Old-style electronic music processes and new-style digital fuckups applied to hi-tech marketing tactics. track 11 title: Dire Hostess author: Youth Parade duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds notes: none track 12 title: Breaking author: Adkins duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds notes: Product - A track that lasts as long as a commercial break in the U.K. around three minutes, comprising four forty-five second 'art-ads'. Each ad was made separately from a pool of pre-sampled material from tv and radio. Though some materials appear across each ad, each also has its own material and character. track 13 title: Easy author: Mr. Meridies duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds notes: Kaiser Permanente radio ad & Bud Light radio ad. All work done in the Mac audio world. track 14 title: (Royalties) author: Spacklequeen duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds notes: none track 15 title: Turn The Channel, It's Another Commercial author: The Bran Flakes duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds notes: none track 16 title: Abscond author: Reject Angel duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds notes: none track 17 title: Carter's Little Liver Pills author: Big City Orchestra duration: 4 mintues 28 seconds notes: none track 18 title: Four Color Spin author: Professor Brown w/ DJ Jambox duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds notes: Four Color Spin appropriates audio material from the Volkswagen New Beetle television ad campaign. One track was time-stretched and all were processed through a custom-built quad analog switch. Filtering and volume changes were made as the one-take recording progressed, causing different textures and rhythmic motifs to emerge as the audio tracks switch from one to the next. At the end the switching rate slows to reveal the audio sources. Professor Brown & DJ Jambox are now performing as The Experimental Makeup. top