Seeland Records is an

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created by

Negativland Negativland is an American experimental music band that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. The core of the band consists of Mark Hosler, David Wills (aka "The Weatherman"), Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker (aka "Wobbly" ...

in 1979 to release their own recordings. It is a reference to the song "Seeland" by the band

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, who also gave Negativland the basis for their name, Sea-Land Corporation, a freight company, (the label's logo is a parody of the company's logo) and the micro-nation of

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, which in early history was home to radio pirates.

History

Seeland largely disappeared when Negativland signed with

SST Records SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was first founded in 1966 by Ginn at age 12 as Solid State Transmitters, a small business through which he sold elec ...

for a time during the late 1980s and early 1990s. But after an acrimonious split with that label, Negativland revived Seeland and began releasing new recordings, not just by themselves but also by other artists (the Evolution Control Committee and John Oswald to name two) who usually shared their philosophies regarding

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. The label was distributed by Lumberjack Mordam Distribution until 2009, when Mordam shut down. Subsequently, the band relaunched the label in 2010 with distribution from Revolver USA.

Roster

* Antediluvian Rocking Horse *

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* Eddie The Rat * Head & Leg * Jane Timberlake * John Oswald * GitAr ( I Cut People, Ellipse Elkshow) * Mono Pause/ Aavikko *

* PantyChrist (

, Justin Bond, and

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) * Porest * Realistic * Silica-Gel *

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The Evolution Control Committee The Evolution Control Committee (The ECC) is an experimental music band based in Columbus, Ohio. The ECC was founded by Mark Gunderson (a.k.a. TradeMark G.) in Columbus in 1986. They create music that falls within the borders of the sound coll ...

* The Rudy Schwartz Project * Tiny Tim *

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* Twink * Xerophonics

History

Roster

See also