The Droplift Project Album

THE DROPLIFT PROJECTthirty masterworks of audio collage,media appropriation, and other illegal tricksfor those who can HEAR the difference
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.
 



 

Tim Maloney - "Thunderclock"Naked RabbitP.O. Box 36673Los Angeles, CA 90036http://www.nakedrabbit.com




 



 

Turntable Trainwreck - "Cubicle 38 Droplift Blues"RH - 1551 Jefferson Street, Madison, WI 53711ICQ 50387838




 



 

Phineas Narco & Ronald Redball - "Free Will"Phineas Narco / NCN - c/o KFJC - 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022voicejail@yahoo.com and http://www.nationalcynical.com




 



 

The Button - "Familiar Faces"Jay Kennedy & Sam Harmonhttp://www.pressthebutton.comstaff@pressthebutton.com




 



 

Reggae Death Squad™ - "Rub My Face"http://www.rds-tm.org/rds@rds-tm.org




 



 

OBE - "Recycled Flashback"http://billtmiller.com/droplift/




 



 

Workeshoppe Radio Phonik - "Cute Ass"fmstereo@broadcast.nethttp://www.noncontactneglect.com




 



 

Alamout Black - "Traitors"Alamout Black is Ian Monroe, Craig Iannello, and Scott SchmittAlamout Black lives in Florida.http://www.mp3.com/alamoutoracle@phlo.net




 



 

Chris Ball - "Urgent Day Off"1420 9th St. #4Berkeley, CA 94710http://www.ball2000.comball2000@ball2000.com




 



 

Project Data Control - "Blame the Media"previously unreleasedhttp://datacontrol.cjb.netdatacntrol@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.comhttp://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 83701bonefish@bonefish-sam.comhttp://www.bonefishsam.com




 



 

Andy MacMillanGiantBeer66@hotmail.comwww.mp3.com/acmwww.mp3.com/sicfus




 



 

Ben Burck - "Sailor Mom"c/o Naked Rabbit World Power FoundationP.O. Box 36673, LA, CA 90036benburck@yahoo.com




 



 

EMP-T - "Son of Satan"empt11@hotmail.com




 



 

equatorial - "Long Slow Malcolm"Steve Steffler- PO Box 418, Onoway, Alberta, T0E1V0 Canadagenerica@antisocial.comhttp://listen.to/equatorialhttp://www.mp3.com/equatorial




 



 

The Doom Patrol - "Year of the Rabbit"thedoompatrol@hotmail.comwww.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 04112-4722dads@me.freei.net




 



 

the Cranial Fishers - "No Need to Fear"cranialfishers@geocities.comhttp://www.sensoryresearch.com/~craigco/cranialfishers/




 



 

Entropical Utopia - "Asshole"eu@free-music.comhttp://free-music.com/ent




 



 

Seditious Halibut Media - "Marilyn Hanson Part 2"monstor@uswest.net




 



 

(c)(P)ee - "King Brian"pee@droplift.orghttp://www.emotionmixer.org/music/




 



 

Quiet American - "Checkmate"http://www.quietamerican.orgghede@well.com




 



 

Escape Mechanism - "Elf Song"previously unavailable3010 Hennepin Ave. S. (#145), Minneapolis, MN 55408escape@detritus.netwww.detritus.net/escmech




 



 

Kumquat - "Everyone is Afraid of Clowns"bigkumquat@aol.comwww.nofuncharlie.com/kumquat




 



 

Stop Children - "To the Fullest Extent of the Law"http://stopchildren.droplift.orgstopchildren@droplift.org




 



 

M-Sli©k da ninjA - "Wannabe (DE(©on)ST®U©TIVE ®EMIX)"http://iloveninjas.com/ninja/ninjaemail.htmlhttp://iloveninjas.com/




 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 athttp://www.droplift.org/Snuggle This! is an online compilation of similar tracks by many of the same artists. You can find it athttp://www.sensoryresearch.com/~craigco/snugglethis/The Droplift Project is N© 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.