Happy Heroes

by Negativland

Happy Heroes cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: March 1998
  • Label: Seeland Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 26:24
  • Community rating: 2.67/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Happy Heroes' is a Negativland EP assembled from found sound, advertising fragments and studio manipulation in the group's plunderphonics method. Its satire targets consumer media, cutting commercial voices into absurd new meanings.

Genres

Descriptors: crime, sampling, food, avant-garde, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Mertz #1 (1:43)
  2. Jolly Green Giant (7:23)
  3. Mertz #2 (1:14)
  4. Chicken Diction (3:49)
  5. The Black Hole Tube (3:48)
  6. O.J. And His Personal Trainer Kill Ron And Nicole (3:12)
  7. Happy Hero: The Remedia Megamix (5:02)
  8. Mertz End (0:13)

Credits

  • David Wills - instruments
  • Mark Hosler - instruments
  • Richard Lyons - instruments

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