"EXTRACTED CELLULOID": FILM MUSIC RIP-OFF BUILDS ON "DECONSTRUCTING
BECK" SUCCESS
Groups aim to further dialogue on corporate abuses of law

Contacts:

RTMARK events@rtmark.com
http://rtmark.com/ppdb.html

Illegal Art illegalart@detritus.net
http://www.detritus.net/illegalart/

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"Extracted Celluloid" is a collection of brilliant but illegal
resamplings of film music, produced by Illegal Art with the support of
RTMARK, which gathered $3,500 from anonymous donors to help with
production costs. Illegal Art describes the CD as an effort to "present
commentary and ideas that stand in direct opposition to the media and
sonic cliches from which they were derived."

Last year, RTMARK channeled $5,000 to Illegal Art for its enormously
popular "Deconstructing Beck," a compilation that illegally sampled the
music of recording artist Beck (see http://rtmark.com/pressdb.html for
press fallout). "'Extracted Celluloid,'" RTMARK spokesperson Ray Thomas
said, "is an even better investment for RTMARK donors. While Beck is
arguably a terrific artist, most of the film music that 'Extracted
Celluloid' samples is much more a product of the corporate bottom line.
By taking this commercial dross and making something great of it,
Illegal Art is making a very strong statement about taking control of
our lives back from corporations."

Illegal Art's pseudonymous spokesperson, Philo T. Farnsworth, hopes the
CD helps make a point about copyright: "Copyright law was designed to
protect artists' rights, but it has been perverted to the point where
today it only protects corporate earnings."

As with "Deconstructing Beck," Negativland and their Seeland label
(http://www.negativland.com/nmol/seeland.html#extracted) are
co-releasing this project with Illegal Art. The official release date of
"Extracted Celluloid" is April 9; until then it can be previewed at
http://www.detritus.net/illegalart/preview.html. Among the soundtracks
sampled on the CD are those of the movies Titanic, Saturday Night Fever,
The Wizard Of Oz, Cheech and Chong, and Dr. Strangelove.