THE DROPLIFT PROJECT thirty masterworks of audio collage, media appropriation, and other illegal tricks for 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 Rabbit P.O. Box 36673 Los Angeles, CA 90036 http://www.nakedrabbit.com Turntable Trainwreck - "Cubicle 38 Droplift Blues" RH - 1551 Jefferson Street, Madison, WI 53711 ICQ 50387838 Phineas Narco & Ronald Redball - "Free Will" Phineas Narco / NCN - c/o KFJC - 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 voicejail@yahoo.com and http://www.nationalcynical.com The Button - "Familiar Faces" Jay Kennedy & Sam Harmon http://www.pressthebutton.com staff@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.net http://www.noncontactneglect.com Alamout Black - "Traitors" Alamout Black is Ian Monroe, Craig Iannello, and Scott Schmitt Alamout Black lives in Florida. http://www.mp3.com/alamout oracle@phlo.net Chris Ball - "Urgent Day Off" 1420 9th St. #4 Berkeley, CA 94710 http://www.ball2000.com ball2000@ball2000.com Project Data Control - "Blame the Media" previously unreleased http://datacontrol.cjb.net datacntrol@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.com http://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 83701 bonefish@bonefish-sam.com http://www.bonefishsam.com Andy MacMillan GiantBeer66@hotmail.com www.mp3.com/acm www.mp3.com/sicfus Ben Burck - "Sailor Mom" c/o Naked Rabbit World Power Foundation P.O. Box 36673, LA, CA 90036 benburck@yahoo.com EMP-T - "Son of Satan" empt11@hotmail.com equatorial - "Long Slow Malcolm" Steve Steffler- PO Box 418, Onoway, Alberta, T0E1V0 Canada generica@antisocial.com http://listen.to/equatorial http://www.mp3.com/equatorial The Doom Patrol - "Year of the Rabbit" thedoompatrol@hotmail.com www.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 04112-4722 dads@me.freei.net the Cranial Fishers - "No Need to Fear" cranialfishers@geocities.com http://www.sensoryresearch.com/~craigco/cranialfishers/ Entropical Utopia - "Asshole" eu@free-music.com http://free-music.com/ent Seditious Halibut Media - "Marilyn Hanson Part 2" monstor@uswest.net (c)(P)ee - "King Brian" pee@droplift.org http://www.emotionmixer.org/music/ Quiet American - "Checkmate" http://www.quietamerican.org ghede@well.com Escape Mechanism - "Elf Song" previously unavailable 3010 Hennepin Ave. S. (#145), Minneapolis, MN 55408 escape@detritus.net www.detritus.net/escmech Kumquat - "Everyone is Afraid of Clowns" bigkumquat@aol.com www.nofuncharlie.com/kumquat Stop Children - "To the Fullest Extent of the Law" http://stopchildren.droplift.org stopchildren@droplift.org M-Sli©k da ninjA - "Wannabe (DE(©on)ST®U©TIVE ®EMIX)" http://iloveninjas.com/ninja/ninjaemail.html http://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 at http://www.droplift.org/ Snuggle This! is an online compilation of similar tracks by many of the same artists. You can find it at http://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. Bonus Secret Mystery Track "We'd Bruise" by Tim Maloney, consists of a single commercial recut and rearranged for clarification of the "original." THE DROPLIFT PROJECT featuring these artists... 01 Tim Maloney Thunderclock 02 Turntable Trainwreck Cubicle 38 Droplift Blues 03 Phineas Narco and Ronald Redball Free Will 04 The Button Familiar Faces 05 Reggae Death Squad™ Rub My Face 06 OBE Recycled Flashback 07 Workshoppe Radio Phonik Cute Ass 08 Alamout Black Traitors 09 Chris Ball Urgent Day Off 10 Project Data Control Blame the Media 11 Brain Science Monkey Business 12 Mind Let's Play a Game 13 Social Security Loder Runner (Droplift Flakes) 14 Bonefish Sam and his Power Orchestra Mr. T. Adventure Story 15 Andy MacMillan 16 Ben Burck Sailor Mom 17 EMP-T Son of Satan 18 equatorial Long Slow Malcolm 19 The Doom Patrol Year of the Rabbit 20 Dad's New Slacks Ice Teal 21 the Cranial Fishers No Need to Fear 22 Entropical Utopia Asshole 23 Seditious Media Halibut Marilyn Hanson Part 2 24 (c)(P)ee King Brian 25 Quiet American Checkmate 26 Escape Mechanism Elf Song 27 Kumquat Everyone is Afraid of Clowns 28 Stop Children To the Fullest Extent of the Law 29 M-Sli©k da ninjA Wannabe (DE(©on)ST®U©TIVE ®EMIX) THE PERFORMANCES IN THIS RECORDING HAVE BEEN MASTERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE VERY FINEST SOUND EQUIPMENT IN EXISTENCE. USE OF THESE PROCESSES WILL ENABLE YOU TO RECREATE, IN YOUR HOME THE NEAREST THING TO A LIVE PERFORMANCE. BE SURE TO USE ONLY STEREO EQUIPMENT FOR STEREO PLAYBACK. MONOPHONIC RECORDS WILL ACHIEVE A GREATER DIMENSION WHEN PLAYED BACK ON STEREO SETS. TO AVOID THE POSSIBILITY OF WARPING YOUR VALUABLE CD COLLECTION, STAND THEM ON END WHEN STORING AND NEVER LAY FLAT. THIS DROPLIFT CD HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR USE IN ALL COMPACT DISC PLAYERS. THIS CD COMPILED AND EXECUTED ELECTRONICALLY, AMONGST PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER MET IN PERSON, OVER THE INTERNET.