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Negative Department

Negative Department combines everything you didn't like from four decades of popular music: the pretentiousness of 70's progressive rock, the self-consciousness of 80's radio candy, the dark sarcasm of 90's MTV-punk, and the endless repetition of 21st-century electronic music. The result can only be described as a complete waste of your time.

With a near-constant rotation of guitarists who mysteriously dis- and re-appear, the nucleus of Negative Department is a collection of slightly obsolete computers and cheap software. Negative Department strings together free instruments from Ableton Live, a crippled version of Reason, and an obscure effects package called Pluggo on a 3-year-old iBook, a Fender Telecaster, and a speaker-destroying red box called an Access Virus to produce and record the band's haphazard assembly of mechanical beats and strange noises. Throw in some keyboards that look more like toys for 5-year-olds and Negative Department's stage presence resembles two drug addicts breaking into a Radio Shack.

Hear what the critics have to say:

"All those kick drums... it's too DJ-centric. I wouldn't play it on the radio." - Sony/BMG trade representative
"This is more embarrassing than VNV Nation." - musikderzeit.de
"[Negative Department] is... like Trent Reznor on antidepressants." - Future Music magazine
"The rave scene is over. Nobody listens to techno." - SXSW independent promoter

Audio samples are available at the download music page.