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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.

Negative Department consists of some slightly obsolete software, an occasional guitarist and/or or bassist, and a hired-gun jazz pianist moonlighting as a candyraver. Thanks to recent innovations in computer audio and cheap Asian labor, the entire studio used to create and record the band's haphazard assembly of mechanical beats and strange noises costs less than one PRS guitar signed by that guy from Creed. Throw in some keyboards that look more like toys for 5-year-olds and Negative Department's stage presence resembles three hipsters 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.