Tape-Beatles, The
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Lloyd Dunn, John Heck, Ralph Johnson
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The Tape-beatles are a collaboration of varying membership that make music and audio art recordings, ‘expanded cinema’ performances, videos, printed publications, and works in other media. They work under the umbrella organization called Public Works Productions. Members of the Tape-beatles currently include as of this writing Lloyd Dunn and John Heck. Former or occasional members of the group include Chuck Hollister, Linda Morgan Brown, Paul Neff, and Ralph Johnson.
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While they are not very well-known, Tape-Beatles are probably one of the most interesting of so-called "plunderphonic" bands. Basically, plunderphonic means that music solely consists of samples, usually taken/used without permission. This often might lead to catastrophic consequences and many trials (as indicated by the infamous "U2" track by Negativland and destruction of Michael Jackson output made by John Oswald and subsequently confiscated and destroyed). Tape-beatles, however, were able to avoid trials and controversy. Part of the reason, probably, is that they mostly stick to samples related to politics and social life, ocassionaly using musical samples (James Brown makes secret appearance on some tracks). Humorous and dead serious at the same, Tape-Beatles were something special in the world full of musical mannequins.