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	The Evolution Control Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An experimental music band from Columbus, Ohio founded by Mark Gunderson in the 1980s, The Evolution Control Committee (ECC) typically uses uncleared and illegal samples from various sources as a form of protest against copyright law.
		The ECC also produces numerous audio experiments, often involving the disfiguring of compact discs, and has produced a few video works as well, ranging from re-edited 50's corporate shorts to a Teddy Ruxpin reciting the works of William S. Burroughs.
		The ECC is probably best known for its song "Rocked by Rape", consisting of samples of Dan Rather's deadpan delivery describing various atrocities over looped riffs from AC/DC's "Back in Black".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolution_Control_Committee (352 words)

	mutelyâ¢: -[ the virtual gunderphone]- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		in 1994 the evolution control committee made it‘s first distinct strike in the arena of sample-based music.
		in response to john oswald‘s incredible plunderphonic, the two gundersons of the evolution control committee thought the time was right for gunderphonic,a cassette of various tape manipulations and illegal music.
		this recording was created by the evolution control committee primarily on the $150 teac w-450r dual cassette deck.
	mutely.twoday.net /stories/930923 (491 words)

	The Evolution Control Committee, MP3 Music Download at eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evolution Control Committee is one of the stage names of Mark Gunderson, a musician, performance artist, digital manipulator and provocateur who has also performed as part of The Weird Love Makers, The Mood Swingers, Gaga, Mellodeath and DJ Pantshead.
		Evolution Control Committee is the longest-lived of Gunderson's many projects, having started in the early nineties as a tape manipulation project.
		Still, during the last half of the nineties, Evolution Control Committee released a video called The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized, a specially-edited subliminal cassette that was either motivational or demotivational depending on which side you played, the Compact Discstructions cassette and the first ECC CD release Double the Phat and Still Tasteless.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11528/11528776.html (527 words)

	Evolution Control Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Evolution Control Committee is famed for their controversial "Rocked By Rape" single, which, in true Negativland tradition, resulted in a lawsuit against them (filed by CNN).
		True masters of their craft, the Evolution Control Committee's brand of campy, crazy, collage humour is DEFINITELY worth checking out.
		Here, ECC submitted two great lists… Both their top ten things that dangle, and their top ten words formed using the letters from 'chiropractor' (wow, this one is popular).
	www.indieville.com /old/ecc.htm (143 words)

	* Dusted Features [ The Resistant Language ] *
		Briefly: Mark and the Evolution Control Committee seek to provoke outrage, attention, laughter, and frequently legislation through the intelligent and unsolicited use of trademarked material on their albums.
		The ECC are humorous, mischievous subversives, an artistic breed with methodologies reminiscent of Tzara, but working less as a signboard of abstraction than as an abstractor of modern media.
		I asked Mark if the ECC were concerned about the fact that they may indeed be reproducing precisely the problem which they seek to fight: "This is a tricky issue, very tricky," he answered.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /features/123 (1966 words)

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		ECC: I guess I should probably ask you -- both you and I will be appearing on a compilation he's putting together, and he says you're a bit delinquent in getting your submission to him!
		ECC: You've had some difficulty, or at least I've heard stories that you have, in getting into the US to play.
		ECC: I'm from Columbus, which is in the middle of Ohio, and just about any tour skips Columbus in favor of Cleveland or Cincinnati.
	www.brainwashed.com /lpd/archives/interviews/clevel95.txt (1415 words)

	Evolution Control Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evolution Control Committee's projects include the controversial "Rocked by Rape" which features Dan Rather fronting AC/DC.
		The Evolution Control Committee is a band, but probably like none you've ever seen or heard.
		The ECC deals with the budding field of media ecology; recycling the sounds around you.
	www.godsexandbowling.com /evolutioncontrol.html (96 words)

	The Evolution Control Committee
		In October, we sent out correspondent K!z!K to harass potential perpetrators by the name of The Evolution Control Committee in the residential bastion of college football fandom, Columbus, Ohio.
		So the Evolution Control Committee formed as a committee to suggest good directions for opposable thumbs, and who should walk upright and who shouldn't.
		And he gave a small address on television which was promptly, of course, recorded here at the Committee and manipulated to be a little bit more truthful.
	www.kuci.org /text/interviews/ecc.html (1517 words)

	Columbus AlivewireD - Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since there is a naturally occurring deposit of thimbletronium in the common thimble, the thimbletron is a pair of gloves topped with 10 thimbles attached by wires to a laptop.
		While Gunderson is pleased with the ECC's latest discoveries, he believes the committee will soon scale back on research and dedicate more time to production, releasing Default's Greatest Hits, Plagiarhythm and other projects as soon as possible.
		The Evolution Control Committee will share a bill with Pigeon-toed Orange Peel, R-squared and others as part of Big Noise at The Lab on March 16.
	www.columbusalive.com /2001/20010308/music2.html (1040 words)

	Evolution Control Committee: Plagiarhythm Nation 2.0: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mark Gunderson (aka Evolution Control Committee) sidestepped the near-twee self-absorption that led to shit like Len by actually using samples, as opposed to cloaking and co-opting their melodies.
		When collage artists tweak the EQ on their samples or pitch-shift them, whatever the source material, it becomes a component in a new proposition, a "song." In colliding samples as found, Gunderson posits a collage of ideas, but with more humor and levity than the strictly legal middle finger of Plunderphonics.
		Plagiarhythm Nation, however fresh it sounds to new ears, is a damaged twelfth-generation dub of the real Evolution Control Committee, a mess of slight, insignificant and generally unfunny bits that I doubt even entertain Gunderson on sober reflection.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/e/evolution-control-committee/plagiarhythm-nation.shtml (866 words)

	Neural.it: Evolution Control Committee, historical plagiarism. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the peculiar characteristics of musical plagiarism is to have a common goal, to protest against the absurdity of endless copyright enforcing, and at the same time a wide variety of strategies and forms.
		With the catchy slogan 'Copyright violation for the nation', the Evolution Control Committee is one of the plagiarist bands which have best interpreted the unlimited use of sound samples.
		The group, headed by Mark Gunderson, is from Columbus, Ohio, and has been in the scene for twenty years, producing everything from subliminal audiotapes to cause unpleasant effects to a manual of techniques to damage a compact disc.
	www.neural.it /nnews/evolutioncontrolcommitteee.htm (225 words)

	Jeff Central \| Exotica Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the departure of Andrew, Mark Gunderson of THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE stepped in, and, inspired by the name of a film mentioned in a "Something Weird" trailer, THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS was born, promulgating their unique mix of sexual innuendo, cocktail-jacket lounginess, and whisky bottle mayhem, living up to the promise of their oft-quoted sample:
		He currently heads EVOLUTION CONTROLLED CREATIONS, a music label formalized in 1999 after a 12-year history under different names with a narrower focus.
		THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE (the label’s first band) has earned an international reputation as highly-skilled sound manipulation artists, and have produced many albums of collage-based audio art which have been distributed all over North America and the world.
	www.exoteque.com /exoteque/twlmprofile.html (614 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews The Evolution Control Committee: Plagiarhythm Nation
		ECC has close ties to those other infamous copyright-ignorers, but while the two groups' styles are similar, ECC's style and whacked-out presentation (live performances involve one group member manipulating an instrument called a Thimbletron, consisting of thimbles on wires that play samples on cue) more than allow them to carve out a unique niche.
		Unfortunately, ECC sometimes seem to think that their ideas are a bit more interesting than they actually are.
		On the other hand, ECC's total deconstruction of such disposable crap as "Rhythm Nation" and "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" borders on brilliant; the aptly named "Arrhythmia" songs strip away the very element that gave those pop trifles their names.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=3262399154780868 (494 words)

	Plagiarism is Patriotic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Evolution Control Committee is a "band", but like none you've ever seen or heard.
		The ECC performs with custom-built equipment to give the audience a truly original experience.
		In the world of The ECC's music, Public Enemy duke it out with Herb Alpert while Dan Rather is the new frontman for AC/DC.
	www.21grand.org /20030504.html (181 words)

	The Evolution Control Committee & Evolution Controlled Creations
		Not to fear however; this is largely because ECC is developing the future of music as you read this.
		This show will be EVOLUTION VS. DE-EVOLUTION: The Evolution Control Committee on the "evolution" side of course, and the "de-evolution" side supported by Devo tribute band Mongoloid.
		ECC founder tradeMark G. is on temporary assignment to the San Francisco ECC offices, working on...
	evolution-control.com (1464 words)

	westword.com \| Music \| The Evolution Control Committee \| 2003-05-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Simply pasting Christina Aguilera's voice over the Strokes ("Genius in a Bottle") might be fun for fans of interchangeable pop culture, but in the end, it's about as artistically significant as that parody of Edward Hopper's late-night diner with Elvis, Marilyn and James Dean all sitting around, looking cool and eating banana splits.
		Elsewhere, an unidentified Ronald Reagan sound-alike warps the mind of a youngster during a '50s-era discussion of the birds and the bees ("Sex Re-Education"), and the Oscar Mayer jingle replaces Francis Scott Key's words to the national anthem ("Star Spangled Bologna").
		Drawing from fifteen years' worth of experience reconfiguring audio or altering MIDI files, the ECC takes the listener from breakfast to supper with pranksterish abandon, splitting time between being civic-minded and irritatingly clever.
	www.westword.com /issues/2003-05-22/music/playlist4.html (340 words)

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		For nearly 20 years, The Evolution Control Committee has beencombining new technology with old-fashioned showmanship to produce internationally acclaimed performances.
		Long before the sampler and computers made it easy, The ECC was infringing copyright laws the hard way.
		As for the music, in the world of The ECC Public Enemy duke it out with Herb Alpert while Dan Rather is the new frontman for AC/DC.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8077046&postID=110443966767405806 (284 words)

	The Evolution Control Committee
		You're probably looking for the short version of what The ECC is. If only there was a well-known genre The ECC could be simply pigeonholed into, it would be a lot easier...
		The ECC is a "band", but like none you've ever seen or heard.
		In 1996, The ECC released what was probably the first ever "bootleg" when they mixed the angry, attitude-drenched vocal track from Public Enemy’s Rebel Without a Pause with a whimsical, happy-go-lucky Herb Alpert tune.
	www.pickled-egg.co.uk /ecc.htm (318 words)

	Plagiarhythm Nation, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Evolution Control Committee may be best-known for the single "Rebel Without a Pause (Whipped Cream Mix)," originally done back in 1993.
		The track, which fused Public Enemy vocals with a Herb Alpert backing track, subsequently caused a bit of a stir; in fact, some credit the ECC as the founder of the whole "bootleg" phenomenon.
		Most of Evolution Control Committee's previous output has been self-released; with wider release for this album on Seeland, it may be worth taking bets on who sues first.
	www.emusic.com /album/10754/10754646.html (495 words)

	ECC -=- Evolution Control Committee Catalog
		Negativmailorderland's only ECC product is the Plagiarhythm Nation v2.0 CD, but you can also buy Negativland music and other music released on their Seeland label.
		This could easily be cute and nothing more, but the ECC has made it an actual song...
		A curious travelogue with The Committee's Mark Gunderson and his family as they go skiing in BIG WYOMING.
	evolution-control.com /cat_ecc.html (853 words)

	UNSTABLEVOLUTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the summer 2004, we innitiated a collaboration with the DJ/performer Mark Gunderson (Evolution Control Committee) for the development of a performance/DJ/VJ party experiment that will be premiered at the Contemporary Dance Festival In Bytom, Poland.
		It dwells in the clash between presence and speed, metaphors and patterns, power and control, destruction and life, love and memory.
		A collaboration with the Dj and performer Trademarck G (Evolution Control Commetee).We lost the documentation, so we only have this video slide show.
	accad.osu.edu /~mbsolano/mash.html (177 words)

	Independent Artist Music Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This particular release from ECC is one huge juxtaposed piece of consumer commercialism contained in one 50 minute wonder of cassette, and packaged in a mall chainstore paper bag, complete with store pamphlets, and handy ECC receipt for this product of $4.
		Most humorous material, even the last 5 minutes of the tape is not complete without an advertisement and a short playing of just about everything Mark's ever released to date.
		If you own anything else by ECC, and you enjoy the way Negativland uses and abuses sampling, you'll enjoy this tape.
	www.sonic-boom.com /review/ecc-2.html (183 words)

	Wired News: Another CBS Digital Furor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While CBS News president Andrew Heyward has since said he "do[es]n't want to apologize for being aggressive in exploiting" this technology, a band of digital satirists who used similar cut-and-paste techniques with CBS News broadcasts have inspired a different breed of enthusiasm from the network.
		Last month, CBS lawyers discovered the humorous excursions of a Columbus, Ohio, trio of found-sound sampler-jockeys -- the Evolution Control Committee -- whose 1998 single "Rocked by Rape" sliced and spliced Dan Rather utterances (including the song's title), CBS News theme music, and assorted outtakes from the band AC/DC.
		At issue are the competing interests of CBS and its claimed intellectual property rights versus the ECC and its claimed fair use protections -- the latter of which the Supreme Court recently ruled includes parody.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,34177,00.html (575 words)

	User talk:MakeRocketGoNow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, I'm impressed that it even works through the gloves Allen is wearing as part of his robot disguise!
		I've been meaning to thank you for adding the vital ECC chapter to the Bastard Pop article.
		I made a mental note to do it myself, but was reluctant because a) I'm lazy and b) that's one of the few parts of the history of the genre I don't have first hand experience of.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:MakeRocketGoNow (1355 words)

	The Evolution Control Committee - Plagiarythm Nation V2.0 - Stylus Magazine
		The Evolution Control Committee step around the potential pitfalls that generally plague their Illegal Art brethren by favoring a more populist approach equally embraced by artists such as the Bran Flakes, Escape Mechanism, and People Like Us.
		However, by purposely steering away from excessive academic pretense, the Evolution Control Committee also might have steered too far into an adolescent approach that can be too overwhelming for some listeners.
		Let’s hope that the Evolution Control Committee doesn’t decide to let another seven years pass between official releases.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=380 (562 words)

	Negativmailorderland: We're a Plagiarhythm Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Columbus, Ohio's legendary ECC predated the entire "mash-ups" phenomenon with an unholy marriage of Public Enemy and Herb Alpert back in 1996 ("The Whipped Cream Mixes" 7")...
		Originally issued in a different, nascent form (known as "V.1" and handed out by the ECC), Plagiarhythm Nation has been totally remastered, re-tooled, re-configured and expanded upon for Seeland release.
		Visit the ECC's own web site at http://www.evolution-control.com and watch for live ECC performances in your town of the "Thimbletron" (which turns the ECC into a living, undulating MIDI monster!)
	www.negativland.com /nmol/info/info_ecc.html (148 words)

	* Dusted Labels [ Seelard ] *
		2.0 by Evolution Control Committee ranked 15 on Jun.
		2.0 by Evolution Control Committee ranked 8 on Jun.
		Plagiarhythm Nation Vol.2.0 by Evolution Control Committee ranked 5 on May.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /labels/22 (219 words)

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