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Post number 11644

tranquileye — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:26:17 -0800

Emergency Broadcast Network: The Lost Tapes. "Formed during the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, E.B.N. created its first arsenal of counter-psy-ops programming, cleverly disguised as music videos, inspired by the spectacular media frenzy surrounding the war and its aftermath."

By: zpousman

zpousman — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:42:14 -0800

does anyone know what this technique is called?

By: badstone

badstone — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:58:27 -0800

the video tape they released 6 or 7 years ago (Commercial Entertainment Product) has a pretty lengthy description of what they do at the end, without actually calling it anything. i imagine coldcut has probably coined a term for it by now - check out their site on ninja tune.

By: machaus

machaus — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:13:53 -0800

Ha!, forgot about these guys... EBN and Shephard Fairy's Andre the Giant stickers were the two big things to come out of R.I.S.D when I was there. The EBN guys had this kick-ass battle vehicle, a matt black station wagon with all sorts of mad-maxesque crap rivited to it. Watching it climb college hill and thunder off towards Brown U was a site to see.

By: jeb

jeb — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:48:09 -0800

When I was at RISD, the big thing was Talking Heads. just kidding. I never went to RISD.

By: swift

swift — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:28:28 -0800

Great link, and timely. Thanks, tranquileye .

By: foist

foist — Sat, 20 Oct 2001 08:35:51 -0800

I saw EBN Halloween 1992 at the Kitchen in NYC. To this day I still think it was one of the best shows I've ever witnessed. And I'm faaaar from an electronic/dance buff. I wish they'd exist again (and beyond that stuff Josh is doing with Heavy.com), we need 'em.