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{{Short description|Record company named for Sealand}}

'''Seeland Records''' is an [[independent record label]] created by [[Negativland]] in the [[1980s]] to release their own recordings. Their logo was a parody of that used at the time by [[Sea-Land_Corporation|Sea-Land]], a freight company. Their name was a parody of the [[micro-nation]] of [[Sealand]], which in early history was home to radio pirates, and currently home to a government that does not respect international copyrights or intellectual property. Another explanation for the name can be "lifted" from a song by [[Neu!]], like the band's name.

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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->

| name = Seeland Records

| image = Seeland.JPG

| parent = Revolver USA

| founded = {{start date|1979}}

| founder = Mark Hosler, Richard Lyons, Ian Allen, David Wills

| genre = [[Experimental music|Experimental]]

| country = U.S.

| ___location = <!-- headquarters city and state -->

| website = {{URL|www.negativland.com}}

}}

'''Seeland Records''' is an [[independent record label]] created by [[Negativland]] in 1979 to release their own recordings. It is a reference to the song "Seeland" by the band [[Neu!]], who also gave Negativland the basis for their name, [[Sea-Land Corporation]], a freight company, (the label's logo is a parody of the company's logo) and the [[micro-nation]] of [[Principality of Sealand|Sealand]], which in early history was home to radio pirates.

Seeland largely disappeared when Negativland signed with [[SST Records]] for a time during the late [[1980s]] and early [[1990s]]. But after an acrimonious split with that label, Negativland revived Seeland and begain releasing new recordings, not just by themselves but also by other artists (the [[Evolution Control Committee]] and [[John Oswald (composer)|John Oswald]] to name two) who usually shared their philosophies regarding [[fair use]]. The label is distributed by major-label-affiliated Lumberjack Mordam Distribution.

==Seeland ArtistsHistory==

Seeland largely disappeared when Negativland signed with [[SST Records]] for a time during the late [[1980s]] and early [[1990s]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=negativland {{!}} norient.com |url=https://norient.com/negativland |access-date=2025-06-21 |website=norient.com |language=en}}</ref> But after an acrimonious split with that label, Negativland revived Seeland and begainbegan releasing new recordings, not just by themselves but also by other artists (the [[Evolution Control Committee]] and [[John Oswald (composer)|John Oswald]] to name two) who usually shared their philosophies regarding [[fair use]]. The label iswas distributed by major-label-affiliated Lumberjack Mordam Distribution until 2009, when Mordam shut down. Subsequently, the band relaunched the label in 2010 with distribution from [[Revolver USA]].

==Roster==

* [[Antediluvian Rocking Horse]]

* [[Bob Ostertag ]]

* [[Eddie The Rat]]

* [[Head & Leg]]

* [[Jane Timberlake]]

* [[John Oswald (composer)|John Oswald]]

* GitAr ([[MonoI PauseCut People]]/, [[AavikkoEllipse Elkshow]] )

* Mono Pause/[[Aavikko]]

* [[Negativland]]

* PantyChrist ([[Bob Ostertag]], [[Justin Bond]], and [[Otomo Yoshihide]])

* [[ christ]]

* [[Porest]]

* [[Realistic (band)|Realistic]]

* [[Silica-Gel]]

* [[Sleepytime Gorilla Museum]]

* [[The Evolution Control Committee]]

* [[The Rudy Schwartz Project]]

* [[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]]{{dubious|date=November 2015}}

* [[TwinkTISM]]

* [[Twink (musician)|Twink]]

* [[Xerophonics]]

== See also ==

* [[List of record labels]]

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[[Category:American record labels]]

[[Category:Independent record labels]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:American independent record labels]]

[[Category:Experimental music record labels]]

[[Category:Re-established companies]]

[[Category:1979 establishments in the United States]]