Illegal Art is the brainchild of enigmatic impresario Philo T. Farnsworth. The label stormed onto the digital battlefield in 1998 with the release of Deconstructing Beck, a collection of experimental, electronic works derived entirely from Beck Hansen samples. Litigious murmuring by Beck's handlers only served to drum up priceless publicity for the fledgling label (in a way reminiscent of the mixed-blessing lawsuits brought against earlier sample-based artists like Negativland and John Oswald). Things have calmed down a bit these days, and IA now boasts an impressive catalog of disparate, mainly sample-based music.

Beisdes MP3 files of Illegal Art releases, they are also offering "illegal" MP3 files from various artists like Stockhausen, Can and Kid606. More

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Links to MP3 files of Illegal Art releases can be found by clicking the CD covers at theire starting page. MP3 files from other artits can be found by following the MP3 link.

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