# Dispepsi > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dispepsi > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dispepsi.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispepsi > Source revision: 1293879482 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Dispepsi | type = [Album](/source/Album) | artist = [Negativland](/source/Negativland) | cover = Dispepsi.gif | alt = | released = July 29, 1997 | recorded = 1996–97 | venue = | studio = | genre = [Plunderphonics](/source/Plunderphonics), [collage](/source/sound_collage){{cite web |title=Negativland Take on Pepsi |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/c418uk/negativland-take-on-pepsi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828180350/https://www.mtv.com/news/c418uk/negativland-take-on-pepsi |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 28, 2022 |website=MTV |access-date=August 28, 2022 |date=June 27, 1997}} | length = 42:43 | label = [Seeland](/source/Seeland_Records) | producer = Negativland | prev_title = [Truth in Advertising](/source/Truth_in_Advertising_(EP)) | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = [Happy Heroes](/source/Happy_Heroes) | next_year = 1998 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=dispepsi-mw0000596148|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review] | rev2 = ''[Now](/source/Now_(newspaper))'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nowtoronto.com:80/issues/16/52/Ent/discnow.html|title=Negativland on cola, Westerberg revealed|website=[Now](/source/Now_(newspaper))|last=Perlich|first=Tim|date=September 12, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040912133507/http://www.nowtoronto.com:80/issues/16/52/Ent/discnow.html |access-date=March 10, 2025|archive-date=12 September 2004 }} | rev3 = ''[Pitchfork](/source/Pitchfork_(website))'' | rev3score = 4.0/10{{cite web|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/n/negativland/dispepsi.shtml|title=Negativland - Dispepsi|website=[Pitchfork](/source/Pitchfork_(website))|last=Josephes|first=Jason|date=August 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051025142221/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/n/negativland/dispepsi.shtml |access-date=March 10, 2025|archive-date=25 October 2005 }} | rev4 = ''[Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine))'' | rev4score = 7/10{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ogux2DAvNU0C&pg=PA150|title=SPIN Nov 1997|website=[Spin](/source/Spin_(magazine))|last=McLaren|first=Carrie|date=August 1997|access-date=March 10, 2025}} }} '''''Dispepsi''''' is the eighth album by the American experimental [plunderphonics](/source/plunderphonics) band [Negativland](/source/Negativland). It was released on July 29, 1997, by [Seeland Records](/source/Seeland_Records), Negativland's record label. It is structured as a statement against the major soft drink companies and contains many samples of advertisements from the industry. Particularly, the [collage](/source/sound_collage) album focuses on [Pepsi](/source/Pepsi) adverts. ==History== The album was an attack on the highly competitive soft drink companies [Coca-Cola](/source/Coca-Cola) and [Pepsi](/source/Pepsi). The title is a variation of ''[dyspepsia](/source/dyspepsia)'', which is synonymous with indigestion. The word "Dispepsi" deliberately does not appear anywhere on the album artwork, but a telephone number was set up to provide the proper title. It is scrambled into [anagram](/source/anagram)s including "Pedissip" and "Ideppiss", as the band originally believed they would be sued for [trademark infringement](/source/trademark_infringement) if the actual title was shown. Once Pepsi lawyers indicated that they had no intention of suing Negativland, they began referring to it by its actual title.[http://www.negativland.com/nmol/dispepsi.html Dispepsi] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117055043/http://www.negativland.com/nmol/dispepsi.html |date=November 17, 2006 }} However, on the front artwork (based on the [flag of South Korea](/source/flag_of_South_Korea)), the actual album title could be un-scrambled by reading the red letters in order of their decreasing size, starting with the largest, D, and ending with the smallest, I. Notes on samples include: :"All of the cola commercials that were appropriated, transformed, and reused in this recording attempted to assault us in our homes without permission. Other sources reused include: talk radio, [MOMMIE DEAREST](/source/Mommie_Dearest_(film)), [tabloid TV](/source/tabloid_television), [Pepsi and Shirlie](/source/Pepsi_%26_Shirlie), documentary TV, [Bryan Ferry](/source/Bryan_Ferry), the news, [Ice-T](/source/Ice-T), [public service announcements](/source/public_service_announcements), [Asha Bhosle](/source/Asha_Bhosle), [MC Lyte](/source/MC_Lyte), [The Clio Awards](/source/Clio_Awards), traditional Burmese music, the [O. J. Simpson murder case](/source/O._J._Simpson_murder_case), motivational marketing tapes by advertising executives."[http://www.negativland.com/negdisco_detail.html#dispepsi Unbelievably Anal Negativland Discography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828072535/http://www.negativland.com/negdisco_detail.html#dispepsi |date=August 28, 2006 }} A [music video](/source/music_video) for "The Greatest Taste Around" incorporates clips of Pepsi ads synchronized with the song. ==Track listing== #"The Smile You Can't Hide" (1:34) #"Drink It Up" (3:46) #"Why Is This Commercial?" (2:18) #"Happy Hero" (5:03) #"A Most Successful Formula" (3:30) #"The Greatest Taste Around" (2:14) #"Hyper Real" (0:54) #"All She Called About" (3:23) #"I Believe It's L" - Ft. [Steve Fisk](/source/Steve_Fisk) (6:21) #"Humanitarian Effort" (0:32) #"Voice Inside My Head" (3:46) #"Aluminum or Glass: The Memo" (3:46) #"Bite Back" (5:31) == Credits == * Made, played, recorded and mixed by: [Negativland](/source/Negativland) * Keyboards and drum boxing on "I Believe It's L": [Steve Fisk](/source/Steve_Fisk) * Dyspeptic designing: Shawn Wolfe * Tuneless found warbling: Catherine Carter * Authoritative voice and number crunching: Peter Conheim * Video jiggling: Harold Boihem * Commercial contributions: Arjan Schutte and John Skelton * Image looting: [Craig Baldwin](/source/Craig_Baldwin) * Drum butchering: Pat Maley * Digital master assembling: Matt Spiro and [James LeBrecht](/source/James_LeBrecht) * Free legal advising from our team of lawyer-operated salad shooters: [Keith Aoki](/source/Keith_Aoki), [James Boyle](/source/James_Boyle_(academic)), Kohel Haver, Alan Korn, Jeffery Selman and Peter Shaver * Unlimited access to their vast archives: One World Advertising ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Negativland}} {{Authority control}} Category:Negativland albums Category:1997 albums Category:PepsiCo Category:Cola Category:Seeland Records albums Category:Sound collage albums Category:Plunderphonics albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dispepsi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispepsi) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispepsi?action=history)). 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