Over the Edge, Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project by Negativland (CD, Oct-1994, 2 Discs, Seeland)

Album Features
UPC:	753762001227
Artist:	Negativland
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1994
Record Label:	Seeland
Genre:	Avant-Garde/Downtown, Jazz Instrument
Number Of Discs:	2

Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Executive Window / Memo To Friday / Memo From The Future / Dickie Diamond And The Media Shifter
2. Piddle Diddle Report 1, The: / Sandamanians / Transinfiltration / Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True
3. Piddle Diddle Report 2, The: / Human Values / Where Is Friday? / A Call From Howland Island And The President
4. Piddle Diddle Report 3, The: / Strike It Rich / This Fabled Island / Cary Grant Tapes A Ghost
5. Piddle Diddle Report 4, The: / After The Rain / Let's Take A Few Calls / Photos Of Mrs. Gorbachev / Computercoup / Atom Spy
6. Piddle Diddle Report 5, The: / Sergio Caracus / Frankenstein Meets Cyclops / What Was On The Island? / Who Was On The Island? / Agoraphobia
7. Piddle Diddle Report 6, The: / A Future Confronting The Past Which Is Our Future / Last Call From Howland Island / Eaten By A Black Hole / Returned To Your Rightful Channel

DISC 2:
1. A Unique Cultural Simulcast / Cubulax Guidelines / Dickie Diamond Grabs The Gusto / Russian National Anthem / Take Me Out To The Ball Game
2. Americo-Soviet Free Market Osmosis / Mertz / Intercontinental Phone Mess
3. Russian Factoids / Natural Woman / Toilet Paper
4. Ads And Smiles / Hey You-Buy This! / Innovation / Shilling For Attention
5. Mertz / A Force Of Nature / Hard And Soft Thinking / The Good Life / Cars
6. One Bar Of Soap / Rubles / Mertz / It's As If We Never Left Home / Negativ Thoughts / Nuts-Oh Nuts! / You Will Be Rearranged
7. Passage To The 4th Dimension / Memo To Howland / Calling Radio Moscow
8. Presidential Campaign Shortwave Broadcast by C. Eliot Friday, A
9. Piddle Diddle Report 7, The: / What's To Come / The Quantum Edge / Fiber Optics / Experimental Sharpness
10. A Place In Time To Put Time In It's Place / Do You Have A Job? / Das Vedanya / Mertz / Credits / So What Was I Looking For?

Details
Playing Time:	141 min.
Distributor:	Lumberjack-Mordam Music G
Recording Type:	Live
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Omer Edge.The OVER THE EDGE series is taken from Negativland's live weekly radio show of the same name.The seventh volume of Negativland's Over the Edge series, entitled Time Zones Exchange Project, marked the downfall of the former Soviet Union. The disc is edited entirely from radio broadcasts between 1989 and 1992. The focus of this double-CD set is on the fictitious Howland Island, where a time warp is created in the future to alter the Soviet Union of the past into a free-market nation. A character named C. Eliot Friday and his company Universal Media Netweb are central to the saga. Friday also owns the patent on Mertz, an imaginary drug that helps you make up your mind. Friday's goal throughout the disc is to teach the people of the Soviet Union to learn the ways of a free market, so he can exploit them in the future. More than two hours of audio collages offer mock investigative reporting about Friday, a call-in U.S./Soviet talk-radio show, and the selling of Mertz to the Soviets. This, and the other discs in the Over the Edge series, are, in the end, quality radio drama in the Orwellian tradition. The "Testwave" broadcasts on the second disc were aimed at, as the group called it, "planting the seeds of free market thinking." Testwave is the broadcast manifestation of Time Zones Exchange Project, pointing to the massive size of the U.S.S.R., which spanned 11 time zones. The collection includes 17 tracks of scattered and pieced-together audio experiments marking the historic end of the Soviet superpower. In the end, this is social commentary on the priorities of the United States. The result is a continually engaging, and often disturbing, presentation. Russian language assistance on the disc was performed by Taras Titarenenko. With the tongue-in-cheek help of "Radio Moscow," various Russian musicians, and numerous anonymous callers, the broadcasts became a landmark moment of, as the band puts it, "cultural transference." The radio programs on Time Zones Exchange Project originally aired on KPFA in Berkeley, CA, on the Over the Edge program. ~ Stephen Cramer