Over the Edge Vol. 5: Crosley Bendix: The Radio Reviews
Encyclopedia
Crosley Bendix Radio Reviews is a collection of recordings edited from a wealth of material broadcast on KPFA
's Over the Edge radio show, hosted by Don Joyce weekly. Each recording on this particular disc comes from a different broadcast, featuring the character Crosley Bendix.
As a regular feature on Over the Edge, Crosley Bendix (dubbed the "Director of Stylistic Premonitions for The Universal Media Netweb") presents Monologues on cultural phenomena, with a typically "Negativland" sense of humor throughout. The selections here are fairly broad examples of Crosley's critical style. Probably his most famous monologue regards the discovery of a new primary color, called "Squant."
This album was released in 1993 by Negativland's own label, Seeland Records
, as a CD
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KPFA
KPFA is a listener-funded progressive talk radio and music radio station located in Berkeley, California, broadcasting to the San Francisco Bay Area. KPFA airs public news, public affairs, talk, and music programming. The station signed on-the-air April 15 1949, as the first Pacifica Station...
's Over the Edge radio show, hosted by Don Joyce weekly. Each recording on this particular disc comes from a different broadcast, featuring the character Crosley Bendix.
As a regular feature on Over the Edge, Crosley Bendix (dubbed the "Director of Stylistic Premonitions for The Universal Media Netweb") presents Monologues on cultural phenomena, with a typically "Negativland" sense of humor throughout. The selections here are fairly broad examples of Crosley's critical style. Probably his most famous monologue regards the discovery of a new primary color, called "Squant."
This album was released in 1993 by Negativland's own label, Seeland Records
Seeland Records
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, and the micro-nation of Sealand,...
, as a CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
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Track listing
- Style (1989 - 6:15)
- Domestic Art (1987 - 11:33)
- Squant (1993 - 8:41)
- Movies (1987 - 7:13)
- Dance (1988 - 7:25)
- Progress (1984 - 3:25)
- Numbers (1985 - 3:52)
- Electricity (1987 - 7:38)
- Fear (1986 - 5:57)
- Technology (1987 - 9:14)
Personnel
- Don Joyce
- Kings House (Rob Wortman, Brook Hinton, Arne Ryason)