''JAMCON '84'' was the first volume in the ''Over the Edge'' series, which distills portions of

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's radio program '' Over the Edge'', broadcast on

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. This album was edited together from at least three different broadcasts recorded between January and July 1985. The first program, "JAMCON '84," consists of Tracks 1 - 5, and is presented as a radio documentary covering a convention of

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, with commentary on radio jamming and

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, and the history and cultures surrounding them. The second program, "Negativland's 4th of July Stockholders' Picnic," is composed of Tracks 6 & 7, and is presented as a stockholders' meeting for the Universal Media Netweb ( Don Joyce's fictional radio network that supposedly presents the ''Over the Edge'' program) with Joyce's character Crosley Bendix giving updates and reports regarding their recent projects in a parody of the positive-thinking movement in business. The last program - and Track 8 of the disc - is "Body English," and is presented as live coverage of President

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's second inaugural address. Originally released in 1985 by

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on cassette only, it was re-released in 1994 by Negativland's own label, Seeland Records, as a CD with additional tracks featuring the two additional programs. The original Cassette Release contained the "JAMCON '84" program on Side A, and a program called "The Starting Line with Dick Goodbody" on Side B. "The Starting Line" Program appears on Over the Edge Vol. 1½.

Track listing

#"Introduction, JamJamJam, A Little History, Jam This Guy: An Interview with W6DR, Jamming the "Sports Line", Am I On?, Three Year Olds on the Air, etc.." #"Crosley Bendix Reviews JamArt and Cultural Jamming" #"The Worst Programming Ever, Mind Jamming, A Report by Rex Everything, etc.." #"C. Elliot Friday's Presidential Campaign Shortwave Broadcast (Live from Howland Island)" #"Two or Three People Listening, You Motherfucking Son of a Sack of Piece of Shit, Attempts to Jam and The End" #"Walking and Driving and Hiking to the Picnic, Introduction to the Show, Parade of Condiments" D only#"Stockholders' Meeting (with Crosley Bendix), Insects in Your Pop Bottle, An Abrupt Ending" D only#"Body English" D only

Personnel

*Richard Lyons *David Wills * Don Joyce *Mark Hosler *Chris Grigg *Helen Holt *Ian Allen *

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*Peter Dayton * Stoney Burke *

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