Newspaper Taxis
various artists
label:: Enlightenment Records
format:: CD
Newspaper
Taxis is another in the series of spoken word recordings
released by Chrome Dreams. This time around, the spotlight is on the "chemical
crusaders, the drugs they used and the cult authors whose work has been influenced
by them" like Timothy Leary, Ken
Kesey,
Philip K. Dick, Aldous Huxley, and J.G.
Ballard.
Taking its name from the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Newspaper Taxis ruins yet another good chance to archive some very important recordings with a lame voiceover and cheesey soundtrack. The narrator this time even takes on a psychedelic tone of voice, which makes for even more laughable listening. Since the source material is a little more interesting coming from a druggy tip, there is a lot of great material buried here that would be cool to sample for a radio show, but good luck digging past the intrusive narration. They don't seem to understand that's what liner notes are for.
An interesting side note about the cd title: sometime in the late 80s, 100 London taxis were indeed turned into "newspaper taxis" with entire newspapers published in vinyl on the sides and tops of the cabs.
---Patrick
- The Wizard of Sandoz
Dr Albert Hoffman, Aldous Huxley - The Whole of the Law
Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger - Acid Tests
Ken Kesey - The One Hundred Baby Spiders That Ate Their Mother
Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Lawrence Sultin - God in a Bottle
Timothy Leary, G. Gordon Liddy - The Cyberaid - Tales of Transformation, Beyond
the Human & The
Brave New World
William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
