William S Burroughs
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What we have here is a collection of readings from Burroughs' work, all of which were obtained from an old bootleg cassette. As far as I know these recordings are not currently commercially available, although all of them have existed on vinyl at some point, a detail evident from the odd crackle to be heard between Bill's insectoid drawling. The tape was simply marked William Burroughs - Volume 1, and had the pseudo catalogue number of beat-6. It was 90 minutes long and of very poor quality. I have removed the tape hiss using Cool Edit Pro, a very useful program, although I have left the vinyl crackles and pops intact, mostly for aesthetic reasons. I was going to convert the cleaned up recording into mp3s, but a quick experiment revealed that for spoken word Real Audio is far superior, and has crunched the whole 90 minutes down to a measly 10Mb. Well, here are the clips, in the order they appeared on the tape, but with a little more explanation in some cases: Side A Naked Lunch - Excerpt from Chapter 1, 768K Naked Lunch - Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry, 588K Nova Express - The Fish Poison Con, 838K Nova Express - Twilight's Last Gleaming / miscellaneous, 691K The Soft Machine - Where You Belong / Gongs of Violence, 793K Nova Express - Inflexible Authority, 1290K Nova Express / The Soft Machine - Uranian Willy, 242K Side B Junky, 887K The Wild Boys, 827K Exterminator - part 1, 417K Exterminator - part 2, 447K Ah Pook is Here, 1451K Cities of the Red Night, 1202K The files have been zipped partly to preserve bandwidth but also to ensure they download with the minimum amount of browser based fuss. |
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