Scoop Nisker was a DJ at San Francisco's KSAN, known for his comic/Buddhist approach to news reporting (Traffic report: "People are driving to work to earn the money to pay for the cars they're driving to work in. Back to you"), when he compiled this album of razor-tape assemblages built out of old records, speeches by public figures, new voiceovers, and man-on-the-street interviews. The result is more or less what you'd expect if Buchanan and Goodman had been working in radio news when Johnson was president instead of Eisenhower. Other artists cut tape before Nisker, but this is one of the earliest pioneering efforts in turning collage into culture jamming.
White Lightning
A Modern American Orgasm
My Fellow Americans
Conspiracy
Creeps
Seven Days in May
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