Minutes To Go! (1988)



Belgium: Interior Music (LP, compilation), 1988.
12.375" x 12.375" x 0.125", ten tracks, black vinyl, "IM001".

Minutes To Go!, a compilation album released by Interior Music in Belgium in 1988. This LP is heavily Burroughs and Cut-Up focused.

Contents: 

  • Side A:
    • William S. Burroughs "Abandoned Artifacts" [from the cover: "Abandoned Artifacts is a processed version which combines three separate overlapping readings along with a rhythm track. Original recordings from performances at The Edge, Toronto; Tuts, Chicago; and Keystone Corner, San Francisco. Text taken from chapter one of Burroughs' western novel The Place of Dead Roads"]
    • The Anti Group: "The Discussion" [from the cover: "dialogue piece, montage via magnetic tape originally for five tape recorders and film performed in Rotterdam and Berlin, 1984: (a) eyewitness accounts of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Dallas 1964 / (b) observations by John Cage / (c) Jack Kerouac reading from Neal and The Three Stooges / (d) Murder Inc. ex-mafia killers in conversation / (e) Surrealist lecture"]
    • Cabaret Voltaire: "Baader Meinhof"
    • William S. Burroughs: "Towers Open Fire" 
    • Tuxedomoon: "Shelved Dreams"
  • Side B:
    • Jean Cocteau: "La Toison d'Or"
    • William S. Burroughs: "On the Nova Lark" [from the cover: "was recorded by Burroughs in the early 1960's in London of Tangiers. The Passage is partially contained in his novel The [sic] Nova Express. The background music is probably bleeding backwards from an instrument."]
    • Jacques Derrida: "Deconstruction & Necessity"
    • Winston Tong: "Going Out Of My Head / For Your Love"
    • William S. Burroughs: "Twilight's Last Gleamings" [from the cover: "is the first appearance of Dr. Benway. Reading from the Red Night Tour at Keystone Corner, San Francisco May 16th 1981"]
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