| In 1998, LA rappers Radioinactive, AWOL One and Circus almost drove to the New Mexico desert in an Astrovan, squeaking out weird balloon animals along the way. Their plan: channel the spirit of Hamm, first victory chimp in space. Had Busdriver been behind the wheel, they would have found the chimp of the perverse at every station on the dial. Busdriver's forthcoming album is Fear of a Black Tangent and on this seven-inch he claims there's nothing but space bars on his typewriter. "Touch Type" may be the best typewriter jam since the Jungle Brothers' "Book of Rhyme Pages," though Busdriver's absurdity-per-minute rate is much higher (and that's pretty damn high considering the Jungle Brothers smoke-out of a third album). Bus spoons out a crib death sentence for nursery rhymes: "I fight Mother Goose in a Knight Rider suit with a hot bowl of soup." On "Winthorp & Winthorp," Radioinactive tangles with the hassle-hoof, horn and tail but is grateful for his "notepad made of fingernail clippings and coat tags." A flute skips along with the duo through a cubicle maze, pausing at human resources to pop an ergonomic whoopee cushion of nerve gas. "We are here / You are there," they say, but flying objects are closer than they appear. - The Wire |
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