acid test noun
A decisive or critical test, as of worth or quality.
[From the testing of gold in nitric acid.]

• Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters 1965 - 1967

• influence on Pink Floyd and "freakouts"
• track _Acid Test_ MP3 (192k) by Bill Laswell off of _Permutation_ CD on Ion (2000)
• soundtrack _Acid Test_ MP3 by Jerry Goldsmith & Morton Stevens off of _Alien_ soundtrack 12" (1979)
  
• track _Aquarius Rising_ by Psychic TV off of _Jack The Tab Vol. 1_
• sample from Ken Kesey re: acid tests: "Well as the navigator of this venture, I try as much as possible to set out in a direction in the first place is practically impossible to achieve and along the way mess up the minds of the crew with as many chemicals as we can lay our hands on."
• Temporary Autonomous Zones
• book _Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_ by Tom Wolfe
• release _Electric Kool-Aid_ compilation on Kavator Records 2000 - KAVCD01

• PeLinPaLa - _Dance Like A Tree_ MP3 (192k) (Fin)
• Rastaliens - _Sativasaurus_ MP3 (192k) (Ger)
• Paranoic Sensations - _Vinylling_ MP3 (192k)(Rus)
• Logic Bomb - _Rotation Generation_ MP3 (192k)(Swe)
• TransLucid - _Metabolic_ MP3 (192k)(Uk)
• KaSol - _Tracy Snakecharmer_ MP3 (192k)(Swe)
• Hux Flux - _Degauss_ MP3 (192k)(Swe)
• Weirdo beardo - _Mentallica_ MP3 (192k)(Swe)
• Twin Freaks - _Gizmos Turned On_ MP3 (192k) (Swe)
• references _Twin Peaks_ by David Lynch
• Tom Wolfe also wrote the book _The Right Stuff_
• artcore track _The Blessed Test_ MP3 by Antioch Arrow off of _In Love With Jetts_ 12" on Gravity
• 604 track _Acid Tester_ MP3 by Ominus off of s/t 12"x2 on Koyote
• samples: "The drug taking has begun.";   "A dizziness has taken hold";  "Sounds become disengaged." 

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