Yeah, like I said above: the original "3AM Eternal" came out before "The Power", but that one sounds way different. It's the later remix that sounds like it's biting "The Power".
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, if you mean the "Ancients of MuMu" chant, that was on the 1987 album.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Tuomas is referring to combination of rapping, diva vocal interjections and "guitar" synth sounds common to the 3AM Eternal (Live at SSL) version, Snap! "The POwer" and C&C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat" all released in 1990.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Mastermind - 2012/2013
Questions are put to four more contenders. Subjects are the novels of William Golding, the Soviet Union under Stalin 1924-1939, The KLF and When the Boat Comes In.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pf0sq/Mastermind_2012_2013_Episode_16/
― jed_, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
or just the klf bit for non uk people -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLwRNmI5Mw
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
I got 11 out of 13 iirc
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
About 1/4 of the way through this and it's pretty good thus far: http://www.amazon.com/KLF-Chaos-Magic-Music-ebook/dp/B00ABFHOS0/Ties together all sorts of stuff about Discordian-ism (?) that I didn't know. It's practically a philosophy book thus far.
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Bruno Brookes lol!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
'could have been either'
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
When I listen to "What Time is Love?" I get pumped, and I kind of want to scream MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
― boy_slayer, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
a whole bunch of rare klf has hit the digital stores.. white room soundtrack, chill out, space, a couple of remix & offcuts things.
― dutch tl;drs (electricsound), Thursday, 17 January 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
they're bootlegs
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
[chill out is still legal in the US, but the other things are mostly CDs compiled on the mailing list in the 90s by ƃǝʃʇooq Ɫ861 pǝsɹǝʌǝɹ-sǝpıs ǝɥʇ ǝuop pɐɥ ʇɐɥʇ ǝpnp ǝɥʇ]
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
interesting
worth having anyway?
― dutch tl;drs (electricsound), Thursday, 17 January 2013 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
the sound quality of some of these is very dubious - obviously recorded without much love form vinyl. the "lost sound of mu" comps seem very un-KLF concepts. time will tell if these are legit.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 17 January 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's on Spotify.
The "actual" White Room album is non-streamable, but the "Original Motion Soundtrack" is streamable.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Only just heard about this. Astounding! But stirmonster's caveats make me wonder...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
apparently bill drummond has confirmed they're not legit.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
no surprise. of all the bands that have claimed they're "totally done" the KLF is the one I actually believe
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
2017 - i want to believe
― hot slag (lukas), Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
"Saturn" (I think) from 'Space' is so great (the one real 'track' on it).
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
and now removed (at least in the uk).
― stirmonster, Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
awww
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
puts on chill out cd
mmm, didn't think it would last long.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
the sound quality of some of these is very dubious - obviously recorded without much love form vinyl. the "lost sound of mu" comps seem very un-KLF concepts.
well yeah! the White Room Soundtrack was from a third-generation cassette that someone tried to pretty up with EQ, and the bonus tracks and the LSOM comps were by various people recording their 12"s at home on 90s equipment and sending them to the one dude to compile. And some are from acetates or test-pressings that had been through multiple hands already, so showed understandable wear and tear.
sure, but not paying for when it's just some guy who ripped & uploaded his copies of originally-non-profit bootlegs*
*the first LSOM was in a plastic wallet with a B & offwhite card insert; the WROST and LSOM2 were in jewel cases with colour front and back inserts - some leftovers, after the subscriber copies, of these might have been sold off to shops that didn't mind their non-legality
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 18 January 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
oooooh kayyyyyyyy...
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2013 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
The video doesn't work above, but one of the best things you will ever see is the KLF destroying the Brit Awards in 1992 with proto-grindcore group Extreme Noise Terror.
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/562902
The audience at the end, politely clapping but with either bemused or horrified looks on their faces, is priceless.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 18 January 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
?
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
The idea of the 1st issue being some sort of "benign" bootlegger..
Then again, whaddooIknaa...
― Mark G, Friday, 18 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I've never got further than the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star section on Space
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Friday, 18 January 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
of "benign" bootlegger..
a dozen ppl on an email list compiling a CD and posters chipping in to get it pressed vs ilx posters compiling a disc of 80s Australian synthpop or three discs of UKG or a four-disc set of live Cure recordings
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Friday, 18 January 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Those early FA cup rounds are a buggr
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 January 2013 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
they were reported to be doing a proper compilation/ reissue series i heard a while back from a relatively good source.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
'James Cauty's 1:87-scale police stateJAMs and KLF pioneer creates "twisted model village experience" populated by 5000 policemen'
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/october/07/james-cautys-1-87-scale-police-state/
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
He's been doing them forever, I think the video for "Last train to Transcentral" featured close-down shots of one..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
just watching the 3 am eternal video for the first time... were their live shows anywhere close to as cool as how the video makes them look?
― skip, Monday, 4 August 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
never mind, now also reading they rarely if ever performed live...
― skip, Monday, 4 August 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
They didn't play live - they did a few PAs early on, but the Brits performance of 3AM with Extreme Noise Terror is probably the closest to an actual live performance they ever did.
― boney tassel (sic), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost obv
― boney tassel (sic), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Jimmy Cauty's Model Village
― bored at work (snoball), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
My 8 year old is prone to blurting KLF is gonna rock you with some regularity.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:07 (eight years ago) link
The KLF have now left the (miniature) building.
― bored at work (snoball), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
Is one of those cars Ford Timelord?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
This was pretty good, obviously chapman bros inspired but politically cynical and comic instead of unremittingly bleak and nihilistic. Plus cool blue flashing lights.
― ledge, Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
i saw this at dismaland.in fact it was the best thing there for me.it's really quite something.could have spent a lot longer scanning it for all the little details ..
― mark e, Sunday, 24 January 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
This is brilliant: https://vimeo.com/197669227
― everything, Monday, 2 January 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
("2017-1994=23")
― everything, Monday, 2 January 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
http://k2planthireltd.com/https://twitter.com/K2PLANTHIRE
http://k2planthireltd.com/poster-one.jpg
― naus, Friday, 20 January 2017 08:48 (seven years ago) link
Didn't they release that "F**ck the Millennium" tune in the late '90s, and even made a video for it? So it's not like this is their first comeback since their retirement, as fitting as it would be for their Illuminatus mythology to return after 23 years of absence.
― Tuomas, Friday, 20 January 2017 10:07 (seven years ago) link