KLF - did they rock you?

and now removed (at least in the uk).

awww

puts on chill out cd

mmm, didn't think it would last long.

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.

interesting

worth having anyway?

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

oooooh kayyyyyyyy...

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.

oooooh kayyyyyyyy...

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The idea of the 1st issue being some sort of "benign" bootlegger..

Then again, whaddooIknaa...

I've never got further than the Twinkle Twinkle Little Star section on Space

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

Those early FA cup rounds are a buggr

they were reported to be doing a proper compilation/ reissue series i heard a while back from a relatively good source.

'James Cauty's 1:87-scale police state
JAMs 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/

He's been doing them forever, I think the video for "Last train to Transcentral" featured close-down shots of one..

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?

never mind, now also reading they rarely if ever performed live...

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.

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Jimmy Cauty's Model Village

My 8 year old is prone to blurting KLF is gonna rock you with some regularity.

The KLF have now left the (miniature) building.

Is one of those cars Ford Timelord?

This was pretty good, obviously chapman bros inspired but politically cynical and comic instead of unremittingly bleak and nihilistic. Plus cool blue flashing lights.

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 ..

This is brilliant: https://vimeo.com/197669227

("2017-1994=23")

http://k2planthireltd.com/
https://twitter.com/K2PLANTHIRE

http://k2planthireltd.com/poster-one.jpg

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.

comeback since their retirement

The K Foundation were active from 1993 to 199...8? 2K was 1997. The One World Orchestra featuring The Massed Pipes and Drums of the Children's Free Revolutionary Volunteer Guards was 1995. They've specifically suggested that any new work will be by K2 Plant Hire Ltd, which was active from ...1994 to at least 31st December 1999. The company was formed or bought off the shelf to rent the equipment for the K Foundation making a cube of Tennents, iirc, has evidently been a registered company ever since, and may have actually been a plant hire company when not being used to facilitate installations.

Anyway, the nigh-statement that anything they do this year will be as K2 Plant Hire, which has only been involved in (grand scale) installations and logistics before, coupled with Cauty's last couple of exhibitions being installations (of miniatures), suggests that this will a) be an installation of some kind and b) https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6ZtfZp8ID54YUne0/giphy.gif

don't take my hopes for a klf insurrection away from me on today or all days

er, on today of all days

The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds was one of the best books I've ever read.

yeah, that book is 100% great

Agree about the book. I personally don't need to hear any new music from KLF, but I wouldn't mind being able to stream their entire catalog on Spotify.

Just copped Waiting for the Rites of Mu recently and I am ... disturbed by how much I enjoy it, and how it sounds to my aging ears like it's from five minutes in the future. Although if literature is "news that stays news" I guess there's no reason music from the past can't evoke a perpetual onward sweep.

I kinda feel like all those tropical house covers littering the charts are completely in synch with the guidelines from The Manual and so much as I would love the KLF spirit to return I fear it would be actually disappointing

I listen to most top 40 as if it's subversive KLF arena house, more fun that way.

I definitely listen to Scooter that way

I went to see Scooter live a few months ago and it was probably the greatest night of my life because they do everything by The Manual

they're skint and on the dole?

Just copped Waiting for the Rites of Mu recently and I am ... disturbed by how much I enjoy it, and how it sounds to my aging ears like it's from five minutes in the future. Although if literature is "news that stays news" I guess there's no reason music from the past can't evoke a perpetual onward sweep.

Waiting and The Rites Of Mu are two different short films whose audio tracks were bootlegged onto a single CD, if you don't know

yeah. music's great though - like a more uptempo Chill Out.

when did samples stop being cool? I still think they're cool.

they never stopped being cool, they just started being ruinously expensive to use

Read the Higgs book today thanks to recommendations upthread, and yeah, fantastic.

Jimmy "Mad Max" Cauty looking like he was ready to rock whoever: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/10/a-lost-freedom-when-new-age-travellers-found-acid-house-in-pictures#img-7

scoured the background of those pictures looking for additional evidence of a pie-eyed raving david cameron but sadly nothing to report :(

Wow, those pictures all look great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkv47xwkgg

!!!