KLF - did they rock you?

Don't let weedy St Etienne kick out the JAMs – vote for It's Grim Up North

Group III.13: I've never felt so strong

Saint Etienne! https://t.co/v7roiHGtFX
Grace Jones! https://t.co/OJvy6fF86v
New Order! https://t.co/KkyIMe586q
The JAMS! https://t.co/8YN780vt4p

— Tom Ewing (@tomewing) May 21, 2020

I mean, I like all these tracks but the top two go through and St Etienne are well represented elsewhere.

Also there's at least one other better Saint Et song still in the game (Avenue)

Fuck me, they’re rereleasing their catalogue.

As the first in a series of The KLF's back catalogue selections officially hits streaming services on January 1st, this year has already proven to be much better than 2020.#kickoutthejams https://t.co/P7mhVSS3tW

— KLF Online (@KLF_Online) January 1, 2021

woah

Following is posted on the new KLF YouTube channel:

KLF exist.

KLF have appropriated the work done between the
1st of January 1987 and 31st of December 1991 by
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu,
The Timelords
The KLF

This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming.

The name of the story is SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL.

The five chapters are:

1. Kick Out The JAMs,
2. Pure Trance Series,
3. Come Down Dawn,
4. Moody Boys Selection
5. Solid State Logik (Parts 1 &2).

If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet.

From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.

The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th century.

Further information can be found on a poster, fly posted under a railway bridge on the Kingsland Road in London on the 31st of December 2020.

Would be interested seeing what is on this poster.

There's also The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu vs. Extreme Noise Terror - 3AM Eternal (From The Black Room) with a new edit of the video

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqpBnJ0XAAUNQGb?format=jpg

goat

Oh shit

just hope they put this stuff up on bandcamp.

Yeah but it'll either cost a million pounds per track or will just be files made to sound like lo-res rips. (I fully endorse either of these moves.)

OK, so all of the "Pure Trance" series?

Colour me interested...

Will donate organs in exchange for the "Pure Trance" series.

while i kind of agree with Ned.
i still want them to be available to download/buy, especially the PT stuff as stirmonster says.

i saw a comment somewhere that this is all due to bill getting a whopping tax demand.
can anyone confirm deny such detail ?

no but it's prima facie absurd bcz

Now they are on Spotify we can look forward to the film “The KLF Earn A Millionth Of A Quid”

— Joel Morris (@gralefrit) January 2, 2021

Was gonna say (but not as well..)

Possibly opens up for licensing/advertising/TVbeds etc..

I missed a lot of this stuff the first time around and I'm really only familiar with Chill Out and The White Room. What is the Pure Trance series? Was it just the trance remixes on those two big singles?

The What Time Is Love 1988 Pure Trance Original is presumably on there? my fav version still

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wzdTTSA7nQ

xp It's complicated....The link Mark G posted is super detailed and goes into the history of the series. You may want to skip to page 3 if you're not interested in their early JAMMS incarnation.

http://www.forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-klf-album-by-single-by-album.692361/

I do recommend this one, a KLF rundown.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 10:18 (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

What is the Pure Trance series? Was it just the trance remixes on those two big singles?

There were 3 Pure Trance 12" singles (with another couple scheduled that never appeared). They were "What Time Is Love?", '3AM Eternal" and "Last Train To Trancentral" and these were the original versions of those tracks that were all later reworked into big pop hits

2 of which i believe were only available on cd via this cheap-n-cheerful compilation

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Warehouse-Raves-4/master/24021

i did not know they had ever seen a cd release so many thanks for that.

i picked the cd up in a cheap bin many years ago.
obviously, well chuffed i did once i realised.
also, some of the other tracks are absolutely fantastic.

indeed. several eternal faves on there.

That Steve Hoffman forum link is gold, thanks for bringing that back to the front.

I had that warehouse raves album on tape when it came out. Pretty thrilling material for a 14 year old

I think a bunch of the "Pure Trance" originals are on the cd singles, but I'm sure that Hoffman link has the details.

I've always been a huge fan of The Moody Boys vs KLF mix of "What Time is Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5GjXDAecHQ

That 12" was the only time the Mac-less Echo and the Bunnymen made the charts

https://mixmag.net/read/klf-film-anarchic-electronic-duo-music-peoples-pyramid-news

So, when's the next episode?

Clearly not weekly, so perhaps monthly?

Fantastic thread:

It’s thirty years since The KLF’s 3am Eternal hit Number One so I suppose it must also be about thirty years since 13-year-old me met The KLF at Top Of The Pops. pic.twitter.com/qoNmBJWBNs

— Peter Robinson (@Popjustice) January 28, 2021

already posted on the other KLF thread

Too many KLFs!

Link please?

The KLF - The White Room poll

Thank you.

New stuff coming at midnight apparently!

Hope it's a new ambient album, but i'm expecting it's just Chill Out with the samples.

i thought Logik 2 makes sense but we'll see!

On Spotify now:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4fBvkZkBuPyo3k7ZogKFAo?si=RKwfz02NSYqCAIUcDN-LDg

Acker Bilk seems to have gone. Elvis has left the album.

It's a Chill Out remix, but it sounds great! Exactly what I wanted.

(the last third of it is markedly different from Chill Out)

it is indeed. i never thought i would enjoy listening to it again so much.

lol havent got there yet but sounding perfect on track 6

so happy