KLF - did they rock you?

I guess Bill and Jimmy don't need any money, which is good for them, I suppose.

If there is a De La Soul sampling situation with Chill Out then could they then reissue the original album on vinyl if they wanted to?

what

De La Soul can't re-release their back catalog digitally because the sample clearances don't cover downloads or streaming, only various physical formats.

I wish they'd start to release these on Bandcamp.

― jvc,

exactly.
they would be able to burn another million if they did this.

The KLF, famously known for having diligently cleared all their samples for physical releases, of course.

It's not like they ever had to burn the entire run of an album, or surrender international performing name rights to the entire band, over uncleared samples.

Spotify, Bandcamp, or Apple being onboard with casual copyright infringement as artistic expression seems unlikely, however

think the bigger question is if this is gonna culminate in anything new

would be cool if they finished the Black Room and released it

there is no way that would be good

oh, now you want new AND good!

:D

They did something new like two years ago, it seemed great from reports and phone clips! They haven't made a good record together in about 24 years, and let's face it, a majority of Jimmy's music since then is pretty bad. (respect knux to the Token EP, but he dropped out of the band before they even recorded it)

And going back to try and put yourself in the mindset of a mental breakdown that almost saw you chainsaw off your own hand thirty years ago, in order to finish writing songs that scared you so much you stopped writing them thirty years ago and have not written new music under your own name since, to record them with a band who are now two-thirds dead, seems unlikely even it it would be cool.

oh yeah that Transit Kings album was pretty good but I kinda doubt Cauty had much to do with it

He's only credited with writing on some of the songs that carried over from the EP and singles. AFAIK his only recorded work with them was the Boom Bang Bombay single-sided 12", released as Custerd three years before the TKs album, in a run of 75 copies.

(discogs says that version was also used as a TK b-side later)

I've long been curious about the composition of that album, since Cauty was out early, and neither Pratt nor Beken really have any original compositions to their name, which leaves....Alex Patterson??

Guy Pratt had written multiple #1 singles, and the two of them had done the score for Spaced together

Solid State Logik 2 is now on Spotify

It says "12" master mixes 1989-2017", it's mostly the "Live from Trancentral" long versions, a few skipped last time, the 7" "Kylie said to Jason", and "Jarvis joins the Jams" from 2017 it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_ysTc1fxk

^^ the Rites Of Mu film in approx 9000x better quality than it looked on VHS

I followed the instructions in "THE MANUAL (HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY)" and had a number one hit single.

wow, that Rites of Mu film is great

The White Room (Director’s Cut) is out

oh, the album! I thought you meant the movie.

Still, though....

Reaction: none...

I'd have to say it's their worst album.

This is the soundtrack though, rather than the hit version so it doesn’t have the stadium trance tracks and includes Go to Sleep. Well worth a listen. There’s a previously unheard Ricardo Del a force verse on Last Train

I'm definitely digging this more than the original album. Hello "Madrugada Eterna - Club Mix"

It’s also not the “original” version, which had “Born Free” as the final track.

So, version three.

.. four if you count etc

Despite being labelled "1989 Director's Cut," it's not from 1989 and it's not the movie soundtrack. Nearly everything is shorter than on the soundtrack (bar a couple that seem to be the 1991 album versions, eg No More Tears (is J&A the LP version too?)), the club mix of Madrugada Eterna is plonked in (and edited down)...

Apparently they've since put out a statement saying it's a finalised version from 1990, which sounds more like a cover-up for a new edit - dropping Born Free also feels v. much like a 2021 decision re publishing - but this does flow as a good listen, mostly.

xp lol

It’s also not the “original” version, which had “Born Free” as the final track.

So, version three.

No - promoed on cassette, bootlegged from that.

My personal KLF holy grail would be a long (6minutes+ please) version of Madrugada Eterna (303 mix), but no evidence anything like that ever existed beyond this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWoueoTDb14

Looks like someone “covered” it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6YBzRZRq8

My personal KLF holy grail too. i almost had a copy of the 12" once upon a time and it still pains me to think how close i came.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/19/klf-assert-justified-and-ancient-copyright-claim-to-block-documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4k1SeOmlM

Great, read about that in the guardian, didn't know it was going to be free on youtube.

It's been mentioned above but everyone should read The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds.

I'm not sure the intention of the producers was / is for it to be free on youtube.

I was wondering, doesn't look much like an official account/upload does it.

I watched Who Killed the KLF? last night and it's really good - the unauthorized-ness of it works in its favor, feeling more like a made-for-TV true crime story: lots of footage of cloaked figures stacking KLF vinyl, drone shots of a black and white '68 Ford Galaxie traversing the UK, burning money, voiceovers from folks who were at one of their events. I can see why Messrs. Cauty & Drummond would hate it - it's a straight-forward, linear timeline, fan movie that makes a case for them being Cool As Fuck still 30 years later.

it's good, though i kind of hated the end, with the belle and sebastian song over the clips of related/un-related things that have happened in the intervening 23 years. i found it really mnoving when jimmy was talking about how they'd ask each other "what would the klf do?"—describing their process with and relationship to each other.

has anyone read their book, 2023? it's simultaneously just what i expected (an increasingly complex, endlessly self-referential mindfuck) and not what i expected (dark af in some ways i couldn't have predicted — like the chapter "what is rape?").

klf kare?

the txt on the website seems to imply it's just tony thorpe messing around with old samples.
not overly impressed, but i guess that's all part of the plan.
if it is actually them.

it seems like a sad and tired, unfunny steaming pile of horse manure to me. hard to believe cauty & drummond had much to do with it.