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― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
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.
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
I wish they'd start to release these on Bandcamp.
― jvc,
exactly.they would be able to burn another million if they did this.
― mark e, Friday, 5 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
The KLF, famously known for having diligently cleared all their samples for physical releases, of course.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
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.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
Spotify, Bandcamp, or Apple being onboard with casual copyright infringement as artistic expression seems unlikely, however
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
think the bigger question is if this is gonna culminate in anything new
― frogbs, Friday, 5 February 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
would be cool if they finished the Black Room and released it
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
there is no way that would be good
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
oh, now you want new AND good!
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
: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.
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
oh yeah that Transit Kings album was pretty good but I kinda doubt Cauty had much to do with it
― frogbs, Friday, 5 February 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
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)
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link
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??
― frogbs, Friday, 5 February 2021 21:29 (three years ago) link
Guy Pratt had written multiple #1 singles, and the two of them had done the score for Spaced together
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 5 February 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
Solid State Logik 2 is now on Spotify
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 07:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 07:23 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_ysTc1fxk
― john shopkins (naus), Monday, 29 March 2021 06:53 (three years ago) link
^^ the Rites Of Mu film in approx 9000x better quality than it looked on VHS
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Monday, 29 March 2021 08:12 (three years ago) link
I followed the instructions in "THE MANUAL (HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY)" and had a number one hit single.
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 3 April 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
wow, that Rites of Mu film is great
― StanM, Saturday, 3 April 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
The White Room (Director’s Cut) is out
― john shopkins (naus), Sunday, 25 April 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
oh, the album! I thought you meant the movie.
― StanM, Sunday, 25 April 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
Still, though....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 06:31 (two years ago) link
Reaction: none...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
I'd have to say it's their worst album.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
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 am using your worlds, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
I'm definitely digging this more than the original album. Hello "Madrugada Eterna - Club Mix"
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
It’s also not the “original” version, which had “Born Free” as the final track.
So, version three.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
.. four if you count etc
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
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.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
xp lol
It’s also not the “original” version, which had “Born Free” as the final track.So, version three.
― john shopkins (naus), Thursday, 29 April 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
No - promoed on cassette, bootlegged from that.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 29 April 2021 04:13 (two years ago) link
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
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 May 2021 12:27 (two years ago) link
Looks like someone “covered” it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6YBzRZRq8
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 May 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link
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.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 1 May 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/19/klf-assert-justified-and-ancient-copyright-claim-to-block-documentary
― lukas, Thursday, 21 October 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4k1SeOmlM
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:12 (two years ago) link
Great, read about that in the guardian, didn't know it was going to be free on youtube.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 10:45 (two years ago) link
It's been mentioned above but everyone should read The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 10:47 (two years ago) link
I'm not sure the intention of the producers was / is for it to be free on youtube.
― feed me with your clicks (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
I was wondering, doesn't look much like an official account/upload does it.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 13:27 (two years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:18 (eleven months ago) link
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?").
― here 1st (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 20:02 (ten months ago) link
klf kare?
― nxd, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 10:23 (four months ago) link
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.
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 12:12 (four months ago) link
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.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 15:01 (four months ago) link
i have from heard from someone who has knowledge of such things that this is a genuine attempt at an xmas #1 and does involve c&d.which, despite the pretty awful track, is all fine and dandy,but how is this possible via a free download that's available on their website !?
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:20 (four months ago) link
“their website”: https://klfkare.com/vibe.php
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:19 (four months ago) link