KLF

[the psyche intangible]

United States of Audio has done that huge thing again, this time with the Klf back catalogue .It's remolished 23 years after their bow out. So learn and listen learn and listen learn and listen learn and lsten..........
https://m.soundcloud.com/united-states-of-audio/klf-embrace-the-contradictions#t=0:44

[Grass Mud Horse]

Nice one tpi.

I really miss the KLF Communications website. Not only did it list all their output and every other record they'd ever worked on (they did a lot of remixing and producing for other artistes) but there was a metric fuckton of audio streams of stuff they did just for shits and giggles, e.g. remixes of old Pink Floyd and Hawkwind albums. Maybe one day it'll all resurface.

Also, has it been 23 years yet?

[Gavin M]

Bloody hell, Mastermind's a bit easy these days isn't it?   Literally anyone that spent 30 minutes reading up on the group could have got nearly all of those questions right.

[Leinad]

Burning that one million quid on the table was their greatest moment.

[Leinad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6q4n5TQnpA

[newbridge]

I like this KLF fan mix (at least I'm assuming some fan did it)

[purlieu]

There are so many bootlegs around, more than any other band I've ever known. A friend and I did a couple of Space remixes for the Recovered & Remastered 'Remix Project II' CD, although I wasn't all that happy with how they came out. I'm just amazed how many CDs seem to come out with The KLF on the front these days.

Anyway, Chill Out is a masterpiece and The White Room is a lot of fun. My girlfriend is a huge Bill Drummond fan, so I have a run through his books when she gets them. Always worth of a read. Really brilliant guy.

[the psyche intangible]

Bad Wisdom is one of the few books I've bothered to read twice. Very enjoyable.

[DrGreggles]

Burning that one million quid on the table was their greatest moment.

£997,000 (according to Danny Kelly).

[Grass Mud Horse]

Anyone got Jimmy Cauty's Space? It's essentially a proto-Orb album with all traces of Alex Patterson excised and with hints of Chill Out[nb]Not particularly prescient as Chill Out was released a few months before Space. Not sure what the recording order for those two releases was though.[/nb]. Worth a punt if you like your 90s comedown choons.

[Petey Pate]

John Higgs' biography of the group, Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds is a great read.  A fair amount of the KLF's output is pretty crap (The JAMs, Doctoring the Tardis, etc) but I enjoy the ethos behind it. 

[23 Daves]

Anyone got Jimmy Cauty's Space? It's essentially a proto-Orb album with all traces of Alex Patterson excised and with hints of Chill Out[nb]Not particularly prescient as Chill Out was released a few months before Space. Not sure what the recording order for those two releases was though.[/nb]. Worth a punt if you like your 90s comedown choons.

I bought it the week it came out. It's a lovely album, but I probably didn't appreciate it as much as "Chill Out" at the time, and it's only in recent years that I've found myself listening to it regularly.

The interesting thing about "Space" is that it lives up to its title in every way - there are long periods where not much or even nothing happens, only for the next grandoise ambient loop to gently home in. You really have to be in the right frame of mind for it, but if you are, it's a treat.

[Head Gardener]

more info

[justin_bennett]

Here's a mental set of singles that sneaked out on a Finnish label courtesy of Bill Drummond and pals, download link at the bottom: http://rippedinglasgow.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/various-kalevala-records.html

[Head Gardener]

couldn't get the links to work but thanks for the tip, these Kalevala releases are all pretty scarce

[justin_bennett]

couldn't get the links to work but thanks for the tip, these Kalevala releases are all pretty scarce

Yep some of the links in the post don't work any more but the download one does: http://www.4shared.com/file/235040839/8fc6bccd/kalevala.html

[Roy*Mallard]

Don't work for me too - goes to the 4shared page and you click the regular download link and .... file no longer exists : (

[Roy*Mallard]

Space WITH Dr Alex (i think this link was posted here previously)...

https://soundcloud.com/kewell69/space-jimmy-cauty-dr-alex

[justin_bennett]

Don't work for me too - goes to the 4shared page and you click the regular download link and .... file no longer exists : (

Ah shit. Will see if I can find them.

[PaulTMA]

I'm giving Space another chance after reading this thread.  That bit of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star gave me the bloody fear the first time I tried it out.

[23 Daves]

Some of the Kalevala releases can be grabbed at my blog here (these are the only four I own, I don't have a complete set):

http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/the-fuckers-sexy-roy-orbison.html

http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-daytonas-faster-gimpo-faster-kill.html

http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/aurora-borealis-aurora-borealis-parts-1.html

http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/reupload-draculas-daughter-candy.html

(I've a feeling the Dracula's Daughter upload is playing silly buggers at the moment due to Box changing some aspects of their coding recently. I can look at that again at some point when I have a bit more time).

[Blue Jam]

I'm intending to see this when it premieres at the Edinburgh Film Fest:

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/films/2015/imagine-waking-up-tomorrow-and-all-music-has-disappeared

I have no idea what the "special performance" featuring Bill Drummond will entail. I saw one of his talks at the Art Depot in London years ago and had a tiny little chat with him and Gimpo as I paid them $1 for a 20,000th of Richard Long's A Smell Of Sulphur In The Wind with a little certificate that Bill Drummond signed- like this one, and just like it in fact as I got a plain white bit from the edge too. They were nice chaps anyway, I wonder how far the bits of the artwork have spread and how many were actually sold in the end. I bet mine is still worth the $1 I paid for it.

[purlieu]

It'll probably be a performance of The17.

[Blue Jam]

Hmmm, I did wonder why this was being held at the big and roomy Cineworld rather than at one of Edinburgh's tiny arthouse cinemas. I hope we get treated to a full performance!

[banana]

Here is a shit rip of this:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Huono-Viisaus/release/2762160

The Kalevala compilation LP.

http://we.tl/2J8ognmqqP

If anyone has a decent copy that would be mega.

[billyandthecloneasaurus]

I LOVE THE KLF THEY ARE BRILLIANT

[steveh]

The hope that they will return in 2017 - 23 years after their retirement - seems to be really ramping up.

This video was posted on New Year's Day, which several news outlets are claiming is from them: https://vimeo.com/197669227. However, I think everything in it is taken from YouTube videos (including a bunch of Chris Morris, Harry Enfield and Alan Partridge clips). It can't quite make up its mind if it is some kind of found document, one of those sample deconstruction mixes or a mini history but it's a fun watch nonetheless. There's also a similar Twitter account that's appeared: https://twitter.com/w___t___f.

Jimmy Cauty though seems busy this year doing a European tour of his wonderful model village and Bill Drummond has his own projects - and he also completely eschews social media which makes him being behind the above things even less likely. I imagine at least one record company has been on to them already to do a deluxe box set of everything they did and Jimmy was teasing people on Twitter last year with a photo of cannisters of the master tapes of the KLF videos but I have a feeling that despite anniversaries they're content really to just to leave all this in the past.

[daf]

eschews

Bless you

[Puce Moment]

Yes, the promise to release the full details of the million quid burning after 23-years does appear to be bearing fruit, although I imagine it will also be dripping with absolute bully bullshit and diversions from the truth.

The timing is perfect though, isn't it? We need the KLF at the moment to cut through all the horror.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I'm giving Space another chance after reading this thread.  That bit of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star gave me the bloody fear the first time I tried it out.

I think that bit is gorgeous.

Unlike Chill Out there is a lot of silence on the record, maybe partly due to the removed material but also as a stylistic choice. Lots of it really emphasises a stillness and majesty to Space.

The second half is by far the best as it has some genuine ambient house, nice synth choices and feels like what most of the record should have been going for.

Still, there's Orb's Adventures.