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London, England (1987 – 1992)
The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords, Kopyright Liberation Front and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British pop music scene during the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known worldwide for their various stunts such as burning copies of their album “1987: What The Fuck is Going On?” on a bonfire in a Swedish field, firing machine gun blanks into the audience, writing a book on how to make a number one hit, dumping a dead sheep at the afterparty of the BRIT Awards and most infamously, burning £1,000,000 on an island off the coast of Scotland.
Beginning in 1987 in London, England, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and, on one occasion (the British number one hit single “Doctorin’ the Tardis”), as The Timelords. As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres “stadium house” (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and “ambient house”. The KLF released a series of international top-ten hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the highest internationally selling UK band of 1991. The duo also published a book, The Manual, and worked on a road movie called The White Room.
From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops.
Beginning in 1987 in London, England, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu and, on one occasion (the British number one hit single “
Doctorin’ the Tardis”), as The Timelords. As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres “stadium house” (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and “ambient house”. The KLF released a series of international top-ten hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the highest internationally selling UK band of 1991. The duo also published a book, The Manual, and worked on a road movie called The White Room.From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops.
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d0l wrote:
ANCIENTS OF MU MU
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Slaggprodukt wrote:
bloofs: some new project with secretive members. seem they play KLF-records backwards and add some own flavour. Genius. Also does some art work
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fanatka_rox wrote:
3 A.M. Eternal <3
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rockrollmilk wrote:
so cool
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lastfmgs wrote:
Good times
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guiguiboulz wrote:
chill out [2]
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billybreakfast wrote:
chill out
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bloofs wrote:
what is the flk
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Slaggprodukt wrote:
Will buy the FLK in England together with human leagues credo... great stuff
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sparklecrunch wrote:
anyone listen to the FLK? you MUST check them out - either KLF proteges or tribute......and if you play 'we know where the time goes' at the same time as Chill Out..... scuse me but its fucking stunning!!!!! ;0
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venusvibetrap wrote:
bubba - the whole fil can be found on you tube, its in about 5 parts. Only a few tracks of the black room exist, check torrent sites etc.
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bubba_ch wrote:
anyone know where one can find the black room (album) and watch the k foundation burn a million quid (film)? so far all I found is a documentary about the klf which talks about the moneyburning but I'd like to see gimpo's film...
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stlkr23 wrote:
http://soundcloud.com/stlkr/sets/the-klf-pure-trance-3/
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MusicLoars wrote:
Gods. Not because of "The white room" (which was incredible), it's because of "Chill Out". Unbelievable, what they've made. Until today it is immensive, complex and beyond comparison. Sounds exaggerated, but in my opinion it's a fact.
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blcksnds wrote:
I spin The White Room a few times every once in a while and it never gets old.. that time has come again.
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presuming-ed wrote:
chill out scares my delilah
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Blisskf192 wrote:
http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Bliss+kf+192/Travelling+into+esoteric+world
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Played_alive wrote:
Unbelievable The KLF!!! These are remembered forever
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galactus15 wrote:
inspiring people
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