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"New" Bill Drummond/Wild Swans remix
by John Milne 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I finally managed to get hold of a copy of "Unearthed Volume 1 - Liverpool Cult Classics" a few days ago, which features Melting Blue Delicious as the first track. I'd always assumed that the version included was "The St Petersburg Mix" from "Just Say Yes" Volume 4 (i.e., the mix done by King Boy and Dave Balfe, with all the train noises) but to my delight discovered that this CD actually features a second, far more commercial, Bill Drummond ***solo*** remix of MBD, which sticks more closely to the "Space Flower" original but with added backing singers and post-production. Also, it's not included in the KLF discog. If you check Paul Simpson's Skyray website, you'll find proposed cover designs for the single, which unfortunately never saw the light of day back in 1990 (in fact, the parent album "Space Flower" wasn't ever released in the UK - despite featuring a stellar Liverpool rock cast, including Ian Broudie and Ian McNabb). Presumably, this would have been the "single mix" had it ever seen the light of day. And it's fascinating to hear Bill Drummond "remodel" something without the keyboard imput of Jimmy Cauty. It's quite a funky reworking, complete with Screamadelica-esque backing vocals. The sleeve notes of "Unearthed Volume 1" state that Simpson himself invited his old manager Drummond to remix the track, and both the "St Petersburg" and this single mix were the result. Also, "Unearthed Volume 1" contains another KLF link - the next track in the CD is "Do the Chud" by the Chuddy Nuddies, which was originally a double-a side with "Big in Japan" by Big in Japan, released on the Eric's label in Liverpool in 1977, Bill Drummond's first appearance on record! Anyway - advert over. ;-) John PS - I shall try and forward this new mp3 onto Don and Rob, for upping to the ftp. John -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm

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Deep Heat 10 - The Awakening
by Don Gagen 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

This is the one with the LTTT (Benio Over And Out) remix. I managed to get my hands on 2 copies of this Double CD after searching for over 10 years. So I was wondering if anyone had an extra copy of Give Peace a Dance Double CD with What Time Was Love? that they would be willing to trade for it? BTW does anyone have the 12" the has the longer dub version of the Benio remix? I've never heard it. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Despair INC. DONALD D GAGEN MAILTO:DGAGEN@ENSEMBLESTUDIOS.COM ENSEMBLE STUDIOS http://www.ensemblestudios.com

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RE: [KLF] KLF timeline
by Don Gagen 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

"What is with deleting back tracks? I hear about this with the orb, but what exactly DOES such an act consist of and how does anyone know its not a hoax, claiming to delete something" The stopped manufacturing all KLF & JAMs material that they had direct control over on the KLF Communications label. The few albums that are still in print were licensed for distribution with other companies outside the UK. Arista, Toshiba, Wax Trax, etc. I would have to guess that the distribution contracts on The White Room and Chill Out will end at some point. Probably 23 years... It would be a good question to ask the next time someone sees Bill or Jimmy. That's if they can ask without pissing them off. Bill seems to have been very open in speaking about the KLF and the money burning in all the recent interviews, so maybe it's worth a shot. "Also didnt know about almost burning the 40,000 lbs for the worst art award. Then they burned the million nailed to a board?" The burning and the nailing were 2 separate events. "There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality." Despair INC. DONALD D GAGEN MAILTO:DGAGEN@ENSEMBLESTUDIOS.COM ENSEMBLE STUDIOS http://www.ensemblestudios.com -----Original Message----- From: klf-bounces+dgagen=ensemblestudios.com(a)mailman.xmission.com [mailto:klf-bounces+dgagen=ensemblestudios.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Matt Schieffer Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:15 AM To: klf(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: [KLF] KLF timeline

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Re: Re: AW: [KLF] KLF timeline
by John Milne 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

There was a story in "The Sun" at the time, with the headline "We're Drop Stars". I used to have it, but lost it a while ago. John > Message date : Jan 20 2005, 01:38 PM > From : "Tony Stuart" > To : "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." > Copy to : > Subject : Re: AW: [KLF] KLF timeline > Regarding Craig McLean's comments at the end of this - Cape Wrath > isn't the most northerly point in mainland Britain. That accolade > belongs to Dunnet Head, which is nowhere near Cape Wrath. Also - I > don't think it's possible to get a car over there. I cycled over last > summer, but John the ferryman wouldn't have been able to ferry a car > over the Kyle of Durness to Cape Wrath itself, and there's no other > ferryboat in the vicinity. I know that photos of this event exist in > a book, but it seems more likely to me that the car was pushed off the > high cliffs near Durness, but not on Cape Wrath itself. > > t > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:14:01 +0100, Thomas Touzimsky wrote: > > That should answer most of your questions... :-) > > > > The K Foundation Burn £1 Million > > > > Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty "retired" The KLF, formed the K > > Foundation, then nailed a million quid to wooden pallets. When everyone > > laughed they flew the money to Scotland and set fire to it. > > > > 23 November 1993 > > On the night of the Turner Prize Art Awards, a motorcade sets off for an > > unknown destination. > > > > Mick Houghton (KLF publicist): The seeds of the burning of the £1 > > million started when The KLF [Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty] "retired" > > from the music business and set up their arts organization, The K > > Foundation. They announced in full page newspaper ads that they would > > award £40.000 to the worst artist of the year. When tehy announced their > > winner, it was Rachel Whiteread, who was also the winner of that year's > > Turner Prize. > > > > Danny Kelly (then Editor of Q): In common, I'm sure, with the other 24 > > media people involved, I got an enigmatic phone call from Mick Houghton > > telling me to keep the evening of 23 November free because KLF were > > planning something. > > > > Mick Houghton: The intention was to upstage the Turner Prize by nailing > > £1 million to wooden pallets as an art exhibit. > > > > Danny Kelly: On the night we rendezvous-ed at Tower Bridge. We were > > issued with high visibility jackets, safety helmets and envelopes with > > instructions telling us to get into a fleet of limos and we'd be taken > > of somewhere. > > > > Mick Houghton: We stopped at Heston Service Station and handed each > > journalist an envelope containing £1650 in pristine £50 notes, and they > > just couldn't believe it. > > > > Danny Kelly: I'd never seen that much cash in my hand before, and I was > > excited by it. Was it a bribe? What was it about? We weren't told. We > > drove on, down through the New Forest, and wound up in a small, brightly > > floodlit clearing, about the size of a basketball court. Jimmy Cauty was > > driving an armoured car around the clearing blasting out Beethoven. It > > was quite wonderful and very strange. > > Then we noticed that in the clearing lay several wodden pallets on > > which was nailed a great deal of money. There was a man in the middle of > > the clearing in evening dress with a loud hailer, giving out > > instructions, and it gradually became clear that they wanted us to nail > > down the money we'd been given earlier. I have to say, several of us > > decided there was no way we were going to let this money out of hands. I > > took it upon myself as an act of art terrorism to trouser my £1650. I > > discovered later that everybody had palmed some of it. > > > > Mick Houghton: When it was totted up, the cash was about £9000 short. > > > > Danny Kelly: Afer much to-ing ont fro-ing, they had what they reckoned > > was almost £1m nailed to the pallets. Then, with no further explanation, > > we were bundled back into the cars, hammered up the motorway and arrived > > outside the Tate Gallery. The pallets were chained to the railings of > > the gallery, and poor old Rachel Whiteread, who'd just that night been > > awarded the Turner Prize, came out and was offered the money. > > > > Mick Houghton: The actual presentation of the money to Rachel Whiteread > > was done by Gimpo [Cauty and Drummond's assistant] on the steps of the > > Tate. He stood there with the £40.000... well, £31.000 in one hand and a > > bottle of lighter fluid in the other. She was pretty much blackmailed > > into accepting it because if she hadn't they would set fire to it. All > > credit to her, wehn she realized it was only £31.000 she demanded that > > it be topped up the next day. That was very cool on her part. > > > > Danny Kelly: Then we all went off to Filthy McNasty's in Islington. I > > ran into Bill upstairs and asked him what it was all about, and he put > > his finger to his lips and said, "Shhhhh." And that was it. Like so many > > KLF-related incidents, it was all beginnging, middle, and no end. > > > > Mick Houghton: Bill and Jimmy had also printed up a catalogue, in which > > they had, for example, a million pounds whihc you could buy at a reserve > > price of half a million. They made it known, via their accountants, that > > this stuff was available to buy but they just didn't get any offers. > > Nobody except them took it seriously. They wanted to have an exhibition, > > but no gallery was prepared to mount it, not so much because they didn't > > think it was art but because of the insurance risk. To have a milion > > quid on display in your window was a bit like an invitation to throw a > > brick through it and make off with the lot. > > Anyway, they still wanted to use the money, which was the proceeds of > > their pop career, as some kind of art statement. I think it was Jimmy > > who came up with the idea of burning it, around May or June of 1994. > > > > Bill Drummond: Jimmy said, "Why don't we just burn it?" He said it in a > > light-heared way I suppose, hoping I'd say, "No, we can't do that, let's > > do this..." But it seemded the most powerful thing to do. > > > > Mick Houghton: Having made the decision to burn the money, we then > > started having meetings to discuss how to carry it out. One idea was to > > hire the Albert Hall on the pretext of doing a free KLF concert or > > something, during which tehy would ceremonially burn the money on stage > > in front of 10.000 people, but that never came to fruition. > > > > Bill Drummond: It wasn't about burning all the money. And it wasn't > > about cleansing anyone's soul. In this context, a million is a lot more > > than two million. A million is the icon. It's what we talk about, dream > > about. It has the power. > > > > Mick Houghton: Eventually they decided to do it on the island of Jura > > [off the west coast of Scotland]. Once they'd decided, though, the date > > was set very quickly. > > > > 22 August 1994 > > The burning party flies north from Redhill, Surrey, in a Seneca Mark3 > > four-seater. They intend to incinerate the money the next day. > > > > Mick Houghton: The number 23 has always been significant in KLF lore, > > and 23 August is particulary significant - don't ask me why because I > > don't know. Anyway, they just took one journalist, Jim Reid of The > > Observer, and Gimpo, and flew off to the Western Isles of Scotland. > > > > Gimpo: The plane lands on the island of Isla, then we hire a car and get > > the ferry across to Jura. > > > > 23 August 1994 > > £1m is burnt in an abandoned boathouse n the Ardfin Estate on Jura. > > > > Gimpo: I Went to bed about half 12. At about 1.30am Jimmy was banging on > > my door saying, "Come on, we're doing it now." So we drove in the rain > > down to the boat house. They unloaded the suitcase, chucked a camera in > > my hand and said, "Here, you'd better film this. Leave it running." And > > the next thing I knew, they'd put the money in the fireplace and just > > lit it. And I was laughing hysterically. > > > > Bill Drummond: I've never seen it as a destructive thing. It wasn't to > > destroy the money. It was to watch it burn. > > > > Jimmy Cauty: Burning the money was riddled with flaws. There is the > > possibility that the whole thing was just a waste of time. That it was > > rubbish. > > > > 24 August 1994 > > Remnants of burnt cash are found blowing across the beach in Jura. > > > > Mick Houghton: I was expecting my phone to be ringing constantly the > > next day, and yet it was two or three days before we got a single call, > > and that was from a Scottish newspaper, because someone had found the > > remnants of the burnt £1m on the beach. > > > > PC Ben McEwan: I had been contacted by Alex Reilly-Smith, a local estate > > owner. He'd been walking on the beach and started finding charred > > fragments of £20 notes. He collected £1500 worth, all told. I started my > > investigations by examining the fire grate in the boathouse, and there > > had certainly been a recent fire in which a lot of paper was bruned. It > > looked like bankbotes, but crumbled to ash when I picked it up. > > I then took the charred money to the Bank of Scotland in Bowmore, > > where the manager checked the serial numbers. They seemed to be > > sequential, from which he stimated that there must have been at leasst a > > quarter of a million pounds. I rang Bill Drummond, but he wouldn't admit > > to it. He just told me to read the Sunday papers. It's quite the > > stangest case I've ever handled. > > > > Mick Houghton: For a long while after the burning, you could see that it > > had changed Bill and Jimmy. There was a kind of haunted look about them, > > like the immensity of what they'd done was affecting them. I think there > > was an elemtn of regret. > > > > 3 November 1995 > > Drummond and Cauty take their film, Watch The K Foundation Burn A > > Million Quid, on tour. > > > > Mick Houghton: They decided to tour with the film and debate with the > > audiences, about why they'd burnt this money. It started off in Scotland > > and they showed it at an art gallery in Glasgow, but they couldn't deal > > with talking about it. > > > > Jimmy Cauty: Every day you wake up and go, "Oh God! I burnt a million > > quid." > > > > Craig McLean (journalist): I met up with Bill and Jimmy when they came > > to Glasgow to show the film. The following evening, I got a myserious > > call from Bill, asking me to meet them on Cape Wrath, which is the > > northern-most point on the British mainland. He said I would witness > > "the end of it all". > > It was a four-hour drive to Cape Wrath, and, when I got there, they > > told me they were going to push their car - a hired car - over the > > cliff. They wrote out a contract in white paint on the car, stating that > > they wouldn't talk about the money for the next 23 years. Then Jimmy > > gunned it to the edge of the cliff and jumped out. They pushed it over > > and it bounced a couple of times and landed on the rocky beach with a > > dull crump. And that was it. I offered them a lift back to Glasgow but > > Bill said he was going to hitchhike to 900 miles back to London. He just > > set off walking, and I never saw him again. > > > > Compiled By Johnny Black > > Q, 2001-04-00 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > KLF mailing list > > KLF(a)mailman.xmission.com > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf > > Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > KLF mailing list > KLF(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf > Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com > -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm

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OT: Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment
by Danny T. Hutchins 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

http://www.hopeinamerica.com and http://www.stopbritney.com/

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Re: KLF collecting
by Paul 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

>From the release of 1987,most of the subsequent releases were quite readily available,until the total deletion of the back catalogue.I think I got my copy of ETERNA1 (with sticker) for Â£10...I paid Â£10 for the mail order release of Waiting..and CD4 was Â£6 (sadly,due to a financial blackspot,I had to E-bay it last year and it sold to a US buyer for Â£104) The12"ers of Burn the Bastards/Whitney/KSTJ remixes/Downtown still seem to go for very reasonable amounts (although I guess the market has been flooded with bootlegs...I dunno) Anyone got any idea how rare the early Moodyboys 12" are? I have "First National Rapper" "Funky Zulu - remixes" etc. I read somewhere that they were all going to be re-issued..I must admit,they have aged better than some of the early KLF releases <runs and hides from the baying hordes> Would be good to get a CD compilation re-release. Just a bit of self promotion here (apologies) .. but I am shortly putting a Jams rectangular enamel (blue with gold lettering and the pyramid blaster logo) lapel badge on e-bay..if you are thinking of showing an interest,it IS the genuine late 80s item,bought from the usual source,and is in mint condition.OK..plug over.

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KLF timeline
by Matt Schieffer 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Was giving their Breezeblock a go thanks to Pompey Mark. I learned something new: about firing the blanks into the crowd 2/13/92. Never heard that one. This prompted me to google 'cauty blanks' and clarify a lil timeline for me. So thats when they quit until world peace? What is with deleting back tracks? I hear about this with the orb, but what exactly DOES such an act consist of and how does anyone know its not a hoax, claiming to delete something. Also didnt know about almost burning the 40,000 lbs for the worst art award. Then they burned the million nailed to a board? How is that the biggest cash withdrawl in UK history? I suppose thats a bit more than 1 mil USD but still, odd if that record still holds. I would like to hear the K foundation song and the 2k song if on ftp, but don't think i spotted em when I looked. I love this more mindless trivia, as all the illuminati shit is a bit over me head. -- http://hydrallus.blogspot.com

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Re: [KLF] Blue Man Group... LTTT
by TheMgnt＠aol.com 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

> i thought that the Blue Man Group reixed The LTTT? This sounds like the > KLF's version to me. Can anyone confirm? They didn't remix it, they completely rerecorded it for the DVD Audio version of their first album. Two mixes are found on that disc. In their live shows, however, they use the KLF version. Last time I saw them (vegas) I'm pretty sure it was the KLF version. Can I just brag that I first saw these guys in New York way way back in 1991 and have been following them ever since. This was around the time I had first discovered the KLF, with LTTT being my favorite track. When this came on, full blast through the sound system at the show.. words can not describe it. Awesome show, with my then favorite track as the finale. Wow! -paul

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Re: [KLF] Blue Man Group... LTTT
by TheRitesOfMu＠aol.com 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

In a message dated 19/01/2005 12:00:57 GMT Standard Time, rmstringer1971(a)comcast.net writes: > I have the remix version and yes, they did remix it. IT is on the ftp. Here > is the directory structure: L:\KLF Material\KLF KP3\LTTT - Blue Man Group > > > > RMStringer > > > did you use the link and listen to it? wizard

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Blue Man Group... LTTT
by TheRitesOfMu＠aol.com 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

i thought that the Blue Man Group reixed The LTTT? This sounds like the KLF's version to me. Can anyone confirm? wizard http://www.bluemanlibrary.com/files/bmg_leno15_newyears.zip

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