September 2005 - KLF - mailman.xmission.com

RE: [KLF] Kylie Said Twice
by John Milne 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Could the "high bits less" mix be from the Beechwood "Indie Top 20 Volume 8" CD, and mastered onto the "kingjelly" TWROST rather than the 010CD mix? I have all three but a frankly too tired tonight to check! :-) John > Message Received: Sep 11 2005, 08:23 PM > From: "Thomas Touzimsky" <thomas(a)klf.de> > To: "All Mu-Mu Land.bound for" <klf(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Cc: > Subject: [KLF] Kylie Said Twice > > I am probably the last to notice, but - I always thought that whoever > compiled the White Room Soundtrack bootlegs used the CD single version > of Kylie Said To Jason as first track on the bootleg, since that was of > much better quality than the rest. > > Today I was driving along the highway today, listening to a rough > version of my own personal JAMS/KLF Best Of, when KSTJ kicked in. I had > listened to the soundtrack during the last week, on which KSTJ missed > some of Maxine's vocals in the chorus (the slightly higher part of "I'm > gonna leaaaave this pa-a-arty now"... hope you understand). I always > thought that her singing was only on the full version, since it isn't > on the version on the WROST. > > I was pretty surprised to find out today that the single version on KLF > 010CD has those vocals as well! So, essentially, there are two > different 7" edits of KSTJ! > > I can't find my CDR right now to prove this, so for the time being, > just believe me that I haven't gone completely crazy! Not this time, > anyway... > > > ..::// Thomas Touzimsky > > And the Lord said unto John, "Come forth and receive eternal life." > But John came fifth and won a toaster. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >

6 10

Here we go again...
by thomas＠klf.de 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Oh well... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KLF-Love-Trance-Pure-Trance-3_W0QQitemZ4768171452QQca… Interesting enough, this one says "one sided" only, rather than the other listings which apparently were two-sided. ..::// Thomas

2 1

Bargain on eBay (004R, 005T, 008R)
by thomas＠klf.de 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

As far as I can tell from the image, 008R is the original pressing (the lower end of the huge "5" crosses the upper left edge of the "R" in "TRANCENTRAL", unlike the bootleg which crosses the "R" more right). ..::// Thomas

1 0

KLF Press Clippings
by thomas＠klf.de 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Would someone volunteer in scanning some of the uncountable KLF press articles and magazine covers for our Archive section? I recently scanned around 6GB of stuff (600dpi) which will be edited during the next two weeks, but still I surely miss most of their appearances. Unfortunately, handling 600dpi scans would require sending them via CDr/DVDr, since a full-page article takes up about 100 MB. They won't appear on the homepage this size (probably 300dpi "only"), but they are better to edit for me this way. Thanks! ..::// Thomas PS. Release of v3.0 has been delayed until we got some small sections done (Credits, Who We Are). What's up and running so far are the News (Comment script is back, oh yes!), Links, the (slightly updated again) FAQ and my personal favourite, the Glossary! And it looks just awesome! ;-) The Archive and Downloads section will go online at a later stage, as soon as they are crammed with information, so you won't need to browse through all the old stuff only.

1 0

FW: HELP! urgent MU MU assistance needed
by grg 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Anyone have any further info on this release? Is it the same version that is widely available for download? Any info is appreciated. greg -----Original Message----- From: Zom [mailto:zombiepr@zombieproject.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:29 AM To: grg Subject: HELP! urgent MU MU assistance needed Is this legit? Or is it the same old musicless footage we've all seen before? I would KILL to get my hands on the real deal: http://www.different-movies-dvd.com/index.php?productID=131

2 1

Re: [KLF] FW: HELP! urgent MU MU assistance needed
by TheMgnt＠aol.com 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

It's obviously a boot. Says so itself at the bottom of the screen (by indicating it's a DVDR). -paul

1 0

Martyn Bennett...RIP January 30, 2005
by RMStringer 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

As per his website - Martyn died on 30th January 2005, following a long struggle with cancer. I have all of his albums on my server. RMStringer _____________________ /!\ Certified Bandwidth Abuser

2 1

Scotsman.com
by RMStringer 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Martyn Bennett JIM GILCHRIST Martyn Bennett, Musician and composer Born: 17 February, 1971, in St John's, Newfoundland. Died: 30 January, 2005, in Edinburgh, aged 33. SCOTLAND'S musical landscape is a sadder, less colorful and vastly poorer place following the death on Sunday night of Martyn Bennett, the formidably inventive piper, violinist, composer and producer. Steeped in traditional piping yet conservatory-educated, he was gifted with a musical vision which knew no bounds but remained potently thirled to his roots in Gaelic and Scots traveler culture. Bennett, who died three weeks before his 34th birthday, following a long battle with the cancer Hodgkin's Lymphoma, became known as "the techno piper" for his flamboyant merging of fiery piping and fiddling with electronic beats which many regarded as the first truly Scottish hardcore dance music. However, he not only powered up the obligatory jigs 'n' reels but created colorful soundscapes in which he set the poetry of Hamish Henderson and Sorley MacLean. Even the patron saint of tartanalia, Sir Harry Lauder, wasn't immune from irreverently raunchy Bennett treatment. Less well-known was other work for instrumental combinations such as strings and small pipes. He was born Martyn Bennett-Knight in St John's, Newfoundland, and his earliest memories were of the Gaelic-speaking farming communities of Newfoundland's Codroy Valley as well as in Quebec. At the age of six he moved to Scotland with his mother, the Skye-born Gaelic singer and folklorist Margaret Bennett. It was while growing up in Kingussie that he became acquainted with his first instrument, and the one with which he is most widely identified, the great Highland bagpipe. By the time he was 12, he was winning junior piping competitions, although he was more inclined towards the less formalized folk scene (this writer's earliest memory of him is of a diminutive figure at Newcastleton Folk Festival, playing terrifyingly dexterous music on a set of pipes which seemed several sizes too large). After moving to Edinburgh, at 15 he became the first traditional musician to enter the hitherto classically orientated City of Edinburgh Music School, based at Broughton High School, to spend what he later described as the most important three years of his life, learning to read and write music, as well as taking on board violin and piano. He went on to further his studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where he met Kirsten Thomson, later to join him as fellow band-member and, ultimately, to become his wife. At the RSAMD he thrived on violin tuition with Miles Baster, first violinist of the Edinburgh Quartet - while sneaking out for extra-curricular pub music sessions. After graduating in 1993, Bennett "relearned" traditional fiddle, purchased a keyboard sequencer and, fortified by his classical training, got to grips with the burgeoning club scene. "I think for the classically trained composer, the dance world is such an attractive place as it encapsulates the same musical ethos," he later wrote. "It is principally about sound and scale, tension and release, power and detail - much like the classical canvas." In 1996, after immuring himself with his home studio, he went into Castle Sound in Pencaitland and emerged with his first, eponymous album. Martyn Bennett was an immediate success and as his reputation spread (prompting an appearance before Mel Gibson at the Stirling Castle premiere of Braveheart), the albums Bothy Culture and Hardland followed. The slight, dreadlocked figure's barnstorming approach didn't always go down well with dyed-in-the-wool folkies. "No-one has ever sounded like this before. Half the audience fled in fear of their lives," wrote one reviewer, following Bennett's high-energy set at the 2000 Cambridge Folk Festival. Yet amid the electronic fireworks, Bennett was functioning, quite consciously, within a powerful stream of tradition. "I do see myself as a tradition bearer, I guess, someone who can pass things on," he told me in an interview. "There are maybe not so many people like myself who have been in the fortunate position to have grown up in a strong tradition." That was three years ago, by which time Bennett, living on Mull with Kirsten, was engaged in a serious struggle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to pull out of all engagements as he endured chemo and radiotherapy as well as major surgery. Perhaps prompted by his enforced confinement, his next two recordings suggested a preoccupation with ancestral voices. In 2002, Glen Lyon was, in effect, a cycle of traditional Gaelic songs, sung by his mother and accompanied by minimal beats and instrumentation - and featuring briefly the singing of his great-great-grandfather, recorded on a wax cylinder in 1910. Then came Grit - its title an expression of cultural resilience which could have been applied just as equally to his ongoing battle with illness. Unable to play and driven to field recordings, he spliced unadorned traditional singing by the likes of Calum Ruadh of Skye, and traveler singers Sheila Stewart and Davie "the Galoot" Stewart in uncompromisingly muscular electronic settings. He remarked that it might appeal to "connoisseurs of the more obscure drum and bass stuff", but also stressed that he saw it in terms of what the folk music collector Alan Lomax called "cultural equity". He was determined to put his tradition on a wider, global stage. In the event, The Scotsman's review commented that Bennett's beats and textures "reveal the old songs in a new light, but without losing their integral feeling and authenticity". This inspired musical innovator died in the Marie Curie Hospice, Edinburgh, with his father, Iain Knight, mother and wife around him. Ironically, the next morning, pupils from the City of Edinburgh Music School were in a Glasgow studio, recording MacKay's Memoirs, a stirring piece for chamber orchestra, Highland pipes and harp which Bennett, as a former pupil, wrote for the school's centenary in 1999. It was given a jubilant reprise in Princes Street Gardens during the celebrations marking the opening of the Scottish Parliament that summer. As the late poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson said when Bennett played him an early copy of Grit: "What brave new music." RMStringer _____________________ /!\ Certified Bandwidth Abuser

1 0

Martyn Bennett
by RMStringer 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=118752005 RMStringer _____________________ /!\ Certified Bandwidth Abuser

1 0

Blacksmoke
by bxh＠netzero.net 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

delurk... Seb, thanks for posting the link to the Blacksmoke Rising. Excellent version. A couple of followup questions I've been meaning to ask for ages: Olav's ftp site (Olav and Rob: Thanks for a great resouce btw) has a track credited to Blacksmoke called Open The Gates. The vocal consists of a preacher shouting about opening the gates of righteousness. Anyone know where this is from ? It's not in the discography and I don't remember it appearing on the Blacksmoke website. And, anyone know what tracks were on the Blacksmoke demo that was being sold on ebay a while back ? relurk... ______________________________________________________________________ NetZero Is Giving Away $3,000 A Day! Sign up for NetZero HiSpeed 3G with Instant On! Visit http://www.netzero.com/3Gsweeps TODAY for your chance to win!

3 2