I'm on the digest so this might be redundant.
I have three copies of this: - My archived digital version - this is most likely my personal rip. Around 20 years ago I digitized all my K and hunted down digital copies if they were out there. I didn't keep notes on sources but this *looks* like my work. I don't seem to have this on other digital - A fresh rip of my vinyl - because I couldn't confirm I did a quick digital recording of my vinyl - CubeFish's CDR of 004R
I don't have the COMA release.
Q1: Lazlo and Discogs says the Primal mix runs 5.57, but COMA version is listed as 5.40. Why?
As the release doesn't have any times on it I suspect is someone's estimate of the length, which is probably off a few seconds. The COMA might run a little fast, or fade early.
Looking at my three copies mentioned above, and looking from first audio to last solid audio (reverb to fade is hard to gauge so I'm looking for a clean point) they run the following: - Archived digital 5:47.200 - New rip 5:47.150 - CubeFish 5:46.661
With the reverb/fade after that last piece of audio I would say 5.50 or so is an accurate length of the track. So I would say the 5.57 is a bad estimate, and the 5.40 COMA version might simply be running a little fast, or, most likely, fades early.
Q2:
One of my biggest peeves on KLF music is how many people try to pass off their work as official releases. There are so many bootleg mega mixes called Deep Shit and some people actual believe these are the legit Deep Shit track (they're not). A lot of the stuff out there is just fan edits. I don't have a problem with this (I do it myself; editing the best parts of various mixes into a preferred version) but they should state this on the sleeve instead of trying to make your own work look like rare, unreleased mixes released on a promo CD.
That said there ARE releases with genuine unreleased tracks. Lost at Trancentral, the Lost Trance series, Positive Void's releases, to name a few.
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 22:05:16 -0700
From: Mike Brown <mike(a)hyperreal.org>
Subject: [KLF] WTIL Primal Remix - slightly different versions
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For a number of years on rutracker, a Russian collector has been sporadically
posting rare KLF material of varying quality, some of it really good. However,
it all amounts to a wooden nickel, because most, if not all, of it is fake,
i.e. things he sourced elsewhere and compiled onto never-before-seen
collections just for sharing, along with implausible claims of their origins.
Nevertheless, I'm interested in anything I don't have, so I've been checking
it all out, seeing what's worth keeping, and seeing if I can trace the true
origins of some each track. For example, I've confirmed that his Pure Trance
"rare promo CDRs" are in fact homemade compilations of rips from various
sources, sometimes just unedited copies from official CDs and sometimes
remastered versions of vinyl rips which debuted relatively recently.
Something has me puzzled, though. I'm hoping it can be answered by someone
here. Ny questions are just about "What Time is Love? (Primal Remix)".
First of all, looking over Lazlo's discography, I'm struck by two things:
1. Does the song really run 5:57 on the original 12" but only 5:40 on the Coma
releases? That's a pretty significant difference, like 6%. What accounts for
that?
2. Supposedly there's a CD release on Coma, but to date, no such disc has
shown up in Discogs, so what's the deal with that?
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The KLF: What Time Is Love? (pure trance original)
[17 Oct 1988] single
12": 1989 UK (KLF Communications; KLF 004R) [24 Jul 89; yellow/black ps]
5:57 What Time Is Love? (primal remix)
4:28 What Time Is Love? (techno slam mix)
7:05 What Time Is Love? (original)
[originally scheduled for 24 Oct 88]
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The KLF: What Time Is Love? (live at trancentral)
[30 Jul 1990] single
7": 1990 DK (Mega Records/Coma; COMA 7 011) [black/purple "COMA" sleeve]
5:26 What Time Is Love? (live at trancentral)
5:40 What Time Is Love? (primal remix) ["techno slam mix"]
12": 1990 DK (Mega Records/Coma COMA 12 7011) [COMA sleeve; some w/wrong
lbl]
CD5: 1990 DK (Mega Records/Coma COMA CD 7011) [may reverse last two tracks]
12": 1990 SE (??; ??) [purple sleeve]
5:30 What Time Is Love? (live at trancentral)
5:40 What Time Is Love? (primal remix) ["techno slam mix"]
7:05 What Time Is Love? (original) ["the 1988 pure trance mix"]
4:44 What Time Is Love? (techno gate mix)
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And I've got another mystery...
Via rutracker I've obtained a vinyl rip of KLF 004R (supposedly). The Primal
Remix on there sounds like it's running at the correct speed, and it finishes
just shy of 5:51. There are a few key features of this version I need to point
out:
• At 0:34 during the "door slam" sound, there's nothing extra on top of it.
• At 5:14, at the same time as the "My God" sample, there's a trio of "tss"
sounds, first in the center, then right, then left.
• At 5:28 there's a truncated 2nd snare hit which sounds like an error.
Meanwhle, the "promo CDR" guy's version runs just a hair faster, finishing ¾
of a second sooner than the other rip, closer to 5:50 than 5:51, no big deal.
And for the most part, it's exactly the same as the other version. But at
those three key points, there are some interesting differences:
• At 0:34, on top of the slam sound, there's a pair of "sh" (low hiss)
sounds, first quietly on the right and then very clearly on the left; in this
regard it matches the slam sound in the first seconds of the Techno Slam Mix.
• At 5:14, the trio of "tss" sounds is missing altogether.
• At 5:28 there's no 2nd snare hit.
It's not possible to construct the Primal Remix from the Techno Slam Mix, so
it's not a case of this guy botching an edit (although I wouldn't put it past
him). It just seems to me that there's more than one Primal Remix. Those
differences at 0:34, 5:14, and 5:28 are just too major.
Since I do not have any of the original releases with this mix on them, I'm
wondering if someone out there can check their copies and report back on what
they find?
Thanks for your time.
Mike
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