I think Tony Thorpe was credited as "groove consulant" on the "stadium triology".
To me, Tony Thorpe was almost the third member of the KLF. He did a lot of the programming and keyboard work on a lot of their trax. I know Jimmy did a lot of the stuff, but what did bill actually do? Vocals in the Jamms, but what about instruments?? It is also a relatively unknown fact that he played a part in the christmas No.1 of a few years ago - the telletubbies song (I don't have kids, so I'm not sure of the year or even how to spell the tel***bies).
Lenny Dee also did "breaks" on "What Time is Love?" (KLF004X). And didn't Tony Thorpe have something to do with KLF010R and KLF010RR, too? I always thought he had a hand in "Kylie Said Trance", and all its variants. Who TF is Lenny Dee? Lenny Henry's cousin?? I reckon this was a sample, although it's never been announced where from. The Trance and other remix are also a bit more 'studio' and probably were more down to Tony / Jimmy than Bill.
"WTIL" (KLF4T) is apparently sampled from another (older) track. There is a persistent rumour that it might be "Judas' Death", from one of the many cast recordings of "Jesus Christ Superstar" - although the version I have doesn't sound like KLF4T at all (the tune, however, gets very familiar around the 2mins 30secs mark!)
When I first read this , I immediatelly downloaded the Judas Death track from JC superstar (Live) and played it. Up until the quiet break (2' 57" on my mp3) it was unlikely. Then there's an organ, and a recognisable guitar track - WTIL!. It's so recognisable that when my mum heard it she said 'Isn't that the original to that KLF song you're always playing..".
In "45", Bill recounts the recording of "Fuck the Millennium" as follows: "Jimmy is rummaging through his trunk of disks, which contains ever sample we've ever used ... He is looking for a disk that contains the searing synth sound that we used of the original 1988 Pure Trance version of 'What Time is Love?' He can't find it." (p340)
I wonder what the original sample was, and where it came from?
WTIL: PT1 is and always will be my favourite track of all time. To read that it was composed in an afternoon and desribed as their '3 note warhorse' is soooo cool. I know they used an acorn computer as their sequencer, but I presume the sample came from one of their oberheim synths. Incidentally, I hadn't heard the full 13 minute version of FTM untill after I read the 45 book. I cant tell you how dissappointed I was when finding that the book described the track EXACTLY - and found all of WTIL:PT1 included with an annoying 'Fuck the millennium' keyed all over it. Regards Andrew