Re: [KLF] What is there left to Kollect?

9 Jan 2007

      I had the one-side promo and I think it sold for around £20.  But then, I sold it as part of around 20 or 30 KLF 12"s in one week, which created a bit of a bidding "frenzy" (thanks partly to klf.de's promotion of my auctions - cheers!)

I was thinking about the sheer lack of KLF demos, off-cuts, etc last night.  Almost every band in the world with any fans at all has a wealth of demos, Peel Sessions, or whatever than turn up on the internet eventually - but hardly anything by Bill and Jimmy.  And half the stuff that is out there, fans are never sure whether its real or fake.  They either threw away a lot of stuff, or kept it under lock and key.  The third option, I suppose, is that they occasionally gave tapes and stuff to friends (Youth, LXD, etc) who then either lost them or were too mashed to remember their musical importance.

On these subjects, two questions:

(1) the Whitney 1-sided 12" is marked "Made in Scotland", and "JAMSLP2 is marked "Made in Wales".  Is there any significance to these?  Is it literal or is it some sort of obscure joke?  There a lot of stuff in Bill's "45" about how, as a kid growing up in Scotland, he used to resent everything he owned (pencils, balls, toys, etc) having "Made in England" stamped on them.  I wonder if its something to do with what?  And is Jimmy actually Welsh?  He grew up in the Wirral, so he might have been born (or conceived) just over the border, I suppose.

(2) The White Room "demos" are probably the only large body of KLF unreleased work fans've been able to track down.  Are these actually demos, or are they the album as planned for release in September 1989?  Cleaned up, they sound perfect to me - but I wonder if Jimmy had still to sprinkle the last keyboard effects and pop stardust on them.

John
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Message Received: Jan 08 2007, 11:38 PM
From: "Elliott" <blindedbythedarkness@ntlworld.com>
To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: [KLF] What is there left to Kollect?
To all,
    I have a 1 sided whitney joins the jams promo with ' MPO JAM 24T A2 ' in the runout groove what do you think i should put it on ebay for ? ...anyone.
p.s. Many years ago, back in the day i spoke to bill a few times over the phone, (after a magazine printed his home phone number as the 'KLF record companies' number by mistake), and he did mention about lots of stuff that they just threw away when they weren't happy with it, there could be so much we didn't get to hear,that was just binned and he even said that at some point they might Re-film The White Room because it didn't come out how they wanted, a while after they disbanded.
Regards
EL. J
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Personally as well as some evidence of an 'original' LTTT or original/extended Go To Sleep (elements of which seem to crop up all over as previously mentioned) and perhaps more than just labels for Turn Up The Strobe (not a hokey fake track please!), of the items that there has been serious evidence of, i would love to see/hear own:
The Deep Shit/Lovers Side (extended) promo that Thomas et al had in their hands some years back. I'm still a little confused as to why MP3s of both have been floating around for years but usually at 96kbp/s for Deep Shit and 160kbp/s (if memory serves) for Lovers Side
Also it always seemed kinda odd that they would press two very different tracks from different eras on the same vinyl, but perhaps my timeline is a little screwed up right now?
Also like to hear the Black Room Demos that more progress was made on (rather than the lo-qual ENT backing tracks) which do exist and apparently are pretty awesome, but probably languish in Jimmy's basement or something  =(
Would love to see evidence of KLF004M so we can confirm if the Love Trances that are appearing everywhere have a fake WTIL remix on the B  =)
Would also be interested to see the Coma CD John mentioned. I have the 7" and the 12" appears sometimes on ebay but I never saw the CD
Regarding the Madrugagda Eterna promo I could swear a whie label of this appeared on ebay recently although I sometimes get mixed up with that Italian 12"...the one-sided promo effectively has the version that is on Chill Out, being more 'ambient' than the so-called 'Club Mix' right?
Oh and would be cool if some KLF tracks still only exclusive to vinyl appeared on some more obscure old compilation CDs such as one of the WTIL PT mixes, the WTIL virtual reality mix, 3AM 3PM Electro etc. as i've been wanting to put together some nice KLF mix CDs for years but would prefer to master all the tracks from CD, though there are some v nice vinyl rips around
OK i'm done  =)
tbc.
DJ Van Karl <dj_vankarl@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I have 3 of them, but not for sale... ;-)
Cheers and happy New Year,
    Stephane
>hi list, happy new year,
    >
    >did anyone ever see the amnesty picture 7" on ebay ?
    >there are at least three or four different ones, did
    >those ever appear on ebay ???
    >
    >greetings,
    >michael
    >
    >
    >--- John Milne wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > I was browsing through Ebay earlier today (JAMSCD4
    > > "buy it now" for £100, anyone?) and wondered - what
    > > is still worth getting excited about in KLF
    > > collecting circles? CHOC ICES, USAPROMOs, Love
    > > Trances, etc seem to appear regularly now.
    > >
    > > Here's what I think is "still exciting" (even if
    > > some might not exist):
    > >
    > > CDs: Eternity Project One, History of the JAMs
    > > Possum edition, No More Tears (French promo), What
    > > Time is Love (the Coma CD with the "Primal Mix"),
    > > Marathon "Love Park" (3" CD with Orbital mixes)
    > >
    > > Vinyl: KLF010RR (haven't seen one of them for four
    > > years, and it was German import); ETERNITY 1 (Ebay
    > > once threw up a backwards-mastered 12" of this, I
    > > think - but not the three-tracker); KLF8T (the
    > > original Last Train, or even the sleeves with "The
    > > White Room - Pure Trance 5" written on them); Last
    > > Train (Benio Dub)
    > >
    > > Any views?
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
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