Thursday 8 July 2021

KLF

KLF is an English duo comprising of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond. KLF are arguably best known for their UK and US Dance chart topper "3am eternal" and their collaboration with legendary country icon Tammy Wynette on Canada Dance chart #1, "Justified and Ancient". Before the 90s, KLF recorded under the name Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (or JAMMs). They changed they name to release a novelty single "Doctorin' the Tardis", which inadvertently put them into the mainstream as that became a UK#1 in 1988. They renamed themselves as KLF (which stood for Kopyright Liberation Front and launched a series of successful singles with an upbeat pop-house sound which they dubbed "Stadium House". Notorious at the height of the popularity decidesd to call time in dramatic style in their appearance on the 1992 BRIT awards, where they fired machine gune blanks into the audience in their performance with Extreme Noise Terror. They dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party and the announced their departure from the music business and consequently deleted their entire back catalogue. As stated in "3am eternal", The KLF had left the building.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1990    5	What Time Is Love (featuring The Children of The Revolution)
Jan 1991    1	3AM Eternal (featuring The Children of The Revolution)
May 1991    2	Last Train To Trancentral
Nov 1991   10	It's Grim Up North (as Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
Dec 1991    2	Justified And Ancient (with Tammy Wynette)
Mar 1992    4	America: What Time Is Love

What happened next?
With The KLF's profits, Drummond and Cauty established the K Foundation and sought to subvert the art world, staging an alternative art award for the worst artist of the year and burning one million pounds sterling. Although Drummond and Cauty remained true to their word of May 1992—the KLF Communications catalogue remains deleted in the UK—they have released a small number of new tracks since then, as the K Foundation, The One World Orchestra and most recently, in 1997, as 2K.
The KLF catalogue remained absent from digital platforms until January 1, 2021, when an 8-track compilation of their 7" hit singles 1988-1991 - Solid State Logik 1 was released on streaming platforms, marking the 1st installment of a series called Samplecity Thru Trancentral.
KLF also published a book, The Manual, and worked on a road movie called The White Room.

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