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The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front), more recently known as the K Foundation, also known as The Timelords, furthermore known as The JAMs, was one of the seminal bands around the time of the Acid House movement in Britain in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Founded by Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D, Time Boy) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock, Lord Rock) in the wake of the disbandment of the sampling outfit The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the KLF went on to release a series of world-wide hits. The K Foundation was an arts foundation set up by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1993 following their retirement from the music industry. ...
This article is about the musical group the Timelords. ...
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is one of the two protagonist secret societies in the Illuminatus! series of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...
Acid house is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. ...
// Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...
Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...
Currently active as a writer and artist, Bill Drummond (born April 29, 1953) is best known as co-founder of The KLF, the avant-garde pop group of the late eighties, the K Foundation, its nineties avant-art media-manipulating successor, and for burning a million pounds in 1994. ...
James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ...
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording. ...
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is one of the two protagonist secret societies in the Illuminatus! series of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...
History
Their first taste of UK number one success was the novelty-pop single, Doctorin' The Tardis, by The Timelords. Some people claim that Drummond later lamented about the decision not to release the single under the JAMs moniker. Others dispute this.
They also published the infamous book The Manual, and gained notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations which included billboard advert defacements, a Brit awards protest involving a dead sheep and buckets of blood, weird mainstream press adverts, the staging of an alternative art award for the worst artist of the year (The Alternative Turner Prize), and burning a million pounds sterling. The resultant film, Watch The K-Foundation Burn A Million Quid, was toured around the UK. Drummond and Cauty signed a contract preventing them from talking about the incident for 23 years. The Manual is a 1989 book released under the name of The Timelords, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu furthermore known as The KLF. Subtitled How to Have a Number One the Easy Way, it is a tongue-in-cheek guide to scamming the music industry written...
The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ...
The Brit Awards are the annual United Kingdom pop music awards founded by the British Phonographic Industry. ...
Watch the K-Foundation Burn a Million Quid is a 16mm colour documentary film of the K Foundation burning a million pounds in cash. ...
Leaving aside all the other incarnations, there were three main phases to their musical career (as the KLF).
- In 1988-1989 they described their sound as "pure trance", and released a number of (largely) instrumental acid house rave anthems including What Time Is Love? and 3AM Eternal.
- In 1989-1990 they became "ambient house" and released seminal ambient LP Chill Out as well as ambient video Waiting. Jimmy Cauty was also involved in the ambient side-projects The Orb and Space.
- In 1990-1992 they became "Stadium House". The original pure trance singles were re-recorded with rap vocals, a pop-rock production and crowd noise samples. These singles, including What Time Is Love?, 3AM Eternal, Last Train to Trancentral, and Justified And Ancient were worldwide hits along with their 1991 UK top ten album, The White Room. Notably, Justified And Ancient featured vocals from American country star Tammy Wynette.
Some people claim that 3AM Eternal was allegedly a reference to their 1987: What the Fuck's Going On? album. The album suffered major legal setbacks because of its use of ABBA's Dancing Queen, and Drummond and Cauty were sued and ordered to destroy all remaining copies of the offending record. After a failed audience with ABBA, they burned the records, as legend has it, at 3AM. The album, minus the offending samples, was later released as a 12" single, complete with instructions on how to create the original album. Chill Out is the title of a seminal 1990 ambient house album by British electronic group The KLF. The album is part ambient music for post-rave chill outs, part concept album - a mythical road trip (or perhaps train journey) up the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas into Louisiana. ...
The Orb is a British electronic music band known for pioneering the genre of ambient house. ...
1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The White Room is the name of a 1991 worldwide No. ...
Tammy Wynette on the cover of her tribute album Tammy Wynette Remembered Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country singer and songwriter. ...
ABBA (clockwise from top: Benny, Björn, Frida, Agnetha) on the cover of their album The Definitive Collection (2001) ABBA (1970 - 1982) was a Swedish pop music group. ...
Dancing Queen is the title of a song, which was one of the biggest hit singles recorded by Swedish group ABBA. Written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, recorded in 1975 for the groups album Arrival, and released as a single in 1976, the song preceded...
Another theory has it that "3AM Eternal" is mentioned somewhere in Schrödinger's Cat, with another obscure reference to an art gallery with a 'picture' consisting of a frame with lots of bills nailed to it, but this has yet to be proven.
KLF also performed a live version of the song, augmented by thrash punk rock band Extreme Noise Terror, at the 1992 Brit Awards ceremony. The band had reputedly also planned to throw buckets of sheep's blood over the audience, but were apparently prevented from doing so due to opposition from BBC lawyers and the 'hardcore vegetarian' Extreme Noise Terror [1]. The performance was, instead, garnished by a kilted, cigar-chomping Drummond firing blanks from an automatic weapon over the heads of the crowd. Later in the evening the band allegedly dumped a dead sheep with the message "I died for you - bon appetit" tied around its waist at the entrance to one of the post ceremony parties. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Extreme Noise Terror are a grindcore band from Ipswich, England. ...
1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Brit Awards are the annual United Kingdom pop music awards founded by the British Phonographic Industry. ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter. ...
For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ...
blank cartridges, as used in nail guns A blank is a type of cartridge for a gun that contains gunpowder but no bullet or shot. ...
Their singles combined dance beats with surprisingly "rock" guitar, and a sequential narrative about the fictional "Mu Mu land", derived from The Illuminatus! Trilogy. 23 The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...
As an art college student, Drummond had originally been involved with the set design for the first ever stage production of the Illuminatus! Trilogy, which opened in Liverpool on the November 23, 1976. The play featured Illuminatus! author Robert Anton Wilson as a naked extra, and the 23-strong cast contained a number of actors, who would later enjoy considerable success. The play moved to London where it was eventually seen by the young Jimmy Cauty. November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
23 The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...
Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson or R. A. W. (born January 18, 1932) is a futurologist, libertarian, and novelist. ...
The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ...
Some people believe that the seriousness of the whole enterprise may be best indicated by Cauty and Drummond's appearance in one videoclip as leather-jacketed, sunglass-wearing rockers playing sitar. The vast number of sheep references in their work may also be a clue. Some people have compared the group to The Residents for their antics, if not their music. Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 A sitar The sitar is a Hindustani classical music instrument. ...
The Residents The Residents are an avant garde music and visual arts group. ...
Drummond and Cauty make heavy references to Discordianism, made famous by Robert Anton Wilson in his book Illuminatus!, but originally described in Principia Discordia,by Malaclypse The Younger. Drummond and Cauty borrowed a lot of elements from those two books Discordianism has been described as both an elaborate joke disguised as a religion and a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. ...
23 The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...
The Principia Discordia is a sacred text of the Discordian religion written by Greg Hill (Malaclypse The Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). ...
Malaclypse the Younger (short Mal-2) is the author of the the Principia Discordia, a character in the Illuminatus! trilogy, and most likely a penname used by Greg Hill, comrade of Kerry Thornley (aka Omar Ravenhurst). ...
See also The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is one of the two protagonist secret societies in the Illuminatus! series of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...
This article is about the musical group the Timelords. ...
This album began as a collaboration between Dr. Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty, the original line-up of The Orb. ...
The K Foundation was an arts foundation set up by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty in 1993 following their retirement from the music industry. ...
Digital cinema refers to both technological and cultural developments in contemporary cinema. ...
Blacksmoke are an occasional art collective and musical group dedicated to the propagation of audio visual noise. The group are believed to consist of KLF co-founder Jimmy Cauty and James Fogarty, a 24 year old heavy metal musician. ...
Discography
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Singles - All You Need Is Love (1987)
- Whitney Joins the JAMs (1987)
- Down Town (1987)
- Burn the Beat (1988)
- It's Grim Up North (1991)
Albums - 1987: What the Fuck's Going On? (1987)
- Who Killed the JAMs? (1988)
- The History of the JAMs aka the Timelords (1988)
- Shag Times (1989 - UK/Europe version of History)
Disco 2000 Singles - I Gotta CD (1987)
- One Love Nation (1988)
- Uptight (Everything's Alright)(1989)
The Timelords Singles - Doctorin' the Tardis (1988)
The KLF Singles - What Time Is Love? (1988)
- 3AM Eternal (1989)
- Kylie Said to Jason (1989)
- What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral) (1990)
- 3AM Eternal (Live at the SSL) (1991)
- Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent) (1991)
- Justified and Ancient(Featuring Tammy Wynette) (1991)
- America: What Time Is Love? (1991 US, 1992 UK)
- 3AM Eternal (1992 - with Extreme Noise Terror)
Albums Tammy Wynette on the cover of her tribute album Tammy Wynette Remembered Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country singer and songwriter. ...
Chill Out is the title of a seminal 1990 ambient house album by British electronic group The KLF. The album is part ambient music for post-rave chill outs, part concept album - a mythical road trip (or perhaps train journey) up the U.S. Gulf Coast from Texas into Louisiana. ...
The White Room is the name of a 1991 worldwide No. ...
K Foundation Singles
2K Singles - ***K the Millennium (sic) (1997)
External links - www.klf-communications.net
- KLF Mailinglist
- KLF ONLINE (very good fanpage)
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