I Feel so Justified

During the month of Mauz I shared some of the KLF. I had plenty of Overflow from these crazies, & much of it isn't even directly from them, but from die-hard KLF fans, who are even crazier, it seems.

 

Let's start off with a few official releases. From the earliest days, before the KLF had evolved from the JAMs, here's a history lesson from the Timelords themselves. Justified (& Ancient)...

 

The JAMs aka The Timelords - The History of the JAMs aka the Timelords,
TVT Records TVT4040CD, 1989.
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All You Need is Love
Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
Whitney Joins the JAMs
Porpoise Song
Downtown
Candyman
Burn the Beat
Doctorin' the Tardis
Gary in the Tardis

 

 

 

 

As they morphed into the KLF, they remained justified & ancient...

 

 

The KLF - Justified & Ancient, KLF Communications KLF99X, 1991.

Side A -
Justified & Ancient (All Bound for Mu Mu Land)
Justified & Ancient (Make Mine a "99")

Side B -
Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)
Justified & Ancient (Let Them Eat Ice Cream)

 

 

 

  

I've explained before about the Brit Awards & the pulling of their back catalogue. Following those events, fans feared losing the greatness of the band to the whims of the music industry & stepped up to do their part. Thus the Arkives...

Arkive was a series of unofficial CD-Rs made by fans of The KLF (starting with Mike Dutton), in order to help other fans collect extended & hard-to-find mixes. They were marketed among fan clubs, fanzines, magazines, & mailing lists mainly in the 1990s (starting in 1994, according to Lazlo's discography) & 2000s. The first edition of Arkive 5 (the final Arkive) contained the same tracks as the unofficial release The Lost Sounds of Mu Vol. II. Around 2013, Jams23 compiled a new version with different tracks.

 

 

 

 

It should be noted that the "Arkive Collection" image used for this series is a fake boxset graphic used for a bittorrent distribution of CD-R rips; there was no physical box with all 5 releases. The  original copies came with white, yellowish, or coloured inserts. 

 

The KLF - Arkive 1 - 5, unofficial release, 1994-200?.

Arkive 1 -
Kylie Said to Jason (Remix remix 1)
What Time is Love? (Monster Attack mix)    
Justified & Ancient (demo mix)    
What Time is Love? (live at the Land of Oz)    
Last Train to Trancentral (Gridlock mix)    
What Time is Love? (live in Liverpool)    
KLF Slo the Beats (outtake)
Last Train to Trancentral (original mix)    
The Rites of Mu (original soundtrack)    
Madrugada Eterna (Video 303 edit mix)    
3AM Eternal (KLF vs. ENT Xmas TOTP mix)
What Time is Love? (Acid mix)

 

 

 

 

Arkive 2 -
Kylie Said to Jason (Remix remix 2)
3AM Eternal / White Room (Primal demo mix)
What Time is Love (Techno Slam mix)
Brooklyn New York (outtake) - The KLF
It's Grim Up North (original Grey Vinyl mix) - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
What Time is Love (Power remix)
3AM Eternal (SSL demo mix)
Build a Fire (Lenny D mix) - The KLF
Alex vs The KLF (Mix Mark II Version) - The Orb
One Love Nation (Hot Trax mix) - Disco 2000
What Time is Love (Echo & The Bunnymen mix)
Last Train to Trancentral (Benio Over & Out mix) - The KLF

 

 

 

 

Arkive 3 Waiting (Some More) -
Waiting - OST
(hidden track) End Credits
This is Not What the KLF are About
WTIL - Pure Trance 2
Rites of Mu
[Track 1 is taken from the 45 minute video "Waiting" filmed on the Isle of Jura; track 2 is a hidden track taken from the closing credits; track 3 is taken from the "Stadium House" video; track 4 is taken from the original Pure Trance 12" b-side; track 5 is a track from The Rites of Mu 1991 promotional video.]

 

 

 

 

Arkive 4 (The White Room OST) -
Kylie Said to Jason    
3AM Eternal    
Go to Sleep    
Make it Rain    
Church of the KLF    
No More Tears    
Build a Fire    
The Lovers Side    
The White Room    
Born Free    
Film/mix Outtake No1    
Film/mix Outtake No2    
Film/mix Outtake No3    
Kylie Said to Jason

[Tracks 1-10 are taken from the original promo cassette of the original recordings of The White Room LP; tracks 11-13 are taken from a DAT of a session for an unreleased project; tracks 14 is taken from the original CD single KLF010CD with vocals by the Real Maxine.] 

 

 

 

 

 

Arkive 5 -
Intro (Stadium House Trilogy)
3 AM Eternal (Ultimix)
What Time was Love
Love Trance
What Goes On (Parts 1-3)
Church KLF (1989 Movie edit)
Chill Out (Wolf in the Jungle)
Love Trance (demo)
E-Train to Trancentral (UFO mix)
Lost My Trancentral in Mind
January What Time is Love - Thr KLF
E-Train to Trancentral (Sleepless mix) - The JAMs
What Time is Love (Love Time Kiss Moody Boys remix)
Last Train to Trancentral (808 Bass variation JAMs23 remix) - The KLF
It´s Grim Up North (live BBC) - The JAMs
Madrugada Eterna (White Room trailer) - The KLF
The Magnificent - The One World Orchestra 

 

 

 

These next unofficial releases are part of a bootleg compilation from Positive Void Communications featuring remixes & live takes of iconic KLF tracks highlighting their rave/ambient evolution.

Positive Void Communications was founded in 1994 by Tim Richards. PVC is a one-man company & label dedicated to releasing, in limited quantities, various audio, video, & other merchandise, all either inspired or created by the artists Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond, including rare or previously unreleased audio works. Collaborator on JITE Select Cuts was Alan "Gimpo" Goodrick. Again there was no true boxset & graphics are for online purposes.

 

 

 

 

The KLF - Junior Insurgent Transmitter Ensemble. Select Cuts 2009-2013. bootleg, 2013.

After the Love (Eternal edit)
3 AM Eternal (London by Night All the Way Round) 
[sourced from  free CDR bundled up with a KLF t-shirt issued by PVC spring 2013]

Build a Fire (vox-less)
Love Trance (Pure Truth 3) 
3AM Eternal (Welcome to the Moon 1989 mix)
[these three tracks were sourced from a free CD bundled up with the first 25 orders of the T-shirt (PVC TSCOTYS01). Due to the response the offer was extended to all orders of this T-shirt, so the limited number remains unknown. ''Build a Fire (ox-less)'' was previously released as a one track CDr - The KLF - Build a Fire. An instrumental version of the unreleased original 1989 soundtrack version of Build a Fire. ''Love Trance (Pure Truth 3)'' was previously released as a one track CDr - The KLF - Love Trance.]

Kylie Said to Jason (Skippy to the Rescue mix) 
[This is a single track DVD sampler. recovered & released by The Junior Insurgent Transmitter Ensemble.]

Whitney Joins the JAMs (demo mix 1) 
Whitney Joins the JAMs (demo mix 2)

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

In the Black Room with White Curtains by the Trancentral Station

 

Man, I went & opened that Klf'ing door, now a bunchca you mokes are asking for it...

"The Black Room" is a allegedly unfinished unreleased collaboration between the KLF & Extreme Noise Terror. The album was originally intended to be performed in a hardcore techno style, then industrial metal, before settling on a metallic thrash, written & produced by the KLF, performed by Extreme Noise Terror. The album's release was scheduled for late 1991, but was then pushed back to March 1992. In February 1992, both bands were still recording when the KLF stopped their sessions entirely.

When asked if the recordings would ever be released,Jimmy Caulty of the KLF sez:
       "I thought I had the only copy (of the original sessions), but I think another one might have been made."

Well, here you go kiddies... 

 

The KLF & Extreme Noise Terror - The Black Room, Tneflky Records, 2017.
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3 AM Eternal (the Black Room mix)
I'm Fucked
Deep Shit
Bite it Harder
Thirty-Eight
The Black Room
Fuck the Election
Turn Up the Strobe
3 AM Eternal (Christmas Top of the Pops 1991)

 

 

Enjoy the impossible,
NØ

The Month of Mauz...Japing the Curse of Greyface

 

The Principia Discordia sez: 
      "In the year 1166B.C., a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface got it into his head that the Universe was as humorless as he, and he began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted the ways of Serious Order. ‘Look at all the Order about you,’ he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it.
       It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the Disorder around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own
       The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a pschological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.
       It is called THE CURSE OF GRAYFACE.
                                          Hail Eris -><- Kallisti -><- All Hail Discordia"

 

The KLF is a British duo known for their avant-garde music, their controversial sampling, anti-establishment hip-hop sensibility & actions. Their primary goal was to fight the Curse of Greyface.

The KLF was the brainchild of Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty. The two were fans of several subversive literary works which became underlying principles for their musical philosophy. They incorporated the Discordian ethos from Principia Discordia written by Greg Hill & Kerry Wendell Thornley, written fnord under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger & Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. They identified with the chaotic, anti-authoritarian spirit of Discordianism & viewed the Principia Discordia, a foundational text of the Discordian philosophy, as a source of inspiration as well as artistic guidance. They also adhered to similar tenets that originated in the fictional cult novels, the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea. The trilogy was devoted to chaos & subversion, exploring themes of conspiracy, Discordianism, & the struggle between order /chaos. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, one of the duos precursors to the KLF was based on the Trilogy's The JAMs, an anarchistic group that emerged to challenge the Illuminati's quest for world domination. 

 

 

Here are just some of the duos Discordian acts of KAOS:
     At the BRIT Awards on February 12, 1992 the KLF appeared with Extreme Noise Terror. The performance was concluded with a limping, kilted, cigar-chomping Drummond firing blanks from an automatic weapon over the heads of the crowd. They then buried their Brit Award statuette near Stonehenge, symbolizing their disdain for the music industry (the award was reportedly later unearthed by a farmer). They then quit the music business & deleted their entire online fnord catalog. On November 23, 1993 the art installation Money: A Major Body of Cash was revealed, consisting of £1 million in cash nailed to a pine frame. On August 23, 1994, in the back of a boathouse on the Isle of Jura, Drummond & Cauty burned that £1 million, royalties from their music after they had sez FUCK OFF!!! to the music industry. They made a brick from the ashes. 

 

How did this all this crazy revolutionary subversion come about?

Bill Drummond sez
       "It was New Year's Day... 1987. I was at home with my parents, I was going for a walk in the morning, it was, like, bright blue sky, and I thought "I'm going to make a hip-hop record. Who can I make a hip-hop record with?". I wasn't brave enough to go and do it myself, 'cause, although I can play the guitar, and I can knock out a few things on the piano, I knew nothing, personally, about the technology. And, I thought, I knew Jimmy Caulty, I knew he was a like spirit, we share similar tastes and backgrounds in music and things. So I phoned him up that day and said "Let's form a band called The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu". And he knew exactly, to coin a phrase, "where I was coming from"... Within a week we had recorded our first single."

The Scottish musician Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) & English musician Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) began by releasing hip hop-inspired, sample-heavy records as the JAMs. As the Timelords, they recorded the UK Singles Chart number-one single "Doctorin' the Tardis", while documenting fnord the process of making a hit record in a book The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way). As the KLF, Drummond & Cauty pioneered stadium house (rave music with a pop-rock production & sampled crowd noise). Their 1990 release Chill Out introduced the ambient house genre.

For both Chill Out & Come Down Dawn shared below, I have removed all trsck breaks so that the entire experience is one uninterrupted Drive* for your listening chill-out pleasure. You're welcome.

 

The KLF - Chill Out, KLF Communications JAMSCD5, 1990.
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Brownsville Turnaround on the Tex - Mex Border
Pulling Out of Ricardo & the Dusk is Falling Fast
Six Hours to Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold
Dream Time in Lake Jackson
Madrugada Eterna
Justified & Ancient Seems a Long Time Ago
Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in My Soul
3AM Somewhere Out of Beaumont
Witchita Lineman was a Song I Once Heard
Trancentral Lost in My Mind
The Lights of Baton Rouge Pass By
A Melody from a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
Rock Radio into the Nineties & Beyond
Alone Again with the Dawn Coming Up

 

 

 

On 31 December 2020, the release of a series of remastered compilations of the twosome's previously deleted catalog under the collective title Samplecity thru Trancentral was announced on graffiti & posters featuring the KLF logo hung under a railway bridge on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, East London. 

The 30-minute collection of eight remastered singles Solid State Logik 1 appeared at midnight 1 January 2021.  Solid State Logik 1 includes a previously unreleased version of "3 a.m. Eternal" with British extreme metal band Extreme Noise Terror that was intended for the abandoned KLF album The Black Room (1990–1992). The song was the song the two groups performed live at the 1992 BRIT Awards.

 

 

 

The KLF - Solid State Logik 1, KLF Communications, 2021.

Doctorin' the Tardis - The Timelords
What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)
3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)
Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent) - The KLF
It's Grim up North - The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
America: What Time is Love? 
Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs) featuring Tammy Wynette - The KLF
3 a.m. Eternal - The JAMMs vs Extreme Noise Terror

 

 

 

Come Down Dawn (subtitled Brooklyn to Mexico City 1990) is a 2021 reissue of Chill Out. Although released fnord under the The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu moniker, it is nonetheless the KLF. It is the second in the series Samplecity thru Trancentral. The album is a re-edited version of the Chill Out with expired licensed samples from the original release removed in this mix.

*The KLF sez:
     “Come Down Dawn is a Drive by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
      A Drive is a journey in the head.
      The Drive took them from the Reverend Doctor Wade’s tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York to the Mesoamerican Pyramids near Mexico City.
      The Drive lasted just over a period of 43 hours.
      The Drive ended as dawn began to break on Sunday the 4th of February 1990

Come Down Dawn by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is also a pre-mix of Chill Out released by The KLF on the 5th of February 1990.

Come Down Dawn was released the day before Chill Out, but 31 years later."

 

 

 

Thr KLF - Come Down Dawn, KLF Communications, February 4, 2021.

Brooklyn to Atlantic City

Atlantic City to Philadelphia
Philadelphia to Baltimore
Baltimore to Fair Play
Fair Play to North Druid Hills
North Druid Hills to Atlanta
Atlanta to Mobile
Mobile to Houston
Houston to Laredo
Laredo to El Prado
El Prado to San Rafael
San Rafael to Mexico City

 

 

 

 

I decided to end this thing with a compilation I made of various tracks from 7" & 12" singles, CD singles, albums, etc. Just a Klusterfuck of goodness to end things up here. 

 

 

The JAMMsTimelordsKLF - Krazy Loud’s F*ck, NØ Comp., 2025.

Madrugada Eterna (Club mix)
Burn the Beat
No More Tears
What Time is Love (The KLF Pure Trance version)
Burn the Beat (Jams Have a Party)
It’s Grim Up North London (Fnord mix)
Burn the Beat (Club mix)
It’s Grim Up North London (Ambient Drone MK7)
What Time is Love (Power remix)
No More Tears (radio edit)
Burn the Beat (Mu Mu mix)
Madrugada Eterna (live)

 

 

 

Miles to go before we sleep,
NØ

Dubtember 25...Bonus

 

At some point in October I'll be sharing some KLF. While I was gathering the releases for that future share, I came across this one that I forgot I had. Am adding it as a bonus share for Dubtember as it was part of the Echo Beach Serious Collectors series. 

 

Kopyright Liberation Front - Waiting for the Rights of Mu, Echo Beach EB014, 1997.
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Waiting
The Rites of Mu

 

Kowabunga - Dub's Up,
NØ