Fun fact: The lap steel guitar on Chill Out, and The White Room’s Build A Fire were performed by “Evil” Graham Lee from Australian band The Triffids; who wrote Born Sandy Devotional
Excerpts from the White Room movie in the Build a Fire clip…
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That lap steel was so unexpected, and so badass. I have a copy of that on disc somewhere I think. Grew up in the South and heard a lot of steel. Owned a pedal steel for a while, they are a bear to play. Amazing sound, but only for the really dedicated musicians. Kept it for years but eventually sold it to a shop in Maryland. Hope someone else is enjoying it.
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Great! I’m stoked to dive in.
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As am I. I get to relive the moment I discovered all the great music of that era vicariously through you.
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Little fluffy clouds 
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Haha, perfect. That’s why they had to look out of country when writing the track.
Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared
Are you willing to become part of the 17? Fun film by Bill Drummond.
Includes scenes of storage spaces crammed with KLF paraphernalia.
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I first heard KLF as the Jams or Justified Ancients of Mu Mu on CBC’s Brave New Waves in the late 80s. King boy D and Rockman Rock. I think I might still have that on cassette but who knows.
Chill Out is one of my favorite albums of all time.
I also bought a copy of Space off of some guy on the Ambient mailing list, but that didn’t impress me as much.
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The new unofficial “Who Killed The KLF?” documentary is out.
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I need to see this.
I’m all aboard this train to Trancentral. Have some of their records including “Space”; listened to them A LOT in my teens; read some of their books; am saving up to sign up for MuMufication; read Illuminatus! (and then went on a 5 year Robert Anton Wilson binge); went to see the first production of Cosmic Trigger the play; friends of mine did most of the KLF 2023 stunts/rituals, and know Gimpo, John Higgs and Daisy Campbell (but I made a habit of not meeting my heroes); via totally unrelated, “coincidental” turns of events I lived with someone who had lived in The Foundry when Bill owned it, and who also spent time with them and Gimpo…
It’s eternally 3am in my house.
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I’m half way through the doc , some of the studio recreation stuff is pretty bad , sliding things on a 202 , pretending to use an 808
But the overall story is good fun.
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They were always a completely piss take, artists, zero fucks given. A singles band, albums as afterthoughts. As such quite confusing. They were all over MTV Europe when hip hop was blossoming so were rather confusing because trancentral had that session rapper who was a Chuck D clone. Jimmy Cauty is a genius who now lives on Albion road which is where squarepusher lived in the 90s. They burned bright and fast, had the industry in their pocket then committed suicide. I love them.
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This is how I got to know them – by and with Bill Drummond; it’s about an art project of his, but also has a good bit of retrospective about the KLF etc. – I liked it a lot
trailer:
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Just saw this on YouTube:
Not sure how it’s up on YouTube for free…but it’s also on Amazon Prime.
Some articles:
https://mixmag.net/read/new-documentary-who-killed-the-klf-watch-news
Ahh…thanks for moving it to the correct spot @LyingDalai 
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Love the KLF, love their chaotic exploits. Genius? Insane? Piss-taking wind-up merchants?
All of the above, their goodbye/fuck-you at the Brit Awards was pretty spectacular:
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One of my favourites from the Orb - excellent live at Glastonbury 1993:
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Gosh, time sure flies by. Can’t believe it was over a year ago that I discovered the KLF. Now I listen to them everyday. Because of that I’ve also been exposed to and grown to love some other early Electronic artist I was never aware of before like Shaman and Utah Saints.
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