KLF, The
Real Name: Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty
Profile: Duo of James Cauty, born in Devon, England and William Drummond, born in South Africa but grew-up in the Borders area of Scotland.
URLs:
http://www.klf.de/ http://www.klf-communications.com/ Aliases: 2K, JAMs, The, Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, The, K Foundation, Kopyright Liberation Front, One World Orchestra, The, Timelords, The
Members: Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty
Name Variations: KLF, The | K.L.F. | KLF
All Genres: Electronic, Hip Hop, Rock, Pop, Reggae, Funk / Soul, Non-Music, Latin
The acronym KLF has been known to stand for a lot of different things, but the most commonly used by KLF themselves is Kopyright Liberation Front.
KLF has a very interesting history. Some teasers: changing billboards with grafitti to show KLF or JAMS, firing a machinegun at a shocked BritAwards audience, spoofing an art award with twice the price money, buying tv-spots and full page advertisements in large magazines for mentioned spoof award, burning one million pound sterling (that's £1.000.000) while filming the event.. and lots more. Go check out a decent biography website on them.
the KLF are probably he gratest "band" in history of electronic music, their originality, ideas, coreograpy, good sound and good sense of humor haven't been outshadowed by anyone. They somehow managed to connect several different types of art into a inteligent expression packed with groove and while doing all this had a good time, what else can we tell about the people that made 3 or 4 top 10 hits , always using the same samples, and invented stadium house !
The KLF are highly influencial on mid-90's Pop, Hip Hop, Trance, Electronica, House, and Dance movements. As other writers will tell you, the KLF made their mark with huge acts of tom-foolery, but the legacy Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond have left us only wanting more. The KLF are associated with lifted samples, but the more curious point is that the KLF themselves were sampled for numerous hits and boundry-breaking music in the dance arena.
The critically acclaimed "The White Room" was more an assemblage of hits after the fact, and included humerous compositions mixed with serious messages. Almost Mozart for techno, the harmonies are original, even if the samples are not.
Cauty and Drummond authored a book called "The Manual (How to have a number one the easy way)", being more of a diary into their lives as the KLF, it uses a non-audio engineer vocabulary, and is a fun read from cover to cover (157 Pages).
I personally have many memories that include the KLF, and I will never tire of the "hits" 3AM Eternal, What Time Is Love, or Last Train to Transcentral. The mystery of who the KLF is was part of the fun when it was all going on. I can only hope for more works of this caliber in the future.
Link to download album (contain 3 forbidden tracks not included in this album):
Part 1
http://rapidshare.com/files/28754962/The_KLF_The_White_Room___7_...Part 2
http://rapidshare.com/files/28756159/The_KLF_The_White_Room__7_b...Mirror link(original album):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/coqwqf
