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KLF

Real Name:
James Francis Cauty & William Ernest Drummond
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.
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Discography

Releases:
What Time Is Love (Power Remix) (Maxi) (2 versions)   GiG Records 1990
Production:
Deep Heat 8 - The Hand Of Fate (2xCD, Comp) What Time Is Love? (12... Telstar 1990
Deep Heat 90 (2xCD, Comp) What Time Is Love Telstar 1990
The Unity Mix (1991 Megamix) (CD, Maxi, Mixed) Last Train To Trancentral International Dance Music 1991
6 In The Mix - Volume 3 (CD) America: What Time Is ... Indisc 1992
Move On 2 - 2 In One (2xLP, Comp) Justified & Ancient (T... Virgin Schallplatten GmbH 1992
Appears On:
Ronny's Pop Show 16 (2xLP, Comp) What Time Is Love CBS 1990
Sim House / 2001 Daisy Groove (CD, Comp) QT-Honey / Radio Edit SSE Communications 1992
Last Train To Trancentral / RHT (12") Last Train To Trancentral Unity Records (4) 2006
The World's Greatest Hard Dance (3xCD, Mixed, Comp) What Time Is Love Resist Music 2007
Tracks Appear On:
Ambient House - A Compilation Of New Age Dance Music (LP) Last Train To Trancent... Phonogram (France), Yo! (2) 1990
Baby Hits 1 (LP, Comp) What Time Is Love COMA Records (DK) 1990
Bolero Mix 7 (Comp) (2 versions) What Time Is Love? Blanco Y Negro (2) 1990
Deep Heat 8 - The Hand Of Fate (2xCD, Comp) What Time Is Love? (12... Telstar 1990
Deep Heat 90 (2xCD, Comp) What Time Is Love Telstar 1990
Energy - DJ's In The House (Cass, Comp) Build A Fire Castle Communications 1990
Ronny's Pop Show 16 (2xLP, Comp) What Time Is Love CBS 1990
Top Hits '90 Volume 1 (CD, Comp) What Time Is Love? Arcade 1990
Total Confusion (CD, Comp) What Time Is Love (Tec... Indisc 1990
Absolute Music 11 (Comp) (2 versions) 3 A.M. Eternal EVA Records (Sweden) 1991
April 91 - Two (12") Make It Rain DMC 1991
Bolero Mix 8 (Comp) (3 versions) Last Train To Trancentral Blanco Y Negro (2) 1991
May 91 - One (2 versions) Minimix (Megamix), Wha... DMC 1991
May 91 - Two (12") Last Train To Trancentral DMC 1991
Music Factory Mastermix - Issue 55 (CD, P/Mixed) 3am Eternal, 3am Etern... Music Factory 1991
Music Factory Mastermix - Issue 57 (CD, P/Mixed, Comp) What Time Is Love? Music Factory 1991
Pump It Up 4 (CD) Last Train To Trancentral Mega Records 1991
The Unity Mix (1991 Megamix) (CD, Maxi, Mixed) Last Train To Trancentral International Dance Music 1991
Top Dance (LP, Comp) Last Train To Transcen... Indisc 1991
Wicked Mix 08 (12", Comp, Promo) 3 A.M. Eternal ("Remix... Wicked Mix 1991
6 In The Mix - Volume 3 (CD) America: What Time Is ... Indisc 1992
COMA - The Album 2 (2xLP, Comp) America - What Time Is... COMA Records (DK) 1992
Hardcore Dancefloor 2 (CD) Justified & Ancient Dino Music (2) 1992
Move On 2 - 2 In One (2xLP, Comp) Justified & Ancient (T... Virgin Schallplatten GmbH 1992
Precision Five (12", Promo, W/Lbl, Cle) Last Train... ("Medley... Art Of Mix 1992
The Best Of Wicked Mix Volume 1 (CD, Comp, Promo) 3 A.M. Eternal Wicked Mix 1992
Greatest Remixes Volume 1 (CD, Comp, Promo) Justified And Ancient ... Factor 3 Records 1993
Keep On Dancing (2xCD, Comp) What Time Is Love Dino Entertainment 1993
Essential Selection (Summer 1998) (3xCD, Comp, Ltd, Mixed) What Time Is Love (Ori... FFRR, FFRR 1998
Cool 90's (CD, Comp) Make It Rain Mushroom Records 1999
The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One (Comp) (6 versions) What Time Is Love XL Recordings ... 1999
Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond The Call Of Duty Part 2 / The Orb Remix Project (2xCD, Mixed, Comp) 3am Eternal (Blue Danu... Deviant Records 2002
The Original Multiplayer Soundsystem© (CD, Mixed, Comp + 2xCD, Comp) What Time Is Love ? (O... EMI Music (Belgium) 2007
Now Thom Volume 4 (2xCD, Comp) Justified And Ancient Virgin 2008
Music Factory Mastermix - Issue 65 (CD, Comp) Last Train To Transcen... Music Factory  
Unofficial Releases:
Eurodisco 18/90 (Cass, Comp) What Time Is Love? B.W. 1990
Morphology (CD, Comp, Unofficial) 6:01 Orb Music Production 1993
1000% The Best Of The Best Music Collection - Techno Dance Vol. 1 (CDr, Comp, Ltd) Justified & Ancient Deconstruction (2) 2001
1000% The Best Of The Best Music Collection - Techno Dance Vol. 3 (CD, Comp, Ltd) Last Train To Trancentral Deconstruction (2) 2003
1000% The Best Of The Best Music Collection - Techno Dance Vol. 4 (CD, Comp, Ltd) 3 A.M. Eternal Deconstruction (2) 2003
Roots (File, MP3, Comp, Mixed, VBR) What Time Is Love (Ori... Led Manville 2005
What Time Is The Rave (12", S/Sided)   Not On Label (The KLF) 2005
3 AM Eternal (Sick House Remix) (12", S/Sided)   Sick House 2008
God Sent Us To Destroy (Live In Birmingham) (File, MP3, Comp, Mixed, VBR) What Time Is Love (Ori... Led Manville 2008
Space 2 Chillout (Cass)   Live Tribe  
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by hyperreal1 Jan 16, 2009
The KLF was an incredible project that has a big place in the electronic music history. They are (along with The Orb, ask Cauty) the fathers of the atmospheric house or something like trance-dub; a kind of music that explore slow beats in combination with more soulful and rhythmic elements, voices and another samples.

Everything start in the end of the nighties, listening to KLF and his first works is listening the exact moment when the 80's music was ending (they release great 80's pop hits!) and finally moves to the sounds of electronic music and spread all over the world in the starting of 90's. Somebody have listened "Kylie Said to Jason", is pure synthpop nostalgia flirting with few acid dust!

"The White Room" is a great album that confirm their goodbye to the 80's and smile to different sounds. They still have that synths, melodic sounds and sweet voices, but also has one feet in the danceable hand. Like the song says "We climbed to touch the stars".

KLF was some of the firsts electronic music artist (continues to the Brian Eno legacy) that was interesting not only in the dance side, but in the calm side."Chill Out" is one of the greatest albums not only in the ambient history, but in the all electronic music history. Is another kind of goodbye to the 80's music (check all the samples), while the group travel along US in an atmospherical higway and say hello to the deeper sound and samples of the next decade.

Also they developed an particular sound that create the basis of the acid house, rave and 90's trance. "What Time Is Love": the real trance sounds that was deep, serious and hypnotic!; before the genre was distort by others and becomes so light and boring.

Thanks for the all your hard work KLF.
Review by jsrobinson Sep 09, 2004 (edited over 5 years ago)
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.
Review by B207 Jul 30, 2004 (edited over 5 years ago)
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 !
Review by urb May 03, 2002
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.

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