White room (1991) [VINYL]

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a b Christgau, Robert (30 July 1991). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 16 November 2015. With a music press well used to their headline-grabbing antics and publicity stunts, it was best described by Select magazine. “It’s the last grand gesture, the most heroic act of public self- destruction in the history of pop,” they wrote. “And it’s also Drummond and Cauty’s final howl of disgust, defiance and contempt for a music world gone foul and corrupt.” It was the perfect epitaph. Read more: The complete guide to the KLF The KLF: The White Room – The Songs The first of their Stadium House Trilogy, it is an edit of this Live At Trancentral mix that appears on the album. The single was their first hit under the KLF moniker and reached No.5 in the UK in July 1990. It was important for me that The KLF was successful worldwide because I hated bands somehow who thought they were big and, really they were only in big in this fake world of NME and Melody Maker,” Bill Drummond told Richard King for his How Soon Is Now? book.

Capping their year of extraordinary success at the BRIT Awards, they saw the ceremony as the ideal location to carry out one last act of rebellion and announce their retirement from the music industry. After performing a raucous version of 3 A.M. Eternal with crusty punks Extreme Noise Terror, they began firing blanks from a machine gun at the stunned industry crowd. As had been the case with What Time Is Love?, 3 A.M. Eternal was originally a Pure Trance 12″ single released in 1989, before being reworked as the second instalment of their Stadium House Trilogy in 1991. It is an edit of this version that was included on The White Room. Offiziellecharts.de – The KLF – The White Room" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 28 July 2016. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1991 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 27 November 2021.a b Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (1 January 2021). "The KLF reissue music for first time since 1992". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 January 2021. Last Train To Trancentral starts right after the string section and features a completely new additional verse from Ricardo Lyte after the breakdown.

Subsidised with the proceeds of an 80s novelty hit, the eccentricities, the vision and ambition of KLF, combined with their taste for acid house and anarchy, resulted in The White Room, one of the finest dance-pop albums of the 90s… The KLF The White Room cover The crowd noise (itself a sample taken from U2’s Rattle & Hum to convey the false impression of being a live album) dissipates to welcome a soaring vocal from Maxine Harvey which itself gives way to pounding beats, squelching synths and a saxophone solo from Duy Khiem – all hallmarks of the classic acid house sound. Duo comprised of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond. Cauty was born in Devon, England; Drummond was born in South Africa but grew up in the Dumfries & Galloway area of Scotland. a b "The White Room - Information Sheet Eight". KLF Communications. August 1990. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 5 October 2007. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/508

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The KLF: Enigmatic Dance Duo". Record Collector. 1 April 1991. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/226 It also has the single mix of 'Last Train To Trancentral' instead of the mellower UK album version, edits 'No More Tears' down from 9:24 to 6:42, and adds a little more wind noise at the end of the closing 'Justified And Ancient'. This affirmation in what they were doing continued with the eventual release of The White Room in March 1991. Entering the charts at No.3, it remained in the rundown for almost a year, no doubt bolstered by the further hit singles Last Train To Trancentral (Live at SSL) followed by two songs that were radically remixed for release as singles – Justified & Ancient (Stand By The JAMs), featuring Tammy Wynette and America: What Time Is Love?, both of which were Top 10 hits. a b Fox, Marisa (9 August 1991). "The White Room". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 23 August 2009. One of the defining features of the “White Room” album is its seamless blending of different musical elements. The KLF effortlessly combine samples, beats, and live instrumentation to create a rich and layered sonic tapestry. This approach, along with their irreverent attitude and willingness to experiment, helped establish The KLF as innovators in the electronic music scene.

Cinquemani, Sal (2 November 2002). "Review: The KLF, The White Room". Slant Magazine . Retrieved 16 November 2015. Shade, Chris (2006). "The KLF: The White Room". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. p.672. ISBN 978-0-7893-1371-3. They would have a fan following that could put them in the Top 20 but I was thinking, that’s not a real Top 20 record, that’s just your cult following buying it in a week and I’m not interested in that. I wanted to know that the records we’re making were touching vast amounts of people. That was incredibly important.”Recorded with the proceeds from their Doctorin’ The TARDIS single, the original 1988 version of What Time Is Love? marked a shift for Bill and Jimmy away from hip-hop towards dance music. The first of their Pure Trance 12″ singles, the song’s title is a reference to clubbers asking what time their Ecstasy will take effect. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved 14 October 2020. Harrison, Allan. "The White Room". Splendid (review). Archived from the original on 12 November 2006. Longmire, Ernie; etal. (2020) [1998]. "Discography: The KLF (including The JAMS, The Timelords, 2K etc.)". Archived from the original on 29 February 2020.