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Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Julian Cope | Q&A 2000Ce | Cope Musicians & Cohorts". Headheritage.co.uk . Retrieved 13 August 2012. Reynolds, Simon (2005). Rip It Up And Start Again: Post-punk 1978–1984. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-21569-6. a b c Ellis-Petersen, Hannah. "The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 August 2017.
Several threads and themes unify the many incarnations of Drummond and Cauty's creative partnership, many of these influenced by The Illuminatus! Trilogy; combined, these themes, threads and their activities over the years have been said to form a "mythology." [10] [4] [113] Drummond and Cauty made heavy references to Discordianism, popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson in the Illuminatus! books, Situationism, and tactics often interpreted by media commentators as " Situationist pranks. [114] Charles Shaar Murray wrote in The Independent that "[Bill] Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. Many of his schemes... involve symbolically-weighted acts conducted away from the public gaze and documented only by Drummond himself and his participating comrades. Nevertheless, they are intended to have an effect on a worldful of people unaware that the act in question has taken place. That is magical thinking. Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician..." [78] Chill Out, an ambient house album which had its roots in Cauty's chill-out sessions with The Orb's Alex Paterson, was released in February 1990. Described by The Times as "The KLF's comedown classic", [29] Chill Out was named the fifth best dance album of all time in a 1996 Mixmag feature. [30] Ewing, Tom (12 September 1999). "75. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - "It's Grim Up North" ". Freaky Trigger . Retrieved 19 October 2023. On 4 February 2021, a re-edited version of Chill Out was released, retitled Come Down Dawn, with previously unlicensed samples from the original release removed, [103] and added "What Time Is Love? (Virtual Reality Mix)," originally from the 1990 remix EP What Time Is Love? (Remodelled & Remixed), integrated in the new mix.Jamie Reynolds of Klaxons admitted in an interview to reading The Manual and stated that he "took direct instructions from it.... Get yourself a studio, get a groove going, sing some absolute nonsense over the top, put a breakbeat behind it, and you're away! That's what I did! That's genuinely it. I read that, I noted down the golden rules of pop, and applied that to what we're doing and made sure that that always applies to everything we do. That way, we always come out with a sort of catchy hit number." [7] [ unreliable source?] Editions [ edit ] Penkiln Burn". Penkiln Burn. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011 . Retrieved 15 January 2012. In 1993, Select magazine published a list of the 100 Coolest People in Pop. Drummond was number one on the list. "What has this giant of coolness not achieved?", they asked: "Like the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Drummond has always been a step ahead of human evolution, guiding us on. Manager of The Teardrop Explodes, co-inventor of ambient and trance house, number one pop star, situationist pagan, folk troubadour, pan-dimensional zenarchist gentleman of leisure...and then, ladies and gentlemen, he THROWS IT ALL AWAY, machine-guns the audience and dumps a dead sheep on the doorstep of the Brit Awards and vanishes to build dry-stone walls. His new 'band' The K Foundation make records but say they won't release them at all until world peace is established. Deranged, inspired, intensely cool." [77] The KLF release new reworked album 'Come Down Dawn' ". NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News. 4 February 2021 . Retrieved 4 February 2021. Drummond's involvement in the music industry has been minimal since his final collaboration with Jimmy Cauty as 2K in 1997.
From 1998, Drummond's art activities have been carried out using the brand-name of the Penkiln Burn. This is the name of the river in Scotland upon the banks of which he played and fished as a boy. Harrison, Andrew (13 June 2008). "Bill Drummond: The Man Who Wants To End Recorded Music". The Word. Development Hell Limited. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009 . Retrieved 10 October 2009. In a 2000 review of Drummond's book 45, and an appraisal of the duo's career to date, writer Steven Poole stated that Drummond and Cauty "are the only true conceptual artists of the [1990s]. And for all the eldritch beauty of their art, their most successful creation is the myth they have built around themselves." [113] This deep and perplexing mythology, he suggested, results in all their subsequent activities (as a partnership or otherwise) being absorbed into their mystique: a b c d e f g h i j Shaw, William (July 1992). "Who Killed The KLF". Select. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/315 By the time the JAMs' single "Whitney Joins the JAMs" was released in September 1987, their record label had been renamed "KLF Communications" (from the earlier The Sound of Mu(sic)). [36] The duo's first release as the KLF was in March 1988, with the single " Burn the Bastards"/"Burn the Beat" (KLF 002). [36] Although the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu name was not retired, most future Drummond and Cauty releases went under the name "The KLF".The DVD Release of Best Before Death (Anti-Worlds, 2019) featured a booklet with a piece written by Drummond called Best Before death and featuring the script for an imaginary film by Tenzing Scott Brown called Bad Wisdom.
On 31 December 2020, the release of series of remastered compilations under the collective title Samplecity thru Trancentral was announced on a graffiti and posters 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, on streaming platforms, while high-definition videos were published for the first time on the band's official YouTube channel, marking the first activity of Cauty and Drummond as the KLF since 1992. [101] On 23 March 2021, the collection was followed by its part 2 featuring 12" versions of the singles. [102] a b O'Reilly, John (29 August 1997). "The horny old devils". The Guardian. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/437
After absconding from the Illuminatus! production in London, Drummond returned to Liverpool and co-founded the band Big in Japan. [9] [10] Other members included Holly Johnson ( Frankie Goes to Hollywood), Budgie ( Siouxsie and the Banshees), Jayne Casey ( Pink Military/ Pink Industry) and Ian Broudie ( The Lightning Seeds). [10] After the band's demise, Drummond and another member, his best friend [9] David Balfe, founded Zoo Records. Zoo's first release was Big in Japan's posthumous EP, From Y To Z and Never Again. They went on to act as producers of the debut albums by Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, both of which Drummond would later manage somewhat idiosyncratically. With Zoo Music Ltd, Drummond and Balfe were also music publishers for Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction and The Proclaimers. The production team of Drummond and Balfe was christened The Chameleons, who recorded the single "Touch" together with singer Lori Lartey as Lori and the Chameleons [17] and were involved with the production on Echo & the Bunnymen's debut album, released on the Korova label. In late 1988, the duo and released their first singles under the moniker The KLF, " Burn the Bastards" and " Burn the Beat" (both taken from the JAMs' last album). (From late 1987, Drummond and Cauty's independent record label had been named " KLF Communications".) As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty would amass fame and fortune. " What Time Is Love?" – a signature song which they would revisit and revitalise several times in the coming years – saw its first release in July 1988, and its success spawned an album, The "What Time Is Love?" Story, in September 1989. [ citation needed]
a b Poole, Steven (26 February 2000). "Hit man, myth maker - 45". The Observer. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/487
Martin, Gavin (December 1996). "The Chronicled Mutineers". Vox. [1992] had been the year of Bill's 'breakdown', when the KLF, perched on the peak of greater-than-ever success, quit the music business, (toy) machine gunned the tuxedo'd twats in the front row of that year's BRIT Awards ceremony and dumped a sheep's carcass on the steps at the after-show party. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 16 September 2016. Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/430
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