Early Nineties Nightmares, Part 3: Zach Morris Meltdown

Time for another round of Early Nineties Nightmares, though there are a few exceptions in this collection. As always, the nightmares part of the title is more for humor's sake as I really like the majority of these songs. Let me know what you think.


Early Nineties Nightmares, Part 3: Zach Morris Meltdown


01 Bingoboys feat. Princessa - How To Dance (Extended Radio Version)
Anyone else remember this song being EVERYWHERE? The rap and everything is catchy enough, but my favorite part of it had to be the instructional record samples. Their album, of course, sucked, but what would you expect from some serious one-hit-wonders?



02 Tara Kemp - Hold You Tight
Everyone thought she was going to be the next big thing, and for some reason I HATED this song. In retrospect it's actually really good, and the follow-up, Piece Of My Heart, is pretty good too, as is the album, but you can't have much of a career if you're one-dimensional and no one is trying to update your image. Not necessarily fair, but honest.

03 Janet Jackson - Miss You Much (Mama Mix)
The first exception, this was released in 1989, but I heard this everywhere for the next few years so, in my opinion, it counts. This remix extends the hell out of the song and uses lots of studio outtakes of Janet having fun. Her moaning like a puppy is adorably weird. My woman HATES this remix but loves the song, whereas I both love the song and the remix, preferring this version over the album mix.

04 Boogie Down Productions - You Must Learn (Live From The Caucus Mountains Remix)
Exception two, also released in '89, but I heard this one for a long time afterwards and it's unforgettable so it's here.

05 Big Audio Dynamite II - Rush (New York City Club Version)
When Rush came out I complained that it was too skeletal sounding, although I liked it and the album, The Globe, is great. I think I heard this remix in So I Married An Axe Murderer which is the soundtrack I got this from, and this mix is great! All the positive elements of the original are intact while giving it a new groove with lots of bounce. Wicked track!

06 DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner (12" A)
Ah, who can forget the diner? As the title suggests, this is the extended version of DNA's remix of Miss Vega's sublime vocal. I might eventually have to post the compilation this track inspired, Tom's Album, which features Nikki D's Daddy's Little Girl and a bizarre take on the original acapella by Bingo Hand Job, better known as R.E.M. with Billy Bragg.

07 3rd Bass - Gladiator (Easy Mo Bee Remix)
What the hell happened to Easy Mo Bee? What happened to Pete Nice after his recent legal wranglings? Why was the final original 3rd Bass song relegated to single-only status? Why wasn't there some kind of 3rd Bass comp released by Def Jam to cover their two albums and the breakup records? Damn, this is a great track, weird backwards loops and everything. 3rd Bass are sadly slept-on in the annals of history. They were so good I can forgive them for their hating on the Beasties like the ignorant children of Russell Simmons they were being. No diss on Russell "Rush", just saying.

08 Living Color - Love Rears Its Ugly Head
Damn, this is a great song! Not a dance or hip-hop song, something more like a funk metal groove, but so full of soul! Living Color were hit or miss, but this was a direct hit. Too bad on the greatest hits comp they only include the remix of this. The video for this was great too.



09 MC Luscious - Boom! I Got Your Boyfriend (Radio Mix)
I can't believe this even made it to radio, what with the MJ samples, but it made it, and there was even an x-rated version that goes exactly where you would expect it. I guess this would fit into the Miami Bass scene alongside 2 Live Crew and other groups from that era.

10 Kyper - Tic Tac Toe
Yeah, this one again. I LOVE this track! I tweeked the compression a bit to make it a bit louder without brickwalling the track, so hopefully everyone is happy with it. Again, a great example of a sample that would never get cleared nowadays without a HUGE amount of money being ponied up in advance. Still amazed this came out on a major label with that Yes sample intact.

11 Corina - Temptation (New School Freestyle)
12 Lisette Melendez - Together Forever (New School Freestyle)
I heard both of these on Open House Party a few times too many in the early nineties, and on some very special occasions they got beat-matched together, which added to the confusion as to where each track began and ended. Well, the reason for that confusion, I later found, was because Carlos "After Dark" Berrios couldn't help but use a variation of the beat for each track. I can't blame him because both tracks are great, though my preference rests with Corina's Temptation. Play that record and tell me you're not smitten! As for Together Forever, expect a similar reaction.

13 20 Fingers feat. Gilette - Short Dick Man (Club Mix)
I HATE THIS SONG! It's here because it's of the era and it's annoyingly catchy. It's also the only track here with truly explicit lyrics. I warned you.

14 K.M.C. Kru - The Devil Came Up To Michigan
Am I the only one that remembers this track? A hip-hop update of The Devil Went Down To Georgia, it features the devil and young DJ having a scratch showdown. Kinda ridiculous but also fun. I really wanted to include the Cleveland variation which was done for one of the local radio stations, but I can't remember which one or find the track so the Kru's original version will have to do.

15 Shabba Ranks feat. Maxi Priest - Housecall (12" Remix)
The remix of this got all the play back in the day, but the 12" version took it to a whole other level with the crazy synths. Credit goes to David Morales for the killer remix. As for Shabba, no diss but I'm so glad I didn't hear much more from him. He was more annoying than entertaining, at least to my ears. When In Living Color did the Mr. Ugly Man sketch that hit dead center! That reminds me, anyone ever seen the video for Trailer Load A Girls? I'd post it but I can't seem to find it anywhere. It's frickin' nuts!

Deee-Lite - A Sampladelic Anthology

If you listened to pop radio in the early nineties you've most likely heard Deee-Lite's best known song, Groove Is In The Heart. It's a great song and is still mighty catchy today, but I've always been bothered by the way the band seemed to be ignored otherwise. Their first album, World Clique, had three other singles, at least one of which was pretty popular (that would be Power Of Love) and the other two being damn good in their own rights at the very least. They also recorded two other albums, 1992's Infinity Within, and 1994's thoroughly slept-on Dewdrops In The Garden, and there was a remix compilation issued a few years after that was meant to be a retrospective of sorts but failed miserably. I was awash with hope though when Rhino/Elektra announced a best of collection in 2001, hoping we'd see their rare single versions, b-sides and exceptional remixes get the reissue treatment, but those hopes were dashed when that compilation featured album tracks only with a serious focus on the band's first album. What's the point in making a "greatest hits" compilation when it features most of the album that everyone who knows the group already has? Yeah, it might introduce some of the tracks from the other albums to the uninitiated, but I always felt that 2001 comp did a rather poor job overall.

For years I've been meaning to assemble my own mixtape/retrospective/whateveryouwannacallit of Deee-Lite stuff and I finally got it done. A few tracks crossover with the 2001 compilation but there are a number of remixes, b-sides and rarities included here which are otherwise dead out of print. Most of these recordings have been taken from my own original CDs although a few are from lossless copies and one or two from high-quality MP3s, but I'm sure you'll find everything sounds rather nice.

Lady Miss Kier is apparently still performing although she may be without management at the moment. Her site has details of her career post-Deee-Lite as well as a nice showreel with clips of her performing live and some of her solo work and collaborations. Towa Tei went on to have a very good career in Japan both producing other groups and performing as a solo artist. He also has a website with plenty of information. The only other original member of the group, Super DJ Dmitri, is a bit of an enigma. Apart from a mix CD he released quite a while ago, I can't find any information about his current activities online. Same goes for jungle producer DJ Ani was replaced Towa during most of the recording of Dewdrops In The Garden. If anyone has details about them I'd love to hear from you!


Deee-Lite - A Sampladelic Anthology

01 Power Of Love (Sampla-Delic Remix)
This is the extended version of the mix that was sent to radio and is taken from it's maxi-single. Original version from World Clique.

02 Runaway (Video Mix)
This is actually a reconstruction of the video mix as it was never officially released beyond the music video. It's made from the Sampladelic Radio Edit of Runaway and parts of I.F.O. from Infinity Within. All editing, reassembly and reconstruction courtesy of moi. Original version from Infinity Within.

03 Riding On Through
A B-Side of Good Beat from it's maxi-single.

04 When You Told Me You Loved Me
From the ridiculously under-appreciated Dewdrops In The Garden album, this is one of my favorite Deee-Lite tracks and shows them using breakbeats and going for a then more modern club sound.

05 Groove Is In The Heart
I wanted to post the extended remix but I didn't have enough room left if this was supposed to fit on a CD as I'd imagine some people may still be burning these things off. Still though, great track and thoroughly essential. Featuring a guest spot from Q-Tip and bass & vocals from Bootsy Collins, this track is originally from the World Clique album.

06 I Won't Give Up (Ani Remix)
The original version of this soulful jam is from Infinity Within, but this remix is from the 1996 compilation, Sampladelic Relics and Dancefloor Oddities. I really love this remix and it's probably the only track on that compilation I feel strongly about, so that's why it's here. There are a few other good tracks on that comp, but it brings me back to my complaint about dance remix comps: While I'm all for remixes not necessarily holding true to the original version, straight house remixes where almost all of the vocals and melody are dropped mostly sound the same and are boring as FUCK! Most of the Sampladelic Relics comp is boring-ass shit in that vein and is basically an excuse for the producers to sample someone breathing or saying one word and loop the fuck out of it. Even Carl Craig's contribution is boring and goes nowhere. If you're a completist and wanna buy it, you will find an EPs worth of great tracks but the rest is shit or edited to death.

07 Call Me
Not my favorite track from Dewdrops, but it's the last released collaboration the band did with Towa Tei and Kier sounds delicious doing her Noo Yawk accent impersonation!

08 Good Beat (Extend The Beat Mix)
This is the extended version of the mix that was sent to radio and video. The original version is on World Clique.

09 What Is Love? (Holographic Goatee Mix)
This mix isn't terribly different from the original, but I prefer the pacing here. This sounds great on a dance floor! Original from World Clique.

10 Say Ahhh...
Ooh, Kier brings the sexy here! A funky jam with breakbeats and plenty of sexy talk, this should have been a single. Unfortunately, by the time Dewdrops In The Garden was released Elektra had basically stopped doing promo work for Deee-Lite. Too bad, because this coulda been a club smash!

11 E.S.P. (Yee Yee Radio Mix)
Like the version of What Is Love?, this isn't terribly different from the album version, but it's pacing has been changed enough that it's worthy of inclusion. Great track that originally appeared on World Clique.

12 Stay In Bed, Forget The Rest
Once again, Kier and the sexy go together like peanut butter and jelly! I'd love to have an instrumental of this jam as it simply gets under my skin. Originally on Dewdrops In The Garden.

13 Rubber Lover
A pro-safe-sex song that doesn't quite work, it's a good club jam but not much more. It's memorable enough that I think it should be included here though. The single's packaging had visual instructions for applying a condom. I guess they were pretty serious about the safe-sex thing, it just doesn't translate to club or radio fun, although you should put a rubber on your dongle if you're gonna connect with her (or his) USB port. Okay, weird sex talk over, this one originally appeared on Infinity Within. Oh, an Bootsy is on this one again.

14 Bittersweet Loving
A seriously bouncy club track from Dewdrops In The Garden. This one got under my skin a long time ago and never got out despite being kinda cheesy.

15 Who Was That?
Seriously fun and funky track from World Clique. Hello there!

16 Sampladelic
Short one from Dewdrops, it doesn't have much to do with sampling but it's quite fun. Wish it was longer.

17 Pussycat Meow (Infinity Extended Mix)
Apart from Runaway, this is probably my favorite track on Infinity Within. It's all an excuse to hear Kier do her best sexy oohing and cooing all to a good groove. This version is from the maxi-single.

18 Build The Bridge (Satoshi's Holographic House Groove)
The original version of this track has the bizarre detail of being listed as a bonus track on both the CD and cassette versions of World Clique. It was probably left off the vinyl version of the album due to it's length, but it's still kinda funny as CDs and cassettes were then the pretty dominant mediums for music. Anyway, this is Satoshi Tomiie's remix which was released on the Power Of Love maxi-single. It starts off rather similar to the original version but goes "out-there" as the remix progresses. The original is nice but this takes a good idea much further! Oh, and just in case you were wondering, the bizarre vocals are credited to Bill "Chicken On Fire" Coleman. Seriously.

The KLF - Chill Out

As if I haven't given enough love to the KLF already, here is Chill Out. As far as sampling goes, this album, while far simpler, has a similar effect to that of Paul's Boutique, Since I Left You and Endtroducing. The samples add to the mood rather than create it. The steel guitar and ambient sounds add to the majestic vibe and make the album feel like a place rather than a collection of songs. In fact, the original UK pressings of the album were one-track releases making it impossible to skip to later parts of the album. The US release, which is the source of this rip, has multiple tracks, but it's not like you're gonna want to skip through this anyway.

There is so much to say about this album that has already been said, and there is little more I can contribute to it, so here is a link to the wikipedia reference. Yeah, that probably seems lazy, but why mess with perfection?

The KLF - Chill Out

01 Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border
02 Pulling Out Of Ricardo and The Dusk Is Falling Fast
03 Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold
04 Dream Time In Lake Jackson
05 Madrugada Eterna
06 Justified and Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago
07 Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul
08 3am Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
09 Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
10 Trancentral Lost In My Mind
11 The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By
12 A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
13 Rock Radio Into The Nineties and Beyond
14 Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up


PS-I had planned to post this eventually, but today I got an e-mail from someone I have great respect for. This person said I should post Space, so I figured I would do a quick update and give you the link. This goes well alongside Chill Out, and if you enjoy that you will most likely enjoy this.

Space

The KLF - Deep Shit: A Musical Retrospective, Part Three

I really didn't think I'd be able to get this one online tonight, but sometimes things just happen to work out alright. Also, if you're looking for the post about the delay, I deleted it since it doesn't contain anything terribly informative. But forget all that, on to the important stuff!

The third disc of the compilation deals with rarities and remixes, although remixes get the lions share of the attention. There are some really killer tracks here and many of them are quite rare so, if you've been holding back because you had the more common stuff, this one should please you quite nicely. The files are below with the blow by blow. Oh, and don't forget, there is one more post in this series. Come back tomorrow to Chill Out!

The KLF - Deep Shit: This Is What The KLF Were About
NOTE: You MUST download both parts to extract all files.
Disc Three, Part One
Disc Three, Part Two

01 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Jerusalem On The Moors
The b-side to It's Grim Up North, this isn't so much a new track as a continuation of the closing theme in Part 1. A dark and stormy entrance into disc three.

02 The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis (Club Mix)
Nothing too far out about this remix, but it's a great one nonetheless. In case you hoped it was longer, here's your wish.

03 The KLF - Kylie Said Harder
The Kylie mixes were pretty damn good, but with the single flopping they became scarce quick. Despite the title, this is still a rather minimal remix.

04 The KLF - Kylie In A Trance
The trance thing is rather evident here, making this a really nice one to vibe out to. It's really a shame that this track didn't catch on, if only for the sake of these remixes.

05 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Club Mix)
This is the original version of Grim which was produced in extremely limited quantity on grey marble vinyl. I guess it could be looked at as a demo or first draft as it's quite a bit simpler than the final version, but it's not all that different. Still though, nice mix that never gained an official release of any sort.

06 The KLF - Madrugada Eterna (Club Mix)
This might be the only track of this entire compilation that is not a sanctioned KLF recording. In a short trailer for the unreleased White Room movie a remix of Madrugada Eterna played in the background. Eventually, a remix was announced but it never appeared which, sadly, is not all that strange a thing when discussing the KLF. This is not the remix from the trailer and is widely assumed to be a bootleg, but since no one has ever confirmed this and it remains a popular enough track, I think it's suitable for this compilation. Even if it isn't legit, it's still a very nice and mellow mix of an already mellow track. This and the next few tracks are meant for chilling out.

07 The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Blue Danube Orbital)
First off, this remix is by THE ORB, not Orbital. That said, this is a beautiful remix from the second 12" for 3 A.M. Eternal that was released in the UK.

08 The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Mu D. Vari-Speed Version)
From the KLF Meets The Moody Boys Uptown 12" for Last Train, this is easily the most messed up remix of them all. It sounds like someone slowing down and speeding up the master tapes at random intervals. Yeah, it might sound stupid, but it's incredible! I totally zone-out when this track comes on! Also, the Moody Boys were a kind of electro-dub group that was related to the KLF, but they were NOT the KLF under a different name. They had their own individual releases and are worth seeking out in their own right. One more note, this was also the soundtrack to a short film called This Is Not What The KLF Are About, which featured video being slowed down and messed with alongside the track.

09 The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Klonk Blip Every Trip)
This one is from the Moody Boys Selection CD single for 3 A.M. which makes it another Moody Boys remix. This one is almost a completely new track.

10 The KLF - What Time Is Love? (The Moody Boys vs. The KLF)
Yet another Moody Boys-related remix, this one credits the Children Of The Revolution as additional performers on the track, but who knows what their contributions really were. As for the track, weird, spacey and featuring a Cymande sample. Taken from the Remodelled & Remixed What Time Is Love 12".

11 The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Virtual Reality Mix)
From the same 12" as the last mix, this one holds similarities to the Vari-Speed version of Last Train. God, I love these Moody Boys remixes!

12 The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis (Minimal)
Self explanatory.

13 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Part 2)
As a reminder that the end doesn't mean it's all peace and love, we close with this dark and gloomy instrumental. Yeah, the KLF might sound a little dated, but a lot of this stuff holds up pretty well. Grim is still a pretty mean cut after all this time.

The KLF - Deep Shit: A Musical Retrospective, Part Two

Here is the second disc of my KLF compiliation. The third disc will appear sometime on Tuesday and the fourth Wednesday or Thursday. Sorry if it's a bit slow, but they will be here soon enough with some other goodies too. Anyway, this disc focuses on KLF rarities and album tracks. Enjoy!

The KLF - Deep Shit: This Is What The KLF Were About
NOTE: You MUST download both parts to extract all files.
Disc Two, Part One
Disc Two, Part Two

01 The One World Orchestra - The Magnificent
This is one of the few post-retirement tracks from the KLF. It initially appeared in 1995 on the Help compilation which was a benefit album. It's basically a drum'n'bass version of the theme from the Magnificent Seven.

02 2K - Fuck The Millenium
Reborn in 1997 as 2K, Cauty and Drummond made a single live performance in powered wheel chairs to perform what is essentially a rather long remix of What Time Is Love. At one point there was a phone line opened asking whether the millenium should be fucked or not. Sadly, this was not a huge hit, but how many songs where people repeatedly yell that you should fuck something, and not in a sexual sense, receive such a status?

03 The KLF - Make It Rain
Taken from The White Room, this is a spare and dubby jam. Not much to say, just a good track.

04 The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Pure Trance)
This is the original trance version from 1990. Significantly different from the Lost Continent version, the melody was co-opted in Go To Sleep from the original, unreleased version of The White Album. I'll have to post that album here eventually, as it's quite interesting, but if you think any of the tracks posted here sound dated, the unreleased version of The White Room will make you cover your ears in shock.

05 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Rockman Rock (Parts 2 and 3)
King Boy tells us all how tough the Rockman really is. This is from the 1987 album.

06 The KLF - Build A Fire
Taken from The White Room, the theme from Twin Peaks is mentioned as an inspiration quite often. It does bear a striking similarity to that show's memorable theme, and that's in a good way. Simply, a very beautiful track to chill out to.

07 The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Pure Trance)
The original 1989 trance version of this classic. It's a very peaceful track and earns it's version title quite nicely.

08 The KLF - Madrugada Eterna
Taken from Chill Out, this track takes that instruction quite seriously. If you like this, wait till you hear the rest of Chill Out!

09 K Foundation - K Cera Cera (War Is Over If You Want It)
This came out as a one track CD single in 1993 with vocals from the Red Army Choir. Oh yeah, this only came out in Israel. A rather nice mix of Que Cera Cera and John and Yoko's Christmas classic, this is a surprisingly subtle track from people who were anything but.

10 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - King Boy's Dream
Once again, King Boy tells us how it is. This is probably the best Scottish rap boast you'll ever hear!

11 The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance)
My favorite of the Pure Trance originals, this dates back to 1988. Engaging and ominous, this feels like 2 a.m. eternal. An easy classic!

12 The KLF vs. Extreme Noise Terror - 3 A.M. Eternal
This is probably the one track recorded for the Black Album that was completed. The whole story behind this track is far too long to be told in this post, but I might have to post the Black Album sessions eventually along with that tale. A totally insane, metallic version with screamed lyrics and fucked-up everything, this was released as a fan-club exclusive although later vinyl pressings have been seen. The legitimacy of those later pressings remain uncertain.

13 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - The Queen and I
This is the one that sparked the rage of ABBA and is the main reason that all remaining copies of the 1987 album were destroyed. Yes, it's cheesy as hell and rather silly, but this is the kind of stuff people should make more of. Mock the hits and speak your mind!

14 The KLF - The White Room
The end to the second disc, the title cut from The White Room is another slightly dubby, chilled-out dance groove. Like a lot of the album tracks, there isn't necessarily a lot of back-story to tell here, but that doesn't make the track any less enjoyable.

The KLF - Deep Shit: A Musical Retrospective, Part One

There are a lot of artists, bands, collectives, labels and movements that are great and deserve to be absorbed into the public consciousness, but it's usually very difficult to explain why that is within the space of an article or short posting. Sometimes a well-designed website or wikipedia page helps, but sometimes you need a book, if not volumes of books. A movie or documentary can help but they are often rather incomplete and give the wrong ideas or leave important people and their actions out entirely. All in all, it's tough, and it's not something I want to do here, so I won't. That said, I am going to try to lay some groundwork to allow one to start their own research on the following topic at hand, at least musically, because as important as the music is, there was a lot more than just music when it came to the KLF.

The KLF, aka The JAMs, The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, The Timelords, 2K, K Foundation and the One World Orchestra among a seemingly endless list of aliases were comprised of Bill Drummond, aka King Boy D, the co-founder of Zoo Records, a member of Big In Japan and manager of Echo and The Bunnymen, and Jimmy Cauty, aka Rockman Rock, a member of Brilliant and a co-founder of The Orb. Starting in 1987, they made some of the least genre-specific music while simultaneously being an extremely powerful force in the dance and pop communities. Between 1987 and 1991, they independently released five full-length albums and numerous singles as well as limited edition remix singles and companion releases. They sampled The Beatles, Elvis Presley, ABBA, Whitney Houston, Samantha Fox, Dave Brubeck, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & The Family Stone, the MC5 and others all without ever clearing a sample, which led to all sorts of legal issues including the destruction of every remaining copy of their 1987 debut album, 1987 (What The Fuck Is Going On?). They collaborated with Tammy Wynette, the country star, and Extreme Noise Terror, a vegan metal group which led to an infamous appearance on British television where fake machine guns were fired into the audience. They made videos where practially nothing and everything could happen, including a road movie based on their album The White Room which was never finished and, despite being widely bootlegged, was screened publicly only once and to an audience of sheep. At various points as a sign their careers were over courtesy only of themselves, they left a dead sheep in the streets with an annoucement that they had left the music industry, they burned a million British Pounds and eventually deleted their entire catalogue and have refused to reissue any item from it since. Over all, you could say they built a mystery and have committed themselves to maintaining it.

Because their releases are unavailable via legal channels, bootlegs of varying quality run rampant and it’s rather difficult to obtain a clear view of what the KLF were really all about. Rather than posting everything they’ve ever done, of which I’m positive I don’t have, I’ve compiled a three disc overview of their career, featuring their singles, album cuts, rarities and remixes. To be honest, while I think this collection does a great job of introducing the KLF, you’ll still have to do a lot of research to find out what they were really all about, but this is a good starting point.

Over the next few days there will be four posts of KLF material, starting today with the first disc of this collection I’ve compiled which I’ve named Deep Shit: This Is What The KLF Were About. The first disc will focus on their singles, while the second will feature rarities and album cuts. The third will feature remixes both created by the KLF themselves as well as additional collaborators and the fourth disc will feature their ambient classic, Chill Out. All of these tracks have been compiled either from my own collection or from extremely high quality lossless copies of their various singles and releases, so while you may hear quality differences from track to track, as some tracks are vinyl sources, these are the best copies available.

I really hope you enjoy this collection and, if you need more KLF goodness, I may be so inclined to make another torrent featuring my collection of lossless rips. Please let me know if anyone is interested in such a thing. Also, if you want to know more about the KLF, especially since this post doesn’t even scrape the surface of their legacy, you should visit the Library Of Mu and the KLF Online archive for starters. There are a number of other sites available but these are fabulous starting points.

The KLF - Deep Shit: This Is What The KLF Were About
NOTE: You MUST download both parts to extract all files.
Disc One, Part One
Disc One, Part Two

01 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - All You Need Is Love (Original Version)
The original version of the debut single from the JAMs which was not reissued due to an unauthorized sample of the Beatles' All You Need Is Love. King Boy D grabs the mic.

02 The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)
The second and more popular version of What Time Is Love? This is part of the Stadium House Trilogy and features Isaac Bello on vocals.

03 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
More rhymes from King Boy D while sampling James Brown and Dave Brubeck. Taken from the 1987 album.

04 J.A.M.s - Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s
The story goes that Cauty and Drummond went to the studio to make a new track but, after hearing Whitney Houston's I Want To Dance With Somebody, decided that it was a better song than anything they would come up with that day and they should just make a track from it. Also includes bits of the Mission: Impossible theme.

05 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Down Town
King Boy and choir do their thing over the melody from Petula Clark's Downtown. Issued first as a single and then as part of the Shag Times compilation.

06 The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal (Live At The S.S.L.)
Another part of the Stadium House Trilogy, another revised single and also from The White Room. Ricardo da Force provides the rhymes. In case you were wondering, S.S.L. stands for Solid State Logic, the type of mixing console used for this song.

07 The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis
Arguably their biggest hit, this one mashes the Doctor Who theme and Gary Glitter's Rock and Roll Part 2. Some say it's the first mash-up, although you could say that about a lot of the KLF's songs. The record art and video featured an old police cruiser renamed Ford Timelord which noted that "it" made the record.

08 The KLF - Kylie Said To Jason
Meant to be the first single off The White Album, this one bombed pretty bad and led to a complete restructuring of the album. The title refers to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, then stars of the Australian soap-opera Neighbours.

09 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Candyman
Taken from their 1988 sophmore album, Who Killed The JAMs? Funny song about who knows what featuring King Boy rapping.

10 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Part 1)
Initially meant for the unreleased and unfinished sixth KLF album, The Black Room, this track is supposed to be a form of dark trance. It is indeed dark and rather eerie. For the record, The Black Room would not have sounded anything like this if the stories are true, as it was meant to be a very real metal album. I might eventually have to post the circulating tracks from those sessions.

11 The KLF - Justified & Ancient (Stand By The Jams 12" Version)
The infamous Tammy Wynette single! Technically the third version of this song, this is the definitive version and was a huge hit. This is the slightly longer 12" version.

12 The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent)
From the Stadium House Trilogy. This version appears on US versions of The White Room but a different version is on all other editions.

13 The KLF - America: What Time Is Love?
The third version of What Time Is Love? and probably the oddest. It's long, has an orchestra, Isaac Bello takes the mic and it's thorougly unclear what the hell is going on. Lotta fun though.

14 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Burn The Bastards
Borrowing the melody from Sly Stone's Dance To The Music, this is taken from Who Killed The JAMs and is a party starter/finisher. King Boy raps