The KLF are against 9/11

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Is this sick or is it art? you decide...

KLF MAN PUTS 9/11 TRACK ONLINE FOR ONE DAY ONLY
James Cauty, a founding member of The KLF and The Orb, is making a track
called 'Silent Night' available via the web for today and today only in
recognition of the second anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
Talking to Aussie website Undercover Cauty explains: "I recorded the track a
while ago and a few days ago I realized it was going to be the 9/11
anniversary. We wanted to respond to what was going on."

The track is released under the artist moniker of Blacksmoke, "an occasional
art collective and musical group" who have just completed an EP called 'Fuck
the Fucking Fuckers'. "It is a concept EP, the concept being fuck America
basically and fuck weapons of mass destruction. It is like a protest record.
It is the kind of record that you would want to put on if you are going to
go out on a riot. We do feel quite angry about what has been going on with
the war".

The 'Silent Night' track can be downloaded at
http://www.blacksmoke.org/911.htm

False Name, Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

it's hardly as 'offensive' as Cassette Boy's 'Fly Me To New York', tho I haven't heard it yet. if anything i'm just disappointed that the KLF just seem a lot less imaginative these days.

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What a great Psychic TV song!

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

They should protest against a more surprising country, like Samoa or something

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, FUCK them samoans. and fuck the new guineans, too, just for good measure.

Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Right on!

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 11 September 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems needlessly tasteless to me.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Kingfish - have you, like, SEEN us? C'mere and say that

Boo-Yaa TRIBE, Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I dig it...actually I liked the Gimpo Gimpo (M25) track better but then again I need wakey wakey music in the morning. I didn't find the silent night track offensive at all, I can't see how it would be seen that way, even if it is on a fuck America ep.
If any country needs more fucking with, it would be the USA.

Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the radio broadcast an actual snippet or is it a "dramatization". I somewhat suspect the latter.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

havent listened to the track but the idea - if you can call it that - smacks of desperation.

jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It is the kind of record that you would want to put on if you are
going to go out on a riot.

What a stack of crap.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

When I go out to riot, I usually like to hear something quiet and calming first. That way I don't forget my gas mask and helmet.

Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I smell a new thread

Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Thursday, 11 September 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I smell a new thread

Yo, synaesthesia!

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I was more amused by this. I like the way how the radio station who produced it added stirring music to make it seem more dramatic... like they needed to, the idiots.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. Listening to the mp3 James just posted.

You're dead right....needless histrionics added to already jarring sounds. The swelling french horns and echo effects actually cheapen proceedings, as opposed to lending them any further resonance.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 September 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

After listening to the Blacksmoke song, I'm trying to calculate exactly how far up your ass you'd have to have your head to interpret it as being anti-American. (Best guestimate is 8 inches.)

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a whole lotta rectum

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Darn near killed'um.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 11 September 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I just don't understand all this ninth of november stuff...

dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 11 September 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

what are you talking about? they're just re-iterating Public Enemy

stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 September 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)


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