Bill Drummond was right!!!!

Well, Tim + Tom (!!!) have brought up the the issue of repetition in music, and mentioned the scenario mentioned in the infamous KLF Manual (Or How To Have A NUmber One The Easy Way) (Which, TBH is starting to showing it's age a little...) about the scenario whereby one could tell the difference between two identically produced machine-led dance records- one having more (yes, I know- yuk!!!) "soul"!!!!!

Hang on a sec, let's see that bit of the book in question:

We await the day with relish that somebody dares to make a dance record that consists of nothing more than an electronically programmed bass drum beat that continues playing the fours monotonously for eight minutes. Then, when somebody else brings one out using exactly the same bass drum sound and at the same beats per minute (B.P.M.), we will all be able to tell which is the best, which inspires the dance floor to fill the fastest, which has the most sex and the most soul. There is no doubt, one will be better than the other. What we are basically saying is, if you have anything in you, anything unique, what others might term as originality, it will come through whatever the component parts used in your future Number One are made up from.

If you ask me, looks like this scenario has already occured!!!! Does this sound familiar: loads of record using the same distorted 909 kick 4/4 + hihats for squillions of minutes at tempos so fast that they effectively sound like an identically (very fast) tempo? It seems pretty appropriate, stepping into Fopp and seeing the very wonderful Technohead Vol. 4 on special offer for a quid, to remember that some cheeky chappy from The KLF indavertedly predicted it all!!!!

And he was right you know- you can tell the difference between the record as well...

Old Fart!!!!!!!