klf - waiting for the rites of mu

You should wait probably more than a few hours before making that assumption. I would kill to hear this.

that'd be a much more interesting thread than PSB vs. New Order.

mark e..u on slsk?

and as if America No More wasn't an entirely perfect final record!

There were six 7"s; four singles and two EPs. The A-sides were set to appear, with a few other tracks, on a soundtrack album for the first volume of Bad Wisdom (#2 finally due out in February!) - Drummond had tried shopping the album around, but got no takers. By the time the singles came out, the plan was to do 500 of each a week apart, then 1000 copies of the LP a month after that. But in classic Drummond style, he got bored and never got around to it. Though he had gone to the trouble of actually going to Finland to fax out the PR and post the records...

Kristina Bruuk is the non-Icelandic woman that Frenchbloke recalls, who is a faded pop star of the '70s and sang guest vocals with a modern girl group, Dracula's Daughter, on Candy (another track had been planned for use - every label has anotehr title crossed out and "Candy" written in in texta). She also had a solo track or two done for the album. Her name, it might be noted, bears a startling similarity to that of the male English author of K Foundation Burn A Million Quid.

The Fuckers were the punk band, and had the Ramonic nomenclature of Billy Fuck, Nasty Fuck, JJ Fuck and Sick Fuck, mainly so that the songwriting credit on the label could read (Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck). Sexy Roy Orbison was their atonal hit.

Gimpo is a Love Reaction roadie and KLF lifter-of-things - his single differed from the others in not having a fake demo as the b-side, but an unedited chunk of Bill and Z asking him about a recent incident in which he picked up a prostitute on the understanding that she could purchase some crack cocaine for his sampling. The lady of loose morals absconds with the Gimp's cash, he beats the shit out of some bloke in the street in frustration, and gets arrested.

"The whore's gone in there with me drugs and I fuckin' want them!... now because I'd said 'yes, I'd hit him', they put the cuffs on me and done me for afuckinssault!"
"That's fookin' very unfair."
"Yeah, yeah!"

On the A-side, they sample choice exclamations from this rant and use them in a storming KLF-esque dancefloor monster, full of buzzsaw guitars, massed chants of "GIM-PO GIM-PO GIM-PO" and a hook of Zodiac squealing "Yeeeeeew fah-king TWAT!"

The Daytonas were a Finnish rockabilly band that had been going since the '60s, and turned in a surf-instrumental type thing called Faster, Gimpo, Faster! Kill! Kill! Kill! At the peak of the chorus, they all shout "Gimpo!", and Gimpo faintly replies "what?" as the guitars swign back into the verse.

The first EP was Aurora Borealis, by Aurora Borealis, and was just two sides at 33rpm of ambient prettiness.

The second was by The Blizzard King, Finland's leading Elvis impersonator. They either used a genuine Elvis impersonator (erm) or Manning's doing a really good job himself. Three covers: Strangers In The Night, Break On Through and a fantastic In The Ghetto, which starts off with standard instrumentation, brings in some Finnish girl backing vocals (possibly just themselves sped up, Ann Coates stylee) on the title, and halfway through starts gradually fading up a vocal hip-hop loop that I've never seen identified ("the Desert Eagle, the Grim Reaper, the heart-stabber, the gun-clapper...") until by the end it's just this murderous litany, the occasional girly echo and the Elvis voice crooning "In the ghettooooooo..."

Kristina Bruuk is, according to Drummond's book '45', a figment of his and Gimpo's imagination. But I never quite know what to believe with him, mythmaker that he is.

I've put the Gimpo and Blizzard King tracks on CD but not the rest as yet - if I remember this thread exists when I get around to it, will do you a copy!

from: http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/klf/archive/v02.n346

http://www.thesoundof.mu/

and for the complete mp3 :

http://www.thesoundof.mu/The_KLF_-_The_Sound_Of_Mu(sic).mp3

and for images :

http://forum.exhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=91&highlight=klf

someone is doing a great rip off

.. or there are stirrings in the KLF/JAMMS world.

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3I8KYTIJOH43F0KQ0JN5L4SVOT

hope this works for you !

m.e

so, all is revealed .. here

LOL @ fanboys.

Quite amusing, the "not the sort of thing the KLF would have done" comments about the vocal mixes and the 'bits of interview w/ Bill Drummond", forgetting that *all* of it is not the sort of thing etc.

(i.e. never believed it, but hey why not do it anyway)

btw I checked and the voice of Kristina Bruuk is claimed to be Aija Puurtinen, who is alleged to sing in a band called Honey-B and the T-Bones. But that surname sounds like a rude joke so I am further suspicious.

The person and the band are real, they're quite well known here. Never heard that Aija Puurtinen would have worked with KLF though.