I was mix engineer on this. They offered me £50 to mix Doctor Who and Tardis - I said 'no way you cheap bastards!'. Mark 'Spike' Stent said yes - mixed it, it went to number 1 - and thereafter did all the cool KLF and made a fantastic career as star mega mix engineer bod. Oh well!
"To the Bridge, To the Bridge, To the Bridge now....bring the Beat back." The "Mu Mu!" sample that first appeared on "Burn the Bastards" is also to be found on "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral), "Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)" and "Fuck the Millennium". "All bound for MuMu Land. Mu Mu. Mu Mu. All bound for MuMu Land."
"For the foreseeable future, there will be no further record releases from any past, present or future name attached to our activities." Taken fr. KLF Communcations News release...May 1992.
been thinking of this track all week......... thank you for sharing, seeing all those beautiful images of such a talented woman and now listening to stevie wonder @ her funeral has really brought a few tears, what a sad loss...... bless xx
@darrenforster99 The Whitney camp did object at first. But due to the cult following the song was finally allowed to be. The Arista camp did try to get KLF to do a Maxi-single of the song but they refused. They did however secure a deal with Arista that saw the White Room come into production reality.
@adelgado75 Sampling is not a crime and has been going on for decades. The KLF just perhaps were the ones to make it a craft and a artform that appealed to the masses. Especially since they contributed to the Industrial movement (or Rave as NA's know it). And obviously Whitney doesn't have a problem with it or it would be removed. Arista liked it so much they asked KLF to do a Maxi Disc with Whitney. They said no but did get a commercial deal with Arista for the "White Room".
In 2004, Bill Drummond admitted to the BBC that he regretted burning the money (a million pounds). He also broke the covenant that the KLF would not discuss the burning for 23 years but has since spoken about it twice. The K Foundation officially came to an end in November, 1995. What music catalogue they posessed, they supposedly destroyed, and in the blink of an eye, the Kopyright Liberation Front suddenly was no more.
Update as of 2023: that 23 year contract has ended and celebrate Drummond and Cauty released a book called the 2023: a trilogy and also had a Q&A about the burning. Also most of the classic songs were released on streaming services in early 2021, including re-edited version of chill out without the copyrighted samples, and some unreleased demos from the white room project came out Hopefully they do something special for this year, hopefully we will use of the pure France collection as well as the third track that was never released
I'd hate for adelgado to come to the shocking realization that in addition to sampling, there is now an artform called Mashups. This would probably give em' a coronary. Put on that ol'e Bing Crosby album.....I'm sure that will cure the "Sampling" stress that almost took it's toll and perhaps pushed em' to the edge. DR PHIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They sampled from the artists and didn't pay for the right to do so? This isn't music. and don't bother blasting me for giving my opinion. I still have the right to free expression.
I was mix engineer on this. They offered me £50 to mix Doctor Who and Tardis - I said 'no way you cheap bastards!'. Mark 'Spike' Stent said yes - mixed it, it went to number 1 - and thereafter did all the cool KLF and made a fantastic career as star mega mix engineer bod. Oh well!
If you don't understand KLF/The Jams, you don't understand pop culture. They were truly inspired. PS. I'm 58 years old.
We figured
"To the Bridge, To the Bridge, To the Bridge now....bring the Beat back."
The "Mu Mu!" sample that first appeared on "Burn the Bastards" is also to be found on "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral), "Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)" and "Fuck the Millennium". "All bound for MuMu Land. Mu Mu. Mu Mu. All bound for MuMu Land."
Yup, I worked at Arista then and that is exactly what happened!
"For the foreseeable future, there will be no further record releases from any past, present or future name attached to our activities."
Taken fr. KLF Communcations News release...May 1992.
This is what KLF is about. Also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu. Furthermore known as the JAMS.
Steve S Whit? ;)
been thinking of this track all week......... thank you for sharing, seeing all those beautiful images of such a talented woman and now listening to stevie wonder @ her funeral has really brought a few tears, what a sad loss...... bless xx
@darrenforster99 The Whitney camp did object at first. But due to the cult following the song was finally allowed to be. The Arista camp did try to get KLF to do a Maxi-single of the song but they refused. They did however secure a deal with Arista that saw the White Room come into production reality.
that was brilliant!
@adelgado75 Sampling is not a crime and has been going on for decades. The KLF just perhaps were the ones to make it a craft and a artform that appealed to the masses. Especially since they contributed to the Industrial movement (or Rave as NA's know it). And obviously Whitney doesn't have a problem with it or it would be removed. Arista liked it so much they asked KLF to do a Maxi Disc with Whitney. They said no but did get a commercial deal with Arista for the "White Room".
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE We Were Told. She'll Never Join the Jams.
In 2004, Bill Drummond admitted to the BBC that he regretted burning the money (a million pounds). He also broke the covenant that the KLF would not discuss the burning for 23 years but has since spoken about it twice. The K Foundation officially came to an end in November, 1995. What music catalogue they posessed, they supposedly destroyed, and in the blink of an eye, the Kopyright Liberation Front suddenly was no more.
Update as of 2023: that 23 year contract has ended and celebrate Drummond and Cauty released a book called the 2023: a trilogy and also had a Q&A about the burning. Also most of the classic songs were released on streaming services in early 2021, including re-edited version of chill out without the copyrighted samples, and some unreleased demos from the white room project came out Hopefully they do something special for this year, hopefully we will use of the pure France collection as well as the third track that was never released
August 2017. Watch this space ;)
Starlight Glimmer Joins the Jams
I'd hate for adelgado to come to the shocking realization that in addition to sampling, there is now an artform called Mashups. This would probably give em' a coronary. Put on that ol'e Bing Crosby album.....I'm sure that will cure the "Sampling" stress that almost took it's toll and perhaps pushed em' to the edge. DR PHIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIP Whitney - did she ever properly join the JAMMs or was it just samples?
later she asked them to produce an album for her but they refused.
They sampled from the artists and didn't pay for the right to do so? This isn't music. and don't bother blasting me for giving my opinion. I still have the right to free expression.
adelgado75 kopyright liberation front