KLF Re-Enactment One

SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL

SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL

SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL (KLF Re-Enactment One) is a post-realistic Re-Enactment release of a selection of recordings made for KLF Communications between 1st of January 1987 and the 31st of December 1991 and Beyond.

SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL is being done by The Kommittee of The KLF Re-Enactment Society over a period of some months.

SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL is being done in the form of a story told in Five Chapters using the medium of streaming.

The Five Chapters are:

1. Kick Out The JAMs

2. Pure Trance Series

3. Come Down Dawn

4. Moody Boys Selection

5. Solid State Logik (Parts 1 & 2)

There have been rumours of a lost chapter. And maybe even a hidden chapter.

The five chapters of SAMPLECITY THRU TRANCENTRAL are to be streamed in no particular order between the 1st of January 2021 and some destination in an unknowable future.

CHAPTER FIVE

Part One

Solid State Logik 1 was released on the 1st of January 2021.

Solid State Logik 1 is a collage made from the A sides, found on the 7” 45s that were hit singles released by KLF under their various aliases between 1988 and 1991.

The individual A sides used in the making of Solid State Logik 1 were originally constructed on an SSL console with Mark ‘Spike’ Stent at the controls.

There were eight of these hit singles.

They are:

1. Doctorin’ The Tardis by The Timelords (May 1988)

2. What Time Is Love? – Live At Trancentral by The KLF (July 1990)

3. 3am Eternal – Live At The S.S.L. by The KLF (January 1991)

4. Last Train To Trancentral – Live From The Lost Continent by The KLF (April 1991)

5. It’s Grim Up North by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (October 1991)

6. America: What Time Is Love? by The KLF (October 1991 (USA), February 1992 (UK))

7. Justified & Ancient by The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette (November 1991)

8. 3am Eternal – From The Black Room by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu versus Extreme Noise Terror. (Christmas Day 1991)

CHAPTER THREE

Come Down Dawn was released on the 4th of February 2021.

Come Down Dawn is a Drive by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.

A Drive is a journey in the head.

The Drive took them from the Reverend Doctor Wade’s tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York to the Mesoamerican Pyramids near Mexico City.

The Drive lasted just over a period of 43 hours.

The Drive ended as dawn began to break on Sunday the 4th of February 1990

Come Down Dawn by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is also a pre-mix of Chill Out released by The KLF on the 5th of February 1990.

Come Down Dawn was released the day before Chill Out, but 31 years later.

Come Down Dawn contains the following tracks.

1. Brooklyn to Atlantic City

2. Atlantic City to Philadelphia

3. Philadelphia to Baltimore

4. Baltimore to Fair Play

5. Fair Play to North Druid Hills

6. North Druid Hills to Atlanta

7. Atlanta to Mobile

8. Mobile to Houston

9. Houston to Laredo

10. Laredo to El Prado

11. El Prado to San Rafael

12. San Rafael to Mexico City

All tracks were recorded live at Trancentral in late 1989 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, featured guests include Evil Graham Lee on the pedal steel guitar, the Unknown Tuvan Shepherd on throat singing and the Reverend Doctor Wade on spiritual guidance.

Come Back Fat As A Rat

CHAPTER FIVE

Part Two

Solid State Logik 2 was released on the 23rd of March 2021

Solid State Logik 2 is a collage made ‘mainly’ from the A sides, found on the 12” 45s that were recorded by KLF under their various aliases between 1989 and yesterday. The other recordings used in this collage were randomly found scattered across time.

These recordings used in the making of Solid State Logik 2 were originally constructed on an SSL console with Mark ‘Spike’ Stent at the controls and Nick ‘Bad Boy’ Coler on the knowledge.

There were eleven of these recordings to have survived.

They are:

1. Kylie Said To Jason (7” A Side)

2. What Time Is Love (Live At Trancentral (12” A Side))

3. 3AM Eternal (Live At The S.S.L. (12” A Side)

4. Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent (12” A Side))

5. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu – It’s Grim Up North (12” A Side)

6. America: What Time Is Love? (12”A Side)

7. Justified & Ancient (Make Mine a 99 (12” A Side))

8. America No More (12” B Side)

9. K Foundation present The Red Army Choir – K Cera Cera (War Is Over If You Want It) (12” A Side)

10. The One World Orchestra featuring The Massed Pipes & Drums of the Children’s Free Revolutionary Volunteer Guards – The Magnificent

11. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu – Jarvis Joins The JAMs (Trailer)

A LOST CHAPTER

THE WHITE ROOM – Director’s Cut by The KLF was released on the 23rd of April 2021.

THE WHITE ROOM – Director’s Cut by The KLF is not The White Room album that was released globally by The KLF in various formats with various track listings in 1991. Nor was it a version of the same album not completed or released in 1989.

THE WHITE ROOM – Director’s Cut by The KLF is a version of The White Room that was completed but not released in 1990.

THE WHITE ROOM – Director’s Cut by The KLF was constructed in various recording studios by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, between early 1989 and sometime in 1990. 

THE WHITE ROOM – Director’s Cut by The KLF’s track listing and credits are as follows:

1: Go To Sleep

Maxine Harvey: Vocals
Nick Coler: Keyboards
The Dagenham Four: Backing Vocals

2: Make It Rain

Maxine Harvey: Vocal
Nick Coler: Keyboards
Tony Thorpe: Breaks & Samples
Duy Khiem: Reeds

3: Madrugada Eterna (Club Mix)

‘Evil’ Graham Lee: Pedal Steel Guitar
Reverend Doctor Wade: Sampled Vocals

4: Church of The KLF

Maxine Harvey: Vocals
Nick Coler: Keyboards

5: Last Train To Trancentral (da Force, Over & Out)

Ricardo da Force: Rap
Black Steel: Vocals
Maxine Harvey: Backing Vocals
Nick Coler: Keyboards

6: Build A Fire

‘Evil’ Graham Lee: Pedal Steel Guitar
Maxine Harvey: Backing Vocals
Larry Adler: Mouth Organ
Nick Coler: Keyboards

7: The White Room

Maxine Harvey: Backing Vocals
Black Steel: Scat Singing, Backing Vocals
Duy Khiem: Reeds
Nick Coler: Keyboards

8: No More Tears

Black Steel: Vocals, Bass Guitar, Piano
Maxine Harvey: Vocals
Nick Coler: Keyboards
Tony Thorpe: Break & Samples

9: The Lover’s Side

Maxine Harvey: Vocals
Nick Coler: Keyboards
The Dagenham Four: Backing Vocals

10: Justified & Ancient (Black Steel joins The JAMs)

Black Steel: Vocals, Bass Guitar
Nick Coler: Keyboards
Tony Thorpe: Break

Additional credits:

King Boy D: Lead Vocals & Van Driving

Rock Man Rock: Lead Guitar & PA System

Original recordings made at Trancentral

Additional recording made at Village Recorders, Dagenham, Essex

With Ian Richardson at the controls

And…

Roundhouse Studios, Camden, London

With additional engineering done by Paul Borg

Assisted by Bobby Westwood

And…

Lillie Yard Studios, Earls Court, London

With Julian Gordon Hastings at the controls

Assisted by Paul ‘Max’ Bloom

All tracks mixed at Lillie Yard Studios

With Julian Gordon Hastings

Except Madrugada Eterna

Mixed at Trancentral

All tracks written & composed by James F Cauty & William E Drummond for Universal Music / Zoo Music – Warner Chappell Music

Except…

Last Train to Trancentral: written and composed by James F Cauty; William E Drummond & Ricardo A Lyte for Universal Music / Zoo Music – Warner Chappell Music / Sony Music

And…

Madrugada Eterna: written and composed by James F Cauty; William E Drummond & ‘Evil’ Graham Lee for Sony Music / Zoo Music – Warner Chappell Music / Domino Music