Dok (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyberinsekt) wrote,@ 2006-12-22 11:11:00 |
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2K - What Time Is Love? (Version K)
KLF & Extreme Noise Terror - 3 a.m. Eternal
Official cop-out notice: I'm not going to even attempt writing about the KLF. There's too much that can be said, and frankly I'd rather not do the mammoth task of editing it down for easy digestion, along with your cup of tea, biscuit and daily mp3. What Time is Love? was from 1988 and became an anthem of UK acid house. The above version is a radically different beast, however.
Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond retired from the music scene in 1992 and promptly deleted their back catalogue. This was shortly after an infamous performance of 3 a.m. Eternal at the Brit Awards where they collaborated with grindcore pioneers Extreme Noise Terror. In a moment straight out of the Sid Vicious My Way video, Drummond produced a gun, pointed it at the audience, and then proceeded to fire blanks above their heads. At an industry awards ceremony such as this, it could perhaps be described as "unwelcome", as could the dead sheep that they later dumped at an after-show party.
They returned to the music scene in 1997, this time calling themselves 2K, for a one-off performance at the Barbican entitled Fuck The Millennium. Collaborating with a choir of Liverpool dockers, and the Williams Fairey Brass Band (AKA "Acid Brass"), it was reputed to be a remarkable spectacle. So there's the context for today's track: a brass band version of an acid house classic, arranged by a pair of master pranksters as the central point of a fake comeback where their music, already deleted, now becomes part of the canon for a traditional UK music culture. Or something like that. It was the KLF, and the punchlines were always funny, even if you weren't quite sure about the precise nature of the joke.
KLF & Extreme Noise Terror - 3 a.m. Eternal
Official cop-out notice: I'm not going to even attempt writing about the KLF. There's too much that can be said, and frankly I'd rather not do the mammoth task of editing it down for easy digestion, along with your cup of tea, biscuit and daily mp3. What Time is Love? was from 1988 and became an anthem of UK acid house. The above version is a radically different beast, however.
Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond retired from the music scene in 1992 and promptly deleted their back catalogue. This was shortly after an infamous performance of 3 a.m. Eternal at the Brit Awards where they collaborated with grindcore pioneers Extreme Noise Terror. In a moment straight out of the Sid Vicious My Way video, Drummond produced a gun, pointed it at the audience, and then proceeded to fire blanks above their heads. At an industry awards ceremony such as this, it could perhaps be described as "unwelcome", as could the dead sheep that they later dumped at an after-show party.
They returned to the music scene in 1997, this time calling themselves 2K, for a one-off performance at the Barbican entitled Fuck The Millennium. Collaborating with a choir of Liverpool dockers, and the Williams Fairey Brass Band (AKA "Acid Brass"), it was reputed to be a remarkable spectacle. So there's the context for today's track: a brass band version of an acid house classic, arranged by a pair of master pranksters as the central point of a fake comeback where their music, already deleted, now becomes part of the canon for a traditional UK music culture. Or something like that. It was the KLF, and the punchlines were always funny, even if you weren't quite sure about the precise nature of the joke.
