As the KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered stadium house (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and, with their 1990 LP Chill Out, the ambient house genre. [12] The KLF released a series of international hits on their own KLF Communications record label and became the biggest selling singles act in the world in 1991.

2017年1月16日 · Formed in 1987 by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, The KLF made destroying the mainstream music industry their mission, and – perhaps inadvertently – became the embodiment of a country gripped by rave culture in the process. Many a time The KLF attempted to be the undoing of their own success without ever really achieving it.

2017年2月17日 · Imagine if the Residents got in early on rave culture, the Second Summer of Love, and the birth of chill-out/downtempo—that was the KLF. Trying to establish their own cultish set of...

2017年8月22日 · In its original, instrumental rave anthem form, it was the first in a projected but soon abandoned Pure Trance series of 12″s. The second Pure Trance entry added vocals from Drummond and new singer Maxine Harvey for the beautiful after-hours song 3 A.M. Eternal.

As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres "stadium house" (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and "ambient house". The KLF released a series of international top-ten hits on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the highest internationally selling UK band of 1991.

The KLF’s tracks often stood out for their innovation and outright catchiness. “3 a.m. Eternal” remains a quintessential anthem of early ‘90s rave culture, with its thunderous beats and rap overlays. Similarly, “Last Train to Trancentral” transports the listener to the heart of the acid house movement with its pulsating rhythms and ...

2019年10月25日 · It’s no secret that The KLF were rebelling against a society and its norms, and this album was the gift they gave to everyone else suffering at the same time. The idea of a rave society as a form of rebellion was reaching its peak, and where raves existed, often too the come-down and the chill-out room.

2023年9月17日 · Inspired by media lies to start writing the truth about what he saw unfolding, Kirk became a ‘raving’ reporter for the clubbers’ bible Mixmag, covering the historic parties from the inside and sending sweat-soaked dispatches from distant dancefloors as the scene expanded across Europe and beyond.

2022年2月18日 · Subsidised with the proceeds of an 80s novelty hit, the eccentricities, the vision and ambition of KLF, combined with their taste for acid house and anarchy, resulted in The White Room, one of the finest dance-pop albums of the 90s...

2025年3月11日 · Reportedly recorded amidst aesthetic dissatisfaction at the commercial success of Doctorin the Tardis, the KLF’s prior side project, What Time is Love? was released in October 1988, opening with an oft-used quote from MC5’s Kick …