The KLF discography

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In the UK, The KLF and their incarnations released six albums and a wide array of diverse 12 " singles on their own independent record label KLF Communications during its five-year existence. In other territories their material was typically issued under licence by local labels.

This article lists the key British and notable international releases of The KLF and the other pseudonyms of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. It also details the other releases on their KLF Communications label, by Disco 2000 and Space (a Cauty solo work). Note that this is a not a complete list; compilation appearances and certain limited edition singles have been excluded.

KLF Communications

From their very earliest releases as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu until their retirement in 1992, the music of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty was independently released in their home country (the UK)[KLF Communications profile] at Discogs.com. Their debut releases - the single "All You Need Is Love" and the album 1987 - were released under the label name "The Sound Of Mu(sic)". However, by the end of 1987 Drummond and Cauty had renamed their label to "KLF Communications" and, in October 1987, the first of many "information sheets"Drummond, B. (1987), KLF Info Sheet Oct 1987 ([link]). (self written missives from The KLF to fans and the media) was sent out by the label.The KLF Communications Info Sheets are archived at [The Library of Mu]

KLF Communications releases were distributed by Rough Trade Distribution (a spinoff of Rough Trade Records) in the South East of England, and across the wider UK by The Cartel. As Drummond and Cauty explained, "The Cartel is, as the name implies, a group of independent distributors across the country who work in conjunction with each other providing a solid network of distribution without stepping on each other's toes. We are distributed by the Cartel."Drummond, B. & Cauty, J. (1989) The Manual (How To Have a Number One The Easy Way), KLF Publications (KLF 009B), UK. ISBN 0863596169. ([Link to full text]) When Rough Trade Distribution distribution collapsed in 1991 it was reported that they owed KLF Communications £500,000New Musical Express, 29 February 1992 ([link]) (in the same feature it was reported that Drummond wished to sign Ian McCulloch to the label, but this never happened). Plugging (the promotion to TV and radio) was handled by long time associate Scott Piering.

Outside the UK, KLF releases were issued under licence by local labels. In the USA, the licensees were Wax Trax (the Chill Out albumAll Music Guide review of Chill Out ([link])), TVT (early releases including The History of The JAMs a.k.a. The TimelordsAll Music Guide review of The History of The JAMs a.k.a. The Timelords ([link])), and Arista (The White Room and singlesAll Music Guide review of The White Room/Justified & Ancient ([link])Bill Drummond explained the licensing situation - and inducements made by Arista - in an interview by Ernie Longmire, X Magazine, July 1991 ([link])).

Despite being a DIY release, the 1988 single "Doctorin' the Tardis" sold over one million copies"Who Killed The KLF?", Select Magazine, July 1992 [link], and The KLF became the best-selling British singles act in the world during 1991.Bush, John, KLF biography, All Music Guide ([link])

Drummond and Cauty also published a book under the imprint "KLF Publications" - The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) (ISBN 0863596169).

Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty discography

Albums

	Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1987 Catalogue Number: The Sound Of Mu(sic) [KLF Communications] JAMS LP1 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees/Mind The Gap [unlisted]/Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)/Rockman Rock (Parts 2 and 3)/Why Did You Throw Away Your Giro? [unlisted]/Me Ru Con/The Queen And I/Top of the Pops [unlisted]/All You Need Is Love (106 bpm)/Next
	Who Killed The JAMs? Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1988 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS LP2 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: The Candystore/The Candyman/Disaster Fund Collection/King Boy's Dream/The Porpoise Song/Prestwich Prophet's Grin/Burn The Bastards ''The original vinyl LP came with the first KLF 'release', KLF Communications KLF 001: "The 1987 Completist List", the label's complete discography of the time.
	Shag Times Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu/The KLF Year: 1989 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS DLP 3 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu: All You Need Is Love/Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)/Whitney Joins The JAMS/Down Town/Candyman/Burn The Bastards/The Timelords: Doctorin' the Tardis/The KLF: Whitney Joins The JAMS (Remix)/I Love Disco 2000/Down Town (Remix)/Burn The Beat (Club Mix)/Prestwich Prophet's Grin (Instrumental Remix)/The Porpoise Song (Instrumental Remix)/Doctorin' The Tardis (Minimal) A similar compilation was issued on TVT Records in the USA as The History of The JAMs a.k.a. The Timelords.
	The "What Time Is Love?" Story Artist: The KLF/Various Artists Year: 1989 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS LP 4 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: The KLF: What Time Is Love (Original)/Dr. Felix: Relax Your Body/K.L.F.S.: What Time Is Love? (Italian Mix)/Liaisons D.: Heartbeat/Neon: No Limit (Dance Mix 4'58)/The KLF: What Time Is Love? (Live at the Land of Oz)
	Chill Out Artist: The KLF Year: 1990 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS LP 5 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border/Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast/Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold/Dream Time In Lake Jackson/Madrugada Eterna/Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago/Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul/3 a.m. Somewhere Out Of Beaumont/Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard/Trancentral Lost In My Mind/The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By/A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back/Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond/Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up
	The White Room Artist: The KLF Year: 1991 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS LP 6 Chart Positions: #3 (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: What Time Is Love? (LP Mix)/Make It Rain/3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)/Church Of The KLF/Last Train To Trancentral (LP Mix)/Build A Fire/The White Room/No More Tears/Justified And Ancient
	Waiting for the Rights of Mu Artist: Kopyright Liberation Front Year: 1997 Catalogue Number: Echo Beach EBSC8/EB814 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: Waiting/The Rites of Mu The soundtracks to The KLF films Waiting and The Rites of Mu. Presumed to be a bootleg release but was sold for a limited time through normal retail channels. [All Music Guide review]. Listed there as a bootleg..

Singles

	All You Need Is Love Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1987 Catalogue Number: The Sound Of Mu(sic) [KLF Communications] JAMS 23
	Whitney Joins The JAMs Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1987 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS 24T Whitney Houston joins the JAMs, thanks to sampling technology.
	1987 (The JAMS 45 Edits) Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1987 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS 25T An EP consisting of the 1987 album minus the unauthorised samples, complete with rather impractical instructions on how to recreate the original album!
	Down Town Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1987 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS 27 Samples "Downtown" by Petula ClarkReviewed by NME writer James Brown in the 28 November 1987 edition..
	Burn The Bastards/Burn The Beat Artist: The KLF/The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1988 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 002/JAMS 26 According to the label of "Burn The Bastards", "this is a transition record" between The JAMs and The KLFSleevenotes, "Burn The Bastards", KLF Communications KLF 002, April 1988.
	Doctorin' the Tardis Artist: The Timelords Year: 1988 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 003 Drummond and Cauty's first British number one hit single.
	What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance Original) Artist: The KLF Year: 1988 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 004
	3 a.m. Eternal (Pure Trance Original) Artist: The KLF Year: 1989 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 005
	Kylie Said To Jason Artist: The KLF Year: 1989 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 010
	Last Train to Trancentral (Pure Trance Original) Artist: The KLF Year: 1990 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 008 Note that Pure Trance 3 ("Love Trance"), 4 ("Turn Up the Strobe"), and the original Pure Trance 5 ("E-Train to Trancentral") were not released, although sleeves and labels were printed.
	What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral) Artist: The KLF Year: 1990 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 004
	3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.) Artist: The KLF Year: 1990 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 005
	Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent) Artist: The KLF Year: 1991 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 008
	Artist: The KLF Year: 1991 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF USA4 First released in the USA on Arista Records in October 1991. Released in the UK on KLF Communications in February 1992.
	It's Grim Up North Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Year: 1991 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications JAMS 028 The final release by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
	Justified and Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) Artist: The KLF (featuring Tammy Wynette) Year: 1991 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 099 The last single by The KLF to be sold through normal retail channels.
	3 a.m. Eternal Artist: The KLF with Extreme Noise Terror Year: 1992 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications KLF 5TOTP The thrash metal version of "3a.m.", released by mail order only.
	K Cera Cera (War Is Over If You Want It) Artist: The K Foundation presents The Red Army Choir Year: 1993 Catalogue Number: NMC/K Foundation KCC 1-2 Released as a limited edition single in Israel and Palestine in November 1993.
	Fuck the Millennium Artist: 2K (featuring Acid Brass) Year: 1997 Catalogue Number: Blast First BFFP 146 A brass version of the original "What Time Is Love?", incorporating elements of the hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save".

Other KLF Communications releases

Albums

Space Artist: Space Year: 1990 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications SPACE LP1 Chart Positions: - (UK) - (USA) Track Listing: Mercury/Venus/Mars/Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune/Pluto

Singles

	I Gotta CD Artist: Disco 2000 Year: 1987 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications D 2000
	One Love Nation Artist: Disco 2000 Year: 1988 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications D 2002
	Uptight (Everything's Alright) Artist: Disco 2000 Year: 1989 Catalogue Number: KLF Communications D 2003 A cover of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".

The KLF filmography

• The Stadium House Trilogy
• Waiting
• The Rites of Mu
• The White Room (not released but bootleg copies exist)

KLF Publications bibliography

The Manual. "How to have a number one the easy way — The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu reveal their zenarchistic method used in making the unthinkable happen."

KLF Publications KLF 009B (ISBN 0863596169)

Chart performance

Although the early works of The JAMs aroused media interest, with many singles being awarded "single of the week" by various music publications,Library of Mu, [list of "singles of the week"]. Retrieved 31 May 2006. Drummond and Cauty neither sought nor found mainstream chart success until the release of The Timelords' "Doctorin' the Tardis" in May 1988. The KLF's single "Kylie Said to Jason", from The White Room soundtrack, was designed for chart success, but failed to reach the UK top-100.KLF Communications, "Information Sheet Eight", August 1990 ([link]) However, The KLF achieved international chart success with the string of pop-house singles that began with "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)". This led to The KLF becoming the internationally highest-selling UK band of 1991."Timelords gentlemen please!", New Musical Express, 16 May 1992 ([link]).

Title	Highest chart position by country
	UK	US	AU	SE	SZ
Singles
Doctorin' the Tardis	1	66
What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)	5		73	10	23
3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)	1	5	3	2	4
Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)	2		5	4	6
America: What Time Is Love?	4	57	40	9	3
It's Grim up North	10	-			26
Justified and Ancient	2	11	3	1	2
Fuck the Millennium	28
Album
The White Room	3	39	5		13

Key

• UK - UK Singles Chart
• US - Billboard Hot 100
• AU - Australian singles chart[Interview: The KLF's James Cauty], Rocknerd.org. Retrieved 31 May 2006.
• SE - Swedish singles chart[The KLF's performance in the Swedish Top 20]. Retrieved 31 May 2006.
• SZ - Swiss singles chart[The KLF's performance in the Swiss singles chart]. Retrieved 31 May 2006.

Additional communicators

The original music released by The KLF, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords, and 2K, was written, produced and performed by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond. However, the duo called upon the services of recurring contributors to provide vocals, instrumentation and production support. This was particularly the case for the output of The KLF, who often referred to such contributors as "additional communicators" and, on some "Stadium House" singles, as "The Children of the Revolution". The sleevenotes and labels of KLF Communications releases reveal the following significant contributors:

• Isaac Bello - Also known as Bello B, the member of Outlaw Posse rapped on "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)" and "America: What Time Is Love?", and is credited with co-authorship of these tracks.
• Black Steel - A prominent lead vocal contributor to The White Room (including scat singing), where he also played bass guitar and piano. Before and since his work with The KLF, Black Steel has worked with Mad Professor.[Black Steel discography], Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 May 2006.
• Cressida Cauty - Vocalist with The KLF's spin-off project Disco 2000, Jimmy Cauty's wife also contributed backing vocals to several of The KLF's singles and appeared in several of their videos.
• Nick Coler - Credited for programming and keyboard contributions across The KLF's output, including the orchestral arrangement of Jerusalem in "It's Grim Up North". Since The KLF's retirement, Coler has worked with Saint Etienne.[Nick Coler discography], Discogs.com. Retrieved 26 April 2006.
• Ricardo Da Force - Also known as Ricardo Lyte and MC Lyte, Da Force provided raps during The KLF's "Stadium House" phase. He is credited with co-authorship of tracks on which he rapped: "3 a.m. Eternal", "Last Train to Trancentral" and "Justified and Ancient (Stand by The JAMs)". Da Force later appeared on N-Trance's cover of "Stayin' Alive".[Ricardo Da Force discography], Discogs.com. Retrieved 31 May 2006.
• Wanda Dee - Vocal samples on The KLF singles "What Time Is Love?" and "Last Train to Trancentral", taken from her track "To the Bone". To avoid a lawsuit from Dee's manager and husband Eric Floyd, she was given co-writing credit for these tracks (under her real name L'wanda McFarland), and featured in The KLF video The Stadium House Trilogy.Dinnen, N., "The KLF featuring Wanda Dee", Beat magazine (Melbourne), 27 October 1993 ([link]). Following The KLF's retirement, Wanda Dee toured America and Australia using the 'KLF' name, in an act variously reported as being billed "Wanda Dee and The KLF Experience", "The KLF featuring wanda Dee"Te Koha, Nui, "KLF? Not!", The Herald Sun, 28 October 1993 ([link])., and "The KLF".Midro, J., "Wanda Dee and KLF", Zebra magazine (Melbourne), 27 October 1993 ([link]). These concerts featured live rapping and singing played to a backing tape of The KLF's music ("the hits that she made famous", Floyd claimed), alongside Wanda Dee's solo work. Neither Drummond nor Cauty were involved with the shows. Cauty has commented "I actually felt more sorry for the band than the audience. We did write to them to ask them to reconsider and got this amazing letter in return, they really thought they were the KLF, and without the Wanda Dee sample we would never have sold a single record. 9 out of 10 for total insanity".Butler, B., interview with Jimmy Cauty for The Big Issue Australia, 18 June 2003 ([link]).
• Maxine Harvey - The KLF's lead female vocalist on The White Room projects and "Justified and Ancient (All Bound for Mu Mu Land)", a mix in which she replaces Tammy Wynette.
• Duy Khiem - Played tenor saxophone and clarinet, most prominently on "3 a.m. Eternal". Khiem was also responsible for the a cappella traditional Vietnamese song "Me Ru Con" on 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?).Drummond, B., "1987: The Edits", sleevenotes, JAMS 25T, November 1987 ([link]).
• Graham Lee - Contributed pedal steel to Drummond's solo album The Man, and The KLF's Chill Out and The White Room.
• June Montana - Vocalist with Disco 2000.
• Scott Piering - A well-respected record promoter by trade, Drummond and Cauty claim in The Manual that Piering's involvement in the promotion of "Doctorin' the Tardis" was crucial to its UK Singles Chart success. Piering also leant his voice to several narrations in The KLF's recordings, including many of the profitable singles and the video The Rites of Mu.
• Mark "Spike" Stent - The music producer cites his work with The KLF on their most commercially successful recordings as the key to his subsequent rise to prominence.Mark Stent, in Tingen, P. "The Work of a Top Flight Mixer", Sound on Sound magazine, January 1999 ([link]). Retrieved March 2006.
• Tony Thorpe - The Moody Boys' Thorpe was credited for rhythms, samples and breaks during The White Room project. The Moody Boys were also responsible for remix 12"s of the "Stadium House Trilogy" singles.

Guest contributors

Whereas The JAMs' earlier work sampled prominently and illegally from the popular works of established artists, The KLF's international reputation allowed their later releases to feature guest vocals from such established performers as Tammy Wynette (for "Justified and Ancient (Stand by The JAMs)", Gary Glitter (for "Doctorin' the Tardis") and Glenn Hughes (for ""). Drummond has expressed disgust at this notion in his book 45. In a chapter written in 1998, Drummond professes to have "worshipped" Wynette's voice, yet he nevertheless says, "The whole British tradition of 'young' white artists dragging up some legend to perform with is an evil and corrupt exchange; the young artist wanting to tap into the mythical status and credibility of the has-been, the has-been wanting some of that 'I'm still contemporary, relevant (and will do anything to get back into the charts)' stuff."Drummond, B., "They Called Me Up In Tennessee", 45, Little & Brown, ISBN 0316853852 / Abacus, ISBN 0349112894, 2000.

Other creative associates

• Bill Butt - Director of The KLF's unreleased road movie The White Room.
• Jeremy Deller - Deller's Acid Brass project, featuring the Williams Fairey Band, provided inspiration for Drummond and Cauty's 1997 "Fuck the Millennium" project, under the pseudonym 2K; a performance by 2K was billed as "Jeremy Deller presents 2K", as was the subsequent single release.Drummond, B. and Cauty, J., advertisement, Time Out, 21 August 1997 ([link]).
• Echo and the Bunnymen - The band (for whom Drummond had once been manager) are credited with a remix of "What Time Is Love?" on the single "What Time Is Love? (Remodelled & Remixed)".
• Extreme Noise Terror (ENT) - British grindcore band with whom The KLF collaborated for a version of "3 a.m. Eternal" and the unreleased album ''The Black Room.
• Miomir Grujic (DJ Fleka) - Radio DJ on Serbian station B92, DJ Fleka contributed a vocal sample to Drummond and Cauty's track "The Magnificent" (donated by the duo to The Help Album of 1995).Collin, M., "Obituary: Miomir Grujic", The Guardian (Manchester), 25 August 2003, p17.
• Alan Goodrick - Also known as "Gimpo", Goodrick is a friend and associate of Drummond and Cauty. He has made several films used by the duo in their artistic and musical work. He also contributed vocals to "Fuck the Millennium" and, for Cauty's later project Blacksmoke, "Gimpo Gimpo".
• Mark Manning - Also known as "Zodiac Mindwarp" or "Z" from The Love Reaction, Manning contributed vocals to "Fuck the Millennium" and has since accompanied Drummond on expeditions documented in their books Bad Wisdom and Wild Highway.
• Alex Paterson - Cauty's co-founder of The Orb, Paterson was influential in the development both of The KLF album Chill Out and the Space album released by KLF Communications. Chill Out was derived in part from Paterson and Cauty's DJ sessions at the monthly London club night "Land Of Oz", and Paterson is thanked on the sleeve.Sleevenotes, Chill Out, KLF Communications JAMS LP5, 1990. Cauty left The Orb in 1990, following Paterson's concern that The Orb should not be perceived as a side-project of The KLF. Paterson retained and developed 'The Orb' name, while Cauty took recordings originally intended for The Orb's debut album, removed Paterson's contributions and released Space under the pseudonym 'Space'. Prior to the split, The Orb produced an ambient remix of "3 a.m. Eternal" entitled "The Blue Danube Orbital".

References

• Discogs.com, [KLF Communications discography]
• Longmire, Ernie et al (2005). [KLF discography] Compiled by Ernie Longmire, this has been the authoratative KLF discography on the internet for some 10 years or more and has been the subject of long-term scrutiny and peer review by KLF fans and collectors. It is now maintained by the fan site klf.de.
• [Library of Mu - Reviews] An archive of contemporary reviews of KLF releases from the music press, newspapers and magazines. More detailed citations and quotes are available in the articles on each album and notable song.
• Author unknown (1991). "The KLF: Enigmatic dance duo" (feature and discography up to that time), Record Collector Magazine, April 1991.
• Rice, J. and Roberts, D. (2000) Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (13th Ed.), Guinness Publishing Ltd., London.

Footnotes

See also

• The Black Room - An unreleased album by Drummond & Cauty

External links

• [KLF Communications fan site] (includes discography and image library)

The KLF
Bill Drummond | Jimmy Cauty
Also known as
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | The Timelords | K Foundation | The One World Orchestra | 2K | K2 Plant Hire
Main albums
1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) | Who Killed The JAMs? | Chill Out | The White Room
Related articles
Discography | Films | The Manual | Space | Disco 2000 | Big In Japan | Brilliant | The Orb | Blacksmoke
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