Götterdämmerung

The KLF are among the founding conceptual inspirators of my entire creative ouvre, so i figured i should post some of these videos i've been digging up on youtube for your inspiration & entertainment. I feel particularly connected to the KLF because one of their founding members: Jimmy Cauty started out as an underground comix style fantasy artist (do a search for his Lord of the Rings poster which rules) & then went on to all of this discordian stadium house futurism. It's bloody important!

The KLF "3 AM Eternal" This video was the first larger exposure the KLF had in the USA. You would hear Doctorin' the Tardis occassionally on the radio, or some of their ambient stuff on college radion, but in general, they were unknown. Still are! Anyhow, this video totally hit me because it's all Bladerunnered out, which is my favorite movie of all time. I've seen it around 50 times. Not that i'd just sit around watching it all the time, i'd put it on & work on projects while it was on, so i suppose i'm cheating. If you notice, all clocks in my drawings are pointed to 3:00 am. But recently, the time has changed to 2:10.


The Timelords "Doctoring the Tardis"


The Jams "It's Grim up North"


The KLF "Last Train to Tran central"


The KLF "White Room Promo" (the song is a remix from "Chill Out")


The KLF "Rites of Mu" (Wicked!)


The KLF "The White Room Pt. I"


Here is their youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/klfcommunicationsnet excellent!
Official website? Looks like it. http://www.klf-communications.net/

Before i viciously conformed to the Punk subculture (still trying to figure this all out), i was HEAVY into this stuff that was coming out of England. If you get it, you can see that this techno rave stuff has a direct lineage from Punk & at the time, was more about what Punk was supposedly about in the first place. Just take a gander at Genesis P. Orridge & all those characters... draw the lines, have a ball. Anyhow, the Prodigy made this link even more clear, but by the time they superficially indicated this with their stage act, Techno had become boring & i was more interested in Discharge & Chaos UK. Ultimately, i don't like dance culture or clubs or any of that sh*te so there was a big disconnect. The secret is, i still listen to all of this stuff & did when i was a Punk too. I remember also some uncomfortable weirdness about this music because my dad is a professional pianist & a virtuoso & this music is made with one finger using samples & computers & beep beep beep. He tolerated an AMAZING amount of it though. ha ha. Even encouraged me & me brother to try & make some big dancefloor hits, but we never had the right sound banks. Oh well.

ALTERN 8 "EVAPOR 8"


FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON "PAPUA NEW GUINEA"


THE PRODIGY "FIRE" Man, i used to be addicted to those sped-up breakbeats. Gotta love the cheesed out 3D computer graphics on this one.


THE PRODIGY "CHARLY" Oh man! This song...


HUMAN RESOURCE "Dominator"


DEE LITE "Power of Love" Love this remix!