Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/01/the-klf-reemerge-from-the-shadows-music-back-online.html
…
5 Likes
Not on U.S. Spotify? sigh…
oops, search under “Solid State Logik” reveals “The” KLF. Good one.
Happy now.
6 Likes
Lots of fun here.
6 Likes
I love the KLF!!
8 Likes
Huh. Seems like the 2021 bingo cards need to be unexpected and weird then.
14 Likes
On 1994 September 2, the S&P 500 index was 470.99. On 2020 Dec 31, it was 3756.07. So if they’d stuck the million quid into an index fund instead of setting it on fire, they’d have £7974840.23.
Of course, currency has essentially no intrinsic value. Destroying a pile of it decreases the money supply, meaning everyone else’s currency is worth more; it’s a deflationary action. The real effect was thus to increase the buying power of the currency held by everyone else, with benefit scaled directly to how much they held. Value did not disappear from the economy–but it was redistributed primarily to the wealthy.
You shouldn’t get your pop music from economists, either.
5 Likes
I think you missed their entire point, actually.
12 Likes
I definitely did not have reclusive early 90s musical artists return to cheer us up on my card.
I hope the ice cream van passes modern emissions inspection standards.
9 Likes
Turns out you still have to pay taxes on money you burn?
1 Like
Not so sure. I read the book about it (because it was mostly pictures and that is the kind of book I can get behind) and that’s pretty much the questions they were asking.
As they say the industry snorted that or pissed it up the wall every day. Because back in the old days when record companies made money their accounting was… quite a thing of, well not beauty, but something extraordinary anyway. Just how they rob(bed) artists is one of those exemplars of human ingenuity like some recherché torture device that makes you hate human intelligence.
5 Likes
Yeah, but I think that @szielins is noting they should have invested it, and I’m guessing they were more interested in getting out of that kind of rat-race altogether (which, they of course did until now)? I’ve not read the book, though, so you tell me?
Looks like there’s a podcast for that now!
And then there’s this?
And oh yeah… the recording industry is and remains one of the most corrupt industries on the planet. Is it little wonder why so many artists today are willing to talk about the political economy of making music? We can thank punks for that, I’d argue.
8 Likes
Never heard of them till now. Im a child of 90s techno as well as a metalhead.
interesting sound.
1 Like
They uploaded some of their remastered videos on YouTube:
Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!
13 Likes
Guessing they won’t rerelease this:
Is that blond guy running who I think it is?
6 Likes
Brings back that excitement from when techno was new and didn’t sound like pop junk.
2 Likes
There was no “online” music in 1992.
The KLF’s music is not “back online” because it has never been available on streaming services before.
2 Likes
I have all that on vinyl that I’m pretty sure I bought in the mid 90s. I wonder how much they had to do with that? Also, and you can’t answer this, where is it? I’m going to have to search through my records now.
3 Likes
They were such a great act, romantically hedonistic with rich faux-occult tones and their own wonky mythology; like a version of Götterdämmerung drawn by Brendan McCarthy or Jamie Hewlett. The videos were a big chunk of the appeal to me; especially as I love stagey set pieces and ramshackle model shots.
And it is great to finally watch all those videos again in hi-def, rather than grainy old screen grabs on youtube.
8 Likes
Yeah, the article says they deleted their back catalogue in 1992, which doesn’t mean delete in the computer file sense (who had digital music files in '92?) but to make new copies of their music unavailable to record stores
4 Likes
