The KLF were an influential band for me while growing up coming up with my musical concepts and what I want to "do" with my music. However, they were less influential musically and sonically but moreso conceptually. An excerpt from their Wiki:

"...From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops. Their most notorious performance was at the February 1992 BRIT Awards, where they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance announced The KLF's departure from the music business, and in May 1992 the duo deleted their entire back catalogue."

May the spirit of KLF live on... and let us remember what the KLF taught us what to do with "fame"... if any of us "achieve" it. Long live the ancients!

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Labels: activism, electro techno sweden, europe, hardcore, punk rock, the klf

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