Gonna enjoy re visiting this. Me and some mates once hired a "brain machine" from a hippy sort of "head shop" and spent the weekend using it to attempt to self hypnotise ourselves with its flashing lights meant to enduce theta brain waves whilst smoking resin and listening to this album non stop. Great write up btw 👍


Sorry KOTS , i was ten years further back never had those crazy nights or lazy mornings

7 days later

This still sounds good to my ears. Not really my bag , but I put them in the same bag as the orb.

This album again inspired a load of people.

Non essential for me but not for others. 8/10

The whole rave scene left me cold. I liked the anti-establishment feel around much of it, but can only listen to a few tracks at a time. Let's be honest, you're meant to be out of your head to really 'enjoy' it. Listening to it with a cup of tea and a digestive just doesn't provide the same atmosphere, does it?

As ever, it's not Phil Collins, so it gets a nod from me, but great write-up. My dad loved the Pistols, so that was pretty cool for me...

    90Piesanhour I’ve only ever been to one rave: big warehouse, 1987 (ish), somewhere near Manchester.
    It was fucking rubbish.

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      I was involved with a club which used to organise an annual barbecue/ bit of music on farms in the Midlands in the 80s/ early 90s. We gave it up shortly after the rave scene started.

      According to the Guinness Book of Records, the measured shortest period of time used to be in Greece - the time from when a traffic light turned green, until the first car horn was sounded.

      We smashed that. The new record became the time from when the music started playing, until the moment a local complained and the Old Bill turned up accusing of organising a rave.

      If you are digging this, as I know many of you are, here's the original demo of KLF and Alex P's - Space

      One of the best introductions we've had. Certainly up their for the most personal.
      And that's a real shame. Because it's slightly acerbic review time again.
      It may just be the passage of time and the way 'electronic' music has developed, but what once might have sounded new and fresh and different had ended up reminding me of the 'muzak' that soundtracks those adverts that you'd suffer in hotels on CNN where they extol the investment virtues of Kyrgyzstan or Bhutan.
      They're a fascinating bunch the KLF. I loved the whole 'gonzo art-school hooligan antics' (great description KOTS). The internet's killed their brand of invention and subversion in some ways, but back then they had a mystery that added to their sound. And they made great pop songs. Sadly, there aren't any here.
      I was never a fan of the tripper, 'chill out' end of the dance music spectrum. I liked chilling to Roberta Flack or Astral Weeks so this one was going to struggle. Some nice touches. But not enough to grab me.
      I always want to take something from every choice, even if they're not for me. As I said at the start, the backstory here is Acemans. Not essential. But it is for you and that'll do....28/100.

      CBIT Woo hoo indeed. The video looks like it was created by a collaboration between the 6th form audiovisual club and the drama society of the St Immaculata Concepta academy, with generous support from the Hornby, Scalextrix and Lego companies.

        6 days later

        I've sat in me back garden in glorious sunshine reading and listening to this.

        Not what it was intended for perhaps but for me. Perfect.

        I like the KLF. And this ambient/chill out or what ever it is, hit the spot. Love the little hits of KLF refrains, train bells, elongated keyboard riffs.

        All very much up my Rue in a given situation. Sitting under a parachute at 6am as the last dregs of E stop working or reading a book in my garden on a Friday afternoon.

        Lovely stuff.

        Cheers KOTS.

        Essential for me