{"id":1135,"date":"2017-05-10T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/?post_type=ufaq&#038;p=1135"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:11:23","slug":"havent-klf-released-record-ages","status":"publish","type":"ufaq","link":"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/ufaqs\/havent-klf-released-record-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Why haven&#8217;t The KLF released a record in ages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.ewd-ufaq-faq-title .ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol span { font-size: 16px !important; }div.ewd-ufaq-faq-categories, div.ewd-ufaq-faq-tags { font-size: 10pt !important; }div.ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol {\r\nmargin-top:7px;\r\n}\r\n\r\ndiv.ewd-ufaq-faq-category-title {\r\n   display: none;\r\n}<\/style><div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-list ewd-ufaq-page-type-load_more ewd-ufaq-category-tabs-\" id='ewd-ufaq-faq-list'>\n\n\t<input type='hidden' name='show_on_load' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-show-on-load' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='include_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-include-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='exclude_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-exclude-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='orderby' value='set_order' id='ewd-ufaq-orderby' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='order' value='asc' id='ewd-ufaq-order' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='post_count' value='-1' id='ewd-ufaq-post-count' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='current_url' value='\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/1135' id='ewd-ufaq-current-url' \/>\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faqs'>\n\n\t\t<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-div ewd-ufaq-faq-column-count-one ewd-ufaq-faq-responsive-columns- ewd-ufaq-faq-display-style-one\" id='ewd-ufaq-post-1135-4GaU3hIbnP' data-post_id='1135'>\n\n\t\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title '>\n\t\n\t<a class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin'  href='http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/ufaqs\/havent-klf-released-record-ages\/' >\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol ewd-ufaq-square'>\n\t\t\t<span >B<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title-text'>\n\n\t\t\t<h3>\n\t\t\t\tWhy haven&#8217;t The KLF released a record in ages?\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-clear'><\/div>\n\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-body' >\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin ewd-ufaq-faq-post'>\n\t<p>The KLF \u2018retired from the music industry\u2019 on the 5th of May 1992, deleted their entire back catalogue, and burned all remaining merchandise to prove that this action was serious and not a stunt to sell more records. In an ad taken out in the UK music press they stated that for \u2018the foreseeable future there will be no further record releases from \u2026 any past, present &#038; future name attached to our activities\u2019. Quite how long the foreseeable future represents depends on your own optimism\/pessimism. They also said that \u2018if we meet further along be prepared\u2026our disguise may be complete\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>They did return to public attention as The K Foundation, in a series of strange press ad\u2019s in summer 1993, but as the typeset, the poetic language and pyramid logo were familiar, and there was an excess of letter K\u2019s the disguise was certainly not complete. They have commercially released one single since then, the K Foundation\u2019s interstellar anthem <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/record\/k-cera-cera-war-is-over-if-you-want-it\/\"><em><strong>K Sera Sera (War Is Over If You Want It)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which is \u2018Available Nowhere\u2026No Formats\u2019 until world peace has been established, although it has been played at major public gatherings including music festivals, and a limited release was arranged in Israel\/Palestine to honour the limited peace that the signing of the Rabin\/Arafat deal represented. Copies of this single now change hands for very large sums of money.<\/p>\n<p>In September 1995 they recorded a track called <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/record\/help\/\"><em><strong>The Magnificent<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for the HELP album under the name One World Orchestra. They agreed to make this track, (for free), as it was for a non-profit-making charity record, and Bill considered it worth doing.<\/p>\n<p>In September 1997 they returned for a brief moment as 2K, releasing the single <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/record\/fuck-the-millennium\/\"><strong><em>Fuck The Millennium<\/em><\/strong><\/a> as well as doing a live performance at the Barbican Centre, London. There is a whole chapter in Bill Drummond\u2019s book <a href=\"http:\/\/klf.de\/home\/publication\/45\/\"><em><strong>45<\/strong><\/em><\/a> dedicated to the How\u2019s And Why\u2019s of this short-lived episode.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 parts of the JAMs\/KLF&#8217;s back catalogue was eventually made officially available through digital streaming platforms, and while those releases did not contain any completely new recordings some of the contents had been edited and updated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-custom-fields'>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-categories'>\n\t\n\tFiled under\n\t\n\t\tGeneral\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-tags'>\n\t\n\tTags:\t\n\t\n\t\t2k, \n\t\n\t\tk-foundation, \n\t\n\t\tklf, \n\t\n\t\tone-world-orchestra\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B Why haven&#8217;t The KLF released a record in ages? 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