Drummond and Cauty have recently announced a resumption in activity planned for August 2017, and continue to be actively involved in engaging work today. If by chance there are none in your area, get straight down to the local reference library where they will have Yellow Pages covering the whole country. It is a story about Carl Jung, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Campbell, Dada, Situationism, Discordianism, magic, chaos, punk, rave and the alchemical symbolism of Doctor Who. Never before had one band possessed the power or inclination to excite high street nightclubs and the contemporary art world simultaneously.

Although all studios want to attract as much business as possible, they do not want to advertise their presence to local thugs who might fancy breaking in and getting their hands on a few thousand pounds worth of gear. The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) is a 1988 book by "The Timelords" ( Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond), better known as The KLF. Get yourself a studio, get a groove going, sing some absolute nonsense over the top, put a breakbeat behind it, and you're away! Scioccati dall'essere diventati ormai un prodotto macina-hit, ritirarono il loro intero catalogo discografico dai negozi inglesi e decisero di sparire, distruggendo tutte le copie invendute.Incredible writing about the birth and rise of counterculture from the 50s to the end of the century told through the lens of a couple of lunatics in Liverpool. For some reason, I keep getting stuck reading these books where white men hitting 50 go on and on about raves in the late '80s and how transformative a time it was and how the 'man' crushed it and some sort of second coming of 1967 was supposed to happen, but instead we all started going to costa coffee. Banks will go to extremes thinking up new and ingenious ways of getting us to borrow money from them. This is the story of The KLF but this ain't your daddy's garden-variety, run of the mill celebrity biography, oh no! Using coin operated telephones is crap for the obvious reasons: there are usually queues, are often vandalised and the money runs out thus making you look like an inefficient dick head and not a future Number One.

The way that recording studios base their rates (what they want you to pay them) can vary from studio to studio. All of these independent service industries are now highly organised and competing to cut deals with YOU the much sought after client.They also knew that the world was changing at a fast pace and their place in the music industry would be assured as they received approval from The Brit Awards and sold millions of records, so why not end their time in the spotlight with a bang? It’s all very pseudo-science before pseudo-science gained more mainstream traction if not respectability. We will go further into the intriguing subject of the recording studio engineer later on in this book. The one star I am assigning to this book is a total insult to the other two books I’ve given one star to.

Centre while doing Top of the Pops, everybody involved in this music game has some sort of insight or angle on it all. Being just 10 years old, I don't remember liking much of the music at the time but there were some huge tracks that stuck with me; the Shaman's Ebenezer Goode, Snaps Rhythme is a Dancer and Haddaways What is Love? This is when a client has cancelled studio time at the very last minute and the studio is desperate to sell it off. As you sit there in the sucker’s seat in the manager’s office he will smell the scent of securities.

It was an excuse to go out and say to people all they can say to themselves: If you want to do something, go and do it! After that do whatever you do on a Sunday evening but before you go to sleep that night you are going to have to come up with a name for your record company. A story of success, fear, ego, power, graffiti, house music, independence, control, disaster, the Roland TR-808, love, sheep, marketing, God, death, 12” vinyl records, escape, freedom, populism, a Ford Galaxie and the money and fame all of these things attract.