This was late 80s. Just let that sync in for a moment. These guys were so far ahead of their time, it was absolutely ridiculous. There are so many different remixes and paces to this track; it is infinite. This track is unequivocally an absolute modern day master piece for the electronic space. These later global underground DJ era folks have no clue whatsoever. My only attestation is that I was fortunate enough to have experienced this in real-time. As such I am very lucky and grateful. Cheers.
If this were the late 60's or early 70's, you might have some point. This is how things were by the late 80's. It's state of the art. It's the zenith. It's been nought but repetition ever since.
House started in Chicago in the early to mid eighties. DJ Frankie Knuckles played a big part in promoting it, along with Farley Jackmaster Funk and others in the Chicago area. Just like 'The Northern Soul' scene it's success was initially limited in the country of its birth and became popular in the north of England at clubs like The Hacienda in Manchester, Cream in Liverpool and Mr Craig's in Leeds. Bands in the UK quickly caught on like KLF and started producing British versions of it, which along the way spilt into the different types of the genre like Acid, Electro, Trance, Hip House etc.
@@rael1999 there was a lot of other electronic music around in Britain before/at the same time as the Chicago/Detroit pioneers made their music. It all got mixed up in the late 80s/early 90s rave explosion in the UK
Picture the scene...18 years old..car full of mates, lovely hot summers evening of 1989, on the M25 at around 12:30 AM, parked the car on the hard shoulder around Dorking ways...climbed over some fence...walked over afield and then presented with a full on rave wth this tune BANGING LARGE!!!!....that was a moment in history for me...
My friend, we were bound by our masters, then force fed opium and afterwards obliged to listen to this noise repeatedly during Qin Dynasty conflict in 1840. Heaven only knows how we survived, but strangely enough here we are. We find ouselves eternally enamoured by the haunting enigma of the incandescant chant, transcendental rhythme and hypnotic beat, to such an extent that we find ouselves in an eternal, cyclical loop of exstatic pleasure and unable to escape. To visit Mumuland is an extraordinary experience and highly recommendable to all the, "head strong," bearing in mind that after all, we are but mere mortals. Keep drinking the scrumpy!
It's Trance. No, it's Techno. No, it's Rave. No, it's Acid Bubba Gabba. Simple people need to put music into genres because their brain explodes when things are not categorized. It's electronic music. Nothing more and nothing less. And it's fckin good👍
What you guys arguing about which genre this belongs to need to know. Is that in the begging late 80s early 90s there were no definitions everything was rave music. Tunes were either good or bad that was it. Dance nights would regularly play house techno break beat electro acid etc side by side. It wasn't until at least 1994 that things started to fragment into different scenes! One sound one love United by boundaries or definitions it really was a special time!
William Grubb The word 'rave' was not even banded around until about 91.. i fucking hated that term..we were acid house kids, we went to a party a acid house party, a warehouse party.. the hacienda was the anti rave..the thunderdome was the rave killer...blackburn warehouses were actually called dawn raids.. shove that rave word right up you arse.. the is just techno..plain and friggin simple..
ev3nflow I can assure you that in the summer of 1989 the parties were known as raves and the party goers were known as ravers. The year before people would have probably said warehouse party or acid house party. Not that it matters. Good days though.
summercoat I can assure you that us lot here in manchester that started in 87, never ever said rave.. friday nude night at the hacienda. saturday hacienda, then in 88/9 thunderdome and then on to the blackburn WAREHOUSE parties.. better know as 'the dawn raids'... it matters... you can be a raver at a rave, i was a acid house kid at a party... might be a manc thing..
William Grubb Oh the glory - you were clearly there :) And boy did we dance.. Acid house was its name..and it unified us all. Changed our entire culture. For a while it was amazing to hear tracks by Mayday, Soul II Soul and Carly Simon all on the same dance floor. For those that know...only for the headstrong! The crowd and the feeling became the main attraction.. nobody gave a fuck where or who the DJ was as it was bigger than a personality cult!! Rave is a post Criminal Justice Bill term... What followed was the commercially regulated "Rave Scene". Peace, Unity, Love & Having Fun!!!!
To know how this song is ahead of its time enough to look at the1988 top list :-) 1 George Michael Faith 2 INXS Need You Tonight 3 George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You 4 Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up 5 Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine 6 Whitney Houston So Emotional 7 Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A Place On Earth 8 Tiffany Could've Been 9 Breathe Hands To Heaven 10 Steve Winwood Roll With It
Pedjo Gt Oh how awful, how sad it was we were subjected to Rick Astley! I remember they would rarely ever play klf on australian radio and when they did, I almost went complete apeshit with joy from something so freaking awesome and different sounding!!!
Hearing this back in the day was like Venus crashing through the roof of the club, lashing down electric rain, until you and everyone around you evaporated into pure light, energy and vibration. We touched eternity in that moment.
+Tara Jamieson That makes me feel seriously old. Same - an old skool raver. But saying it like that "28 years later" makes me feel much older. :p all the best!
This is officially the world's first ever 'trance' record i.e. it was actually referred to as trance on the record sleeve, a good five years before trance emerged.
If you can find Cybotron’s track Clear, listen to that and come back to this. This is only five years later. I love both tracks but jeez that’s one massive mother fucking leap..it’s like an old dial up phone and jumping to iPhone 14 it’s literally that big.
@@Perfection-ME-01 Like most things, music has paradigm shifts because of technology. Rock n' roll arose because of the invention of the electric guitar and amp, hip hop was built from turntables and drum machines. Juan Atkins, who made 'Clear', claims to be the first person in the US to get a TR-808, so it was no wonder that his early experiments sounded like the future. But a few years later, the sampler took over. Samplers were still pretty rare in 1988, but the KLF were one of the first bands (along with Coldcut, MARRS, Bomb The Bass, S'Express) to get their grubby paws on one.
My god, I found it!!!!!! I never thought I would find the ORIGINAL.. oufff I was a DJ at that time and this song was such a hit in the underground world. Yes guys this was not mainstream. It lasted for so long in the club that it became a classic
song from 1988 and now in 2021 and the freaking song is still way ahead of its time!!! these guys are geniuses.. and this song is basically ageless or belongs to 3031!
This was the tune of 1988 Loved the guys as JAMMS and everything they have done since. Very clever talented and awake, I suggest watching their documentary and joining the dots. Kudos.
First time I heard this at a dinggy afterhours it messed my head up in the best way possible: 1) we hadn't heard this kind of music yet much in Toronto; but 2) I knew every line and note of the "Jesus Christ Superstar" soundtrack... the bass is "Judas' Theme." I was trippin' on it and trying toexplain to all my friends... who were not as impressed as me. 🤩
Let's all go back in time,when nightclubs&raves were playing this style of music instead of the "trendy" trance music that has dominated the club/rave scene in the last 10-12 years.
In the year of the Lord 2024..i love this two man try to do it some sounds ....and they ends in to the legend..KLF... what a f... beat. Gods of music... thnx ... sorry for f .. word..❤❤❤❤ .. i am 57 year old and i said... what a fuck... this is beat....
@@ellisdee8374 because today we have a name for this kind of sound: trance music. In fact, it sounds like psychedelic trance to me. It might as well be the first piece of psychedelic trance ever.
Transcends absolute time!!! It was TOO advanced for 1988?!! It hard to imagine just how "twilight-like" this would've been back in 88?!! It would've defied all expectations back in that time?! I was 10 at 1988 and now 40 in meh 2018!! Godlike status this!!! Oh how I'd wish I could've herd this back then....Insanely incredible.
I was around at the time and I became a big fan of the KLF, but this track didn't seem particularly special at the time as there was loads of interesting stuff coming out of Chicago and Detroit before the UK and Europe took house and techno in new directions. Besides, there had been some brilliant "techno" records in the very early '80s. Check out German band Liaisons Dangereuses. Imagine hearing this in 1981: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a_sAH2QGotE.html . There's also Anne Clarke's 'Our Darkness' from 1984. It's got almost the same riff as the KLF track. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OguHIyNNblM.html
that song was the reson to pass from rocks to elctronic trance dance music (that date) ...its the father of trance(for me at least)...and the last train to tracentral too
This was where trance crossed over into the mainstream for me. I was a rave and Smiths fan simultaneously, but it was the KLF who first made it work. Stone Roses etc were worked into the narrative afterwards.
Etnica played this on the afterparty Monday at the end of an oldschool Goa festival a few years ago, among some other pure classics ... man, the chills.
My theory of the music video. The footage of sheep represents society - we are like sheep and do what we're told. The car represents being awakened and going against the grain = a lonely life. It's just a theory, it's probably deeper than that but it could mean nothing at all and just something to make to think WTF. LOL!
Kann man kaum glauben das es solche,geile Music,schon ende der 1980er gegeben hat.Ich bin stolz diese Zeit mit gemacht zu haben und diese Geile Mucke erlebt zu haben.Best Time 1980/1990er.
