Not sure about that - Bill admits in the sleeve notes of "Indie Top 20 Volume 8" (which features KSTJ) that "we wore our Pet Shop Boys obsession on our sleeves with this track". KSTJ is almost a soundalike to "Left To My Own Devices" (which came out a year earlier, I think) so that comment is certainly true. I've never heard Bill or Jimmy say anything about DM; although I suspect that Jimmy might have been into the Mode more the Bill. As far as money is concerned, of course that's the main objective in some of their extra-curricular work; but there's also some work that (I think) is based on friendship. From the time of the KLF's height there's all of Jimmy's work with Tony Thorpe and Alex Paterson, and Bill remixing the Wild Swans "Melting Blue Delicious" (Paul Simpson was really the only one from the Zoo days that Bill has kept close contact with). Then the KLF came together and worked on some of the production for Wah the Mongrel's album "Infamy!" in 1991. I'm sure, again, that was based on friendship stretching back to the Liverpool punk days, rather than any real desire to make money on the back of two-hit-wonder Pete Wylie. Actually - here's another question: how come the KLF didn't "do" outside production for any LP other than "Infamy"? I'm sure they must have been approached (not least by the Pet Shop Boys, and Erasure's 1991 album "Chorus" features some very Stadium-House-like tracks - and wasn't there a rumour of U2?) but turned everyone down apart from Wah (who hadn't had a big hit since "The Story of the Blues" nearly 10 years earlier). Imagine if Drummond and Cauty had like Oakenfold and Osborne ... that could have been interesting! John

Message Received: Jun 09 2008, 11:52 PM From: "micah stupak" <micah@benthic.cc> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF imports and remixes

On 9 Jun 2008, at 17.58, Adam Wolfson wrote:

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As for the Pet Shop Boys, yes PSB were noted in the press as being big fans of the KLF. So I think that had something to do with it. But money comes back into the picture as well. I think PSB was still quite popular back then, so doing a remix for them would of probably netted them some nice cash. Same thing for the Depeche Mode remix of Policy of Truth that they did. I don't think I have heard of Depeche Mode being big fans of the KLF, so maybe Bill and Jimmy did the remix just to make some money. Either that, or they themselves were big fans of Policy of Truth, and wanted to do a remix for it.

i think that bill and jimmy might have been into DM more than PSB, because their DM remix is a lot closer to the original than the PSB remix(es).

--- micah stupak micah@benthic.cc oblique strategy: from nothing to more than nothing

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