Take me to the church of the KLF

I’m listening to Come Down Dawn a lot at the moment. It’s a bit of an outlier for me in terms of types of records.

Any recommendations for more in a similar vibe?

The original with all the samples can be listened to on you tube, come back fat as a rat

edit ….

In case for some reason you don’t know ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWebqCRw7o4&t=1066s

Same era (if you can get past track 1)

Similar vibe, slightly harder listen, waaaay more recent

i came  on here to recommend the Chill Out album….but…oh. Every day is a school day

you cant beet laying in the bath with it on

how about william orbit strange cargo 3?

To be fair if you havent already youll end up at Northern Exposure North and South, so you might as well go directly to jail and save some money. Great journey though, although i did it in reverse which was very expensive

My friend got to be in a choir conducted by Jarvis Cocker at a KLF event. I was busy being dressed up as a badger marching down the road. No idea what was going on but it was good fun.

Listening to Come Down Dawn right now. don’t know if I’ve heard it before, certainly not properly listened to it. Thanks!

making me think already of this:

I have Chill Out on CD, love it to bits. Ozric Tentacles might be worth a listen if that’s your bag

If all that gets a bit hectic then Brian Eno music for airports still stands up well

I find all the RP spoken word samples in this kind of stuff a bit overdone myself- I’m looking at you the orb!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(Jimmy_Cauty_album) is interesting – was going to be the Orb’s debut album before Jimmy and Dr Alex fell out.  You can hear lots of it in Ultraworld.

If it’s the electronica element of it you want to explore this is is a good compilation from that time – gives a few artists to check out.  Not all of it is on Spotify.

https://www.discogs.com/release/215515-Various-The-Positiva-Ambient-Collection

If it’s the ambience/found sound then Brian Eno:

Starting in the 70′;s with Discreet Music / Music for Airports and many more through his discography.  More than I know well. I really liked 2016’s The Ship

More conventional songs but a chilled mood – Another Green World is fantastic.

Not quite as ambient –  My life in the bush of ghosts (with David Byrne)  is early ‘found sound’ stuff but not so chilled out. I liked his album with Karl Hyde from Underworld (Someday World 2014) as well.

Sigur Ros  ( )  album is another one I reach for late at night. Mostly much less bombastic that the stuff that gets played on the radio.

(DM if you want a rip of any of those or Chill Out, looks like I was only ripping as VBR mp3’s at the time, and I dumped my CDs bar a very small number – which includes Chill Out)

Biosphere – Microgravity is a good one from the early 90s, a bit more techno/ambient style than KLF and the Orb though.

Also see the more ambient end of Coldcut’s output

This is great –

https://www.discogs.com/release/65558-Coldcut-Strictly-Kev-Stoned–Chilled–Groove

and there must be so much gold in their Solid Steel Archive (which is all downloadable…).  The original 1991 show with the Orb is not that memorable but the 2013 return is worth a listen

http://solidsteel.net/broadcasts/784

you might enjoy the start of this too…

some how pasted me by until the start of this year.  first 3-4 tracks are fantastic.

A rich seam of music to mine here. Cheers all.

Someone already did Northern Exposure 1, but i always preferred 2

Northern exposure 2 is an absolute work of genius. Shame I lost my copy in a car break-in. Second hand they command good money nowadays.  I think most digital copies only have disc one bundled in.

When it was fresh and new it used to share playtime in my car with this:

I’ve got northern exposure 1, northern exposure 2 and northern exposure expeditions. I’ve had them since they were released, I looked them up once and was stunned to see how much 1 and 2 were going for.

Annoyingly I didn’t get the vinyl versions as well, that would have been ace. I even had them in my hand in the shop.

Anyway it got me into the likes of Banco de Gaia, Apollo 440 and all sorts of cool stuff. Basically a gateway drug

Yeah, i may still have all the CDs somewhere in the attic, or they might have been binned, they were good for a long car journey back in the day, did go to a couple of the renaissance sets and the northern exposure 2 one at the Rhumba club back in 97 :o)

I saw digweed around 97 in the Essex university, incredible set. Basically northern exposure live, I can still see the lights if I shut my eyes.

First thing that sprang to my mind was The Boy & The Tree Susumu Yokota – it fulfills the ‘ambient’ genre criteria, but not convinced it’s KLF like beyond that, but then neither is a lot of that up there. Or is it, I don’t know it’s been that long since I listened to the KLF, never had that album on tape.

Then I thought ISDN by Future Sound of London

Then I got somewhat carried away… going from WaiWan Distraction to Hidden Orchestra To Dream is to Forget – some of it’s quite lively, but lots of atmospheric/ambient stuff alongside it too.

Then some more classical influences – A Winged VIctory for the Sullen – Aqualung Mother **** is a gorgeous slow string piece, a great album

Not quite as ambient –  My life in the bush of ghosts (with David Byrne) is early ‘found sound’ stuff but not so chilled out.

I was going to suggest that album, it was pretty much the first album made from ‘found sounds’, what became sampling – it was released in 1981, 43 years ago! It just never gets old, and Jezebel Spirit still gives me shivers. I had it on a mix tape for the car, and my then g/f made me ffwd it if it came on, it really freaked her out.

A demo of Space by the KLF with added Orb bits before they had a falling out.

https://bvdub.bandcamp.com/

BV Dub – prolific ambient producer. That lot should keep you going a while. Some very drifty ambient, some a tad harsher.

Maybe start with this one https://bvdub.bandcamp.com/album/a-history-of-distance

I also love this stuff:

https://motionsicknessoftimetravel.bandcamp.com/

The Ballade for… stuff is amazing eg https://motionsicknessoftimetravel.bandcamp.com/album/ballade-for-a-hunters-moon

I’ve spent many a night sleeping to Moby’s ambient sounds. No idea what most of it sounds like tbh, cos I’m not conscious  – it used to be free downloads from his site, but doesn’t look that way any more. https://moby.com/ambient/

I’ve just been reading an article about Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother, and it turns out that when they recorded 1969’s double album Ummagumma, it included Roger Waters’ experiment, Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave And Grooving With A Pict. The piece was fashioned out of found sounds, with its composer ranting in a Scottish accent.
So, sampling in 1969!

Lots of Pink Floyd stuff was “found sounds”. Some of it you can hear in isolation, their “household objects project” tracks that appeared as bonus tracks years after the original releases.

On Space, I have a version that AP made that claims to restore his Orb like contributions, making it more like they/he intended before the split. It’s good, but the JC only version the KLF released is more timeless, in my opinion.

I can actually take you to the church…

Its in DG8…

Anything by Channel Light Vessel

And my current fave, Project Blackbird

Bit more up tempo, but i’m really quite partial to a bit of Lemon Jelly.

Chill Out really has aged incredibly well – still sounds great to me listening to it again whilst on a walk (rather than late at night in an altered state).  Probably helped a lot by it being a tight 45 minutes long.

Wikipedia is insteresting on the Orb/Cauty split.  Alex Paterson claims Chill out was basically a recording made up of his DJ sessions at Cauty’s studio (though there’s a lot of KLF melodies in it). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb

It’s the first time I’ve listened to Ultraworld from start to end for many years. In the cold light of day some of it is distinctly baggy – 15 minutes each of Back side of the moon and Spanish Castles in Space (where not much happens even for ambient tracks).  And the space stuff feels a bit cheesy (PSBs ‘race for space’ mined a lot of the same vein in the least funky way possible and kind of tarnished it for me).  But still a good listen.

Another thing that surprisingly led off from the Orb.  1993 release from Youth (who worked on Ultraworld) and…. Paul McCartney.  The Fireman.

Somehow completely missed this at the time and only discovered it a few years back but it’s good.  I think the second album, Rushes, from 98 is even better. (the third, strangely, is a fairly conventional album of McCartney songs rather than anything ambient)