The KLF & The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - Come Down Dawn

The KLF have shared ‘Come Down Dawn’, a new album which sees the influential electronic duo putting a new spin on their 1990 album ‘Chill Out’. Released to streaming services (February 4, 2021), the record sees the band offering a reworked version of the seminal album – with a variety of previously unlicensed samples being removed from the release. Clocking in at 38 minutes, the 12 tracks take their name from a series of concurrent road trips across America – beginning with ‘Brooklyn to Atlantic City’ and finishing with ‘San Rafael to Mexico City’. The samples and sampling technique the KLF employed are a large part of Chill Out’s mythos. Notably absent from Come Down Dawn are the prominent Elvis Presley samples. Below is the full statement from the website
    Come Down Dawn was released on the 4th of February 2021.
    Come Down Dawn is a Drive by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
    A Drive is a journey in the head.
    The Drive took them from the Reverend Doctor Wade’s tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York to the Mesoamerican Pyramids near Mexico City.
    The Drive lasted just over a period of 43 hours.
    The Drive ended as dawn began to break on Sunday the 4th of February 1990.
    Come Down Dawn by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is also a pre-mix of Chill Out released by The KLF on the 5th of February 1990.
    Come Down Dawn was released the day before Chill Out, but 31 years later.
    All tracks were recorded live at Trancentral in late 1989 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, featured guests include Evil Graham Lee on the pedal steel guitar, the Unknown Tuvan Shepherd on throat singing and the Reverend Doctor Wade on spiritual guidance.

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"Come Down Dawn" is broadly similar to The KLF's ambient house masterpiece; this one also depicts an imaginary journey through different areas of the American Appalachia and South. Some of the popular samples that were removed due to copyright included ones from Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Earth Wind & Fire, and Acker Bilk. This is a small change in some places and a big one in others; what would be "Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in My Soul" is now sublime chillness. The album also has slightly higher fidelity than the original release, as well as lots of stereophonic effects. Remember the drag racing samples in "Chill Out"? Imagine those zooming from ear to ear. Or the crazy preacher / car salesman's prostrations circling around your head; there were several times when I pulled my headphones off because some of the more subdued samples made me think they were sounds outside. As a collective of samples and sounds from a journey that travels through the rural plains of New York all the way to Mexico City. We are engaged with train yards, street performers and ambient electronic synths that drown out the chaos of a world unseen, slow spontaneous adventure down the rabbit holes of the untroubled, undiscovered outskirts of Middle America. Even so, it is a cautious and yet unadulterated tale that unintentionally references the Odyssey and Dantes Inferno strategy of the English language, through a process of sound scape’s and progress.