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Solid State Logik

Solid State Logik
Cover of Solid State Logik 1
Greatest hits album by the KLF
Released	1 January 2021 (part 1) 23 March 2021 (part 2)
Recorded	1988–2017
Studio	Trancentral
Genre	House electronica
Length	30:03 (part 1) 63:53 (part 2)
Label	KLF Communications
Producer	Jimmy Cauty Bill Drummond
The KLF chronology
The Black Room (Unreleased) Solid State Logik (2021) Come Down Dawn (2021)
Alternative cover
Cover of Solid State Logik 2

Solid State Logik is a 2021 two-part digital compilation album by British electronic band the KLF, released to streaming services on KLF Communications, in a series of planned six official compilations Samplecity thru Trancentral.^[1] Part 1 subtitled 7″ Hit Singles 1988–1991, was released on 1 January 2021 – and part 2, subtitled 12″ Master Mixes 1988–2017, was released on 23 March 2021.^[2]

The first part of Solid State Logik marked the first time the KLF's music has been commercially available since the band deleted their entire catalog in 1992.^[3]

Background[edit]

On 16 January 2013, several albums by the KLF (Chill Out, Space, the original 1997 bootleg of the original version of The White Room, as well as the Lost Sounds of Mu bootlegs) showed up on streaming platforms,^[4] just to turn out unofficial and deleted the next day.^[5] In 2018, Billboard mentioned the KLF amongst artists notably absent from major streaming services.^[6]

The story surrounding the creation of Solid State Logik started around 2017, when two bootleg compilations claiming to be official KLF hit compilations, entitled Songs Collection and The Works, appeared on streaming services. These were removed in December 2020, several days before the release of Solid State Logik 1.

On 31 December 2020, the release of Solid State Logik 1 (with the title referencing Solid State Logic, a manufacturer of mixing consoles) was announced on a graffiti and posters featuring the KLF logo, hung under a railway bridge on Kingsland RoadinShoreditch, East London.^[7] The 30-minute collection of eight remastered and slightly re-edited single versions appeared at midnight 1 January 2021, on music streaming platforms, while high-definition videos were published for the first time on the band's newly established official YouTube channel, marking the first activity of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond as the KLF since 1992.

Solid State Logik 1 includes a previously unreleased version of "3 a.m. Eternal" with British extreme metal band Extreme Noise Terror, from the abandoned KLF album The Black Room (1990–1992). The song was performed live at the 1992 BRIT Awards, causing controversy by firing blanks from machine guns into the audience.^[8]

Further releases[edit]

The Kingsland Road posters also announced further "non-consecutive chapters" of reissues, under the overall title Samplecity thru Trancentral, including a second part of Solid State Logik, along with subsequent collections: Kick-Out D’Jams, Pure Trance Series, Come Down Dawn, and Moody Boys Selected. The material is suggested to feature music released originally under the names: the KLF, the JAMs, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, and the Timelords. The posters mentioned outtakes, hinting at the reissues to also feature previously unreleased material.^[1][9]

Track listing[edit]

• Track 2 is an uncensored version of the 7″ radio edit.
• Tracks 4 and 7 are new edits.
• Track 6 is the USA 7″ mix.

• Track 1 is a new edit restoring the third verse into a slightly edited 7″ mix.
• Track 5 has a different "Jerusalem on the Moors" outro.
• Track 7 is incorrectly labelled as the "Make Mine a 99" deep house remix by Tony Thorpe. The mix is actually the extended 12″ "Stand by The JAMs" mix.
• Track 11 previously unreleased.

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