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Early in 1987, Drummond and Cauty's collaborations began. They assumed alter egos – King Boy D and Rockman Rock respectively – and adopted the name the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs), after the fictional conspiratorial group "The Justified Ancients of Mummu" from The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Following the enforced deletion of the 1987 album, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu released an edited version as a 12" single, with all of the unauthorised samples removed, leaving sparse instrumentation, Drummond's social commentary and, in several cases, long periods of silence; the "Top of the Pops" section of the original LP yielded three ...
They also worked on an ambitious road movie - The White Room - which was never released (although bootleg copies are in circulation). The soundtrack of The White Room was remodelled and reworked in 1991 to create the album The White Room , and the soundtracks to Waiting and The Rites of Mu were released on a 1997 CD (presumed to be a bootleg ...
The KLF—King Boy D (Bill Drummond) and Rockman Rock (Jimmy Cauty)—began working together in 1987 as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs). [3] The song title "Justified & Ancient" refers to this pseudonym. The JAMs took their name from a fictional subversive cult from the 1970s conspiratorial novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy. [3]
Who Killed The JAMs? is the second studio album by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), and the final one under the JAMs moniker before renaming themselves The KLF. Similar in style to the preceding 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) , the album is a fusion of hip hop , drum machines and samples of a diversity of musical works, although ...
"All You Need Is Love" is a song by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs), independently released as their debut single on 9 March 1987. A politically topical song concerning the British media's AIDS furore, the track was initially given a 12" white label release because of its sampling of other records.
Drummond reunited with Jimmy Cauty in 2017. They returned as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, with a novel – 2023: A Trilogy – and a 3-day event, "Welcome to the Dark Ages". [55] [56] [57] Cauty confirmed that the duo's work is an ongoing project. [58]
Nonetheless, rumours were rife that The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu would be making a return to the music business, this assumption being made by at least The Guardian, [19] Fact Magazine [20] and the NME. [21] It soon became apparent, however, that the JAMs would be releasing not music but a novel titled 2023: A Trilogy. [22]