First Time Reaction The KLF What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral) | Dereck Reacts

[@dinholondres]

“Justify and ancient “ is just perfect. “Last train to Trancentral” and “3 a.m. eternal” were huge hits and are also great house tracks. Their album White room is in my opinion one of the best albums ever released.

[@lostboyremix]

I agree that "The White Room" is one of the best album-releases ever and in my opinion their "Chill Out"-album is up there too. How I miss the inventiveness and sounds of that era....

[@coachtomas]

I cannot express how much I love all those songs ! Anthems !

[@DarkAngel459]

Yes. Dereck should react to that as well.

[@HalfdeadRider]

These four tracks are amazing, still sound as fresh as ever, I think they could potentially do well if released again now. The original WTIL is a good track, but may not do well, like when it was released in the late 80's (although it done well in the clubs), but this version is so much better.

[@-Only.Facts-]

As a teen, i used to listen to the tape, stoned, driving through the woods at night...talk about transcendence!

[@Finland-SkiTeam39-40]

KLF was a time machine; did something before anybody else.

[@bpfromowc]

KLF are amazing. They also did a duet with Tammy Wynette “Justified & Ancient”. It’s fab.

[@DarkAngel459]

Yes. Dereck should react to that as well.

[@spacetoilet]

Agree. I LOVE 3am Eternal, their songs sound so ahead of their time even now.

[@argh1975]

And "3 A.M. Eternal".

[@dopiaza2006]

It's a Jamm!

[@shhh3185]

Imagine this on the dance floor at 1am…EPIC and overwhelming ❤

[@mickwayne3398]

i think you mean at 3 am :-)

[@coachtomas]

I love KLF. So unique. Better tracks ... 3am Eternal... Last Train... and the glorious Tammy Wynette colab "Justified & Ancient".

[@sparks5063]

3am Eternal is a beast of a tune!!!

[@kennbicknell5492]

They were the biggest selling international act of 1991. They should be more well-known, being pioneers of "stadium house." KLF reminds me of my rave days in L.A. back in the day! Thanks for the throwback!

[@MusicReaction]

Early 90's had KLF, C & C Music Factory and Snap, 3 epic producer driven bands with many hits, I was lucky to see all 3 at the start of their world tour in the early 2000's. Unfortunately I had the flu that night, but I still danced my ass off. Try Last Train to Transcentral & 3AM Eternal by KLF.

[@uv77mc85]

KLF split in 92. You couldn't have seen them in 2000s. They never toured either. I think they did a few PA's at illegal raves and thats about it.

[@knownpleasures]

You couldn’t have seen KLF

[@issanfus10]

Maybe you have seen Wanda Dee, aka "The Godess", the female lead singer, that toured as KLF (and was sued for it) during some years around 2010

[@GoddessEmpire]

UGH... I WAS NEVER SUED EVER BY THE KLF PRODUCERS, BILL & JIMMY... BUT TO THE CONTRARY, ARISTA CEO CLIVE DAVIS FULLY ENDORSED & SANCTIONED ME SO THAT I WAS THE ONLY LIVE KLF SHOW THAT HAS EVER TOURED IN 33 YEARS! BILL & JIMMY NEVER TOURED BECAUSE THEY DO NOT EITHER SING, DANCE, RAP NOR EVEN ACTUALLY PLAY INSTRUMENTS! SO AT LEAST GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! THE KLF, C&C MUSIC FACTORY & SNAP DID TOUR THE WORLD TOGETHER IN "SWEATFEST WORLD TOUR 2004"! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZWVeq2BYtSff8ksi=Vvol4qO3kaUVzCgt ​@@issanfus10

[@helmutb2612]

Ohh yessss!! Now you must listen to “Last train to Trancentral”, for me one of the most perfect and danceable songs ever!

[@AquarianAgeApostle]

The KLF are an enigma. They ripped up the whole pop scene, highest grossing singles band in the world, and at their height they quit the music industry and burned all their money more than £1 million. Total superstars

[@tonybarruk2]

Fantastic reaction, THANKS!! I love the KLF , please react to "Justified & Ancient" with Tammy Wynette, which is as BANANAS as pop music gets, "Last Train To Trancentral" & "3AM Eternal" are both classics too... they also recorded as the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, and had a UK number one as The Timelords with "Doctorin' The Tardis" (the glam rock Doctor Who mash-up you didn't know you needed!) They also pretty much invented rave chill out music with the, er, "Chill Out" album, burned a million pounds on a remote Scottish island, they're the best of the best :-)

[@eng605]

I have this vinyl. It makes me so proud. They were so far ahead of the sound of that era

[@brettbuffalo2171]

Chills. I had freaking *chills* when I first heard this song. "3am Eternal" and "Justified and Ancient (Stand by the Jams)" are mindblowing, too.

[@itsgravey1307]

KLF created the era and the future. This track was released in 1988!

[@bjorkeskog]

KLF is special.Truly amazing

[@mattpotter8725]

Didn't KLF set fire to a million pounds sterling (allegedly) back in the day? Those were crazy times!!!

[@brettbuffalo2171]

They did and filmed the whole thing. Its all on youtube somewhere.

[@SpaceCattttt]

@@brettbuffalo2171 They regretted doing it, too. 😂

[@shhh3185]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmq2q3d8fMemfKs

[@sianwarwick633]

They did, to the exact amount of money that was the annual prize for creating the 'best' work of art in Britain. Genius

[@Wesker1984]

The KLF were great, The White Room is a vibe from beginning to end. Notably this track, Justified And Ancient (another with many versions, the most iconic being the number one collaboration with Tammy Wynette), 3AM Eternal (my favourite version of that is the 1989 Break 4 Love Mix), Last Train To Transcentral and Build A Fire.

[@showdown2006]

Ok well technically it wasn't "live" they just gave it the live feel. The stadium house takes is really what made these tracks big. The I wanna see you sweat part was sampled from Wanda Dee. What I really appreciate about the KLF is that they didn't make forgettable dance music.

[@mistah_freeze]

These guys were geniuses, plain and simple. Thank you for the reaction. Now, I guess it's time for the rest of Stadium House Trilogy - Last Train To Trancentral and 3 AM Eternal ;)

[@PaulAJacksonMusic]

No it wasn't live. Sampled audience noises ( from live Doors and U2 records ). Trancentral is the name given to their 'studio' set up.

[@colombe245]

Travel in time back to the 90's, this is a stample, amazing song, to listen again and again. 🎉🎉🎉👍🏻👍🏻

[@grooveyerbouti]

Amazing is only word for K.L.F

[@PaulAJacksonMusic]

In order I think after this... 3am Eternal, Last Train To Trancentral, Justified And Ancient and then America: What Time Is Love. The latter was released in the US earlier than in the UK where it came out after they had "left the music business". A fitting end

[@NoMoneyG]

OMG!! ALL BOUND FOR MU MU LAND.... That will mean something later if you do future reactions.😉 Enjoy the KLF ride!! Thanks Dereck!

[@78KRS]

Classic 90s trance hardcore that hit the mainstream big time Youd probably like altern8 from the same era. Good Times in the UK the rave scene is a always happy memory for me

[@TheGrey.]

This is my current alarm on my phone and shall always be. I 😍 this song. Being a teen in 80s/90s UK was the best with songs like this ….

[@debbiedebster5806]

Love it!!!♥️ this takes me back to bartending, this song would come on & we all went BANANAS 😉♥️✌

[@realburglazofficial2613]

When I first heard these songs back in the early 90’s even my 6yr old ears knew they were hearing something _special!_ Even now in 2023, the KLF are _still_ timeless!

[@samueldevulder]

WTF? No cap on Derek's head. It's official now, I'm in a parallel universe.

[@sheepdavis]

THIS SONG IS FUCKING DOPE

[@alunmorgan2352]

Wow this takes me back. Goosebumps. Can imagine I’m in that club in Germany as a young soldier

[@susanleitch8649]

And that was the KLF! I'm glad you liked them. I loved them...and I was in my late thirties! My sons thought I'd gone mad...but they soon realised that I hadn't, and the KLF really were... brilliant.

[@CultOfMU]

The KLF is the reason I am now part metalhead and electronic music fan.

[@louiseju]

Love that you love this era of music. So nice to have young(er) people listening to it. Just observing your moves to the music - a little advice from the 90s - just let yourself go man - we didn't think about how we looked when raving back then.

[@richardpoulain7422]

YES, YES, YES ! The best band EVER ! Thank you !

[@astropioneer3296]

Love your enthusiasm for the KLF's brand of stadium house. This is what I felt back when it came out in 1991! This is what KLF is about. Also known as the justified ancients of Mu Mu. Furthermore known as The JAMM's!

[@catschorus4684]

KLF are fantastic! Try American What Time is Love, Last Train to Transcentral, It's Grim Up North, Justified and Ancient - they were so ahead of the curve

[@jediradekcrif9568]

The KLF would approve of this reaction!! 💯

[@bethanythatsme]

Being an ancient club kid really is bananas. We had the most fun 🍌

[@TheClairem75]

Genius. Pure genius. Deep dive and enjoy!

[@pdrg]

Fwiw it was only "live" in the sense that it was fully made in the studio with audience reaction noise cut in. Trancentral was the name of their studio ;-) They also claim "live at the SSL" too - SSL being the name of a popular mixing desk.

[@djtechnothrash6234]

KLF 3. a.m eternal! and what time is love 2 great Epic tracks, played with KLF back in 92 at a danceparty

[@thenortherner3890]

What is called audio visual perfection - A track at the right time and right place in musical history.

[@BillieBonse]

wow this is fire!

[@mindovermatter6664]

KLF was great! Insomnia by Faithless was another club anthem! People went crazy!

[@derrywalker7835]

One of the most interesting bands of the 90’s deleted their back catalogue and burnt a million pounds in the name of art not to mention their crazy antics at the Brit awards’

[@eu-neuwagen4024]

The entire album (the white room) blew me away in 91, when I got it. KLF stands for Kings of Low Frequency 👊😎

[@ruuddhont2098]

Forgot about this one....back in the days this was something really different.. love it

[@dachriz4130]

One of the best compositions of their age

[@grahamheiner4601]

Still sounds great after all this time!

[@mafeetaritchie6927]

If you want to see Tammy Wynette in a whole new light check out KLF - Justified And Ancient. Perfect pop dance 🤩

[@drupiter517]

Now and forever my favorite song of all time

[@timranachan3224]

Yep. This one was a white dove. 'Last train ' was a disco biscuit. Fuck, the 90s were magic.

[@richardhunter7363]

Been waiting ages for the Reaction community to find The KLF. Turn up to 11, put on the running clothes, ear buds in and away you go.

[@thisworldofwater8017]

Oh Dereck. You will have SO MUCH FUN with the KLF. Please continue. And check out the crazy mythology - there's never been any "band" like the KÖF.

[@jean-lucpicard4467]

1988, KLF, What Time Is Love, original vinyl (12") the birth of Trance.

[@TheCyberandi]

I love it. in my top 20 favorite songs. One of the songs i mostly remember from childhood. It was on one of the first cassetes, which mixtaped my mum to me. When hearing this i remember beeing a small boy and playing lego 😂

[@ThisbeofBabylon]

Oh My... Brings me back some memories here. Used to be a big fan of this song and another one from this band.

[@thaitim007]

The White Room.. 3am Eternal. At 18 years old i was having the time of my life.

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

What time is Love (Live at the S.L.L.), The S.L.L. being the Solid State Logic, the era's leading studio mixing desk (so not live at all!). Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty were the KLF, Bill Drummond a famous-ish early-mid 80's record executive and part founder of Zoo Records which acted as an Incubator label to a lot of soon to be famous Liverpool bands, Jimmy Cauty, graphic artists famous-ish for Athena Posters (especially a Lords of the Rings one). One drunken evening they decided to form a concept group based on the Illuminatus Trilogy that would use samples. This is the eventual result! They became the worlds biggest band briefly, made an absolute mint but had huge issues with it, felt jaded by it. They left the music business in the most spectacular way at the biggest awards ceremony, imagine Michael Jackson doing a version of Billie Jean in the style of a hard core punk band, then collecting his Grammy for Thriller by saying "thank you, fuck you, I quit". Its that level of bonkers spectacular. The Million quid they burned was in part, because they felt tainted by it and what it represented (earnings from selling out).

[@sianwarwick633]

Imagine hearing this every day in the 90s. It was glorious. KLF.

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

Ah so much memories from my teenage years in school.

[@Bubbs1234]

70 s til late 90s what the best time for music.

[@Richard-Bullock]

KLF also did a track under another name worth watching. It was called Doctorin' The Tardis and the band name they used was The Timelords. Well worth a watch just for the cheap and cheesy video alone.

[@lostboyremix]

and they also released "It's Grim Up North" as The Jams. An amazing track!!!

[@CorleoneDiscoStar]

Hell YEAH!!!! DO any KLF song, and any The Shamen song to find out what the real rave music was about !!!

[@paulrobinson649]

I think the “ Live at transcentral” was the name giving to the trilogy of videos they linked together. “ What time is love” “ last train to transcentral” and “ 3am Eternal” there is a video of all 3 online

[@rouguy1972]

I used to have this album in cassette lol ❤️

[@sianwarwick633]

Because there was simply nothing better to play on your walkman in the underground

[@marcelosanches3397]

We are the ancients of 90´s. We´re justified and ancient. Greetz from Mumu

[@alphaomega7191]

Useless Trivia: The girl in the red is Cressida who was married to Jimmy (the long haired guy) at the time and she ran the record label. She does cancer research now.

[@ev9466]

I played the LP version, because I liked to mess with people with its intro. Around the 90s underground dance was steps ahead the commercial dance pop, and the KLF was in the olympus with very few other producers.

[@raboratory]

The original is from '88, & everybody went mental when it blasted in the early warehouse parties.., when raves & house parties were still completely underground & mostly illegal.

[@BliterTV]

Roland TB303... The acid sound bass.

[@annesmith2259]

3 am Eternal by these is out of this world

[@sharonunfiltered]

This whole album is a classic.

[@michaelaldan6969]

all Dj's know the Mumu from the 90's...I Dj'd in a small cocktail bar in the Netherlands...the birthplace of House.. KLF was huge!! we played and we danced....and we did much more.. ;)

[@greymack]

If Derek ever gets round to America what time is love it will blow his mind 😁

[@farimahdilmaghani5751]

I love this band very much, their songs are great and they really make you sweat, lol, please make reaction on their other songs too, thanks

[@dontcoloroutsidethelines6815]

Listen to c89.5 fm on Sunday from 6pm till 2am for more industrial music. No commercials.

[@07Shultz]

You've just found the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu. Many consider this track to be one of the earliest Trance records.

[@jessenuf]

I usually heard this at 4:00 a.m. Those were the fun old days.

[@andyj639]

A would be historical gig of brilliant insanity. Hawkwind at their peak plus KLF on the same bill.

[@queensupremedivination5460]

When KLF are singing about being justified and ancient, they are referring to being Lemurian. Lemuria sank into the Pacific Ocean and some of the refugees went to Mt. Shasta, CA, and some went to Great Britain and Scandinavia. Watch the video for America: What time is love. The Lumerians originated from the Pleiades constellation. The KLF changed their name later to the Time Lords, which seems appropriate too.😊

[@douglastaggart9360]

.Great music from a great era in music was i really 24 when this was out.

[@78KRS]

Just watched the documentary on them Who killed the klf Well worth a watch, they were a group unlike any other

[@babyjane4ever]

KLF, the only band ever burning millions pounds!

[@kappakai78]

Yaaaaaaassssss!!!!! BTW KLF was close with Dr Alex Paterson who would be the person behind the ambient godfather the Orb (Little Fluffy Clouds?) Be sure to check out KLF’s Chillout Album; completely different, all ambient. House. Hip hop. They also had a 303 in there.

[@declanmagee58]

The KLF were unique. It was a 3-way collision between the filthy traveller acid hippy scene, the city gay bar ecstasy scene, and South London urban hiphop. None of it really exists any more, so it can never really happen again.

[@susanjohnston8267]

There is a different version of this song done by them called America, What time is love? It would be interesting if you compared the two.

[@Tifoso711]

Wow this song bring me back to early 90’s and great clubbing. Please also react to Utah Saints ”something good” same time aprox

[@timranachan3224]

Remember that on a brown disco biscuit. ✨️

[@Gittoplo]

Epic on all counts!

[@MegaTingtong]

KLF still sounds amazing 👏🏻 I also believe that it will be a before and after if you check out Samantha Fox ”Touch me” 🤷‍♂️🤓🙏

[@marcovtjev]

The one of the first real Trance Anthems

[@MrMrFearghal]

That's why you MUST react to the New Beat (1986-1996).

[@keefsmiff]

This is how trance started

[@Telemachus31]

You should check out "The Shamen - Hyperreal", I think you will love that:)

[@chucku00]

Dereck has to check out Anne Clark. Sleeper In Metropolis or Our Darkness can show him from where KLF took their inspiration. And some Kraftwerk too, such as The Robots.

[@Truthseeker1515]

I was in my last year at school when this came out before heading to university, it was an epic time. Techno was far more influential that grunge imho and lasted well into the late 1990s. When clubbing was clubbing. Shocking to hear the crap today....

[@timothydeweese6931]

Great album!

[@tanweersharafuddin1919]

Yes I had recorded all their hits cos I couldn't find their album at the time Klf beats are still hard beats and when I hear it now on my high quality sound system Now it sounds amazing ever now 🌹💋💕❤💦

[@PhalseProfit13]

Read about these guys man, very interesting band