Bad Wisdom

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1. n3uromancerFeb 2023
   If you liked this book, you might also like Bad Wisdom (Bill Drummond, Mark Manning, Penguin books, 1996, ISBN: 978-0140261189), wherein Zen masters Z, Bill and Gimpo set out to the North Pole to sacrifice an icon of Elvis :)
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2. jstarfishOct 2022
   The Manual is a fun read for its own sake, but the "one simple trick" turned out to be: take the backing music from one song, sample enough of the vocals from another song to have parity with the first, and merge the two. Thus: "Doctorin' the Tardis" is a mash-up of that Gary Glitter "Rock and Roll" song and the Doctor Who theme. "Whitney [Houston] Joins the JAMs" is a similar experimental medley.

   Seemed to work for Fatboy Slim, Prodigy and the rest of the late-90s British DJs too. Not sure it's still a winning formula these days.

   If you like all things KLF and want an interesting read, try Bad Wisdom (its sequel, Wild Highway, was "120 Days of Sodom"-level unreadable in my opinion). You'll have to find it on Libgen.

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