''Solid State Logik'' is a 2021 two-part digital compilation album by British electronic band

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, released to

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on KLF Communications, in a series of six planned official compilations, ''Samplecity thru Trancentral''. 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. 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.

Background

On 16 January 2013, several albums by the KLF (''

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'', 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, but turned out to be unofficial and were deleted the next day. In 2018, ''

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'' mentioned the KLF amongst artists notably absent from major streaming services. 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

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s) was announced via

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and posters featuring the KLF logo, hung under a railway bridge on

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. The 30-minute collection of eight remastered and slightly re-edited single versions appeared at midnight 1 January 2021, on music streaming platforms, while

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s were published for the first time on the band's newly established official

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as the KLF since 1992. ''Solid State Logik 1'' includes a previously unreleased version of "

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Further releases

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

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s, hinting at the reissues to also feature previously unreleased material.

Track listing

*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 is different to the 1991 version, with changes most prominent in the closing "Jerusalem on the Moors" section. *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.

References

{{Authority control 2021 greatest hits albums The KLF albums KLF Communications compilation albums Electronic albums by British artists