Jimmy Cauty
Musician
The KLF...house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop -inspired and sample -heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, and on... In this article: The KLF, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Illuminatus, What Time Is Love?, NME, Last Train to Trancentral, BRIT Awards, United Kingdom, and K Foundation |
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Wikipedia | October 08, 2009
Space (album)
...to remove Paterson's contributions, the album was released on the KLF Communications label, with Cauty alone receiving credit. According to Cauty, "It was a jam, all done on Oberheim keyboards . Loads of samples ... were chucked in there...
In this article: Space, The Orb, The KLF, Bill Drummond, Dr. Alex Paterson, Oberheim, and The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
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Wikipedia | September 25, 2009
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
...Million Quid was an action that took place on 23 August 1994, in which the K Foundation (an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burned one million pounds sterling in cash on the Scottish island of Jura . This money represented...
In this article: Bill Drummond, K Foundation, K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, The KLF, The Observer, Jura, and K Foundation art award
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Wikipedia | September 24, 2009
K Foundation
...said, knowing "nothing, personally, about the technology", he needed a collaborator. Drummond called Jimmy Cauty who agreed to join him in a new band called The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu (The JAMs). The JAMs' debut release, the single "All...
In this article: K Foundation, Bill Drummond, The KLF, Turner Prize, Rachel Whiteread, Brilliant, Jura, and NME
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Wikipedia | August 31, 2009
Doctorin' the Tardis
"Doctorin' the Tardis" () is a 1988 electronic novelty pop single by The Timelords ("Time Boy" and "Lord Rock", aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, now better known as The KLF). The song is predominantly a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme...
In this article: Doctorin' the Tardis, Bill Drummond, The KLF, Time Lord, Gary Glitter, Doctor Who, Sounds, and Tardis
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Wikipedia | August 28, 2009
Jimmy Cauty
James Francis Cauty (commonly known as Jimmy or Jimi Cauty, also known as Rockman Rock) (born December 19, 1956) is a British artist and musician born in Liverpool, England in 1956. Cauty is best known as one half of the hitmaking duo The...
In this article: Bill Drummond, Alex Paterson, The Orb, The KLF, London, K Foundation, and NME
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Wikipedia | June 14, 2009
Fuck the Millennium
...Love?". Drummond attended the festival performance and heard "What Time Is Love?" performed as the encore, during which he telephoned Cauty. Cauty and Drummond together attended a 19 April Acid Brass performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall,...
In this article: Bill Drummond, The KLF, Fuck the Millennium, What Time Is Love?, Jeremy Deller, Illuminatus!, and Respondent
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Wikipedia | May 19, 2009
The Magnificent
"The Magnificent" is a 1995 song by the One World Orchestra (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, better known as The KLF), recorded for the War Child charity compilation , The Help Album. The song-One World Orchestra's sole release-is a drum...
In this article: The Magnificent, Bill Drummond, B92, World Orchestra, The Help Album, The KLF, Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, The Magnificent Seven, and Slobodan Milosevic
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | February 13, 2009
Artists flout copyright law to attack Damien Hirst
...was reading a book called 'How to be a Detective' but Cauty replaced that with one titled 'Copyright and Intellectual Property Law'. Cauty, who famously burnt one million pounds of earnings from the KLF in the name of art, wrote to The...
In this article: Damien Hirst, Injunction, Sex Pistols, Billy Childish, and KLF
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Wikipedia | February 03, 2009
Who Killed The JAMs?
...released several other singles that year and made regular appearances in the British music press . In a December 1987 interview, Rockman Rock claimed that The JAMs' second album would be heavy metal... "We're gonna do heavy metal covers. We...
In this article: Who Killed The JAMs?, The KLF, Bill Drummond, Melody Maker, ABBA, Timelords, Nihilism, Irrationality, and Bankruptcy
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Wikipedia | August 31, 2008
Transit Kings
The Transit Kings are a British electronic music group consisting of Alex Paterson, Guy Pratt and Dom Beken. Jimmy Cauty, co-founder of The Orb with Paterson, was involved in initial recording sessions but does not take part in live...
In this article: Transit Kings, The Orb, Alex Paterson, The KLF, Guy Pratt, Ambient house, The Sun, Johnny Marr, and Deep Forest
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James Cauty (commonly known as Jimmy or Jimi Cauty, also known as Rockman Rock) is a British artist and musician born in Totnes, Devon, England in 1956. Cauty is best known as one half of the hitmaking duo The KLF; as co-founder of The Orb and a leading innovator in the birth of the ambient house genre; and as the man who burnt one million pounds.
Cauty is married to Cressida (née Bowyer), with whom he has twins, Harold and Daisy.
- Name At Birth:
- James Cauty
- Also Known As:
- Scourge Of The Earth, Advanced Acoustic Armaments (AAA)
- Rockman Rock, Lord Rock, Space, Graybeard
- Birth Date:
- December 19, 1956
- Occupation:
- Musician, record producer, artist
- Instrument Played:
- Guitar, synthesiser
- Record Label:
- KLF Communications, Blast First
- Years Active:
- 1981–present
- Associated With:
- Angels 1-5, Brilliant, The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu, The Timelords, The KLF, The Orb, K Foundation, 2K, Blacksmoke, Solid Gold Chartbusters, Transit Kings
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