The KLF

Setting out to rip-off the music industry, Bill Drummond and Jimi Cauty ended up producing global pop and club hits, the more upbeat of which are on this album, including "What Time Is Love?," "3A.M. Eternal" and "Last Train To Transcentral." Sailing right up to the border of cheese, these tunes remain a guilty pleasure for anyone with an ear for a catchy toe-tapper.

"They're justified/And they're ancient/And they like to roam the land," croons anonymous disco soulgirl P.P. Arnold. "They don't want to upset the apple cart/And they don't want to cause any harm/But if you don't like what they're going to do/You'd better not stop them 'cause they're coming through." Whereupon follows a famous sample from the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams" and a welter of pop-industrial body grooves. These voracious smarty-pants Brits--a/k/a the Timelords, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the Jams--are sampling less and copycatting more these days, and whatever they mean or don't mean, deconstruct or reify or exploit, they like everything I like about house and are canny enough to can the boring parts. Somebody at the label that brought us Snap has an ear for the rap-Eurodance cusp. (Grade - A-)