Featuring Youth (real name: Martin Glover), bass player from Killing Joke, and Jimmy Cauty, future keyboardist and insurrectionist in the KLF (of which, a lot more later), this US fan-made compilation CD collects Brilliant's early singles, b-sides, off-cuts and Peel Sessions before they sank below the pop firmament with their Stock, Aitken and Waterman-produced debut (and only) album "Kiss the Lips of Life" in 1985.

Youth would continue to occasionally collaborate with Cauty during the latter's "ambient house" days with the KLF (roughly speaking, 1989-1990), recording "Naked in the Rain" as Blue Pearl with former Pink Floyd vocalist Durga McBroom (which was remixed by Cauty both on the CD single, and in two versions on a rare 12" promo), and collaborating with former Killing Joke roadie "Dr" Alex "LXD" Patterson on the third Orb single "Little Fluffy Clouds" (Cauty was in the Orb's original line-up, and worked with LXD on the debut "Kiss EP" and the twenty-minute masterpiece "A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain That Grows From the Centre of the Ultraworld (Loving You)" in its various incarnations).

Youth can also be spotted dancing in the basement of Jimmy Cauty's Stockwell squat/KLF headquarters, the famous Trancentral, at some point in early 1989, in the KLF's much-bootlegged road movie "The White Room".

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Alex Patterson (l) DJing at Trancentral, with Youth (r) dancing, still taken from "The White Room" movie.

Tracklisting of Brilliant "Rarities" TRIZ CD 103

(1) That's What Friends Are For ...
(2) Push
(3) Colours
(4) Soul Murder (Fierce)
(5) Wait For It (Megacitymix)
(6) Cutprice (Megacitymix)
(7) Coming Up For the Downstroke
(8) Hoist
(9) Scream Like An Angel
(10) Growler
(11) I Think This is True (Live)
(12) Colours (Live)
(13) Bells (Peel Session 8/11/82)
(14) Colours/Break It Down (Peel Session 8/11/82)

Links:

http://www.protectlinks.com/95217
http://www.protectlinks.com/95219

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