An Electric Storm

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Love Without Sound; The White Noise’s Often Forgotten and Foward-Thinking Record (Psychedelic-Pop / Experimental Essentials) This record isn’t well-known at all, even by people in more obscure music forms don’t know about it, and the record isn’t some hidden masterpiece or something like that…no, it’s just some really great early and experimental electronic music, that is really interesting and forward-thinking. for being the composer of the iconic Doctor Who theme music, and the Radiophonic Workshop's electronic hums and wizards Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Derbyshire is mostly famous a b White, Paul (1 February 2002). "David Vorhaus - Electronic Music Pioneer". www.soundonsound.com . Retrieved 2 November 2023. industrial, at least six years ahead of its time. The music turns dark, the vocalists start screaming and crying,

In '68, three bands all coincidentally experimented with primitive, self constructed oscillators to create some of the This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this seminal album by trio White Noise. Released on Island Records in June 1969, “An Electric Storm” has been cited as the first electronic pop album in the UK and has influenced many artists over the decades. Your Hidden Dreams" contrasts the female vocals with electronics against those noisy outbursts. Now the nextmusic. Because of this, only twenty years later we had the first techno. But, more pertinent to us here on PA, we I wanted to include this except from a program produced for one of the Unit Delta Plus lectures because I think it gives a lovely insight to just how cutting edge this technology, which seems so obvious to us now, really was at the time.

the subject matter or the music at times and this isn't a 4 star album in my world, just everyone else's. By 1970, however, White Noise had been overtaken by events. As the Moog synthesizer became widely available, the kind of equipment used by the Radiophonic Workshop team became obsolete almost overnight. And since it was this very equipment that gave the White Noise album so much of its charm, there was never any question of a full-scale follow-up. However, several years later Vorhaus attempted to revive the White Noise name with a solo instrumental album for Virgin performed entirely on the Moog and called, somewhat portentously, White Noise 2: Concerto for Synthesizer. By then, though, the market was already flooded with synth albums and the record made little impact. A third album called Re-Entry for the Pulse label in 1980 met a similar fate, as did Sound Mind (2000) and Inferno (2001). ~ Christopher Evans HOMETOWN London, England Delia at workAt the BBC Delia was already working with Brian Hodgson but they were also working together musically as the group Unit Delta Plus; formed in 1966. Along with Peter Zinovieff (in whose home their studio was based) Unit Delta plus was an organisation designed to create and promote the use of electronic music in film, television and advertising. These are the days before computers, before the synthesizer; this is the beginning of tape and all it’s new found possibilities; reels and intricate splicing, loops, homemade instruments, clanging lampshades and some serious manipulation. This was an unchartered territory where anything was feasible.McNamee, David (19 January 2009). "The Best of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop on One Side of a C90". The Quietus.