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. Leading keyboard manufacturer Korg UK will continue as an ongoing partner with the loan of synthesisers for education. Touring partners are Iklektik Lab (London) and Inner City Electronic Festival (Leeds). 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.

Tangerine Dream or Ash Ra Tempel or Cosmic Jokers would come on the heels of this release - but precious few would had four great albums cut, and we got Tangerine Dream out of it two years later. And, the third, final, and Britishsong "The Visitation" at almost 12 minutes has it's moments and plenty of soundscape stuff but it's the whimpering and I doubt miss Derbyshire or Brian ever received any money for their role in this,but at least we now know who made it.

During the recording of the album David’s Camden studio overran with tape – snaking on the floor like worms. His flat emanated strange noises, as machines whirred away – what must have passersby thought? First, I wanna talk about Delia Ann Derby. Well, she’s a famous English musician and electronic music composer, she is primarily know for her work in BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, and for creating the electronic arrangement of the opening theme song for Doctor Who. She’s often cited as “the unsung heroine of British Electronic Music”, having influenced Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers, Orbital, etc. But how does she fit in with this release? Well, she worked on this album, she was primarily integral in conceptualizing and realizing the electronic sound collages and other aspects of the album, along with Brian Hodgson; which was also another important figure with Dr. Who, he’s cited as being the original sound effects creator for the program, so yes…he did create the sound of the TARDIS and the Daleks. David Vorhaus did the production on this project, and it’s great, especially for how archaic and cheap the equipment he used was…this was also was made months prior to the widespread availability of keyboard synthesizers, so the record was primarily made using improvised equipment—which is really interesting to someone like me…because it represents a bygone era, y’know. replaced by vocals and a spacey atmosphere. Contrasts continue and this is catchy. On the other hand listening to two After the album’s release, Delia and Brian left the group to concentrate on their BBC work, leaving David to carry on with the name. He recorded a further five albums, with the last appearing in 2006.

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one of of the three bands, White Noise, had both the best of the four records of the first pop electronic groups, and