Mojo called White Noise’s 1969 album An Electric Storm one of the 50 most mind-blowing records of all time. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but the group’s often lighthearted, sometimes sexual, usually weird brand of space pop is a lot of fun and certainly pioneering for its time. White Noise is David Vorhaus, an American son of a black-listed Hollywood director who moved to Great Britain to avoid the Vietnam draft. While overseas, he studied classical music. Soon, his love of science was coupled with his growing fascination in electronic music. The result, which was released by Island Records, is this album, played on homemade equipment by a knob twiddler. The second tune, “Here Come the Fleas,” features collaborator Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer of British techno, on vocals. The song also, supposedly, features more tape-splice edits than the whole of Sgt. Pepper’s. There’s also some less poppy material on this album, but I excluded it from sample because it’s also the lengthier material.
White Noise — “Firebird”
White Noise — “Here Come the Fleas”
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