I´ve allways been facinated by what people in the 60´s thought the future would be like, allways expecting flying cars and pills replacing whole meals in the year 2001. We see hilarious traces of this in movies and music from that time, and one of my favorite futuristic products from the 60´s must be White Noise and their album "An Electric Storm" issued on Island in 1969. At that time BBC had their own studio for the exploring of sound waves and techniques, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, there sat the nutty professors with their Moog-synthesisers and tape loops experimenting with the future of sound and space age of music. In the wake of british psychedelia sound pioneers David Vorhaus, Brian Hodgeson and the lovely Deila Derbishire (on the photo above during the recordings) made the craziest psych sounds under the name White Noise. Their record An Electric Storm is as mindblowing as it is hilarious with it´s futuristic but dated pop-space-psychedelia ad the product of more knob twisting and tape looping than the whole Beatles catalogue all together.
Well, here´s a taste, the glorious opening track "Love Without Sound", indeed the sound of the future!
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Dandy Longlegs
November 11th, 2009Wow, that’s great! It reminds me of two other electronic pioneers, Bruce Haack and Dick Hyman, but this sounds more like actual songs instead of sounds. Great!