THE WHITE NOISE An Electric Storm 1970 UK ISLAND - EXCELLENT
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THE WHITE NOISE An Electric Storm 1970 UK ISLAND - EXCELLENT
THE WHITE NOISEAn Electric Storm
1970 UK ISLAND (ILPS 9099) SECOND PRESSING OF THE ELECTRIC STORM'S PIONEERING ELECTRONICA
PRESSED WITH ISLAND PINK RIM LABELS - ROUGHLY TEXTURED
MATRIX: ILPS+9099+A / ILPS+9099+B
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL THIN AND DELICATE SINGLE SLEEVE
Side 1:
My Game Of Loving (3:38)
Here Come The Fleas (2:31)
Firebird (2:43)
Your Hidden Dreams (4:25)
Side 2:
The Visitation (11:45)
The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell (7:04)
An Electric Storm is justly renowned as one of the first albums to fuse pop and electronic music before the advent of the Moog synthesizer.
But you don't have to be versed in the language of sine waves and oscillators to enjoy this mostly delightful and hugely inventive album.
For although the White Noise were almost exclusively composed of virtuoso knob twiddlers and tape splicers moonlighting from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, luckily they were no slouches when it came to penning a decent tune.
There's also anarchic humour at play on the manic "Here Come the Fleas," contains more edits in its two minutes than the whole of Sgt. Pepper's.
Yet it's the retro-futurist textures that still grab the ear most.
These are sounds that will be familiar to anyone who knows the soundtrack of Forbidden Planet or the early series of Doctor Who, but they had never before been deployed in the service of pop music, nor have they since.
And whereas the Moog would supplant all of these primitive, time-consuming techniques of sound generation and manipulation within the year, it also destroyed much of electronic music's spirit of adventure in the process.
Most of the songs that make up the first half of An Electric Storm are pretty much your standard-issue polite British psychedelia but the way they're dressed up still sounds innovative decades later.
Side Two however; the 12-minute "The Visitations" and the seven-minute "The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell" let loose electronic experimentation.
The former is a decidedly spooky drama with a supernatural twist. The biker, having departed this life, attempts to make one last attempt to cross over and console his grieving beloved- it's spine-tingling stuff that you won't dare listen to with the lights off.
The concluding track, spliced together in a hurry to meet Island's suddenly imposed deadline is a wonder to behold.
LABELS: EXCELLENT
Clean labels - moderate spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both surfaces shine like new with nothing but inconsequential light marks (pressing blemishes)
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT
Plays beautifully throughout - low-level surface/very soft ticks noted on some of the quietest moments - nothing major - overall a very, very clean copy
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
Wear to the edges and rub to the surfaces but structurally sound
POST & PACKING:
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