An Electric Storm – WHITE NOISE**

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An Electric Storm was the debut album from the British/American studio group White Noise. The music was a combination of electronic experimentation and psychedelic rock featuring one of the first synthesizers.

The legendary debut White Noise album was released in 1969 by Island Records featuring Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson, who had worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and David Vorhaus, who had studied classical orchestral bass playing and electronics. It introduced all sorts of early electronic instruments and a huge amount of tape manipulation.”

“An Electric Storm is considered to be one of the most experimental albums. The songs create a peculiar and sometimes dark atmosphere.”

“Vorhaus crafted this masterwork in the classic e-music methods; lots of tape and musique concrete is in evidence here, along with some very interesting and often twisted early synth work and massive reprocessing of percussion and other sounds. There's often a really creepy feel that gets into the mix here.”

“This will have limited appeal, it’s totally bizarre and over-the-top, free-form freak-out style experimental prog/psych, with heavy use of sound effects.”

“Sounds a bit too cheesy in some parts, and is pretty outdated nowadays, but still manages to hold up rather well with great songs and a lot of interesting moments.” “The music is trippy, the tones suggestive etc, but this must vocally be one of the worst records of all time.”

“Using all sorts of tape manipulation techniques to alter the sound of acoustic and electric instruments, it is one of the first records to mix psychedelic rock with the experimental electronic music that was part of the avant-garde at the time. Made in the late 1960s, it is almost inconceivable that this could have been done with the technology then available. Yet, there it is. Only a group of true musical geniuses could have pulled this off.”