White Noise - Electric Storm

"An Electric Storm" is the most renowned work of UK collective White Noise, an English experimental electronic music band consisting of virtuoso knob twiddlers and tape splicers. Although not very successful on it's initial release, the album is now considered an important and influential album in the development of electronic music. But beyond it's historical importance, the harmonic progressions, among other things, are by no means taken for granted, and refer a lot to the Baroque and to classical composition in general. This album was obviously a labor of love, taking a whole year to complete seven amazing songs before sampling technology, synthesizers and digital equipment were readily available. There's also chaotic humor at play on the feverish "Here Come the Fleas," which contains more edits in it's two minutes than the whole of Sgt. Pepper's. Yet it's the retro-futurist textures that still grab the ear most.