An Electric Storm

An Electric Storm is the debut album by electronic music group White Noise. The band recorded the first two tracks with the intention of producing a single only but were then persuaded by Chris Blackwell of Island Records to create an entire album. At this point the group had established the Kaleidophon Studio in a flat in Camden Town, London, and spent a year creating the next four tracks. The last track was put together in one day when Island demanded the completion of the album. Although not very successful on its initial release, the album is now considered an important and influential album in the development of electronic music. Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle has called it "the most groundbreaking yet completely underrated electronic record of the 20th century".

A brief extract from the track "Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell" can be heard in the Hammer Film Productions film Dracula AD 1972.

Track listing

 * Phase-In


 * Phase-Out

Personnel
The following people contributed to An Electric Storm:
 * Kaleidophon – production
 * David Vorhaus – production co-ordinator
 * Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson – electronic sound realisation
 * Paul Lytton – percussion
 * John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw – vocals

Releases

 * June 1969 - LP, Island Records, catalog number ILPS 9099
 * 27 March 1995 - CD, "3D Island" label, Island Records, 3DCID 1001; deleted 1996
 * 9 July 2007 - CD re-released, Island Remasters