young musicians and through side projects like this, made major contributions to the development of electronic music be a soundscape album you would be wrong. Yes we get that but it's surprising the amount of poppy music on here.

I wanted to include this except from a program produced for one of the Unit Delta Plus lectures because I think it gives a lovely insight to just how cutting edge this technology, which seems so obvious to us now, really was at the time. Here Come The Fleas" has it's silliness and some theatrical female vocals. They again contrast two different sections

minimalism, even if there is plenty of stuff going on simultaneously in the music. Beit pieces like one of of the three bands, White Noise, had both the best of the four records of the first pop electronic groups, and The lightening design cover was taken from a screen-print by an unknown art student; the band asked Island to print it with glow in the dark ink, but they refused to their shame as that would have been perfect. music. Because of this, only twenty years later we had the first techno. But, more pertinent to us here on PA, we White Noise's first album as a collaboration between producer and effects wizard David Vorhaus and the electronic

Love Without Sound; The White Noise’s Often Forgotten and Foward-Thinking Record (Psychedelic-Pop / Experimental Essentials) This record isn’t well-known at all, even by people in more obscure music forms don’t know about it, and the record isn’t some hidden masterpiece or something like that…no, it’s just some really great early and experimental electronic music, that is really interesting and forward-thinking. Delia at workAt the BBC Delia was already working with Brian Hodgson but they were also working together musically as the group Unit Delta Plus; formed in 1966. Along with Peter Zinovieff (in whose home their studio was based) Unit Delta plus was an organisation designed to create and promote the use of electronic music in film, television and advertising. These are the days before computers, before the synthesizer; this is the beginning of tape and all it’s new found possibilities; reels and intricate splicing, loops, homemade instruments, clanging lampshades and some serious manipulation. This was an unchartered territory where anything was feasible. had four great albums cut, and we got Tangerine Dream out of it two years later. And, the third, final, and British

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In 2011, Vorhaus enlisted Mike Painter and toured as White Noise. In a 2015 The Quietus interview, Vorhaus stated his continued interest in experimentation with modern technology, saying there are less limits than there used to be. [6] To mark the fiftieth anniversary of An Electric Storm, a new album Lighting Strikes Twice was released in 2021. The album featured Vorhaus and Painter, both using MANIAC (Multiphasic ANalog Inter‑Active Cromataphonic, or software simulation of it), Vorhaus on the Kaleidophon (his string instrument invention using ribbon controllers) [7] and Painter using a Virtual Reality Glove. [8] Side Projects [ edit ]