White Noise - Classic or Dud

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Not the concept but the band from the 1960s. I just got a CDR of this in the post. Interesting stuff. Please tell me information about this band.

― S Samson, Sunday, 16 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

http://thepolywog.com/copshootcop/posters/images/whitenoise-01.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002HC3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

BOTH TOTALLY CLASSIC!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha! Sorry buddy but I was thinking more along the lines of this:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=6:03:39|PM&sql=Aqcaxlfhe5cqe

It is aural disturbance.

― S Samsonite, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i know this:
love without sound=brilliant

― AndrewC, Sunday, 16 March 2003 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the white noise album. It's great! It's on the same level as any other great electro-pop release from that time period.I would file it next to the U.S.A./Joe Boyd & The Field Hippies. You do know how influential Delia Derbyshire was, right? She of Dr.Who theme fame. Well, just ask Stereolab, they'll tell you all about it.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 17 March 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Brilliant album,there's nothing else I've heard that's like it.I love 'Firebird'.I'd say it's one of the top ten LP's of the '60's.

― Paul R (paul R), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Sound Of White Noise is classic?

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 17 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes it is, so don't even bother disagreeing, as you'll only be immersing yourself in a giant, sticky ball of WRONG!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i liked 'the names' a lot more.

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

while the Book, the Concept, and the Album are all strong C's, i'd say David Vorhaus uber alles.

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Monday, 17 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha yuo r all 0wned, coz I saw David Vorhaus (performing as White Noise) LIVE!! He was excellent!! The 1st album "an electric storm in hell" is very good, but the later ones are poor IMO.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 17 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Still sounds pretty good to me! I have my original vinyl copy but it's ruined. Cd sounds fine, and "Love Without Sound" is STILL the sound of the future..

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

classic. wonderful David Vorhaus. though the later Derbyshire-less records do get kind of scary.

bits of the ambient drones on side 2 are reused in Vorhaus' electronic score for the amazing ant film 'Phase IV'.

― jl, Monday, 17 March 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, one other random Vorhaus sighting; he contributes some _wonderful_ synths and textures to several songs on M's bizarre second album, 'Official Secrets Act'. The last song on side one really sticks out, it does not sound much like 'Pop Muzik', no. Actually the closest referent would be some of the chugging portions of Wendy Carlos' 'Timesteps' from the Clockwork Orange score. If you like the first White Noise album it's worth picking up a used copy of the M record for those 2 or 3 tracks, even though most of the songs aren't that interesting.

― jl, Monday, 17 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always thought this thing was a bit overrated.

I have a David Vorhaus library music lp which is pretty much shite.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, you kind of have to pretend those fairlight library music lp's don't exist. though for me, they are so over-the-top tacky that they cause smiles. it's ad spot music for corporations, from the 80's... instrumental tunes meant for voiceovers like 'what will office furniture be like... in the future?'

― jl, Monday, 17 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Richard Harvey (from Gryphon) made better library music than David Vorhaus, FWIW.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there more than one White Noise album?
I bought "An Electric Storm" late last year, and find it to be quite good, though when oompaloomping around the net for info on it, I stumbled upon some people who raved quite a bit about it. Can't say I expect to ever hold it in as high regards as some of those guys, heh.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

so are the later records really that shitty? i put a copy of 3 (from the early 80s) on hold in seattle last weekend but never had a chance to return and pick it up. i listened to it briefly and it seemed at least a bit interesting. no? granted i'm really into all this "new age" synthy crap right now (jean michel jarre etc)

― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

They get progressively blander as they go; nothing tops An Electric Storm, imo. White Noise 2 has some stellar moments; proceed cautiously after that.

― brettino's bounce (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 8 July 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Any thoughts on IV? Inferno? That's the Fairlight one, and he was among those who helped develop the thing's sound library.

According to his MySpace page:

"White Noise IV - Inferno"
AMP Records AMP-CD010 (1990) AVAILABLE
An original release from AMP Records, including some material from several Vorhaus commercial music library albums (with tracks published by KPM) recorded around that time. Instrumentation concentrates more on sound sampling using the Fairlight CMI, plus Yamaha DX FM synthesizers and hybrid analog/digital sounds using the PPG Wave 2.2.

"White Noise 4" dates from around the start of the UK's Channel 4 and includes several pieces heard as links on that TV station. The album includes some great atmospheric pieces, powerful orchestrally influenced tracks and innovative sampling techniques.

David Vorhaus was the first Fairlight CMI computer musical instrument user outside Australia, and created many of the library sound samples for the machine. Most striking of these was the notorious "Orch 5" which invented the concept of the sampled "orchestral hit" and was widely used, among others by Klaus Schulze.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Here Come the Fleas" is one of the best songs ever.

― Bumblepuppy (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Classic for Firebird alone

― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I've only heard An Electric Storm, and it's truly awesome. One of the greatest records ever made.

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

The second one is embarrassingly shite, but the first one is brilliant. One of those you ones where you forget just how out there it is until you revisit it.

― boney (b0n3y), Saturday, 30 September 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not too sold on the first side of Electric Storm... but An Electric Storm In Hell blows my mind!

― Rombald (rombald), Sunday, 1 October 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Wow wow wow how did I never hear this before?

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

"The Visitations" is tangible spooky.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH3aYVbILP4

― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 14 September 2009 22:32 (sixteen years ago)

that's david vorhaus demonstrating his MANIAC sequencer

― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Monday, 14 September 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

without sound without sound without sound

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:39 (fourteen years ago)

Love the first album so much (obviously) but I've never gone any further than the second album.

It's just completely demented how it can leap from utterly out there and mind-bending music to complete and total cheese in the space of just moments. There's something really quite disconcerting about silly knees-up played on really amazing sounding synths.

My Game Of Loving is one of those tracks that always catches me out - I put it on and the first part is so great that I forget about the whole 2 minute orgasm section, embarrassing if anyone else is in the room with you. It came up on random at a previous art show and I had to dive across the room to get it off the speakers before anyone heard.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

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