OFF: White Noise

[Mark Lee]

Dave,

That's the one - I remembered the blurb as soon as I started reading your
email.  I've been keeping an eye out for that for years, I wonder if
our friend Andy (CDServices) has ever come across it.  If anybody on the
list can locate a copy please let me know and I'll arrange something with
them off-list.  I have fond memories of that album . . .
I'd like to get the 2nd and 3rd for the sake of it even given your notes
because I've never even heard them, we used to alternate between this,
Frank Zappa and very heavy 'Dub', Scientists v Spaceinvader stuff most
evenings (I was at Uni ?)

So, anybody help ?

Mark (Hasbeen).


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Date:    Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:49:08 +0100
From:    Dave Bottomley <merlinas at DIRCON.CO.UK>
Subject: OFF: White Noise (was Re: BOC-L Digest - 10 Jul 2001 to 11 Jul 2001
         (#2001-278))

Mark (Hasbeen) asked:

>Would that have been Electric Heat ?  I only ask because
>it's only album I've ever seen and that was many many many
>moons past.

Almost. The first album is "An Electric Storm" and is well worth getting
hold of (but it *is* extremely odd). Hard to describe, so I'll quote the
blurb from the sleeve:

"Many sounds have never been heard - by humans: some sound waves you don't
hear - but they reach you. 'Storm-stereo' techniques combine singers,
instrumentalists and complex electronic sound. The emotional intensity is at
a maximum."

I kid you not. Says it all, really! Don't know if it ever made it to CD. I
also have the second album  - the imaginatively-titled "White Noise II"
(circa 1975, I think). I haven't heard this in years but recall it being
absolutely dreadful. There is also a White Noise III from the 80's (or
90's?) I believe, but I never bothered with that given the travesty of the
second. Hope that helps.