THE WHITE NOISE “An Electric Storm” UK Pink Rim psych

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THE WHITE NOISE “An Electric Storm” orig UK  Pink Rim Island

1969/UK/Island ILPS 9099….This is a clean UK Pink Rim Island pressing. The thin fragile cover is in VG++ condition, only slight shelf and corner wear, light wear and creasing along left edge, otherwise solid and clean with no splits, delete, writing or other issues! The vinyl is in strong shiny VG++ condition with a few very light inaudible whispy sleeve scuffs.  The record plays clean with little noise and nice fidelity! Please check my auctions for other rock and psych lp’s. Thanks for looking and good luck should you decide to bid!

1968 was a year when the primitive, hermetic world of electronic art began to go public, from the ICA’s Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition to The Beatles’ musique concrète effort “Revolution #9”. At the same time, a19-year-old physics student called David Vorhaus stumbled into a lecture on tape music given by Brian Hodgson and Delia Derbyshire of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop, had an epiphany and breathlessly introduced himself. Within weeks the trio were enjoying night games in the Beeb’s experimental playground. A rashly scrawled cheque from Island’s Chris Blackwell allowed them to stuff Vorhaus’ Camden Town flat with a chain of six Revox tape-recorders and other gizmos, and An Electric Storm was unleashed the following year.  The resulting databank of decadent cut-up songs and plangent psychodramas sounds like no other British rock record of the time, and like no electronic composition either. At first there’s a baffling mismatch between the lyrics – essentially a string of vignettes of fickle sexual mores (“Firebird”), playboy encounters (“My Game Of Loving”), unchained lust (“Love Without Sound”) and the clanking Frankenstein-creature artifice of the soundtracks. “My Game Of Loving”, with its pornographic moaning middle eight, is like the worshipful love of Pet Sounds turned into a pagan orgy. The sepulchral, 11-minute “The Visitation” is totally different: a sobbing girl is haunted by her lover, killed in a motorbike crash, with a disconcerting backing track of melting gongs and woozy pitch-slippages. “The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell” is the celebrated cut – improv drummer Paul Lytton was invited to flail around a kit. Its crude phasing effects and elongated screams come off rather corny to 21st century ears, but these were desperate measures – Island had given them a seven-day ultimatum to deliver a finished record. Despite being revered by the likes of Add N To (X), Squarepusher and Broadcast, An Electric Storm stands as one of a kind – few have attempted its vigorous mêlée of boffins and boffing. ROB YOUNG

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MINT: as stated with no defects

NEAR MINT (NM): as stated near Mint!, very clean with no defect to sound and visually clean and appealing, a near Mint record looks and plays very clean ! A NM cover will have no splits, delete marks, writing or other visual problems. The cover will be clean and solid.

VG++ still a very nice copy with minimal wear, the vinyl will retain it's original gloss and can have some minor scuffs/scratches that don't affect play very much. The cover may have a delete mark, light shelf/and or light ring wear, light corner/seam wear, or a combination of a couple of minor flaws. Still a very nice cover.

VG+ the vinyl will still retain much original gloss with a bit more scuffs and/or scratches but will still play nice with only light noise. The cover may have a delete mark, light to moderate shelf/and or light ring wear, light corner/seam wear/split, or a combination of a few minor flaws. Still a nice cover.  I may list a very rare or desirable item with a lower grade, I will try to list all defects.

AIR POSTAGE TO USA IS $11 ...OR $9 SURFACE IF THE PACKAGE WEIGHS LESS THAN 500 GRAMS(one regular weight pressing).........USA AIR POSTAGE FROM 500 GRAMS TO 1 KILO IS $16 AND SURFACE MAIL IS $13(usually 1-3 lp’s depending on individual weight)

Combined auctions of up to 8 lp’s will ship to the USA by expedited surface mail, this option includes a tracking number. I can send up to 8 lp’s combined postage of $24 and that includes your tracking number and full insurance.

INTERNATIONAL AIR POSTAGE(depending on destination) UNDER 500 grams is $18 to $24 depending on location(one regular weight lp), OVER 500 grams UP TO 1000g is $34 to $40 depending on location(usually up to 3 lp’s depending on individual weight), INTERNATIONAL AIR POSTAGE BETWEEN 1000g AND 2000g (usually between 3 and 6 lp’s depending on individual weight) is $52 to $60. I will send via surface as well. Ask for rates.

IN CANADA..postage is $10 to $14 depending on location for 1-8 lp’s fully insured with tracking. I will give an accurate price with a postal code.

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