Pitchfork

Pioneering electronic music trio White Noise will reissue their 1969 debut LP, An Electric Storm, in the UK via Universal Music Catalogue on July 2.

The group-- which consisted of BBC Radiophonic Workshop members Brian Hodgson and the late Delia Derbyshire, as well as American-born student/expatriate David Vorhaus-- recorded the album using complex tape manipulation techniques, as it was released largely before the advent of synthesizers.

The reissue keeps the original album's tracklist intact (refreshingly, there are no demos or live tracks or alternate versions tacked on as bonus tracks), though it is entirely remastered.

Readers of Pitchfork's "200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s" feature may remember that Derbyshire-- while working at the Radiophonic Workshop-- helped create the original theme song to "Doctor Who", which placed at #76 on our list.

An Electric Storm:

01 Love Without Sound
02 My Game of Loving
03 Here Come the Fleas
04 Firebird
05 Your Hidden Dreams
06 The Visitations
07 The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell