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Friday, 9 September 2011

Whitehouse - " Total Sex " (Come Organisation WDC 88 cassette ) 1980


For those of you who are unaware of the crazed repetoire of vocalist William Bennett and his Whitehouse project, you will be either repelled or strangely attracted to this cathartic representations of the dark side of humanity.
The Wasp synthesiser is put through its paces on this formless piece of electronic circuit bending,that is given credit in inventing the genre of 'Power Electronics'.
Distant throbbing,knob twiddled electronics, distorted vocals, and varying levels of paint stripping white noise, are the choices on the menu. Although Bennett seems more shy than on later releases, with his crazed vocals buried deep in a mountain of effects, but you just know he's being rather rude even though you can't hear him very well.
All the main tunes are the same length, which suggests that the tape reel they used had a six minute maximum length; which is sort of amusing.That is all except the piece called 'Politics', which is, very aptly, just one minute and fifty-five seconds of silence; very Cage-y, or just a way of extending the length "....of the album with the minimum amount of effort which (they were) now doing very sucessfully."(J.Wobble 1978,Fodderstompf)
There's no guitars, drums or songs on this cassette release, and there are no concessions at all to any commercialism whatsoever......this is pure counter culture in action.
You wouldn't think this is the same geezer that was in Essential Logic (great band).

Track Listing:

A1
Total Sex
A2
Phaseday
A3
Dominate You
B1
Politics
B2
Roller Coaster
B3
Ultrasadism

DOWNLOAD Total Sex HERE!

6 comments:

Philip Johnson said...

Always thought Whitehouse were total one-trick ponies myself.

Nick Allison said...

Is this ,Thee, Philip Johnson, of "54 Minutes of Philip Johnson" fame?
If so, do you have anything of your valuable canon that you are willing to donate to this site for posterity?
And, Yes, I kinda agree.All Whitehouses works, Live and Recorded, tend to be beyond similar. But, I do enjoy the total inyerfaceness of 'em.
E-mail me if you want a platform for your cassette work,...that if you are 'Thee' Philip Johnson that is.

Philip Johnson said...

To be fair, Total Sex is maybe a lesser Whitehouse album, as they go. I think Right To Kill was better.

Yes, I am that Philip Johnson. I actually haven't heard much of my own music for a long time, but I'll see if I can dig something out.

Nick Allison said...

Hello Philip,
I agree again,as a debut its not bad. 'Right to kill' is a great tune.
If you do find anything you want to contribute,(I Hope you do)..you can e-mail me here: jonnyzchivago@yahoo.co.uk
Unfortunately i mislaid your tapes somewhere in the eighties, or I would have them on here.Would be great to hear them again, they appear nowhere on the bloggersphere.
cheers,
Nick

Anonymous said...

Would love to see all the philip johnson cassettes in a blog. :)

Nick Allison said...

Well,i've asked mr Johnson to donate some work.He said he would try and find something,but he's been very quiet since then.One can only hope.