Whitehouse

Whitehouse is an English power-electronics project founded by William Bennett in 1980. The project is widely cited in reviews as a pioneer of power electronics and is known for abrasive electronics, extreme vocal performances and deliberately provocative lyrical themes. Bennett remained the core member and established the Come Organisation label.

Influences and references mentioned in reviews include John Cage, Steven Stapleton, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, early Tangerine Dream, Cromagnon, Yoko Ono, Robert Ashley and Alvin Lucier. The Come Organisation label was created by William Bennett to release Whitehouse and related material.

Whitehouse is the English power-electronics project founded by William Bennett in 1980. Reviews portray the work as pioneering in noise and power electronics while intentionally provocative and disturbing. Key albums discussed include Erector, Great White Death, Birthdeath Experience and Total Sex. The music combines abrasive electronics, extreme vocals and explicit themes of sex and violence.

For:Listeners of power electronics, noise and industrial music; readers interested in controversial and provocative experimental art.