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The White Room

The White Room
The KLF - The White Room.jpg
Studio album by The KLF
Released 04 March 1991
Recorded 1989–91
Studio
  • Trancentral
  • The Village, Dagenham
  • Lillie Yard, London
  • Matrix, London
  • Mixing:
  • Lillie Yard, London
  • The Townhouse, London
  • The Manor, Oxfordshire
Genre Electronica
Length 43:43
Label KLF Communications
Producer The KLF
The KLF chronology
Chill Out
(1990)
The White Room
(1991)
The Black Room
(Unreleased)
Singles from The White Room
  1. "What Time Is Love?"
    Released: July 1990
  2. "3 a.m. Eternal"
    Released: January 1991
  3. "Last Train to Trancentral"
    Released: April 1991
  4. "Justified and Ancient"
    Released: November 1991
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly A−
Los Angeles Times 3/5 stars
Q 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars
Select 4/5
Slant Magazine 4.5/5 stars
The Village Voice A−

The White Room is the fourth and final studio album by British electronic music group The KLF, released in March 1991. Originally scheduled for 1989 as the soundtrack to a film of the same name, the album's direction was changed after both the film and the original soundtrack LP were cancelled. Most tracks on the original album version are present in the final release, though in significantly remixed form.

A darker, harder complementary album called The Black Room was supposed to follow The White Room, but that plan was abandoned when KLF disbanded in 1992.

The White Room was conceived as the soundtrack to a road movie, also called The White Room, about the KLF's search for the mystical White Room that would enable them to be released from their contract with Eternity. Parts of the movie were filmed in the Sierra Nevada region of Spain, using the money that the duo, under the alias The Timelords, had made with their 1988 number one hit "Doctorin' the Tardis". The soundtrack album contained pop-house versions of some of the KLF's earlier "Pure Trance" singles, as well as new songs.

The film project was fraught with difficulties and setbacks, including dwindling funds. Drummond and Cauty had released "Kylie Said to Jason" (About this sound sample ), a single from the original soundtrack, in the hopes that it could "rescue them from the jaws of bankruptcy"; it flopped commercially, however, failing to make even the UK top 100. As a consequence, The White Room film project was put on hold, and the KLF abandoned the musical direction of the soundtrack and single. Neither the film nor its soundtrack were formally released, although bootleg copies of both exist.


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