The White Room | ||||
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Studio album by The KLF | ||||
Released | 04 March 1991 | |||
Recorded | 1989–91 | |||
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Genre | Electronica | |||
Length | 43:43 | |||
Label | KLF Communications | |||
Producer | The KLF | |||
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Singles from The White Room | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Entertainment Weekly | A− |
Los Angeles Times | |
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Select | 4/5 |
Slant Magazine | |
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" ( 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.