The White Room
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The White Room is the name of a 1991 worldwide No. 1 hit album by UK Stadium House group The KLF. It was also the name of a film that the group made 2 years earlier but never released. The White Room LP was originally due to be released in 1989 as the soundtrack to the film, but the release of both was pulled at the last moment. Most of the songs on the 1989 version turned up again on the 1991 LP in significantly-remixed form, but of the original mixes recorded for the film soundtrack, only the single "Kylie Said To Jason" and a version of "Build A Fire" saw legitimate commercial release.
The original version of the White Room album released outside of North America linked the five songs from "What Time Is Love?" through "Last Train To Trancentral" into a faux Stadium House concert, using crowd noise sampled from U2's live album/concert documentary Rattle and Hum. The album's US release on Arista omits these samples, presumably for copyright reasons, resulting in some abrupt and awkward transitions between the tracks. The songs "No More Tears" and "Last Train To Trancentral" are also edited down into shorter versions on the US release.
The White Room is also the name of a road movie about the KLF's search for the mystical White Room so they can be released from their contract with Eternity. It was filmed in the Sierra Nevada region of Spain using the money that the duo made as The Timelords with the 1988 UK novelty pop No. 1 'Doctorin The Tardis'.
The White Room was supposed to be followed by a darker, harder complementary album called The Black Room.
A strange, mythical White Lodge and its counterpart Black Lodge is also featured in David Lynch's hit 1991 TV series Twin Peaks. Some believe that the creators of both these 1991 "indie" hits were guided by other mythical and mystical White and Black Rooms from the past.
External Links
- IMDb: The White Room (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098641/)