KLF - The White Room North American Release Review March 1991

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The KLF - The White Room North American Edition

Since it's release on Arista Records back in 1991, The White Room has been in consistent rotation in my CD collection. After success with their 1988 single "Doctorin' the Tardis" better known as the theme from Dr. Who, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty had money to employ talented musicians such as P.P. Arnold and Maxine Harvey instead of sampling other people's music as heard on their previous albums. 

The White Room has been released in different countries with various configurations of the musical numbers, some featuring different mixes as heard on the North American edition. I have most of the international releases and in spite of it being a heavily edited version of the other recordings, find myself listening to the North American edition mostly because I associate it with my teen years. 

I first heard 3 AM Eternal on WABB during an evening segment they called "Make It Or Break It?" and as much as I loved it, it unfortunately it was not as well loved by the listening audience of the Mobile and Pensacola area as a majority of callers opted to "Break It" and it was rarely played on the station in spite of it's position in the top 40 charts. To this day, I consider it one of the best club tunes from the early 1990's.

The White Room is an album bursting with hit singles that flow almost seamlessly with the tracks that didn't quite make it to radio or their own single release. Often overlooked as a classic from the acid house era, tunes from The White Room seems to hold up well on the dancefloor.

After charting with What Time Is Love, 3 AM Eternal and Last Train From Trancentral, The KLF had another trick up their sleeve. Nine months after The White Room was released in the US, a second edition was released as a 2 CD, featuring the original CD release as well as well as the Maxi-Single of the newly reimagined version of Justified & Ancient featuring country legend Tammy Wynette on lead vocals.

Back Cover of the North American Edition The White Room



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