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Whitehouse

Real Name:
William Bennett
Profile:
Experimental noise band Whitehouse (founded in London in 1980) have a worldwide underground cult following.
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Discography

Releases:
Birthdeath Experience (3 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1980
Total Sex (Album) (4 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1980
Ultrasadism (Cass)   Come Organisation 1980
Ultrasadism (Cass)   Come Organisation 1980
Buchenwald (3 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1981
Dedicated To Peter Kurten Sadist And Mass Slayer (Album) (2 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1981
Erector (3 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1981
The 150 Murderous Passions (2 versions)   United Dairies 1981
Live Action 1 2.8.82 (Cass, Album, LTD)   Come Organisation 1982
Live Aktion 2 (Cass, S/Sided)   Come Organisation 1982
New Britain (2 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1982
Psychopathia Sexualis (2 versions)   Come Organisation 1982
Live Action 22 & 23 (Cass)   Come Organisation 1983
Right To Kill, Dedicated To Denis Andrew Nilsen (LP, Album, Ltd)   Come Organisation 1983
USA I (Cass, C60)   Come Organisation 1983
USA II (Cass, C60)   Come Organisation 1983
USA III (Cass, S/Sided)   Come Organisation 1983
USA IV (Cass, Ltd)   Come Organisation 1983
USA V (Cass)   Come Organisation 1983
USA VI (Cass, S/Sided)   Come Organisation 1983
USA VII (Cass)   Come Organisation 1983
Great White Death (Album) (4 versions)   Come Organisation ... 1985
Live Action 1 (LP, Ltd)   Dom 1985
Live Action 45 (VHS, PAL)   Susan Lawly 1985
Whisky Agogo, 08.02.82 (Cass, Ltd)   Discipline Produzioni 1986
Thank Your Lucky Stars (7")   Susan Lawly 1989
Cream Of The Second Coming (3 versions)   Susan Lawly ... 1990
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Album) (3 versions)   Susan Lawly 1990
Another Crack Of The White Whip (CD)   Susan Lawly 1991
Still Going Strong (7")   Susan Lawly 1991
Never Forget Death (CD, EP)   Susan Lawly 1992
Twice Is Not Enough (Album, Comp) (2 versions)   Susan Lawly 1992
11 Years Of Live Action (Cass, C60)   IR Datum Supplies 1993
Dictator (CD, Mini)   Fanatics 1994
Halogen (CD, Album)   Susan Lawly 1994
Quality Time (2 versions)   Susan Lawly ... 1995
Just Like A Cunt (CD, Mini, Ltd)   Fanatics 1996
Tokyo Halogen (CD, Album, Ltd)   Fanatics 1996
Mummy And Daddy (Album) (2 versions)   Susan Lawly 1998
History Of Abuse: Volume 1 (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
History Of Abuse: Volume 2 (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
History Of Abuse: Volume 3 (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
Instrumentals (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
Live Actions - Volume 2 (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
Live Actions - Volume 3 (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
Live Actions - Volume 4 (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 2000
Cruise (Album) (2 versions)   Susan Lawly ... 2001
Cruise (Force The Truth) (12", Ltd)   Susan Lawly 2001
Wriggle Like A Fucking Eel (12")   Susan Lawly 2001
Bird Seed (2 versions)   Susan Lawly ... 2003
Asceticists 2006 (Album) (2 versions)   Susan Lawly ... 2006
Racket (CD, Album)   Susan Lawly 2007
Cock Nazi (CD, Album)   Not On Label  
Live Action 1 (Cass)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 2 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 28 (VHS, NTSC)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 34 (Cass)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 36 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 37 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 38 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 39 (VHS)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 39 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 4 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 40 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 41 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 42 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 43 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 44 (Cass, C90)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 44 (VHS, NTSC)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 45 (Cass, C90)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 46 (Cass, C90)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 48 (VHS)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 6 (Cass, C60)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 75 (VHS, NTSC)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 76 (VHS, NTSC)   Susan Lawly  
Live Action 77 (VHS, PAL)   Susan Lawly  
Try And Be Grateful (VHS, NTSC, RE)   Susan Lawly  
Appears On:
Garmonbozia (Cass, S/Sided, c-2)   Dead Medium Tapes / No Core No Trend Records 2006
Discography (3xCass + CDr, Mini + Box, Ltd) Hungry For Pain Triangle (3) 2007
Livre Des Morts (CD, Ltd)   Entr'acte 2008
Tracks Appear On:
Hoisting The Black Flag (LP, Ltd) Her Entry, Foreplay United Dairies 1980
The Second Coming (2 versions) Shitfun 2 Come Organisation 1981
Für Ilse Koch (Comp) (3 versions) Mindphaser (Live), Ana... Come Organisation 1982
Neuengamme (2 versions) Whore Cull/Action 5 Broken Flag 1982
The First Offensive (Cass, C60) Pro Sexist Not On Label 1983
Ohrenschrauben (3 versions) My Cock's On Fire Dom ... 1985
The Pale Plague (Cass, Comp, C90) Erector (From Live Akt... Beyond The Pale 1986
Hoisting The Black Flag (Cass, RE, C60) Her Entry, Foreplay United Dairies 1987
Anthology 1 (2xCD) Shitfun 2 Susan Lawly 1998
Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts 2003 (CD, Comp + DVD, PAL) Wriggle Like A Fucking... Ars Electronica Center 2003
Elegy Sampler 41 (CD, Smplr) Dumping The Fucking Ru... Elegy 2006
This Is For You Shits (CD, Ltd) Dumping The Fucking Ru... Warp Records 2007
RA.144 (File, MP3, Mixed, Pod) Killing Hurts Give You... Resident Advisor 2009
Produktion Film Tracks (Cass, Comp, C60) Konzntrat (1982) Produktion  
Unofficial Releases:
Tit Pulp / Right To Kill (7", Ltd)   Concrete Company 1984
Hoisting The Black Flag (Cass, Comp, Unofficial, C60) Her Entry / Foreplay RRRecords 1987
The Sounds Of Sadism (LP, Ltd)   Remote Control Records 1989
Ohrenschrauben / Ohrensausen (2xCD, Comp) My Cock's On Fire Dragnet Records (2) 1990
RRR-Taste Test 1991 - Vol 6 (Cass, Smplr, Promo, C48) Cream Of The Second Co... RRRecords 1991
Interstellar Overkill (CDr, Mixed) Wriggle Like A Fucking... Bruits De Fond 2007
Psychopathia Sexualis (CDr, Ltd)   Not On Label (Whitehouse) 2008
Right To Kill (2 versions)   Come Organisation (2) ... 2008
28-7-90 Club Volts In Motion (Acetate, 7", Ltd)   Two Thousand Maniacs  
Are Coming To Piss On You (LP)   Concrete Company  
Black Metal Box (5xAcetate, 7")   Two Thousand Maniacs  
Buchenwald (LP)   Come Organisation (2)  
Chainsaw Massacre (LP)   Concrete Company  
Even Anti-Art Is Art...That Is Why We Reject It (Cass, C48) Right To Kill Statutory Tape  
Great White Death (LP)   Come Organisation (2)  
Las Grabaciones Mas Violentas (LP)   Ltd Ed Promotion  
Live Action 4-11-83 / 7-1-83 (LP)   Rectification Society  
My Cock's On Fire (Fuck Mix) (12")   Remote Control Records  
Neuengamme (Comp) (2 versions) Whore Cull / Action 5 Remote Control Records  
Never Forget Death (LP)   Forty Maniacs  
New Britain (LP)   Come Organisation (2)  
Peter Kurten - Sadist And Mass Slayer (LP)   Come Organisation (2)  
Production Film (LP, Ltd) Konzntrat Not On Label  
Psychopathia Sexualis (LP, Album)   Come Organisation (2)  
Slaughterhouse (LP)   Alamut Records, Big Body Parts  
The Second Coming (LP) Shitfun 2 Come Organisation (2)  
Total Sex (LP, Album)   Come Organisation (2)  
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Review by Feb 06, 2004
One of the greatest and certainly the longest running project from the earliest days of industrial music. With some lineup changes over the years (members and collaborators such as Peter Sotos, Philip Best, Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, and Kevin Tompkins of Sutcliffe Jugend), founder William Bennett (previously a member of Come) has spearheaded several enjoyable Whitehouse releases, moving towards a digital/analog hybrid of sorts in recent years. This is brutal and confrontational power electronics!
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Review by Crijevo Nov 13, 2006 (edited over 2 years ago)
Whitehouse seem more friendly with their aesthetic sleeve art that bears only little of their sonic image, regularly screaming of painful obscenity - if someone ever created sound as pure reflection of mass murderers and sadists alike, then Whitehouse's is one of the truest soundtracks to most extreme of human conditions. Obsessed/fascinated with anything atrocious, Whitehouse project our worst nightmares - those of torture and pain - take 'Another Crack of the White Whip' compilation, at its best challenging you to put yourself at risk to any of this set's positions; 'You Don't Have To Say Please', the compilation's opening track serves exactly the purpose to insult and humiliate - basically using bizarre image of S/M nature; 'you don't have to say please, get down on your knees, suck my cock, you don't have to say please!' - but where S/M seems to be an intimate, cosy experiment between partners, here it is pure agony of oneself's dominating over the other, without mercy, pounding like a hammer over bruised flesh, over and over again until chucks of meat are left. The Wire magazine recently reviewed one of Whitehouse's current affairs saying - this is music for people who hate themselves. The truth lies there somewhere... Effective execution but impossible to associate with unless you're a self-destructive nutter.