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''The White Room'' is the fourth and final studio album by British house 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. ==Background== ''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".〔Mellor, C. "Beam Me Up, Scotty – How to have a number one (The JAMs way)", ''Offbeat'' Magazine, February 1989 ((link ))〕 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" (), 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.〔KLF Communications, "Information Sheet Eight", August 1990 ((link ))〕 Neither the film nor its soundtrack were formally released, although bootleg copies of both exist. Meanwhile, the KLF's single "What Time Is Love?", which had originally been released in 1988 and largely ignored by the public, was generating acclaim within the underground clubs of continental Europe; according to KLF Communications, "The KLF were being feted by all the 'right' DJs".〔 This prompted Drummond and Cauty to pursue the acid house tone of their Pure Trance series. A further Pure Trance release, "Last Train to Trancentral", followed. In October 1990, the KLF launched a series of singles with an upbeat pop-house sound they dubbed "Stadium House". Songs from ''The White Room'' soundtrack were re-recorded with rap and more vocals (by guests labelled "Additional Communicators"), a sample-heavy pop-rock production, and crowd noise samples. The "Stadium House" versions of "What Time Is Love?" and "3 a.m. Eternal" were immediate hits, with "3 a.m. Eternal" becoming the KLF's second, and the only one under the name, number-one release. These "Stadium House" tracks made up a large part of ''The White Room'' when it was eventually released in March 1991, substantially reworked from the original soundtrack version. Aside from the singles, "Make It Rain", "Build a Fire", "Church of the KLF" and "The White Room" appeared in significantly more minimal, ambient and dub-oriented versions on the final album. "Go To Sleep" was reworked to become "Last Train To Trancentral". Of the original mixes recorded for the film soundtrack, only "Kylie Said to Jason" (which was omitted from the final tracklist) and a version of "Build a Fire" saw legitimate commercial release. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The White Room」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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