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Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.
The name Whitehouse was chosen both in mock tribute to the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and in reference to a British pornographic magazine of the same name.
The group’s founding member and sole constant is William Bennett. He began as a guitarist for Essential Logic. He wrote of those early years, “I often fantasised about creating a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission.” Bennett later recorded as Come (featuring contributions from the likes of Daniel Miller and J. G. Thirlwell) before forming Whitehouse in 1980. The group began performing live in 1982. In 2009, Bennett claimed that his pre-eminent inspiration was Yoko Ono: “Yoko’s amazing music was by far the biggest influence on me, and Whitehouse, in the formative years (despite what some would have you believe).”
Philip Best joined the group in 1982 at the…