A dark shadow from the past haunts the world of electronic music. By accompanying her compositional experiments with the moog synthesizer and other electronic instruments with selected verses from Charles Baudelaire’s (in)famous collection of poetry The Flowers of Evil (1857) Ruth White infuses technological culture with a narrative of decay, death, and eroticism that challenges the rational logic and positivistic visions often associated with modern technology. On the nine tracks of the album White reads the verses aloud manipulating her voice with speed changes, tape delays and echo effects, resulting in a “dehumanised” quality (her own description) of a gothic space age that traverses styles, media, and time. As she has stated: “I always found that the dominating power of Baudelaire’s ideas were in themselves of electrifying force.”