The Elephant Table Album
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| The Elephant Table Album | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 1983 |
| Label | Xtract |
The Elephant Table Album: a compilation of difficult music was a 1983 compilation album, released on Xtract Records. The double album was compiled by music journalist Dave Henderson following a series of articles by him in Sounds, the British music paper. It was reissued on CD by the same label in 1989, but with the tracks sourced from the vinyl release rather than the master tape,[1] and the number of tracks reduced from 21 to 17.[2] The tracks consisted of a selection by lesser-known experimental, industrial and electronic artists of the period.
Side 1
- Portion Control - Chew You To Bits
- Chris and Cosey - Raining Tears Of Blood
- Metamorphosis - Musak From Hawthorne Court
- Coil - S Is For Sleep
- Nurse With Wound - Nana Or A Thing Of Uncertain Nonsense
Side 2
- 400 Blows - Beat The Devil
- Konstruktivits - Andropov '84
- Lustmord - The Boning Of Men
- Muslimgauze - Milena Jelenska
- David Jackman - Edge of Nothing
Side 3
- SPK - Despair
- MFH - Vox Humana
- Nocturnal Emissions - Suffering Stinks
- Attrition - Dream Sleep
- Legendary Pink Dots - Surprise, Surprise
- Paul Kelday - Birth of Planetesimals
Side 4
- Bourbonese Qualk - Under The City
- Sirius B - Build Your Children
- New 7th Music - New Human Switchbaord (Extract)
- We Be Echo - Alleycat
- Bushido - Modelwerk
Release details
- Catalogue number: Xx001
- Format: Double Vinyl LP (5 September 1983), single CD (1989)
- The CD version lacks the tracks by Paul Kelday, We Be Echo, New 7th Music and Muslimgauze.
Influence
Steven Stapleton of Nurse with Wound also did the artwork for the album, and was sufficiently impressed by David Jackman's track that he invited him to collaborate on a series of music projects.[3]
The album has been cited as an influence on the EBM genre.[4]
Despite the "difficult" nature of the music, one band on the album, 400 Blows, hit the British charts in 1985 with "Movin'",[5] a cover version of a Brass Construction song.
