The Elephant Table Album

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The Elephant Table Album
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 number of tracks reduced from 21 to 17. The tracks consisted of a selection by lesser-known experimental, industrial and electronic artists of the period.

Contents 1 Track Listing 2 Release details 3 Trivia 4 References

[edit] Track Listing

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Trivia

• Steven Stapleton of Nurse with Wound was sufficiently impressed by David Jackman's track on the album that he invited him to collaborate on a series of music projects.^[1]
• Stapleton also did the artwork for the album.
• Listeners to the CD version have reported vinyl noise; they presume that the CD has been mastered from a vinyl copy.^[2]
• The album has been cited as an influence on the EBM genre.^[3]
• A Sequel, Three Minute Symphony, (Extract Xx002) was compiled later the same year; again it was a double LP with tracks selected by Dave Henderson. ^[4]
• Despite the "difficult" nature of the music, one band on the album, 400 Blows, hit the British charts in 1985 with "Movin'".^[5]

[edit] References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ "to aficionados of EBM it provides a good basis for where the music came from" in [3]
4. ^ "This album was the sequel to THE ELEPHANT TABLE ALBUM, also compiled by Sounds music journalist Dave Henderson, featuring a very wide range of post-punk, industrial and noise bands." in [4]. A track list is here: [5]
5. ^ Brown, Kutner and Warwick, The Complete Book of the British Charts(Omnibus, 2002); p389.,