Omschrijving

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, and 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.

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 ForSleep
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

van invloed op latere EBM (Electronic Body Music)