''80's Cheesecake'' is a solo album produced and written by
Tom Ellard
Thomas Temple Ellard (born 1962) is an Australian electronic musician best known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads.
Early life
Ellard's first music contributions began in the late 1970s as a tee ...
of
Severed Heads
Severed Heads were an Australian electronic music group founded in 1979 in music, 1979 as Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign. The original members were Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright, who were soon joined by Tom Ellard. Fielding and Wright had both ...
. It was released in 1982 as a
C60 cassette tape through his own Terse Tapes label. According to Ellard, the album, along with his previous one, ''Snappy Carrion'' (1982), were recorded out of interest in making
pop music
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.
It is a precursor of Severed Heads' shift in sound, from their early
industrialised
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sound to the more accessible
electronic
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*Electronics, the science of how to control electric energy in semiconductors
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styles of their later recordings. Tracks from this cassette appeared on the Severed Heads' compilation album ''Clifford Darling, Please Don't Live in the Past'' (1985).
Reception
Track listing
4, 5 and 13 are new songs made of salvaged and backed-up parts from recordings from this period.
Release history
References
External links
*
Bandcamp page
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1982 albums