''Gigapus'' is the tenth studio album by the

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group

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 ...

. Recorded between 1992 and 1994, the album was first released in 1994 with a bonus

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disc titled ''Metapus'' that had additional multi-media content on it. Because of this, it is the first album released in Australia to include a CD-ROM disc. Due to the extra disc, the album was initially priced at $40 when it first came out. As with most of the Severed Heads discography, the album has been reissued multiple times.

Track listing

All songs written by Tom Ellard. In 1996, a re-recorded and remixed version of "DOLLARex" (4:59) was substituted for the original. 15–17 of the 2001 reissue and 1–3 of the 2009 bonus disc were originally released as B-sides of the "Heart of the Party" CD single in Australia.

Personnel

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 ...

- vocals, production *David Smith - additional electronics *Comeron Miller - short wave radio * Lisa Maxwell - additional vocals on "Heart Of The Party" *David Allen - tambourine on "The Importance Of Hair" and "Somewhere Over The Gigapus" *Adrian Bolland - engineering *Kathy Naunton - mastering *Robert Racic - mastering *M.C. Newsagent - vocals on "Cabbalaland" *Boxcar - production on "Heart Of The Party"

Charts

Release history

References

External links

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Bandcamp page

Review of ''Gigapus'', claiming that it's Album of the Week of 13 December 1994
{{Authority control Severed Heads albums 1994 albums