The Elastic Purejoy was Dave Allen

Dave Allen (producer/bassist)

Dave Allen was the bass guitarist for the post-punk band, Gang of Four. In 1981, he left Gang of Four to found Shriekback....

's own band on the label he founded, World Domination Recordings

World Domination Recordings

World Domination Recordings was an indie rock record label founded by bass player and music entrepreneur Dave Allen in Los Angeles. From roughly 1989 to 1996 it released records by artists including Low Pop Suicide, The Elastic Purejoy, Stanford Prison Experiment, Perfume Tree, Sky Cries Mary, Loop...

. Their sound can be characterized as bass-driven, progressive indie rock and pop.

After their first release, Allen's name appeared on the records' packaging. Their last two releases were subtitled "2/20" and "3/20", the last new contributions to Allen's plan at the time to release a series of twenty records. ("1/20" was the soundtrack

The Harvest (soundtrack)

The Harvest soundtrack to the 1993 movie of the same name was played by Dave Allen and Rick Boston and released under the name "The Crash Baptists". The song "One by One" features Belinda Carlisle; World Domination Recordings labelmates Sky Cries Mary contribute "The Elephant Song"; and two tracks...

 to the movie The Harvest.)

Discography

• The Elastic Purejoy (1994)
• The South Phoenix EP (1994)
• The Clutter of Pop (1996)
• Talk Radio EP (1996)