Major Organ and the Adding Machine

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Major Organ and the Adding Machine is thought to be the side project of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster.<ref>http://www.elephant6.com/bands/major.html</ref> After submitting a track to a Kindercore Records Christmas compilation in 1997, they recorded a self-titled album and released it on Orange Twin Records in 2001.

The liner notes of their album leave it a mystery as to who officially is featured. It is generally believed that Mangum and Koster are the main musicians in the group (which bears a strong affinity to Koster's project, The Music Tapes), but it is believed that a variety of Elephant Six musicians also contributed, including members of The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, and Of Montreal.

Andrew Rieger of Elf Power in an interview with the Elephant 6 fan site, Optical Atlas [[1]], disclosed that there is a Major Organ film in the works. The release date is unknown, but Rieger did say "soon".

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Major Organ and the Adding Machine (CD) - Orange Twin - 2001

The band also submitted a version of "What a Wonderful World" to the Kindercore Records compilation album Christmas in Stereo, released in 1997

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The Elephant Six Collective
Bands in the Collective
The Apples in Stereo \| Beulah \| Black Swan Network \| Chocolate USA \| Circulatory System \| Dixie Blood Mustache \| Dressy Bessy \| Elf Power \| The Essex Green \| Frosted Ambassador \| The Gerbils \| The High Water Marks \| Major Organ and the Adding Machine \| Marbles \| The Minders \| The Music Tapes \| Neutral Milk Hotel \| The Olivia Tremor Control \| Orchestre Fantastique \| Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't \| Secret Square \| The Sunshine Fix \| ulysses \| Von Hemmling
Other Noted Bands and Side Projects
The American Revolution \| Bablicon \| Fablefactory \| Great Lakes \| A Hawk and a Hacksaw \| Icy Demons \| The Instruments \| The Ladybug Transistor \| The Late B.P. Helium \| M Coast \| Marta Tennae \| Midget and Hairs \| My First Keyboard \| Of Montreal \| Synthetic Flying Machine \| Thimble Circus \| Visitations
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Bill Doss \| Jeff Mangum \| Robert Schneider \| Will Cullen Hart \| Hilarie Sidney \| Laura Carter \| Jeremy Barnes \| Jill Carnes \| David Barnes \| Julian Koster