Package includes mono remix of entire album on red and white LPs

Third Man Records has announced that Vault Package #55 will contain the 20th anniversary expanded accompaniment to The White Stripes’ seminal 2003 album, Elephant. In addition to a new mono remix of the entire album on red and white LPs, Elephant XX includes a red glitter 7-inch with Jack White’s original solo demos of Elephant fan favorite “Hypnotize,” a DVD with never-before-seen footage from the era, and a 28-page booklet of previously-unshared photos, all housed in a custom slipcase. Fans who sign up through January 31st at midnight CT will receive the set.

The centerpiece of the set is an all new, direct-from-the-original multitrack tapes mono remix of the entire album. Mixed by Jack White and Bill Skibbe at Third Man Studio in Nashville, the work was executed on the same Calrec board used to complete the original stereo mix of Elephant at Toe Rag Studios in London in 2002.

“Surprises and treasures” were discovered after 20 years, including an extra four bars at the end of the canonical “Seven Nation Army” which were completely forgotten by all involved until now. A long lost lyric edited out of “Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine” has been faithfully restored. The snippets and snapshots of studio banter before and after takes were also left.

“The idea here isn’t to try and completely reimagine the Elephant album. We know how near and dear it is to all of the White Stripes fans out there,” a press release states. “The goal is to harken back to other similar experiments (like our first-ever Vault package, Icky Thump mono) while shedding light on the nuance and craft contained both in the performance and the mix of this album. In homage to the original US pressing of the album, Elephant mono is pressed on opaque white and opaque red discs.”

Additionally, Jack White’s original solo demo of “Hypnotize” in two markedly different mixes are included. Recorded on four-track reel-to-reel sometime in 1998 and “gifted” to the local Detroit garage band the Hentchmen as a song White felt was more in their style than his at the time. Come a few years later, with the Hentches having done nothing with the tune, White reclaimed it for he and Meg, and their frenetic take quickly became a long-standing fan favorite.

Furthermore, the original, first take version of “You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket” done seemingly as a mic check, is paired here on the flipside of “Hypnotize,” complete with additional flourish and fingerpicking more so than what ended up on the final album version.

All three of these aforementioned songs are shared together on a stunning 7-inch single pressed on glorious glitter red vinyl.

A DVD entitled, Elephant-Era Video Artifacts, is also included featuring a “simulacrum of the dubbed and traded VHS mixtape compilations that were pivotal to sharing of information and fueling fandom long before YouTubers begged you to smash that subscribe button.” The footage includes the exact album take of Jack and Meg and Holly Golightly singing their hearts out so jolly on “It’s True That We Love One Another” and a previously buried multi-camera Japanese live performance of a wild show kicked off with an impromptu cover of the Stooges “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” From the insightful, unseen interview with Jack and Meg through beautiful 8 mm film capture of the behind-the-scenes and making of “The Hardest Button To Button” music video, the DVD utilizes variety to convey the breadth and reach that The White Stripes covered in their dogged work supporting Elephant.

Tying it all together is a 28-page 12″ x 12″ booklet chock-full of previously unshared photos from the Elephant album cover shoot, candid backstage pics and all sorts of handwritten lyrics, concert posters, proposed/abandoned tracklists, blood chits, shopping lists, scraps of paper with Támam Shud written on them….you know, the works.

2x LP:

1. Seven Nation Army
2. Black Math
3. There’s No Home For You Here
4. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
5. In The Cold, Cold Night
6. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother’s Heart
7. You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket
8. Ball And Biscuit
9. The Hardest Button To Button
10. Little Acorns
11. Hypnotize
12. The Air Near My Fingers
13. Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
14. It’s True That We Love One Another

7-inch:

1. Hypnotize (solo demo mix 1)
2. Hypnotize (solo demo mix 3)
3. You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket (take one)

DVD:

1. It’s True That We Love One Another Toe Rag Studio recording footage
2. Black Math [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/21/03]
3. Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/21/03]
4. I Think I Smell A Rat/Take A Whiff On Me [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/21/03]
5. Jack and Meg Interview 10/22/03
6. I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges) [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/22/03]
7. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/22/03]
8. Black Math [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/22/03]
9. Cannon/John The Revelator [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/22/03]
10. Ball And Biscuit [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/22/03]
11. In The Cold, Cold Night [Live @ Shibuya Ax, Tokyo 10/22/03]
12. The Hardest Button To Button 8mm film reel