Hempton Manor

Hempton Manor
Studio album by
The Shamen
ReleasedSeptember 1996
Recorded1995–1996
GenreTechno, dub, drum and bass
LabelOne Little Indian
The Shamen chronology
Axis Mutatis
(1995) 		Hempton Manor
(1996) 		UV
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Music Week[2]
Muzik[3]

Hempton Manor is the sixth studio album by The Shamen, released in September 1996. Hempton Manor is inspired by and dedicated to hemp and featured a liner printed on hemp-based paper. "Hempton Manor" hybridizes tripped out techno, spacey dub and frenetic drum and bass styles. The decision to make it an entirely instrumental album was a deliberate ploy to break from their record label, One Little Indian. It is alleged to have been recorded in seven days to conclude the recording contract with One Little Indian, and the first letters of each track form an acrostic spelling out "Fuck Birket", referring to label founder Derek Birkett,[4] who wanted the group to move back into more commercial territory.

Track listing

  1. "Freya"
  2. "Urpflanze"
  3. "Cannabeo"
  4. "Khat"
  5. "Bememe"
  6. "Indica"
  7. "Rausch"
  8. "Kava"
  9. "El-Fin"
  10. "The Monoriff"

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Reviews: Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 21 September 1996. p. 14. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. ^ Wyatt, Kieran (November 1996). "The Shamen: Hempton Manor" (PDF). Muzik. No. 18. p. 130. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  4. ^ Hebblethwaite, Phil. "7 secret codes and ciphers hidden in music". BBC Music. BBC. Retrieved 22 October 2017.


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