''Hempton Manor'' is the sixth studio album by
The Shamen
The Shamen ( ) were a Scottish psychedelic band, formed in 1985 in Aberdeen, who became a chart-topping electronic dance music act on the UK Singles Chart by the early 1990s. The founding members were Colin Angus, Derek McKenzie and Keith Mc ...
, 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 music, 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 Records, 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 One Little Indian Records, Derek Birkett,
who wanted the group to move back into more commercial territory.
Track listing
# "Freya"
# "Urpflanze"
# "Cannabeo"
# "Khat"
# "Bememe"
# "Indica"
# "Rausch"
# "Kava"
# "El-Fin"
# "The Monoriff"
References
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1996 albums
The Shamen albums
Techno albums by Scottish artists
One Little Independent Records albums
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