''The Hidden Step'' is the ninth studio album by English band

Ozric Tentacles Ozric Tentacles are an English instrumental rock band, whose music incorporates elements from a diverse range of genres, including psychedelic rock, progressive rock, space rock, jazz fusion, electronic music, dub music, world music, and ambie ...

. It was released in 2000 on Stretchy Records. It was their last to fully include bassist Zia Geelani (except for the track "Oakum" on '' Spirals in Hyperspace'') and drummer "Rad" (Conrad Prince). It was also their first not to feature a cover by the artist Blim; the cover art, by guitarist Ed Wynne, features his cat Pixel.

Track listing

# "Holohedron" – (5:50) # "The Hidden Step" – (7:47) # "Ashlandi Bol" – (6:04) # "Aramanu" – (6:00) # "Pixel Dream" – (6:21) # "Tight Spin" – (8:45) # "Ta Khut" – (7:06)

Band personnel

* Ed Wynne –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

s, sampled sound * Seaweed (Christopher Lenox-Smith) – keyboards, synthesizers * John Egan –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, vocals * Zia Geelani –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

* Rad (Conrad Prince) –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hidden Step, The 2000 albums Ozric Tentacles albums