Hempton Manor

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.

Hempton Manor
Studio album by The Shamen
Released	September 1996
Recorded	1995–1996
Genre	Techno, dub, drum and bass
Label	One Little Indian
The Shamen chronology
Axis Mutatis (1995) Hempton Manor (1996) UV (1998)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Music Week	[2]
Muzik	[3]

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.

• Hempton Manor at AllMusic. Retrieved 15:39, 2 May 2016 (UTC).