''Tales of Ephidrina'' is an ambient/

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album by

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duo Amorphous Androgynous, better known as

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(FSOL). It was released on 5 July 1993 through Quigley Records, a subsidiary label of

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. It was created from material the pair had been working on around the same time as their ambient FSOL title '' Lifeforms'', while still containing some of the techno feel of '' Accelerator''. In 1996, ''

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'' ranked the album at number 27 in its list of the "Best Dance Albums of All Time".

History

This album was their first one after signing with Virgin; they moved to London from Manchester and were given a free hand to do what they wanted. The album is unique, in that it is the only album they released in the 1990s that wasn't recorded at their Earthbeat studio, and is also the only release on a short lived stem of Virgin Records, Quigley. It was the only electronic album recorded under the name Amorphous Androgynous, before the moniker's psychedelic reappearance in 2002. The name Ephidrina refers to a form of

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Track listing

# "

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" – 7:21 # "Swab" – 4:17 # "Mountain Goat" – 4:38 # "In Mind" – 5:38 # "Ephidrena" – 8:17 # "Auto Pimp" – 7:20 # "Fat Cat" – 4:04 # "Pod Room" – 5:27

Crew

*Written by Amorphous Androgynous *Recorded at the Analogue Room - London *Engineered by Yage *Produced by Philip Pin *Directed by FSOL *Re-worked at Earthbeat Studios - London *Cover art by Buggy G. Riphead *"Liquid Insects" contains samples from the movie ''

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'', ''

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'' by Tangerine Dream and ''

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'' by 808 State, among others. *"Fat Cat" contains a sample from

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's '' Passion'', the soundtrack to the movie '' The Last Temptation of Christ''.

Equipment used

According to the album insert: EMS Synthi AKS, Jen SX 1000, ARP Synthesizer 2600, Roland SH101, Roland TB303, Roland TR606, Moog System 55, Bode Frequency Shifter 1630, 4 x Akai S1100 plus expanders (32mb), Digidesign Soundtools, Bode Ring Modulator, Trap Lunar Reflection II, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Trap Multi Effect Collector, OMM Space Enhancer

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1993 albums The Future Sound of London albums Virgin Records albums