Tenants of the Lattice-Work

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Name = Tenants of the Lattice-Work
Type = Album
Artist = Mainframe


Released = 1983
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Genre = New wave/Synthpop/Trance/Ambient
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Label = MC2
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Last album =
This album = "Tenants of the Lattice-Work"
(1983)
Next album = "Into Trouble With the Noise of Art EP"
(1984)

Tenants of the Lattice-Work was an album by synthpop band Mainframe, released in September 1983.

Consisting of fourteen untitled tracks, the album was created using a Roland Juno-60, Moog Liberation, Moog Prodigy, Yamaha SK20, Fender Stratocaster and an Apple II Microcomputer using a Greengate DS3 sound sampler card.

Tenants of the Lattice-Work was a concept album telling a story set in the future in which computer-generated environments allowed people to visit and relax in. Influenced by the success of Disney's movie "Tron", the main character was a computer-generated person who eventually managed to "escape" into the "real" world

There was a "quest" associated with the album: it was accompanied by two double-sided A4 sheets of paper containing a story and several questions. If you answered the questions correctly then you could claim the prize which was, apparently, a solid gold letter "M". Supposedly the answers to the questions could be worked out using clues that were in the printed story, the music, the complex front cover art work and the notes on the back of the album cover. There was also a videocassette which had to be purchased separately and contained additional clues to the questions. It is not known if the prize was ever claimed.

The album was issued as a vinyl long-play record (LP) by small, independent UK label mc² Music but was out-of-print by 1984, never to be re-released. A compact disc version was never made available.

Today the LP is difficult to find. Additionally the quality of the vinyl used by mc² was inferior to that employed by larger record companies, so mint-condition copies of the LP itself should be considered as non-existent.

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