Eph (album)

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Eph
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Studio album by Fridge
Released 14 June 1999
Genre Post-rock, ambient techno
Label Go! Beat
Fridge chronology
Semaphore
(1998)
Eph
(1999)
Happiness
(2001)
Eph Reissue

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Eph is an album by Fridge released Spring 1999. It was their first (and only) album for the Go! Beat label.

Fridge are a UK post-rock band, comprising school friends Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, and Sam Jeffers. Initially Hebden played guitar, Ilhan bass, and Jeffers drums, but Hebden and Ilhan soon adopted a variety of other instruments, and by 1999's Eph the sampler was playing an increasingly important role in the group's music. Hebden, Ilhan and Jeffers all attended Elliott School in Putney, which has become regarded as a hotbed for musical talent; other notable alumni including Hot Chip, Burial and The xx - all of which members of Fridge have worked with.

Contents

The album was reissued in North America in 2002 on Temporary Residence Limited with an additional CD consisting of two EPs released in the same year ("Kinoshita Terasaka" and remixes of "Of" by the band themselves), plus two more recent remixes.

Temporary Residence Limited is a Brooklyn, New York-based record label. TRL was started in Louisville, Kentucky in 1996 by Jeremy DeVine, and initially concentrated on releasing music by Louisville-based bands. DeVine moved to Baltimore, Maryland in the late 1990s to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art, but dropped out to concentrate on running the label by the end of the decade. DeVine later moved operations to Brooklyn, New York.

Track listing

Original and CD1 of Eph Reissue

  1. "Ark"
  2. "Meum"
  3. "Transience"
  4. "Of"
  5. "Tuum"
  6. "Bad Ischl"
  7. "Yttrium"
  8. "Aphelion"

CD2 of Eph Reissue

  1. "Kinoshita"
  2. "Terasaka"
  3. "Of (Version)"
  4. "Of (Remix)"
  5. "Of (Edit)"
  6. "Of (Dub)"
  7. "Ark (Herberts Fully Flooded Mix)"
  8. "Bad Ischl (Patrick Pulsinger Mix)"

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References

  1. Gilman, Marc. "Review: Fridge - Eph". Allmusic . Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  2. Sheppard, David. "Review: Fridge - Eph". Q . EMAP Metro Ltd (July 1999): 115.