Mainframe - Tenants Of The Lattice Work 1 (Extract) Video

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. Contributors to the album included Colin Holgate, David Green and Graham Collins, drummer from John Molloy's former band, Don't Panic. Today the LP is difficult to find. Additionally the quality of the vinyl used by mc2 appears to be poor as all pressings are afflicted by high levels of "surface" noise. (Clues to some of the competition questions were present in the quieter sections of the album but were difficult to discern because of this problem.) As such "mint-condition" copies of the LP should be considered as non-existent.