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Surfing on Sine Waves
File:Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves.jpg
Studio album by Polygon Window
Released 11 January 1993 (1993-01-11)
Recorded Llannerlog Studios, Cornwall
Genre Acid techno
Length 56:58
Label Warp Records
WARP 7 (UK)
Wax Trax!/TVT Records
TVT-7204 (US)
SME Records
SRCS 7523 (Japan)
Zomba Records
RTD 126.3842.2 (Germany)
Producer Richard D. James
Aphex Twin chronology
Xylem Tube EP
(1992)		 Surfing on Sine Waves
(1993)		 On
(1993)
Artificial Intelligence series chronology
Artificial Intelligence
(1992)		 Surfing on Sine Waves
(1993)		 Bytes
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]

Surfing on Sine Waves is an electronic music album by Polygon Window, a pseudonym for recording artist Richard D. James, better known by his other alias of Aphex Twin. The album was released on 11 January 1993 on Warp Records,[2] and is the second in its Artificial Intelligence series. Warp also released "Quoth" as a single in March 1993.

Contents

Recording details [link]

After hearing James's early material as Aphex Twin on Belgium's R&S Records, Warp contacted James and offered him a recording contract. Richard D. James is listed as the creator of the music; however, his name is printed over the brown cliff on the back of the album, so it is not easily seen without careful scrutiny. The full text reads, "Writing, programming, arranging, engineering, producing + location recording by Richard D. James at Llannerlog Studios, Cornwall." An image of him running down a flight of stairs can also be found inside the liner notes. This image was later used on the Quoth single.

The album is a collection of largely instrumental electronic music (a few vocal samples are included in places, including one from the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music"). It was most likely recorded by James onto cassettes in his bedroom studio (similar to the production of Selected Ambient Works 85-92), using a limited range of available drum machines, synthesizers, sequencers and samplers, some of which he may have modified himself. The equipment included staples such as the Roland TB-303 bass synth/sequencer and Roland TR-606 drum machine on the Untitled track, a Roland R-8 digital drum machine, and low-budget synths such as the Yamaha DX100. Digital piano sample sounds are also used. Most of the tracks feature insistent drum machine patterns (the ambient "Quino-phec" being an exception) and James' characteristic angular and modal melodies. James makes liberal use of lengthy digital reverberation, giving a spacious feel to the tracks.

The album was re-released in North America in 2001 by Warp[3] to celebrate the opening of its American division (albums by Warp had been distributed in the United States through licensing deals with many labels—this one was originally released on Wax Trax!/TVT Records there). The re-release features two previously unreleased tracks that were recorded during the same time this album was created.

An edited version of the track "Polygon Window", credited to James as the Dice Man, was featured on the first album in the Artificial Intelligence series, the compilation Artificial Intelligence.

Track listing [link]

All tracks by Richard D. James

1993 release [link]

  1. "Polygon Window" - 5:24
  2. "Audax Powder" 4:36
  3. "Quoth" - 5:34 (About this sound sample (help·info))
  4. "If It Really Is Me" - 7:01
  5. "Supremacy II" - 4:04
  6. "UT1-dot" - 5:17
  7. (untitled) - 6:24
  8. "Quixote" - 6:00
  9. "Quino-phec" - 4:42

2001 US re-release [link]

  1. "Polygon Window" - 5:24
  2. "Audax Powder" - 4:36
  3. "Quoth" - 5:34
  4. "If It Really Is Me" - 7:01
  5. "Supremacy II" - 4:04
  6. "UT1 - dot" - 5:17
  7. (untitled) - 6:24
  8. "Quixote" - 6:00
  9. "Portreath Harbour" - 4:44
  10. "Redruth School" - 2:43
  11. "Quino-phec" - 4:42

References [link]

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r170499
  2. ^ "Warp Records | Polygon Window | Surfing on Sine Waves | WARP7". Warp Records. https://www.warprecords.com/ography/release.php?cat=WARP7. Retrieved 21 March 2009. 
  3. ^ "Aphex Twin: Polygon Window Re-issue". Warp Records. 24 February 2001. https://www.warprecords.com/news/?ti_id=178. Retrieved 21 March 2009. [dead link]

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