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Met dank aan de originele posters indien het niet door mij geript is...
Thanks to the original posters if not ripped by myself...

This is an accurate rip...

01 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Polygon Window.flac 
02 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Audax Powder.flac 
03 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Quoth.flac 
04 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - If It Really Is Me.flac 
05 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Supremacy II.flac 
06 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Ut1 - Dot.flac 
07 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Untitled.flac 
08 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Quixote.flac 
09 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Quino - Phec.flac 
10 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Portreath Harbour.flac 
11 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Redruth School.flac 
12 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Iketa.flac 
13 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Quoth (Wooden Thump Mix).flac 
14 - Polygon Window - Surfing On Sine Waves - Bike Pump Meets Bucket.flac 
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Exystence Review ---------------
Aphex Twin – Surfing On Sine Waves (Expanded Edition) (2025)
Filed Under: electronic, reissue by exy — 6 Comments
September 25, 2025

Let’s face it: even Richard D. James has probably lost track of all the aliases he’s forged during his decades-long career. There are the ones we are party to — 
Aphex Twin, Caustic Window, Polygon Window — and then there are the thousands about which we have undoubtedly been left in the dark. Apparently, the electronic music trickster 
dons his many hats “for a laugh,” as he told Pitchfork’s Philip Sherburne in a rare interview back in 2014, “And I might keep doing it, just keep being anonymous and doing different names.” 
You only need to glance at Aphex Twin’s ridiculous Warp Records bio for living proof that we will likely never know the truth about the smarty pants “fartist” with a silly sense of humor, 
and one of the most revered, peerless catalogues in the canon. But that’s just part of the fun.

Yet for all the myth-making ambiguity, there is little doubt that Polygon Window is a Richard D. James creation. Thirty-three years ago, 
the grinning producer had just unleashed his pioneering debut, Selected Ambient Works 85–92, and the then-burgeoning IDM movement was fast gaining momentum. 
James signed to Warp the following year, having already contributed the opening track (“Polygon Window” as The Dice Man) to the Sheffield label’s landmark 1992 compilation 
Artificial Intelligence. He was recruited by Warp to log the second release for the series, opting to build on his slightly dancier Polygon Window side project. 
The result is the sole full-length record under that pseudonym: Surfing On Sine Waves.

That album has now been reissued as an expanded vinyl edition, bundled with Polygon Window’s 1993 Quoth EP. Frequently overlooked in favor of more celebrated works, 
Surfing On Sine Waves is both a crucial snapshot of a formative era and a pivotal early release for James. Every detail—from the moody cover art to the track titles and their 
pervading storminess—feels like a distillation of James’s aesthetic and identity. His oeuvre is defined by its juxtaposition of chaos and eerie calm, and this tension bubbles 
to the surface on “Audax Powder,” where a gauzy melody is offset by a chilling synth sequence that quickly turns the patina cold and gray.

Recorded at Llanerlog studios in Lanner, the rural Cornish village of James’s upbringing, the album features cover art said to depict the beach on which James once nearly drowned. 
However, most crucially, Surfing On Sine Waves offers a window into his wider sonic world. The LP reads like a run-through of the various motifs that have defined James’s productions: 
hazardous 303 hallucinations (“Untitled”), featherlight ambient (“Quino – phec”), rough-hewn breakbeats (“Bike Pump Meets Bucket”), and noodly New Age piano journeys (“If It Really Is Me”), 
all hammered out on his toolkit of home-built and modified synths.

Though naturally well-versed in the art of home-listening, Surfing On Sine Waves also offers glimpses of James in pure dancefloor weapon mode. 
Blending hardcore rave with ambient techno, “Iketa” sits alongside the unrelenting force of “Supremacy II” and “Quoth”: two slabs of raw, pounding warehouse 
techno that hint at James’s Detroit inspirations. Was the latter track really inspired by the industrial equipment James used while tunnelling under St Michael’s Mount 
during a summer job? Who knows? Who cares? It bangs as hard now as it no doubt did back then, speaking to the timeless magic of this skin-shedding wizard. — 
daily.bandcamp.com