lovely stuff. i had a similar thing happen when i heard the first Franz Ferdinand album recently, really took me back to a very particular place, like a real flashback sort of thing
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Wonder how many people have listened to Caustic Window in the Himalayas. Possibly 1.
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Polygon Window week
Surfing on Sine Waves
Quoth
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Never actually listened to Surfing on Sine Waves before, but I think it’s my favourite we’ve listened to in the club so far. Feels like a midpoint between what he was laying the groundwork for and the more (imo) distinctively classic Aphex of I Care Because You Do. Bit more of that strange enigmatic sense of melody underpinning everything, which is what really got me into his work in the first place
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im pretty sure ive heard it all before, i remember when i was a student i downloaded all the warp artificial intelligence series and this is part of that i think?
oh yeah its the first one after the comp!
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I’ve always thought of this as a more important record for Warp rather than Richard but the title track is incredible and there’s lots of other good stuff.
@andyvine are we doing Analogue Bubblebath 3 at any point? I lump it in with Surfing on Sine Waves as it came out around the same time (from memory).
i think Classics was mostly Analogue Bubblebath stuff so wasnt planning to. but throw it in here if you want!
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I’m curious if RDJ has ever said why he doesn’t put all his releases under the Aphex Twin name. Anyone know?
dafty isnt he
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Big fan of this Polygon Window double bill. Haven’t heard either before, but there’s some great stuff on the album and the EP/single.
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New to me too. I’m looking forward to getting stuck into this evening.
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Here’s the two tracks that came on the 2001+ SoSW reissues for those who don’t own any of them (I only just found out they existed myself):
Portreath Harbour
Redruth School
They’re sequenced between Quixote and Quino-phec.
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Really enjoyed SOSW. Not entirely sure how he picks which music goes with which name as it definitely sounds like the same progression. Sort of hoped that all the aliases I’d never explored would be obviously different from one another. Maybe it becomes more pronounced later.
No reason to mark it down for that though
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yeah i’d expected this too but nope 
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Does sort of make it more impressive in a way though. Massively prolific in service of a fairly singular vision. Most of what I’ve heard so fa is very recognisably the work of the same person and the sheer amount of it is a little jaw-dropping. That’s before we even get to hardware dumps and the general feeling that he probably has weeks of unreleased music just sat around at home.
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Had not listened to Polygon Window in ages apparently, showing only 6 unique track plays in 2021 out of my nearly 20 years on last.fm. Enjoyed Surfing on Sine Waves and Quoth today on the plane, and it’s a shame I hadn’t listened more often. Not his peak work but it’s pretty solid and enjoyable. I particularly like Audax Powder, If It Really Is Me, UT1 - Dot, Quoth, and Iketa.
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Cool album this. I actually didn’t like it at all when I first bought it, then after quite a few years, it started to grow on me. Even though it hits the deck fairly often, I haven’t played it for a while. So buzzing to give it another go.
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I’ve enjoyed re-listening to SoSW this week. The Polygon Window track is tight and fidgety and I love how it is perpertually evolving. Quoth is punishing and enjoyable. The moody piano house of If It Really Is Me is bit different for an RDJ track and I love the old school stripped-back acid house sound of the untitled track.
Weird thing is that, of the six artist albums Warp put out in the Artificial Intelligence series, SoSW is in the bottom half but is still excellent.
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AFX - Analogue Bubblebath 3
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhNQFpGI0CeaaqmI03QhoTkOXjpG8wzDQ
Looks like this came out in 1992 on vinyl and Feb 1993 on CD with 3 extra tracks. It was the second RDJ release I ever bought, by mail order from a listing in the NME.
It stands up really well. The quality of the tunes is close to the Soundcloud dump (which is very good) and just a notch down from the stuff on SoSW and Classics. Some tunes feel more like sketches but I love listening to it front to back.
.215061 (track 1) appeared on the Soundcloud dump as an unedited version, with a note from Richard saying “Lannerlog, back page of Music technology magazine July 1987, with Laurie Anderson on cover”… which suggests he made it before turning 16. It’s a really good, atmospheric, melodic techno track.
(Cat 00897-Aa1) (track 8) is like a companion piece to the original Analogue Bubblebath. It would have slotted right in on SAW 85-92 too.
.1993841 (track 2) features lasers, those spooky AFX synths and tinny insect percussion but is fairly hypnotic. Elsewhere there’s Richard doing some hoovering, getting excited in the shower and draining the bath. Worth a listen!
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