Compilation is the only full length acid house

Acid house

Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines rather than sung lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago who experimented with...

-techno album by Richard D. James released under his pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 of Caustic Window. The album was released on 1 June 1998 (see 1998 in music

1998 in music

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).

The album consists of most of the tracks from the EP's Joyrex J4 EP

Joyrex J4 EP

Joyrex J4 EP is an EP by Richard D. James under the alias Caustic Window. The release is a 12 inch vinyl and has been pressed with both yellow and black labels.All tracks except "Popcorn" were later re-released on the album Compilation....

, Joyrex J5 EP

Joyrex J5 EP

Joyrex J5 EP is an EP by Richard D. James under the alias Caustic Window. The release is a 12 inch vinyl.All tracks, except "R2D2", were later re-released on the album Compilation.-Side B:#"Joyrex J5" – 6:54#"R2D2" – 3:42...

, Joyrex J9i

Joyrex J9i

Joyrex J9i is a single by Richard D. James under the alias Caustic Window. The release is a 10 inch vinyl and was limited to an edition of 300 copies...

and Joyrex J9ii

Joyrex J9ii

Joyrex J9ii is an album by Richard D. James under the alias Caustic Window. The release is a 12" vinyl and has received more than one pressing...

combined onto one CD. The album contains James' signature acid house sensibilities with a more aggressive tone than most. It mostly features repetitive tracks performed on analogue

Analog signal

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...

 synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

s and drum machine

Drum machine

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s, becoming more and more frantic as the album progresses.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Richard D. James.

1. "Joyrex J4" – 4:30
2. "AFX 114" – 1:21
3. "Cordialatron" – 4:44
4. "Italic Eyeball" – 4:25
5. "Pigeon Street" – 0:23
6. "Astroblaster" – 5:29
7. "On the Romance Tip" – 5:06
8. "Joyrex J5" – 6:54
9. "Fantasia" – 6:02
10. "Humanoid Must Not Escape" – 5:42
11. "Clayhill Dub" – 3:24
12. "The Garden of Linmiri" – 6:10
13. "We Are the Music Makers (Hardcore Mix)" – 4:01

• Tracks 1–5 originally appeared on Joyrex J4 EP.
• Tracks 6–8 originally appeared on Joyrex J5 EP.
• Track 9 originally appeared on Joyrex J9i and Joyrex J9ii.
• Track 10 originally appeared on Joyrex J9i.
• Tracks 11–13 originally appeared on Joyrex J9ii.