“America first caught a whiff of what Richard James had to offer in early 1993, when Warp released the *Surfing on Sine Waves* album under his Polygon Window alias. Though a few imports had already made a ripple stateside, *Surfing on Sine Waves*, distributed by TVT, marked the first time a James record could be found at domestic prices. The album was originally one in a line of Warp's "Artificial ”