Tides (Arovane album) explained

Tides
Type:	studio
Artist:	Arovane
Cover:	Tides_arovane.jpg
Border:	yes
Recorded:	1999
Label:	City Centre Offices
Producer:	Uwe Zahn
Prev Title:	Atol Scrap
Prev Year:	2000
Next Title:	AER (Valid)
Next Year:	2001

Tides is the second studio album by German electronic music producer Arovane, released on 1 June 2000 by City Centre Offices.^[1]

Critical reception

Resident Advisor placed Tides at number 99 on its list of the 100 best albums of the 2000s; in an accompanying write-up, critic Todd Burns dubbed the album "a small masterpiece of ambient music that seemed to have nary a Max/MSP patch in sight."^[2] In 2017, Tides was ranked at number 44 on Pitchforks list of the 50 best IDM albums of all time.^[3]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[4]

• Uwe Zahn – production
• Bettina Hovgaard-Petersen – cover artwork
• Christian Kleine – guitar
• Oliver Schulze – cover artwork

Notes and References

1. Web site: City Centre Offices: Release Blocks. City Centre Offices. 30 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20040604223732/http://www.city-centre-offices.de/index.html. 4 June 2004. dead.
2. Web site: RA Poll: Top 100 albums of the '00s. Resident Advisor. 25 January 2010. 6 June 2020.
3. Web site: The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time. Pitchfork. 24 January 2017. 24 August 2019. 1.
4. Tides. Arovane. City Centre Offices. 2000. TowerblockCD001. liner notes.