Windowpane was a single released by the band Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

 in 1990. It was released on 12" vinyl

Gramophone record

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 and CD

Compact Disc

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. A video was created by Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy was a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis....

 for this song. "Windowpane" appears here truncated, missing the backwards vocals as they appear on the end of the song on Love's Secret Domain

Love's Secret Domain

Love's Secret Domain is the third album by Coil and was released in 1991. The album marked a departure from the brooding synthesizers and melodies of their first two albums, focusing more on acid house sampling. The singles released from the album were "Windowpane" and "The Snow"...

. The "Astral Paddington Mix" is purely instrumental. The name of the song refers to LSD

LSD

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 encapsulated in thin gelatin squares. The lyrics unambiguously refer to the subjective effects of an LSD trip ("just put a window in your eye"); "See microscopic, see world view, see the future leaking through; see the person who once was you".

Three versions of this single were pressed on 12" vinyl, a white label promo, a picture disc, and a standard edition on black vinyl. An edition of 5,000 were produced as picture discs, 2,000 of which were purposely destroyed. All versions of the vinyl were released in 1990 and have exactly the same tracks and track timings. All three versions are also etched as follows: Side A: THE CLEARLIGHT..., Side B: AND THE DIAMOND PATH.

Two CD versions were produced. The first one was released on the label Torso, with the catalogue number TORSO CD 174. The second one was released on the label WaxTrax!, with catalogue number WAXCDS 9142. Both CD versions were released in 1990 and have the same tracks and track timings.

12" versions

Side A:

1. "Windowpane" - 5:48

Side B:

1. "Windowpane (Astral Paddington Mix)" - 5:37

CD versions

1. "Windowpane (Minimal Mix)" – 5:28
2. "Windowpane" – 5:49
3. "Windowpane (Astral Paddington Mix)" – 5:37