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====''On the Sunday of Life...''==== Along with the ''A Psychedelic Psauna'' compilation, which featured the Porcupine Tree track "Linton Samuel Dawson", the newly formed [[Delerium Records|Delerium]] label, formed by ''Freakbeat'' editors Richard Allen and Ivor Trueman, offered to reissue the cassettes ''Tarquin's Seaweed Farm'' and ''The Nostalgia Factory''. Two hundred copies of each cassette were sold through ''Freakbeat's'' mail order, The Freak Emporium, and soon Porcupine Tree became known as a mysterious new act amongst the then UK underground psychedelic music scene. Shortly thereafter, Delerium invited Wilson to sign as one of the label's founder artists. The first release after this, a double vinyl album and single CD compiling the best material from his two cassettes, was released in mid-1992 as ''[[On the Sunday of Life]]'', a title chosen from a long list of possible nonsense titles compiled by Richard Allen. The rest of the music from the initial tapes was released on the limited edition [[compilation album]] ''[[Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape]]''. In 1992, Delerium released ''On the Sunday of Life'' as an edition of 1,000 copies, complete with a deluxe gatefold sleeve. The album sold very well, particularly in Italy, and it was briefly repressed on vinyl and has remained in print on CD ever since its release. The album featured future concert favourite and frequent [[encore (concert)|encore]] song "Radioactive Toy". By 2000, ''On the Sunday of Life...'' had accumulated sales of more than 20,000 copies.<ref name="Porcupine Tree Biography">{{cite web|url= http://www.porcupinetree.com/background.cfm|title= Porcupine Tree Biography|website= PorcupineTree.com|access-date= 15 May 2007|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080410092648/http://www.porcupinetree.com/background.cfm|archive-date= 10 April 2008|df= dmy-all}}</ref> ''On the Sunday of Life'' was originally meant to be a quadruple (LP)/double (CD) album compiling both cassettes in full, but changed to the best (according to Wilson) songs from the tapes. In 2004, Wilson remixed and remastered all three tapes, releasing them as a three-CD box set called ''Footprints: Cassette Music 1988-1992''. This box was only distributed to family and friends.
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