Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 8 (“Blur”)

I am go to do this track - by - track countdown to the exit , on February 13 , 2014 , the solar day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 serial publication . It is a love life letter to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will cross off its 20th anniversary this class , less than a calendar month after my book ’s publishing . More on my Aphex Twin record atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The program is to do this countdown in the reverse rules of order , from last track to first . For reference , an early draught of the unveiling is online , as isthe volume ’s seven - chapter board of contents . The book ’s publishing house postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the writing outgrowth .

There is some satire to doing this countdown since the book is already shipping to folks who pre - ordered it via an online retailer such asAmazon , but the prescribed date stands , and that ’s the target — the end date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s worth , while the physical copies are mailing now from retail merchant , the Kindle translation wo n’t grow on until February 13 . Still , the digital version costs less .

As I ’ve noted onTwitter , this track - a - day approach is exactly the inverse of the ledger ’s feeler , which is a collection of interrelated , reporting - ground essays .

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Aphex Twin ’s music on this album can be so rudimentary that , in some manner , it comes across like the basis billet of the motorcar , the auditory sensation of them newly turned on and running through their self - maintenance functions . It is the auditory sensation of the room tone — were the pieces of equipment themselves room , rather than lines of code and collections of circuitry . So , this is n’t so much machines let the cat out of the bag their own song , as it is automobile making a tour of their own essential sound , a song of themselves .

There is no question that trail eight , “ Blur , ” has a heartbeat , despite the record album ’s reputation for the absence seizure thereof . The beat sound like something off an early Peter Gabriel album , an association not undermined by the cinematic synth washes and subtle keyboard motif . The beat is the thing here , though . It ’s little more than an augment click rail , but it ’s played loud , each imperfect facet amplify until it gains texture , like that of an old metronome heard up close . It take an emotional free weight in the form of antiquated technology , in the rich detail of its low - key fruit clank .

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