I am going to do this track - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the respectable 33 1/3 serial . It is a love life letter to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will pock its twentieth anniversary this year , less than a month after my book ’s publishing . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The plan is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last track to first . For credit , an early draft of the introduction is online , as isthe script ’s seven - chapter board of contents . The Christian Bible ’s publisher postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the writing appendage .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAi97DaJMWM
Depending on your written matter of the album , this ( heard above ) is raceway 25 , 24 , or 23 . It is , no issue , the closing path of the record album . It is commonly refer to as “ Matchsticks . ” One probably should n’t read too much into the emplacement of the terminal path of an album that come very much out of a music genre of euphony , a community of euphony , that sees sound as inherently mutable , that sees the recording process as the start and not the conclusion of a originative process , a process that continues in the aftermarket in various forms : remixes both commission and fan - fabricated , mashups , edits , placement in a DJ ’s readiness , use as licensed content .
thickheaded chord , heavy and obtuse , seem to play vocal harmonies , like something out of an Italian horror picture show . There ’s this fundamental percussion , what seems to be a series of short , dulled four - beat echoes that are unto themselves rhythmic , but that are precede in ways ( imbrication , or after a brief intermission ) that keep them from collectively serving as a steady pulse rate . It ’s all more water system than land : there ’s a surface , and it serves that primal purpose of keeping things afloat , but it is n’t altogether dependable . episodic flavourless notes emphasize this signified of a lack of reliableness , the sense that thing could sour , and slide down , at any moment .
Here it is reversed ( pretty much all the rails are available backwards ) , showing the melody to be fairly proportionate :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulbp72OL-7Y
And here is a skit from Chris Morris ’ comedy / satire project Blue Jam that practice the track as backing music . In the book I spill about another Morris employ of Aphex Twin ’s euphony in a chapter , titled “ embed Vapor , ” about the album ’s use in motion picture and contemporaneous terpsichore :
More on my Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II playscript atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com .
Thanks toboondesign.comfor the sequential grid discourse of the album cover .
33 1/3Aphex Twin
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