I am going to do this track - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the mean solar day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the honorable 33 1/3 series . It is a love letter to Aphex Twin ’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will grade its 20th anniversary this year , less than a month after my Word ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin book at [ amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com / Aphex - Twins - Se … ?tag = gizmodo08c-20 ) and [ Bloomsbury.com](http://www.bloomsbury.com / us / aphex - twins … ) . The architectural plan is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last running to first . For character , [ an former bill of exchange of the introduction is online](http://disquiet.com/2024-12-06 / see to it … ) , as is [ the book ’s seven - chapter board of contents](http://disquiet.com/2025-04-19 / aph … ) . The book ’s newspaper publisher posted [ an consultation with me](http://333sound.com/2025-05-20 / the … ) when I was halfway through the written material outgrowth .
There is some irony to doing this countdown since the book is already embark to folk who pre - ordered it via an on-line retail merchant such as [ Amazon](http://www.amazon.com / Aphex - Twins - Se … ?tag = gizmodo08c-20 ) , but the official date stands , and that ’s the objective — the conclusion date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s deserving , while the physical copies are mailing now from retailers , the Kindle version wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital version costs less . *
As I ’ve take note on [ Twitter](https://twitter.com / disquiet / statu … ) , this track - a - day approach shot is precisely the inverse of the book ’s coming , which is a collection of interrelated , reporting - based essays . *
Doing this daily countdown labor in cash advance of the _ Selected Ambient Works Volume II _ rule book ’s release is — the presentation as serial web log post with YouTube embeds aside — anything but casual .
Pretty much the last matter you want to do after a Holy Scripture is published is to revisit the subject in depth . The last affair you require to do is unearth things you wished you ’d cover otherwise , or material that would have further strengthen your contention .
Yet here I go , listening daily to tracks as I did during the year of the script ’s authorship — well , slightly otherwise . During the writing process , I ’d put a single track on repeat for the day ; for this countdown , I ’m listen back to confirm some thoughts , and to conciliate realizations I ’ve had subsequent to the intial writing .
During that lengthy script - yield period , no track was as central to my listening and thinking as the 11th/12th , depending on your variant : “ White Blur I , ” as it has come to be know . It play a central part in my initial marriage proposal to the publishing house ( 33 1/3 , an imprint of Bloomsbury ) , and its importance did n’t diminish as the composition unfolded . The track more than any other on the album foresee the future upgrade of reproductive systems in electronic euphony . This is because it is built on that most ancient of automatize instrument , the wind gong .
As I [ observe a few days ago](https://twitter.com / disquiet / statu … ) , the three tracks that follow “ White Blur 1 ” on * Selected Ambient Works Volume II * can be allege to distinguish , in compact contour , the double-dyed story of the record album : “ Blue Calx , ” melody ; “ Parallel Stripes , ” ambience ; “ Shiny Metal Rods , ” minimalist meter . In that thinking , “ White Blur 1 ” would fall into the “ Shiny Metal Rods ” category — or between “ Shiny Metal Rods ” and “ Parallel Stripes ” — but because of the abnormality of the rhythmic textile , it truly deserves a category of its own .
And recently over at the Disquiet Junto , the weekly open - call euphony - making series I extend , we did a projection informed by this track . It ’s title [ “ Aeolian Metrics . ”](http://disquiet.com/2025-04-28 / dis … )
And here it is reverse :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb6Vw9OtxTw
More on my Aphex Twin _ Selected Ambient Works Volume II _ book at [ amazon.com](www.amazon.com / Aphex - Twins - Selected - Ambient - Volume / dp/1623568900/ ) and [ Bloomsbury.com](http://www.bloomsbury.com / us / aphex - twins … ) .
Thanks toboondesign.comfor the sequential power system discourse of the album screen .
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