Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 17 (“Z Twig”)

I am kick the bucket to do this tail - by - caterpillar tread countdown to the vent , on February 13 , 2014 , the day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 serial publication . It is a beloved letter to Aphex Twin ’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its 20th anniversary this year , less than a calendar month after my Scripture ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The program is to do this countdown in the reverse parliamentary procedure , from last track to first . For reference , an former bill of exchange of the introduction is online , as isthe Quran ’s seven - chapter tabular array of contents . The book ’s publisher postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the writing process .

There is some irony to doing this countdown since the rule book is already shipping to folks who pre - ordered it via an on-line retailer such asAmazon , but the official date brook , and that ’s the target — the close date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s worth , while the physical copy are mailing now from retailers , the Kindle rendering wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital variation costs less .

As I ’ve notice onTwitter , this track - a - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. access is incisively the opposite of the book ’s glide path , which is a ingathering of interconnected , reportage - base essays .

At just over two minutes in length , the track “ Z Twig ” is the shortest on the record album . Its brevity is balanced by skillful sunshine . It is arguably the album ’s most cheerful , quite far from the nervous - make ambiguousness that haunt much of the book .

There are undercurrent of stress , though . To set out with , there ’s the very start of it : a blood - in - the - pinna throb that quick subsides as the blippy power system of beats charge in . There ’s another troll of dark tones that look around three quarter of a minute in , when the beats — this is a data track conceived almost entirely as a series of overlaid beats — momently play in sympathetic noise with all those around them . This beat in query , humble and dark than the others , which incline between blissfully alert and vibrantly eager , impress a fond whole step forth from the others , and the result is that transonic moiré that go on when near the like come in closemouthed proximity . It ’s the audio equivalent of an out - of - register photographic print chore , like when the Sunday funnies are badly reproduced and one or more of the layers of color grounds a small but obtrusive shift .

in the end , “ Z Twig ” is a serial publication of beats that intersect in two ways : there is the rhythm of the initial measure themselves , and the sound reflection effect , adopt from dub euphony , which post out wave of vapor - trail rhythmic chronological sequence that then all in turn interact with each other , ripple in a ghost pool where none of the expand pattern really affect each other directly , just are heard in context of each other .

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Here is a reworked rendering by Wisp , who upload a handful of these to the Internet and was afterward signed to Rephlex , Aphex Twin ’s own platter recording label . More on Wisp in the book :

This is an extended version , edit together by a attender for the original was n’t sufficient ( “ This has long been one of my favorite RDJ call , but I always found myself want more . This is my try at fix this problem . I am by no means a professional editor and this version is not perfect or seamless . ” ):

And here it is reversed :

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