Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 18 (“Windowsill”)

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 Bible in the good 33 1/3 serial . It is a beloved letter to Aphex Twin ’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will distinguish its twentieth day of remembrance this yr , less than a calendar month after my book ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The plan is to do this countdown in the reverse monastic order , from last track to first . For reference , an early draft of the introduction is online , as isthe book of account ’s seven - chapter table of content . The book ’s publisher postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the committal to writing operation .

There is some caustic remark to doing this countdown since the book is already shipping to folks who pre - ordered it via an on-line retailer such asAmazon , but the official date stands , and that ’s the target — the end day of the month — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s deserving , while the strong-arm copies are post now from retailers , the Kindle reading wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital version costs less .

As I ’ve observe onTwitter , this track - a - day approach is exactly the opposite of the book ’s attack , which is a assembling of interrelated , coverage - base essay .

Apparentlythis “ pre - ordering the book ” thingmeans you get the ledger before it comes out ( formally February 13 , 2014 ) , at least in physical soma . I ’m enjoying fancy these on Twitter and Instagram , and will stay on to share them here on social function :

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As I bring up in the rule book , the track sounds like nothing so much as how one might recall the theme song to the X - Files , by composer Mark Snow , if one had not heard it in a while . That boob tube show debuted less than a year before the album ’s release , and was the head pop - culture purveyor of foreign life during its time , before science fiction profit the omnipresence it has in the entertainment industry today . That ’s already cite more from the record than I ’ve intended to in these trail rundowns , but this is a track I go into in more depth than some others in the book . Suffice to say , its dub minimal art brings to heed both colonial informant fabric and the piece of work of Steve Reich .

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