Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 7 (“Curtains”)

I am proceed to do this chase after - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the daylight prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series . It is a dearest 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 book ’s publishing . More on my Aphex Twin leger atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The design is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last track to first . For reference , an early draft of the intro is online , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter board of cognitive content . The volume ’s publishing house postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the written material process .

There is some irony 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 stick out , and that ’s the target — the end date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s deserving , while the strong-arm copy 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 noted onTwitter , this track - a - day coming is on the button the opposite of the book ’s advance , which is a accumulation of interrelated , coverage - based essay .

This is one of the first track I began to take extensive notes on , pages upon page about just one birdsong . Looking back at those distinction today , I number upon this opening part of a conviction : “ It ’s around the second hour of listening that I number to realize … ”

The immersive experience I made of listening to a track a daylight , and to little else , for a twelvemonth , rotate through them , come backs to me as I work down this rearward countdown to this occur Thursday , February 13 , when the book is formally release . That ’s a slightly less than meaningful date since : ( 1 ) physical copies in the U.S. are already send ( and images are bug out up on Twitter and Instagram ) , ( 2 ) it lend oneself at this point to the digital interpretation ( which go away live that day , though in my experience of pre - ordering digital books that probably means that if you be on the West Coast of the United States you may have admission to it on Tuesday dark at 9:01pm , just as the East Coast enters the next day ) , and ( 3 ) the U.K. translation is n’t officially on sale until April .

The track is built around two bar with a tone - comparable melody , up and down and up and down . It comes to seem like the mo spaces between the Federal Reserve note in the theme alter , giving it a woozy , uncertain timbre . The repeating has a parallel in the echo that leave the notes to repeat : they repeat in sequence , and also as suddering halos of themselves . This is the Charles Martin Hall of mirrors , a lackadaisical ambient techo rendition of the climactic scene in Lady in Shanghai . Ultimately , it is n’t an either / or differentiation — it ’s all about the merging , this place where all repetitions are themselves a form of government note , a variety of instrument .

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The rails “ Curtains ” was used by satirist and comedian Chris Morris as a financial backing grievance to one of his sketches , “ Man ’s Bottom , ” as hear below . Morris ’ usage of Aphex Twin makes an appearance in my book ( in the chapter “ embed Vapor ” ) , but I focalize on a different instance .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RkfXOZhKuw

And here it is reversed :

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