Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 13 (“Blue Calx”)

I am going to do this dog - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the good 33 1/3 series . It is a making love varsity 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 publication . More on my Aphex Twin Bible atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The plan is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last track to first . For reference , an early order of payment of the introduction is online , as isthe rule book ’s seven - chapter table of capacity . The Holy Scripture ’s newspaper 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 online retail merchant such asAmazon , but the prescribed date stands , and that ’s the target — the end date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s worth , while the forcible transcript are mailing now from retailers , the Kindle version wo n’t wrick on until February 13 . Still , the digital adaptation cost less .

As I ’ve observe onTwitter , this track - a - twenty-four hours glide slope is exactly the opponent of the Bible ’s approach , which is a compendium of interconnected , reporting - based essay .

No new shots of the book in situ today , but this via the Twitter account of the Williamsburg , Brooklyn , arm of the Rough Trade disc shop class in reply to a reviewer ’s query as to whether it ’ll be in farm animal . There is , it so happens , a pocket-sized act in the Scripture about the Sire label ’s embodied account at the original Rough Trade shop in London .

@psiyes we ’ll have it by next Friday

— Rough Trade US ( @RoughTradeUS)January 31 , 2014

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There ’s a reason why the two “ special ” tracks on Selected Ambient Works Volume II , “ Hankie ” and “ Stone in Focus , ” appear close to either end of the criminal record , at place 4 and 19 . It ’s so that in both their absence , “ Blue Calx ” remains in the centre : either track 13 of 25 or track 12 of 23 . ( In the version of the platter with 24 racetrack , it ’s slenderly off center , stay at 13 , with 12 track preceding and 11 after . ) It ’s both the center and the funny racetrack out in various ways — the one with a title expressed in factual , you know , words , right there on the record album arm ; one of the few ( “ Lichen ” is another ) with a proper melody ; the only to have appeared elsewhere prior to record album liberation ( on the 1992 compilation The philosophical system of Sound and Machine ) . There ’s much on the track in the al-Qur’an so I wo n’t go into much detail here , except to remark that the melody always , to me , brings to listen a muffled edit , a musical reduction , of “ Auld Lang Syne . ” Auld lang sine wave .

Here is the version recorded by the ensemble Alarm Will Sound , in an placement by Caleb Burhans , about whom there is much in the book :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUajcFPa-pc

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