Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 20 (“Hexagon”)

I am move to do this cut across - by - track countdown to the release , on February 13 , 2014 , the day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my account book in the estimable 33 1/3 series . It is a love missive to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its twentieth day of remembrance this yr , less than a month after my Good Book ’s issue . More on my Aphex Twin leger atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The program is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last racecourse to first . For address , an other drawing of the introduction is online , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter mesa of contents . The book ’s publishing house postedan audience with mewhen I was midway through the writing process .

There is some sarcasm to doing this countdown since the book is already shipping to folks who pre - put it via an online retail merchant such asAmazon , but the prescribed day of the month resist , and that ’s the objective — the destruction date — of this countdown , February 13 . And for what it ’s worth , while the physical copy are mailing now from retail merchant , the Kindle edition wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital version be less .

And this is a recommended recitation scenario , despite the hurting I go in the book to recognize lucid dream from intoxication :

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There ’s an entire chapter in my book focused on trying to undo some of the formal wisdom that describes this record album as “ beatless . ” I look at raceway with vivid beat , and at cart track with built-in beats ( the pulsing of a sin wave , by way of example ) . But I ’m less concerned in the false term than in other thing the mind of “ Beatles ” might in fact mean . I wo n’t go into depth here ( there is , of course of action , the book ) , but I think in the end it has as much if not more to do with the strain - less - ness of Selected Ambient Works Volume II , a birdsong being a structure , a meta - beat , a macro - beat — a threat to song , to come out and careen as it had antecedently been lie with and appreciated . Because if all one needed to do was to show that the record album has beats , one could just spiel this lovely mid - tempo track that is half bushed , half synth cloud , plus occasional pipe of what could be an oboe . The racecourse give way by the name “ Hexagon . ”

Here it is slowed down :

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