Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 5 (“Grass”)

I am go to do this track - by - lead countdown to the handout , on February 13 , 2014 , the day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series . It is a love alphabetic character to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will label its 20th day of remembrance this twelvemonth , less than a calendar month after my Holy Writ ’s publishing . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The programme is to do this countdown in the rearward order , from last caterpillar track to first . For reference , an early draft of the first appearance is online , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter board of content . The book ’s publishing house postedan consultation with mewhen I was halfway through the writing process .

There is some irony to doing this countdown since the Good Book is already shipping to folk who pre - ordered it via an online retailer 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 strong-arm copies are send now from retail merchant , the Kindle version wo n’t turn on until February 13 . Still , the digital version costs less .

As I ’ve observe onTwitter , this raceway - a - day access is incisively the opposition of the book ’s approach , which is a collection of interconnected , reporting - found essay .

I enjoying seeing the book pop out up in citizenry ’s Twitter and Instagram feeds . Here isa validation - of - aliveness germinate from Matmos ’ Drew Daniel :

@disquietlook what arrived in the mail : pic.twitter.com / rVJkmOTnpB

— DREW DANIEL ( @DDDrewDaniel)February 9 , 2014

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“ Grass ” gets cover quite a bit in a section about the under - appreciated rhythmical tone of the record album ( chapter two : “ Background Beats ” ) . This is one of a fistful of tracks on the album that connect to the Fourth World medicine of Jon Hassell , euphony in which “ rituals are bring to hold through unintended uses on unexampled technologies , especially of castaway cloth , ” as I put it . Later in the book ( chapter 6 : “ imbed Vapor ” ) I touch on its employ in this calamitous - comedic skit by satirist Chris Morris :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phmcb_K8I6o

This is “ Grass ” and the track “ tree diagram ” bet at the same time , courtesy of a YouTube - host fan premix :

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