Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 23 (“Tassels”)

I am going to do this track - by - track countdown to the dismission , on February 13 , 2014 , the daytime prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my book in the good 33 1/3 series . It is a love missive to Aphex Twin ’s album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its 20th anniversary this year , less than a month after my book ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin Scripture atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The plan is to do this countdown in the rearward order , from last raceway to first . For reference , an former draft of the unveiling is online , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter table of contentedness . The book ’s publishing firm postedan interview with mewhen I was midway through the writing process .

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There is some irony to doing this countdown since the book is already send to folk who pre - ordered it via an online retail merchant such asAmazon , but the official engagement stands , and that ’s the target — the end date — of this countdown , February 13 .

This part is about as far from the concept of a “ Song dynasty ” as the album gets . “ Tassels ” is a racket whorl , a bur whorl , a flangy spray , a episode of undulating static . It is a dense the great unwashed of white randomness that get the appellative of “ song ” — gets categorized as “ song ” — for the childlike understanding that it is one caterpillar tread among two dozen or so on a criminal record of things that are occasionally admit as song , that spacious see itself more a topic of context of use and format than of form . “ tassel ” is a song by association . Beyond that tie , it is anything but a call .

There are , in essence , two helping to the material that make up “ Tassels ” : There is the randomness and there is the flavour . The noise is like that of a go jet plane , its fuselage drone a tedious - motion experiment in doppler fantasia . The tone is a sinewy curve of synthesized anxiety ; if it suggests an airborne vehicle , it would be more ballistic capsule than woodworking plane , and considerably less probable of Earth origin . The track is the less the score than the sound excogitation to a succession of an unscreened Alien continuation . There ’s a long hall , and a lot of dead crew mates , and things are almost certainly give-up the ghost to get forged . Perhaps this is why “ Tassels ” appears toward the end of the record album . It ’s a forewarning of exit the iciness - out room .

Here it is , reverse :

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