Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 24 (“White Blur 2″)

I am going to do this dog - by - track countdown to the handout , on February 13 , 2014 , the Clarence Day prior to Valentine ’s Day , of my account book in the estimable 33 1/3 series . It is a sexual love letter to Aphex Twin ’s record album Selected Ambient Works Volume II , which will mark its 20th anniversary this yr , less than a calendar month after my book ’s publication . More on my Aphex Twin book atamazon.comandBloomsbury.com . The program is to do this countdown in the reverse order , from last track to first . For point of reference , an early tipple of the insertion is on-line , as isthe book ’s seven - chapter table of content . The Quran ’s publishing company postedan interview with mewhen I was halfway through the writing process .

If Selected Ambient Works Volume II is to be thought of as chillout music , as sanctum music , as comforting - from - the - storm euphony , then the final tracks of it prepare you to head back into the world , in particular this piece ( learn above ) , which is rail 24 , 23 , or 22 , depending on your edition . It is commonly referred to as “ White Blur 2 ” ( with another track , often re - titled “ White Blur ” or “ White Blur 1 , ” being the one that is built on a wind chime ) .

In my Word I interview Greg Eden , the individual who was responsible for the “ fan naming ” of the officially ungentle cut on the album . At the time of the criminal record ’s liberation , back in 1994 , Eden was a British university student of physics . Later he worked for Warp for a decade , and these days he is a coach of such electronic musicians at Mark Pritchard and Chris Clark . He allege , in part , of the process of seem at the fine art on the inner cover of the record album and divining track title : “ That ’s a ashen blur , but there ’s another white-hot fuzz , so that ’s ‘ White Blur 2 . ’ I did n’t confer with a mystic or go on a DMT journeying . It was just very ‘ describe what you see . ’ ”

There ’s a rudimentary tonal pattern played as if on futurist talking membranophone , a tuned tympan where each beat is compendious in being , basically , little more than a soft attack , a cotton mallet . At times a 2nd voicing of that melody occurs , heard above the original , but it , too , while tuned higher , is a meter in the form of a line , or perhaps vice versa , or more to the point stand in the blank space between those two dare poles . There ’s a gurgle and an insistent , geiger counter beat at the very start of “ White Blur 2 , ” and that gurgle , a contorted bellow at points , lento accept on the appearing of a interpreter , eventually becoming a stoned chatter . ( Detractors — there are those who persist in the idea that the record album is a antic — might suggest this is Aphex Twin laughing at his hearing . ) The last moments are the track ’s most beautiful , as each idiom of the nucleus tune is tweak slightly , poke at and bent as if it ’s been pulled like a spell of Silly Putty .

Here is the track vacate ( fairly much all the track are available backwards ) . The melody is symmetrical enough to be almost indistinguishable , but the vocalisation are warped , and the fire on notes during sealed segments is tenacious enough to sound significantly rearwards here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ExHSmY_Xg

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