Incunabula (album)
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| Studio album by Autechre | ||||
| Released | 29 November 1993 | |||
| Genre | IDM, techno | |||
| Length | 78:04 | |||
| Label | Warp | |||
| Producer | Sean Booth and Rob Brown | |||
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| Pitchfork | 8.2/10 |
| Select | (4/5) |
Incunabula (stylized as (Incunabula)) is the debut studio album by the British electronic music duo Autechre, released on 29 November 1993
Autechre member Rob Brown stated that Incunabula was "more of a compilation of old material." and that Amber was their "first album we put out on Warp".
Music critics David Stubbs and Ned Raggett noted that Incunabula would differ from Autechre's later releases. Raggett found that the album "doesn't totally display the full experimentation which would dominate their future albums and singles" while Stubbs that following both Incunabula and Amber that Autechre "took an increasingly remote turn, moving away from both the blissful pastures of the chillout zone and the wildfire, staplegun rhythms characteristic of the 'Intelligent Dance Music' brigade."
Raggett continued that the first track "Kalpol Introl" "sets the overall mood for the rest of the record" with the tracks combination of minimal beats and bass with a various keyboard textures and understated melodies. He concluded that Incunabula "follows the same general tone; tracks often experiment with ghostly keyboard backing and mostly clinical beats combined with odd, individual touches."
Incunabula was released by Warp on 29 November 1993. It was released again by Wax Trax! on 25 January 1994 in the United States.Incunabula was re-released on vinyl by Warp on 11 November 2016.
In a contemporary review, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch stated that most techno would be repellent to audiences with its "insistent beat and repetitive tape loops" but that this was not the case with the genre's "ambient strain", lumping Autechre with groups like The Orb and Ultramarine and artists such as the Aphex Twin. The review found little relevance in citing individual tracks as highlights as the music ebbed and flowed into each other but that "the music is never boring and does inspire fits of introspection"
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