Incunabula (album)

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Incunabula
Autechre studio album

Publication
(s)

1993

Label (s) Warp Records

Format (s)

CD , LP , CC

Genre (s)

Electronica , IDM , Ambient

Title (number)

11

running time

78:04

occupation
  • Composition: Rob Brown, Sean Booth
  • Featuring : Adrian Harrow, Darrell Fitton, Richard Brown

production

Rob Brown, Sean Booth

Studio (s)

The townhouse

chronology
- Incunabula Amber
(1994)

Incunabula is the debut album by the British electronica music group Autechre . It was released on November 29, 1993 on the Sheffielder music label Warp Records with catalog number WARP CD17. It is also the seventh part of the album series entitled Artificial Intelligence , which Warp Records released between 1992 and 1994.

History of origin

Sean Booth and Rob Brown had released the first single under the name Autechre in 1991 on the small label Hardcore Records with Cavity Job . Shortly thereafter, he switched to Warp Records. After two tracks by Autechre were released in 1992 on the compilation Artificial Intelligence with Crystel and The Egg , Warp Records wanted to release a first album by Booth and Brown. For this purpose, both initially put together an album from older, already produced pieces. The label made the final selection of the material.

In April 1994, Warp Records also released Autechre's EP Basscadet , which is a release from Incunabula. In addition to their own reworking of the track, the EP also contained remixes by Beaumont Hannant and Seefeel .

Track list

  1. Kalpol Introl - 3:18
  2. Bike - 7:57
  3. Autriche - 6:56
  4. Bronchus 2--3 :33
  5. Basscadet - 5:23
  6. Eggshell - 9:01 am
  7. Doctrine - 7:48
  8. Maetl - 6:32
  9. Wind wind - 11:15
  10. Lowride - 7:15
  11. 444-8 :55

reception

The album was received unanimously positively by the critics.

The British Select magazine awarded four out of five possible stars:

“That not only makes the listener prick up his ears ... but also provides the basic continuity and structure that are the hallmarks of a modern techno album. Another indispensable Warp album. "

"This not only perks up the listener ... but provides the basic continuity and structure which is the hallmark of the modern techno long-player. Another warp essential. "

- Select

The music website allmusic judged Incunabula to be an album that did not yet show the full will to experiment of later Autechre works ("... doesn't totally display the full experimentation which would dominate their future albums and singles ...") but still remarkable be ("... still striking nonetheless ..."). In retrospect, the album is proof that the early comparisons with the Sheffield industrial band Cabaret Voltaire were more than a foolish hype (“... proof that the early comparisons to fellow Sheffield denizens Cabaret Voltaire weren't just misguided hype .. . ").

The critics of the website Almost Cool gave it the highest rating of 10 stars and called Incunabula a classic whose arrangements are timeless despite some somewhat outdated sound. ("Although some of the noises used on the album sound a little dated, the arrangements of the actual songs themselves are timeless ...").

Thaddeus Herrmann judged in the music magazine De: Bug on the occasion of the 2003 Autechre album Draft 7.30 in retrospect that the album , recorded with traditional techno equipment, "threw the English definition of melodic listening music overboard".

Cover

The cover design comes from the design office The Designers Republic and was based on heavily alienated images by photographer Daniel 72.

The motto “Gescom Pleasure is Our Business” and “Darrell Fitton 4 Gescom” in the liner notes were found on the back . This is the first indication of the Gescom artist collective , which comprises more than 20 people . Later on, pieces of music produced by Autechre were also published under the name Gescom.

In other media

The track Kalpol Introl was used as part of the soundtrack in Darren Aronofsky's experimental science fiction thriller π .

Bike could be heard in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on the radio station Self-Actualization FM .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Various - Artificial Intelligence at discogs.com, accessed August 20, 2010
  2. ^ Autechre on music, technology and egg custard. at bbc.co.uk, accessed August 20, 2010
  3. ^ Autechre: Directly and immediately at the stop in De: Bug 120, March 25, 2008
  4. ↑ Review: Autechre - Incunabula at songtwo.demon.co.uk, accessed August 20, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Review: Autechre - Incunabula at allmusic.com, accessed on August 20, 2010
  6. ↑ Review: Autechre - Incunabula at almostcool.org, accessed August 20, 2010
  7. ↑ Elektronika: Autechre in De: Bug 70, April 25, 2003
  8. ↑ a b Autechre - Incunabula: Images at discogs.com, accessed August 20, 2010

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