Incunabula (Album)
Occupation
- Composition: Rob Brown, Sean Booth
- Featuring: Adrian Harrow, Darrell Fitton, Richard Brown
- Mastering: Geoff Pesche
Incunabula is the debut album by British electronica music group Autechre.
Incunabula appeared on 29 November 1993 on the Sheffield-based record label Warp Records catalog number WARP CD17. It is also the seventh part of the Artificial Intelligence series titled albums, the published Warp Records between 1992 and 1994.
Genesis
Sean Booth and Rob Brown had published in 1991 on the small label Hardcore Records Cavity Job, the first single under the name Autechre. Shortly thereafter he moved to Warp Records. After in 1992 on the compilation Artificial Intelligence with Crystel and The Egg two pieces were published by Autechre, Warp Records wanted to release a first album of Booth and Brown. For both initially presented an album of older, already produced pieces together. The final selection of the material took over the label.
In April 1994, also appeared on Warp Records Autechres EP Basscadet, which is a single from Incunabula. In addition to its own new revisions of the tracks EP also contained remixes from Beaumont Hannant and Seefeel.
Title list
Reception
The album was recorded unanimously positive critical acclaim.
Select The British magazine awarded four out of five stars:
"This not only makes the listener prick up their ears ... but also provides the basic continuity and structure, which are the hallmark 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 hall mark of the modern techno long player. Another Warp essential. "
The music website Allmusic rated Incunabula, an album that's not the whole experiment will later Autechre art show ("... does not totally display the full experimentation Which would dominate Their future albums and singles ...") but nonetheless still remarkably Let ( " ... still striking Nonetheless ..."). The album was in retrospect evidence that early comparisons with the Sheffield Industrial band Cabaret Voltaire were more than a foolish hype ("... proof did the early comparisons to fellow Sheffield denizens Cabaret Voltaire Were not just misguided hype ... ").
The critics of the Website Almost Cool assigned a top score of 10 stars and called Incunabula a classic whose arrangements are timeless, despite some slightly dated sounding sound. ( " Although some of the noises used on the album sound a little dated, the arrangements of the actual songs are timeless Themselves ...").
Thaddeus Herrmann ruled in the music magazine De: Bug occasion of the 2003 published Autechre album Draft 7.30 retrospect, the shot with traditional techno Equipment album had " the English use of the melodic Listening Music nixed ".
Cover
The cover design is by design agency The Designers Republic and based on heavily manipulated images of this photographer Daniel 72
On the back, found the motto " Gescom Pleasure is Our Business " and in the liner notes of the note " Darrell Fitton 4 Gescom ". This represents the first evidence of the more than 20 -member collective of artists Gescom dar. under the name Gescom appeared later also produced by Autechre music.
In other media
The track Kalpol Introl was used in Darren Aronofsky's experimental science fiction thriller π as part of the soundtrack.
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