Free Returns Autechre Incunabula Warp vinyl record

1993 Experimental DownBeat Electronica / Techno Repressed
2×12″ Lp Inc Code for Download of Lp & Live Set
Incunabula was in many ways a turning point for electronic music, full of housey chords and classic techno drums but woven together in a way that only Autechre could. After the inauspicious beginnings of the bizzarely titled ‘Kalpol Introl’, ‘Bike’ is a whimsical and throbbing tech-house number, full of dynamic analogue sweeps and dusty phasing, paddling arps taking the lead role for most of the piece beforebeing driven along by a shuffling 909-hats and smooth kicks.
Fast-forward to ‘Autriche’ and there is a slightly lighter ambient number, comparable to the more off-piste moments of their lauded second album, before launching into the glitched footwork-esque truncated snare hits of ‘Basscadet’ ; ducked percussive slaps and snarling basses click and bounce into a rhythmic agreement, if not in complete harmony, at least fighting together in some sort of gritted-teeth cease-fire.
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