Autechre - Incunabula 2xLP

Our Review: Incunabula is the debut release for Autechre. When this album was released back in 1992, it gave the impression of being an inscrutable object built through a cryptic logic seemingly without any reference beyond itself. As the duo progressed through their increasingly complex array of electronic sequencing throughout the '90s eventually upgrading to Cycling '74 technology a decade or so later, the ghostly allusions of deconstructed acid house and b-boy hip-hop found on Incunabula become all the more apparent. Autechre's Sean Booth and Rob Brown had mentioned in interviews well after the release that Incunabula was compiled from various tapes by Warp, aligning itself rather unintentionally with Aphex Twin's first volume of Selected Ambient Works. We can thank Warp thus for the curated sound for Incunabula, which gracefully evolves through an almost literary storyboard of prologue, conflict, climax and denouement. The first few tracks awaken with twinklings of synthetic melod