This is a truly great electronic album. If not the best one ever created. I have alot of intelligent techno albums. But as good as some of them our they dont stand up to this master piece !!.I dont no the terminology for what they use to discribe such beautifull tracks, All i know is i have never heard any think like this.I dont think talking about the tracks does any justice. You can listen contenty all the way through as opposed to some patchy albums under the same genre. I am very picky when it comes to what i like and dont like. This album is faultless.I cannot even compare it with any think i have in my collection like 'global communication' "76:14" And saw 85/92.This is my personal opinion which i'm sure many other people will share.Autechre went on to produce to more astounding albums. 'Amber' and 'Tri-repetae++'. Like the first reviewer i would give incunabula a slight advantage over the one's i've mentioned.Buy it and enjoy!!

An album i'll never grow tired of. Autechre's debut album, Incunabula is a masterpiece on every level. I don't care if you hate electronic music, if you give this CD a chance it will win you over easily. The beats do tend to repeat themselves a lot throughout the songs, but if you listen carefully, their structure almost always changes slightly the next time. The is the kind of album that will take you on a journey... Whether in space or an abandoned planet... Autechre were and still are masters of the so-called "IDM" genre.

When I heard "Incunabula" for the first time, I was in a darkened room, where the only light was coming from a fireplace. Sitting in a comfortable chair with closed eyes while being absorbed (almost literally) by this muisc was an experience that is hard to tell in language. This magnificent album can really change one's view on music. Still sounding amazing, having been released 14 (!) years ago.

But you know what? I think it isn't really about the fact that "Incunabula" was way ahead of its time and remains a classic masterpiece. It's all about those unique mental states that it shows you. One could even say that you're not exactly listening to music, you're like surrounded by it, being in the middle of a sonic paradise.

Incunabula has to be one of THE essential electronic music albums of all time. When it was released I had been collecting WARP 12"s from the bass-and-bleep days, and bought the first "Artificial Intelligence" on faith. That album didn't set a foot wrong in my ears, and the subsequent series of AI LPs from most of the individual artists did not disappoint.

But the debut from virtual unknowns Autechre was the last in the series to be released (save AI vol 2 some time later) and as far as I'm concerned WARP really had saved the best to last. This album totally opened up my ears and blew me away. I couldn't get it away from my record player for weeks.

Every track brings lush textures, haunting melodies, and crisp clean intricate rhythms all underpinnig a variation of light and dark shades, moods and emotions. Instrumental music rearely comes more engaging than this. Coupled with this is the highly innovative artwork from Designers Republic, which really to me does look like a visual representation of the music - lush yet fractured, superficially subtle yet intricate and many layerd in detail.

My first copy was on the limited metallic grey vinyl - I took it back to the shop and exchanged it for a black one as it was pressed off-centre on one side and also suffered from pressing faults often found in coloured vinyl. A further coloured copy I acquired later also has the off-centre pressing, so maybe this was a common problem. These days I'm lazy and generally reach for my CD.

Incidentally the word Incunabula is Latin and refers to something in its infancy or early stages of development. Highly appropriate in the light of what was to follow from Autechre (and also from WARP, and the whole "IDM" scene).

As far as I am concerned this is THE greatest electronic album ever. It takes you on a very personal journey through the landscape of ambient music with some clips and breaks here and there. Nevertheless always perfectly fitting in. Even if you are listening to it for teh hundreds time, you'll always find something new and never heard before in the tracks. Specifically the track "444" is beyond all senses. Besides "Amber" and "Garbage", Incunabula is the best work of Booth and Brown and I'd give the album a slight advantage over aforementioned albums/records.
Truely a masterpiece of music in general. Absolute goose-flesh.

Autechre's first album is not one to missed. A minimal/ambient/IDM album full of great beats. Track 1, Kalpol Introl gives the listener an eerie, almost alien-like intro to the album. Then you've got the next couple tracks that seem to balance inbetween lovely beats and atmospheric rhythms. Track 5, Basscadet, is a stand out and could probably even be played in a club. The rest of the album combines all of the elements already mentioned... However the ending track is reason enough to get this CD in my opinion. The slow, electronic ambient rhythm of it really must be heard for yourself. I don't feel explaining it would do it justice.

Little known fact about this album - its actually just a collection of songs that Booth and Brown put together to form an album. No real direction or theme was intended.. Still the track order works well and this is a classic of Autechre.

A must have electronic album of the early 90s. With Autechre's debut, we are treated to ambient landscapes layered with some noises. The opening track, Kalpol Introl will get you a preview of whats the come. Some of the tracks are instant favorites (Basscadet!) while others take some time to fully appreciate. A lot of people prefer Autechre's earlier releases compared the newer stuff. Thats understandable seeing how they got more and more expiremental as the years went on. Be that as it may, this release is an electronic classic.

"Incunabula" is the first of three atmospheric, melodic albums Autechre released before they went absolutely insane (the other two being "Amber" and "Tri Repetae"). As I have studied "Incunabula," I have found that it draws frequent comparisons to the great Richard D. James's "Selected Ambient Works 85-92," and have ultimately decided that this is an apt comparison (though Incunabula is just a shade darker). It is one of the albums directly responsible for the creation of the ever-ubiquitous, ever-pretentious "Intelligent Dance Music" or "IDM" subgenre of electronic music presently dominated by such artists as Boards of Canada and Amon Tobin.

Autechre's subsequent albums are good, but they are VERY challenging and require a lot of patience and analysis to make them worthwhile. If you are new to Autechre (pronounced awe-teck-er, btw), start here and, if you dare, work your way up in chronological order. More recent albums like "Draft 7.30" and "Untilted" are strictly experiments in rhythm and minimalism and in my opinion belong more at the back of an electroacoustic music textbook than on the shelf of a record store. If you start there, chances are you'll be so weirded out that you'll write off all their albums, past and present, and effectively make one of the biggest mistakes of your life (i.e., that's what happened to me). "Incunabula" is easy to enjoy, and along with "Amber" constitutes Autechre's prettiest, most human work to date. If you want to know more about how modern electronic music got started, or if you're just looking for some good, ambient electro with no strings attached, "Incunabula" is not only great listening, it's history.

Out of the ordinary. Yet again one of those "11 years on, still unbeaten" records. As a whole it is an extremely pleasure-inducing record to listen to, provided you do so very carefully and concentrate hard on the music. Like somebody said above, after all this time I'm still not fed up with it. I honestly think there are enough intricacies in the music to keep you interested for ever.
I cannot even pinpoint specific tracks, they're all wonderful. An album for life.

I really don't know if I should give this album 4 or 5, but it's a rally great album nonetheless. Incunabula is another album in Warp's Artificial Intelligence series and it's a very good idea checking out the other albums too.

The opening track works well as an intro (this track was also used in the strange movie "Pi"), before the next track, and the album's first highligt, Bike. This is one of the more chilled tracks ae has made and has a really sweet, lovely melody. The other highligt on this album is Doctrine, and I think this is one of the best tracks from the old ae style. It opens with some strange sirene-sounds before some of the most beatiful synth layers I have ever heard comes in. Then you have Eggshell, also a good old ae classic. The last three tracks end this album perfect with 444 as a finale.

This album should really be in everyones IDM/Ambient/Chillout collection and is a very good place to start with if you are new to Autechre.