Autechre - Lowride

What this video is

Released 29 November 1993 as track 10 on Autechre's debut album Incunabula (Warp Records, Artificial Intelligence series #7), 'Lowride' arrived at the precise moment UK electronic music was bifurcating between dancefloor rave culture and the emerging 'intelligent' home-listening movement. Produced by Sean Booth and Rob Brown from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, using gear including the Casio SK-1, Roland R8, and…

Why it matters

Autechre's 'Lowride' is a canonical document of the 1993 UK IDM and ambient techno moment — the final installment of Warp's original Artificial Intelligence album series — demonstrating how hip-hop sampling practices were absorbed into post-rave electronic composition. Its video format, eschewing…