DAY 1
Access to Arasaka - Void(); (2010)
Genres (according to RateYourMusic): IDM
Thoughts Before Listening to This: I don’t really have any as I know absolutely nothing about this guy. I only found out about this album because I was looking through a few random lists on RateYourMusic because I was bored one day.
I’ll start this review by saying that this album started exactly the way that I expected it to: a bunch of glitchiness over a piece of dark ambient music. It does set a nice mood, which remains consistent throughout the album. A glitchy beat which nicely compliments the ambience is then introduced into the track. Said beat goes on for a minute before the ambience takes over the rest of the track. The rest of the tracks so far (aside from the short interludes
&sin and
optilist:) follow a somewhat similar pattern (dark ambient > IDM > dark ambient > IDM, etc), which does get a bit tiring after a while, despite the changing beats and the short track lengths (the longest track on here is 4:42).
Halfway through this album, my feelings about it start to change.
syslog_ident is pretty damn beautiful, with it’s quieter beats and piano playing in the first half (a beat similar to the ones on the rest of the album is introduced into the second half, but, like the other beats, it doesn’t last for very long). While some of the remaining tracks follow a similar pattern to the first half of the album, the tracks on the second half sound more captivating to me. Unfortunately, I don’t really have too much more to say about this album. If Rob Lioy (the man behind Access to Arasaka) cut out the entire first half aside from the first two tracks, this would be a much better album.
Conclusion: The first half of this album isn’t really that interesting, but I really like the second half, which I’ll probably be listening to again sometime soon.
3.5/5