Description:	CD on Spectraliquid/ Tympanik Audio
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Spectraliquid
	Price:	£10.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brett on 16 September 2009.

Tympanik Audio isn't a label I can remember coming across before but based on this Access To Arasaka CD they seem to deal in high quality goods. The majority of Oppidan is taken up with crunchy classic electronica that tends towards both the slower tempo and the hissy, mechanical percussion sound of mid/late 90s Autechre, with healthy smears of synthy ambience a la Amber. It's those sections I'm enjoying more, but the album as a whole does a fine job of contrasting cold desolation with warmer, more welcoming climes. You don't hear too many like this any more.

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Sound clips for Oppidan by Access To Arasaka: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Spectraliquid, TA031, £10.29.

What their label says...

The long-awaited and highly-anticipated debut CD from New York’s amazing young new talent Access To Arasaka has finally arrived. With a steady momentum of buzz from fans and critics over the past year, remix collaborations with Zentriert ins Antlitz, Aphorism, and Totakeke, and more-than-well-received compilation appearances for the Hymen Records and Tympanik Audio labels, Access To Arasaka now offers the true scope of his capabilities with his innovative new album ‘Oppidan‘.

A futuristic journey of a cerebral nature, demonstrating a virtual equinox of expert beatwork and densely-layered atmospheric explorations, ‘Oppidan‘ transcends complexity and innovation in electronic music and seems to arrive at the very edge of its own inner space. Dark and cinematic and fascinating to no end, ‘Oppidan‘ is truly full of life and genuine mystic, opening the imagination of the listener into epic new dimensions at the hands of a true master of modern electronic composition.