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  • Ital Tek 'Bodied'

    Planet Mu Records

    Ital Tek 'Bodied'

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    Planet Mu Records

    Ital Tek 'Bodied'

    £11.99

    Follow up to his acclaimed 2016 album 'Hollowed'. Stepping in a different direction from that album, It's as if Hollowed's detailed world has been fleshed out and filled with the spectre of human voices.

    As on his last album, the sounds on 'Bodied' are highly designed, but this time barely a whisper of dance music remains. Instead it's built around acoustic elements and ghostly choral arrangements, refracted and transformed into atmospheric, alien forms which are given the time to settle and transform. Rhythm is used only as a tool to give his world a sense of dark, mechanical momentum.

    Alan explains: 
    "After completing 'Hollowed' I had over a year away from writing any of my own material. I was working, composing music for a video game and a number of different projects. I needed to find a way back in and I rediscovered the joy of music being a release as opposed to a job. I was getting up really early and sketching out lots of ideas very fast, squeezing in quick bursts of writing at the beginning or end of long studio day spent working on other musical projects."

    "It was important for me to define the world that the album was going to inhabit before taking it any further, so I put a much greater focus into the sound design and palette than I had before. I wanted to make the music sound very physical, geometric, and monolithic, as if it inhabited a physical space."

    "On 'Bodied' the music focuses on the interplay between the minuscule and the vast, beauty and brutalism. With this album I was much more concerned with dynamics and the discipline of holding tension; the use of space and silence to provide a counterpoint to the intensity."

    "Most importantly, I was keen for there to be a human acoustic foundation, so I did a lot of live recording of cello, violin, harp and guitar - anything I could get my hands on. I was certain that I wanted there to be a greater vocal presence - nothing lyrical or at the forefront but to give it an underlying organic quality - to impart some humanity into the music.

    "As Ital Tek moves further from his roots, he's creating new sounds and spaces in which his music can exist. It's up to the listener to decide what kind of world 'Bodied' evokes, but it's certainly one that's beautiful and rewarding to spend time in.

    Tracklisting:
    2xLP
    Side A:
    1. Adrift
    2. Become Real
    3. Cipher

    Side B:
    4. Lithic
    5. Isolation Waves
    6. Vanta
    7. Across Time

    Side C:
    8. Hymnal
    9. Blood Rain
    10. Prima

    Side D:
    11. Fragility
    12. Bodied
    13. The Circle Is Complete

    CD:
    1. Adrift
    2. Become Real
    3. Cipher
    4. Lithic
    5. Isolation Waves
    6. Vanta
    7. Across Time
    8. Hymnal
    9. Blood Rain
    10. Prima
    11. Fragility
    12. Bodied
    13. The Circle Is Complete

    Release Date: 07/09/2018
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  • Ital Tek 'Midnight Colour' - Cargo Records UK

    Planet Mu Records

    Ital Tek 'Midnight Colour'

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    Ital Tek 'Midnight Colour'

    £16.99

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    Brighton based producer Alan Myson's Ital Tek project returns to Planet Mu for a second long player.

    Meeting dubstep and garage's matrix of sub bass and lurching 2-step rhythms half-way with electronica at its most melodic, 'Midnight Colour' is its name and it's epic. The mood has lightened since his debut 'Cyclical' plus the tempo has dropped to a more languorous 130 bpm creating more space to enfold the melody and texture.

    Songs like 'Moonbow' or 'Subgiant' embody an optimistic nocturnal reverie that could count the Black Dog's 'Bytes' album as it's ancestor. In contrast, 'Satellite' has a darker feel with it's New Romantic style synth melodies set to a skeletal rhythm, and 'Black and White's surging, wordless vocals are carried by gentle synths and bass arrangements. 'Strangelove' has a more stepping feel, set to a tough 4/4 beat and 'Infinite' marries throbbing bass with marimba and echoing Timpani crashes. The album fittingly culminates with 'Restless Tundra', a song that features the vocals of Anneka, which feature in sampled slithers throughout many of the tracks, the piece summing up the reflective mood of the album.

    Side A:
    1. Neon Arc
    2. Talis
    3. Moonbow
    Side B:
    1. Babel
    2. Subgiant
    3. Black And White
    Side C:
    1. Strangelove V.I.P.
    2. Moment In Blue
    3. Heliopause
    Side D:
    1. Midnight Colour
    2. Infinite
    3. Restless Tundra
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  • Ital Tek 'Moment In Blue' - Cargo Records UK

    Planet Mu Records

    Ital Tek 'Moment In Blue'

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    Ital Tek 'Moment In Blue'

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    Ikonika and FaltyDL grace us with two superb reworks of one of Midnight Colour's most arresting tracks, the 130bpm stepper 'Moment In Blue'. These versions are accompanied by two Ital Tek originals, 'Crush Horizon, a lilting hip hop tempo number with twitching synths and 'Infinity', a remix of the album's 'Infinite'.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Moment In Blue (Ikonika Remix)
    2. Crush Horizon
    Side B:
    1. Moment In Blue (Faltydl Remix)
    2. Infinity
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