{"title":"Ital Tek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItal Tek is an electronic artist hailing from Brighton, UK. With a unique sound that blends elements of IDM, dubstep, and experimental music, Ital Tek has established himself as a prominent figure in the electronic music scene. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of genres and artists such as Boxcutter, Clubroot, and Scuba, his music creates an immersive sonic experience that pushes boundaries and challenges conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for his intricate production techniques and atmospheric compositions, Ital Tek's music takes listeners on a journey through ethereal soundscapes and pulsating rhythms. His ability to seamlessly blend organic textures with futuristic beats sets him apart from other artists in the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving released numerous critically acclaimed albums and EPs on labels like Planet Mu and Ninja Tune, Ital Tek has garnered a dedicated fanbase worldwide. His live performances are equally captivating, showcasing his skills as both a producer and performer. With support from fellow musicians such as Martyn, Om Unit, Kode9, and Pinch among others,\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"timeproof","title":"Timeproof","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title of Ital Tek's seventh album \u003ci\u003eTimeproof\u003c\/i\u003e reflects what Alan Myson has observed and learned whilst making the album. Firstly, how distorted the perception of time is in the creative headspace - being in the studio creates a timeless environment, one's mind starts wandering and the perception of time is altered. Secondly, the bizarre effect of the last few years of lockdown have somehow infected the title, temporarily contracting our collective notion of time. And thirdly, Alan has learnt how spending time away from the studio can be as effective as being there, giving one space to process. Appreciating the power of being out in nature, putting other things into perspective, refreshing one's ability to approach work with both patience and creativity. Overall \u003ci\u003eTimeproof\u003c\/i\u003e feels more introspective than Alan's last album \"Outland\". Perhaps because of the time in which it was created or this new relationship to the creative process. The sounds and textures of the record hint at brutality and menace whilst also pulsing and evolving softly with a more refined interior life. It's expansive and elegant, neatly balanced between light and dark, more mossy and dreamy than the extremes of \u003ci\u003eOutland\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen making the album, Alan spent about a year or so working quickly and intuitively, churning out ideas, sketches and sound experiments without any attempt to finish or perfect anything. \"I let it settle until I was ready to return to this body of raw material with fresh ears some months later, sometimes barely remembering what or how I’d done much of it.\" Over the course of another year he dived into the details, rendering all of this rough material and sound into something with form. Alan also visited older material and ideas, trying out, reworking and sampling, building it into this new body. The finished album feels open, with a gentle intuition that feels as if it's guiding you through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50466544025931,"sku":"2014784","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50466543927627,"sku":"2014783","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Timeproof_c45f5704_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727316362"},{"product_id":"hollowed","title":"Hollowed","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeave your preconceptions behind because Ital Tek's brilliant new album 'Hollowed' is his best and most rewarding yet. Created from new beginnings, it's a journey through the naïve exploratory methods with which Alan Myson started to make music over a decade ago. The record is dark and maximalist but at the same time the huge sounds are minutely detailed and elegantly rendered.Cutting himself off in a new studio at the start of 2014, Alan experimented and worked out the core sounds of the album by going back to the techniques he started with: \"when I was 15 I would make endless minidiscs with my guitar and effects. With this record I bought the guitar I wanted back then and hit record, creating hours of drones, loops and textures. I wanted to make the album that was in my head when I was 14 but I had no idea how to\".With 'Hollowed' Ital Tek gone far beyond his earlier more dance-genre based work, leaving just the footprint and especially the sonic weight and space of dubstep. But the sound here is designed from the ground up and carved into something much more abstract, impressionistic and elegant. As Alan puts it \"I'm moving away from dance music and letting sound inhabit a space without shoving everything at the listener in the first few bars\". One of the biggest musical experiences that left an impression on him while recording this album was hearing \"Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No 3' being played live, starting very small and soaring, then returning to stillness...\" It was this that made him think about reassembling his approach to making music\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493974839627,"sku":"398742","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6ada9a30-24c3-488c-b7d8-c281abbf1ebe_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727702331"},{"product_id":"nebula-dance","title":"Nebula Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Nebula Dance' assimilates the influences of current music being made at the speeds between 140 to 160 bpm, reacting to develpoments in dubstep, jungle and more recently footwork, retraining Ital Tek's instinct for deep and melodic music with an emphasis on dramatic drum work and impressionistic synths with restrained precision.LP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494012064075,"sku":"400241","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f6c2b011-7d0b-4f22-9547-66da43ab84bc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727702700"},{"product_id":"bodied","title":"Bodied","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBodied\u003c\/i\u003e is the follow up to his acclaimed 2016 album \u003ci\u003eHollowed\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eBodied\u003c\/i\u003e 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. On \u003ci\u003eBodied\u003c\/i\u003e the music focuses on the interplay between the minuscule and the vast, beauty and brutalism. 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 \u003ci\u003eBodied\u003c\/i\u003e evokes, but it's certainly one that's beautiful and rewarding to spend time in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50497802535243,"sku":"1041274","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50497801847115,"sku":"1041273","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1588f55e-f654-4b6e-93bd-0771b8e7c350_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727733099"},{"product_id":"mind-abandon","title":"Mind Abandon","description":"\u003cp\u003eItal Tek’s new album 'Mind Abandon' takes a different direction from his recent run of releases, embracing a more human touch in contrast to the dense, world-building drone of his previous albums and film work. This time, he set out to compose away from the computer as much as possible — working more instinctively and allowing himself to get lost in the music. Alan found the most natural starting point was his own voice, processing vocals into shifting pads and textures. His guitar sits at the centre of much of the record, joined by live, hand-played percussion and effects, often captured in quick, spontaneous performances. The result is an album of spacious, contrasting dynamics, with textures pressing against each other and rhythmic elements fighting to surface from glutinous, layered sound. “It feels like a very introspective record for me,” Alan says. “Losing my sense of identity\/self as part of the process - the increasing effort to calm my mind and embrace humanity\/imperfection in the music. This path made sense as a jumping off point for a lot of the music to be vocal or guitar experiments - singing in ideas and then processing to become less identifiable.\" The album feels carved and three-dimensional, weaving industrial and shoegaze influences with the darker edges of post-rock. Subtly embedded in its architecture are traces of dubstep dynamics — a sound that remains part of Alan’s DNA. Opening track “The Ice Is Thin” is driven almost entirely by live guitar and keyboard, awash in reverb. On “A Hidden Path,” everything apart from the drums stems from processed vocals and guitar, with a fleeting appearance from his daughter’s toy ukulele. It unfolds like the beginning of a journey — vast and cinematic — nodding to the widescreen tension of Ennio Morricone before building into a towering wall of noise. “Killswitch” disorients with pounding kick drums crafted from twanging acoustic guitar, pushing through layers of static-charged chords. “Undertow” spirals outward on looping guitar figures set against a pulsing Rhodes. “Misted,” built around a rare four-to-the-floor beat, uses guitar as a driving rhythmic device, opening with a bassline that wouldn’t feel out of place on a The Cure record. “Imagined Landscape” introduces icy keyboard textures that foreshadow the dark closer, “The Pull,” where an arpeggiated bassline reminiscent of DAF underpins unnerving, internalised sound design that feels as though it’s scratching from within. 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