From the album Ital Tek - Outland (out 1st May 2020 on Planet Mu)
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Ital Tek (a.k.a. Alan Myson) returns to Planet Mu with his sixth album ‘Outland‘.

The album was written during a period of new beginnings following a move out of the city to a quieter space and the birth of his first child. During this time of self-imposed isolation Alan recorded a huge amount of source material and spent weeks and months sitting up at night with his newborn, listening back and making notes on how the new record should take form, focusing and developing ideas to shape this lean ten-track album.

Alan talks of the record being a collaboration between two parts of himself, something that definitely comes across as the album unfolds. Textures are something Alan excels at and on his last album, the largely beatless ‘Bodied’, it felt as if he was building a new sound-world. On ‘Outland’ he expands upon this. The album brings together the extremes of Alan’s sound, contrasting roughened bass and beats with starker more detailed atmospheres and emotions.

The most beat-driven song here is ‘Deadhead’, with its gnarled bouncing bass, angular distorted melodies and cavernous textures. On tracks like ‘Bladed Terrain’ the contrasts are even more defined with buzzing drones and razor sharp drums plunging into a grainy fog, giving the track a dramatic 3D feel. Then there are the stop-start pauses of ‘Leaving The Grid’, where the song evaporates into space before reemerging with shuddering rhythms and ghostly textures. Melodies crawl around these tracks as if they’re just waking up, as heard on the atmospheric ‘Angel In Ruin’.

The sleep-deprived fraying of the senses became Alan’s routine and one which he says gave him a renewed creative energy; half-asleep, working through the night, and then into the daytime super-focused but exhausted. Prone to audio hallucinations whilst writing the album, he aimed to capture these distortions in his perception of pitch and time, and you can hear these effects interpreted on tracks like ‘Endless’ and ‘Open Heart’ as melodies phase and slip out of time like an emotional Doppler effect. This is also true of the soaring atonal synths at the peak of ‘Diamond Child’, which feel like the aural equivalent of eye floaters. 

These intuitive feelings and functions are a difficult thing to capture in sound, but Alan manages it beautifully and always makes the result feel warm and adventurous, heartfelt and epic.

Outland

Ital Tek - Deadhead

Just your average neighborhood cryptid. I’m the shadow out of the corner of your eye. I could be your sleep paralysis demon, but I’d rather be asleep. 
Genres I'm into include but aren't limited to industrial, darkhouse, synthwave, vaporwave, new retro, select videogame OST's, dubstep, chillstep, classic rock, independent experimental bass, independent homegrown stuff, etc
"We are the weirdos, mister."
"Buy the ticket... take the ride."

I discovered EDM in the 90's. Influenced early on by sounds from Enigma, The Prodigy, Trent Resnor and various metal bands. Then came the breaks of the 2000's DJ Baby Ann and DJ Icey ripped into me. Began producing music at 15 after being exposed to Crystal Method. Found DJing in college and its been on ever since, it's been over 15 yrs. I have not stopped in my pursuit to bring absolutely gripping music to the masses. If it captivates me in one sense or another, I aim to present it in my fashion to you. Hope you enjoy. Currently shredding Drum & Bass, Trap, Dub and Riddim in my sets. See you all soon!

𓂀 ShōShē 🪽ritual bass ✧ mystic halftime ✧ psy-dub

𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙒𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧
Ancient soul ⋆ Electric spirit ⋆ Divine circuitry

NeuroMystic transmissions coming soon…

𓆩 ✧ 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘭 ✧ 𓆪

🇨🇦 or somewhere like that.

Ital Tek - Deadhead

Planet Mu Records