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 time of new beginnings following a move out of the city to a quieter space and the birth of his first child. During this period of seclusion 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 - Open Heart

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upcoming gigs:
30.08.25 - berlin @ panke

selected past gigs: 
27.04.18 - berlin, leisure system.33 @ säule
21.06.18 - berlin @ griessmühle
25.08.18 - berlin, atonal festival @ tresor
26.10.18 - berlin, riot @ fiese remiese
03.11.18 - berlin @ diskothek melancholie 2
23.11.18 - berlin, leisure system.35 @ berghain
21.12.18 - berlin, pte @ farbfernseher
08.02.19 - berlin @ arena club
23.02.19 - berlin, weeeirdos @ ohm
08.03.19 - berlin, slave to the rave @ griessmühle
10.05.19 - berlin, herrensauna @ tresor
22.06.19 - wupptertal, yyard @ mauke
13.07.19 - berlin, mother's finest @ griessmühle
19.07.19 - stockholm, weeeirdos @ bronx sauna
23.08.19 - berlin, leisure system.36 @ berghain
01.09.19 - barcelona @ brunch-in the park
14.09.19 - copenhagen, 1yr bday @ ved siden af
04.10.19 - berlin, killekill @ griessmühle
19.10.19 - milan, cyberspeak @ secret warehouse
30.10.19 - leipzig, heet @ mjut
14.12.19 - berlin, refuge @ griessmühle
03.01.20 - berlin @ griessmühle
31.07.20 - berlin @ oxi garten
20.09.20 - berlin @ warning safe rave
03.10.20 - berlin @ oxi garten
18.09.21 - berlin, burial soil @ sc club
25.09.21 - berlin, kontinuum @ trauma bar & kino
05.11.21 - berlin @ aeden
02.04.22 - athens @ qrelcaim
22.04.22 - berlin, grounded theory @ rso
23.04.22 - düsseldorf @ salon des amateurs
28.05.22 - berlin @ oxi
11.06.22 - cologne @ gewölbe
25.06.22 - fluid festival
07.08.22 - berlin @ aeden
19.08.22 - bau mich auf festival
11.11.22 - london, technomate @ unit 58
23.11.22 - berlin @ kwia
11.03.23 - berlin @ oxi
05.05.23 - berlin, takseer @ fitzroy
24.11.23 - berlin, takseer @ panke
03.02.24 - berlin, zilzal @ panke
03.03.24 - berlin, gig for gaza @ lark
30.03.24 - berlin @ oxi
17.04.24 - berlin, la casita @ ohm
18.05.24 - barcelona @ zilzal 
27.09.24 - berlin, no stone @ panke
07.11.24 - berlin, la casita @ ohm
16.11.24 - berlin, soli party @ rote insel
15.02.25 - berlin, soli party @ rigaer94
12.07.25 - berlin, soli party @ zigrastr

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Ital Tek - Open Heart

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