Outland, by Ital Tek

Outland

by Ital Tek

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Risotto How easly Alan become my favorite artist :) Everything is awesome on this album. Favorite track: Bladed Terrain.

Sum Dum Goy Wonderful, ominous ambient featuring lots of teeth. I hear early Aphex, I hear BoC, I hear echoes of dark synth... but most of all, I hear a distinct musical personality come through it all with flavour to spare. (Favourite song here is just ripe for killer remixes.) Happy to support this artist! And congrats on the baby. Favorite track: Oblivion Theme.

Seamus Bradd Absolutely astonishing use of melody and texture. Achingly beautiful at times and deep as an ocean. Favorite track: Diamond Child.

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1.	Chamber Music 05:31	buy track
2.	Open Heart 05:47	buy track
3.	Deadhead 04:05	buy track
4.	Reverie 02:43	buy track
5.	Bladed Terrain 04:09	buy track
6.	Diamond Child 05:34	buy track
7.	Angel In Ruin 02:58	buy track
8.	Leaving The Grid 03:56	buy track
9.	Endless 04:13	buy track
10.	Oblivion Theme 04:26	buy track

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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.

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released May 1, 2020

Written, Produced, Performed by Alan Myson
Published by Just Isn't Music
For licensing contact: licensing@justisntmusic.com
Artwork by Sage Jenson https://www.sagejenson.com

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