Outland Ital Tek SKU: ZIQ418X Barcode: 5055300399694 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Planet Mu Released Date: 1st May 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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. Artist Ital Tek Genre Electronica Label Planet Mu Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings A: 1/Chamber Music 2/Open Heart 3/Deadhead 4/Reverie 5/Bladed Terrain B: 1/Diamond Child 2/Angel In Ruin 3/Leaving The Grid 4/Endless 5/Oblivion Theme Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Ital Tek and more from Electronica View Product Quick View Ital Tek Timeproof Electronica | Planet Mu | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th April 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ital Tek Timeproof £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Planet Mu SKU: ZIQ455LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bonobo Fragments Electronica | Ninja Tune | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th January 2022 £22.00 - £32.00 Select options Bonobo Fragments £22.00 - £32.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th January 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Advisory Circle, The Full Circle Electronica | Ghost Box | 10", 2LP Released 30th September 2022 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Advisory Circle, The Full Circle £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ghost Box SKU: GBX042LP Formats: 10", 2LP Released Date: 30th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Circle Sky Dream Colour Electronica | BMG Rights Management | 2LP Released 29th October 2021 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Circle Sky Dream Colour £25.00 Genre: Electronica Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538678062 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gazelle Twin The Entire City (Special Edition) Electronica | Anti-Ghost Moon Ray | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 29th April 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gazelle Twin The Entire City (Special Edition) £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Anti-Ghost Moon Ray SKU: AGMR051LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 29th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Howard Jones Transform Electronica | DTox Records | 180g, 1LP Released 10th May 2019 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Howard Jones Transform £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: DTox Records SKU: DTOXV38 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Underworld Beaucoup Fish Electronica | UMC | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 23rd August 2017 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Underworld Beaucoup Fish £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: UMC SKU: UWR00073 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 23rd August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu Renegade Breakdown Electronica | Ninja Tune | 1LP Released 25th September 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu Renegade Breakdown £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN267 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View FUXA Covered In Stars Electronica | Rocket Girl | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 14th October 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders FUXA Covered In Stars £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Rocket Girl SKU: RGIRL116LP Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rejoicer Spiritual Sleaze Electronica | Stones Throw | 1LP Released 14th February 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rejoicer Spiritual Sleaze £19.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Stones Throw SKU: STH2416LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View HeCTA The Diet Electronica | City Slang | 1LP Released 18th September 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders HeCTA The Diet £20.00 Genre: Electronica Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50073LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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