HYPER REAL EP by ITAL TEK

Hyper Real is Ital Tek’s first transmission for Civil Music. Four original tracks exploring exploring footwork’s rhythmic palette, plus remixes from Deft and Throwing Snow.With three albums for Planet Mu to his name Alan Myson has been evolving his dextrous dancefloor electronica, techy IDM-driven dubstep, glitch-hop and post-dubstep forms for approaching a decade. Impressively adept at shrugging off the constraints of genre identification, Hyper Real further reveals Myson’s stylistic slipperiness. Inspired by the febrility and tension/release of Chicago Footwork rhythms – and continuing where his recent long player for Planet Mu, ‘Nebula Dance’, left off – Hyper Real EP sees Ital Tek again morphing the rhythmic geometry around footwork’s 160BPM and further advancing his instinctive, deep and melodic arrangements, dramatic drum work and impressionistic synths