Ital Tek - Gonga

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Ital Tek shows a massive shift in sound on the 'Gonga EP', inspired by the recent spate of footwork and mutant footwork that Planet Mu has been releasing, creating exit strategies from the current virus of the 90s inspired retro house fad.

Yeah Looking forward to his. New Ital Tek is good anyway, but Ital Tek trying footwork will be crazy (at least in my head it already is)

This is sounding nice.

Well let's be clear. Footwork itself wasn't the problem, just some of the artists/tracks that were being put out. I hate to say that it needed some artists with more musical chops to really make it something palatable but here we go. It's an interesting system to build rhythm and melody from, but the overused grating vocals and lack of any real backbone made it tough to digest. Some of the other stuff sounded amateur. It took some pros to elevate it to what it could be.

i like this release

  On 10/28/2011 at 4:58 PM, patternoverlap said:

Well let's be clear. Footwork itself wasn't the problem, just some of the artists/tracks that were being put out. I hate to say that it needed some artists with more musical chops to really make it something palatable but here we go. It's an interesting system to build rhythm and melody from, but the overused grating vocals and lack of any real backbone made it tough to digest. Some of the other stuff sounded amateur. It took some pros to elevate it to what it could be.

totally and this sounds fucking amazing!

I don't enjoy this as much as I hoped. Maybe it will grow, but I like Machinedrum's take on footwork way more.

I miss the more "amateur" sounding footwork stuff.

This is still sounding wicked though

it would be cool to hear some of these Mu artists not doing the hottest genre of the moment and instead doing something more personal sounding

ital tek has never been scared of skipping genre though. I still really enjoy his early breakcore stuff.

Problem is, i wonder if the genre changes are all completely his choice?

These are great tunes though, even if gonga is definitely not a typical 'tek tune... Where is the melody?

I enjoyed this release! Surprised not to see more comments.

You can download a new Ital Tek remix from here:

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/05/oh-bondage-yours-ital-tek-remix

Interview and new mix here:

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/youneedtohearthis-touching-bass-ital-tek