Музыка и песни Ital / Ital

After emerging in 2011 via a rapid-fire series of groundbreaking EPs, Brooklyn-based producer Ital (Daniel Martin-McCormick) surprised followers by releasing his debut album "Hive Mind" on Planet Mu in February 2012. The record immediately struck a chord with both critics and fans for its fascinating use of house rhythms to bolster fractured, alien landscapes with a surprisingly tender emotional power. Seemingly unconcerned with dance music orthodoxy and informed by years in the noise-punk underground, his compositions came out of left field, constructed on primitive software with bizarre, culture jamming samples. Vertigo-inducing, nuanced and highly evocative, "Endgame" is a delirious pleasure to dive into. The album's textures often explore inviting spaces, only to bring the listener "somewhere uncomfortable, perceiving constant chaos and collapse in the periphery of your vision," as Daniel describes. This is especially evident on the haunting title track, its reverb lingering while the bottom drops out, leaving the listener suddenly on the edge of a cliff they weren't even aware of, and the glacial shift in "Beacon" from warm, bubbling chords to disconcerting stillness. Meanwhile, throttling techno tracks like "Whispers In The Dark" & "White II" burst with undeniably seductive dancefloor energy, each jagged edge and oozing melody uniquely formed.One of his goals from the start was "to keep things liquid. The music had to come from that natural, unforced space." Inspired by recent excursions into psychedelics, "apocalyptic" strains of minimalist composition, and his sense of "eerily ubiquitous post-globalization culture-leveling," "Endgame" is a techno album that teems with ideas. Recorded with a select arsenal of hardware, mixed with M Geddes Gengras at his LA studio and mastered by acclaimed engineer Rashad Becker, the final result is a shimmering blend of his swirling, effects-laden live sets with a deeper, more penetrating emotional and melodic clarity. Record Label: Planet Mu Style: Dance

Right at the start of the year, Planet Mu - the label responsible for some of the foremost electronic albums of 2011 - present already a candidate for 2012's most questing dance-fuelling long-player. If you gave someone a description of Theo Parrish's most opiated brown-house excursions and asked them to copy that style without letting them hear it, the result might well come out like 'Hive Mind'. Of course, it might not too, but it's a nice idea to turn over, no? Much like the multitude of ideas that turn and twist and tumble and gracefully fold and unfold at length in Ital's creative vortex. Daniel Martin-McCormick's name has recently and increasingly become known in association with his disco / punk / echo band 'Mi Ami', or as 'Sex Worker' on the Not Not Fun label, or finally as 'Ital' on NNF's sister imprint 100% Silk, for whom he records a version of house music which is quite different still to the house-inspired sounds that emerge on 'Hive Mind'. Raised in Washington DC, Daniel has a history in the city's hardcore scene, having been in a band signed to the legendary Dischord label. However, he has always made dance inspired tracks too, but at a very different angle to your average guy with a copy of Logic and a passing knowledge of dance music history. Daniel's music is a stranger thing. Working best at high volume, it uses house's easy going 4/4 structure as a kind of camouflage for more out-there sonic explorations; subverting expectations, seeking out the links between the space and the sound-bending of dub and industrial's unsettling sonics with the grooves of classic house and the effects and black holes of minimal at it's weirdest. 'Hive Mind' has a sculptured feel; sounds twist in space, feeling almost three dimensional, and melodies pitch-shift in an unsettling way; voices dissolve in and out of these frameworks and the whole album has a unique, haunted feel; nothing is ever allowed to settle totally comfortably, everything vibrates. Opener 'Doesn't Matter (If You Love Him)' sounds a bit like Tackhead if they had made house music, using a flickering and confidently repeated phrase over a lumbering drum and bassline, introducing swirling and bombing synths into the mix. 'Floridian Void's' strange marriage of treated voices and swelling, pitch-bent chords and effects draws the listener into its strange atmosphere; it's an ambient house track of sorts, but the ambience here is a swirling, confusing, watery vortex rather than being fuzzy and new age. 'Privacy Settings' builds creepy wolf howls over a slow bassline and cold faraway banging drums, estranged from their usual disco setting. Next, 'Israel' picks things up again, with weird, pitch-shifting edited bells over dubby toms, all the while cold chords rushing in and out over this unsettling backing track. The closer 'Final Wave' restores the album back to something resembling normality, with a disco-like swing that recalls Moodymann's beat down productions but slid through brutal dub-like FXs that bring out a shade of strangeness in an otherwise happy groove. An entirely, unarguably, and irresistibly essential listening experience Style: Electro

Right at the start of the year, Planet Mu - the label responsible for some of the foremost electronic albums of 2011 - present already a candidate for 2012's most questing dance-fuelling long-player. If you gave someone a description of Theo Parrish's most opiated brown-house excursions and asked them to copy that style without letting them hear it, the result might well come out like 'Hive Mind'. Of course, it might not too, but it's a nice idea to turn over, no? Much like the multitude of ideas that turn and twist and tumble and gracefully fold and unfold at length in Ital's creative vortex. Daniel Martin-McCormick's name has recently and increasingly become known in association with his disco / punk / echo band 'Mi Ami', or as 'Sex Worker' on the Not Not Fun label, or finally as 'Ital' on NNF's sister imprint 100% Silk, for whom he records a version of house music which is quite different still to the house-inspired sounds that emerge on 'Hive Mind'. Raised in Washington DC, Daniel Style: Electro

With his second release for Planet Mu this year, Dream On is more of a full-length outing for Ital aka Daniel Martin-McCormick and a much more substantial record than the very popular and widely critically acclaimed Hive Mind. On Dream On Ital takes his experimentation with house and techno forms even further, creating impressionistic deconstructions from the tropes of early house and techno. Sunny chords, laid back drum shuffle and rhythmic vocal loops are picked apart and threaded with a rich psychodrama of delirious textures, tidal chords and uneasy roughness and dissonance. Having spent over 20 weeks on the road since the completion of Hive Mind, Dream On reflects the raw energy of the live show and the touring mindset: the heady, dream-feel of house, cut with both dubs fracturing smear and an understanding of the power of distortion, honed from years working in DIY and noise. Despot starts the album with a trancey bassline punctuated with off-key vocal stabs, the form of the track brutally prized apart with pitch-shifting seasick chords. Its the records longest track, and a powerful opener. Bois mix of stuttering vocal loops, aqueous chords and frantic drums is tainted with sorrow and loss. Its got a nervous energy, always feeling like its going to topple in on itself, lapsing from ravey propulsion into nauseated hiss and back again. Eat Shit (Waterfalls Mix) is broken and distressed techno in miniature, making the most of distortion and echo to create shimmer and splinters of noise over rough, murky percussion. The dark center of the album, Enrique, strips things back to a cavernous ambience with molasses-slow vocals and a heartbeat drum, building into pulsing tones and scratching noise pulled across the spectrum. Another miniature, Housecapella, is deep house smudged and deconstructed into weightlessness Style: Dance

With his second release for Planet Mu this year, Dream On is more of a full-length outing for Ital aka Daniel Martin-McCormick and a much more substantial record than the very popular and widely critically acclaimed Hive Mind. On Dream On Ital takes his experimentation with house and techno forms even further, creating impressionistic deconstructions from the tropes of early house and techno. Sunny chords, laid back drum shuffle and rhythmic vocal loops are picked apart and threaded with a rich psychodrama of delirious textures, tidal chords and uneasy roughness and dissonance. Having spent over 20 weeks on the road since the completion of Hive Mind, Dream On reflects the raw energy of the live show and the touring mindset: the heady, dream-feel of house, cut with both dubs fracturing smear and an understanding of the power of distortion, honed from years working in DIY and noise. Despot starts the album with a trancey bassline punctuated with off-key vocal stabs, the form of the track brutally prized apart with pitch-shifting seasick chords. Its the records longest track, and a powerful opener. Bois mix of stuttering vocal loops, aqueous chords and frantic drums is tainted with sorrow and loss. Its got a nervous energy, always feeling like its going to topple in on itself, lapsing from ravey propulsion into nauseated hiss and back again. Eat Shit (Waterfalls Mix) is broken and distressed techno in miniature, making the most of distortion and echo to create shimmer and splinters of noise over rough, murky percussion. The dark center of the album, Enrique, strips things back to a cavernous ambience with molasses-slow vocals and a heartbeat drum, building into pulsing tones and scratching noise pulled across the spectrum. Another miniature, Housecapella, is deep house smudged and deconstructed into weightlessness Style: Dance