TONIGHT: Ital Tek @ Kung Fu Necktie

Myson certainly knows from nebulous, swaddling these tracks in lush yet mildly ominous grayscale soft-synths.

0 comments

TONIGHT: Ital Tek @ Kung Fu Necktie

POSTED: Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 2:30 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

Ital Tek: Nebula Dance, taken from the album Nebula Dance (Planet Mu 2012) from Planet Mu on Vimeo.

Engaged in the sort of naggingly diffuse thinking-feller’s future-bass we’re accustomed to from his Planet Mu peers Machinedrum and Kuedo, Brighton beatsmith Alan Myson prolongs the label’s love affair with the buzzed-up beat-rates and jittery micro-loops of Chicago footwork. His third full-length as Ital Tek, Nebula Dance, is almost aptly named. Almost, because while Myson certainly knows from nebulous, swaddling these tracks in lush yet mildly ominous grayscale soft-synths, his dedication to dance in its less abstract, more terrestrial form — the lowly business of working actual feet — seems slightly more contingent. When he does deign to let it bump, with flecks of electro filtered through the ragga end of jungle and/or hints of Ninja Tune-style turntablism, it becomes a dance of both cerebral and corporeal dimensions.

TONIGHT, Wed., Nov. 7, 11 p.m., $8, Popular Science with Grimace Federation and Sonkin, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.

Posted by K. Ross Hoffman @ 2:30 PM Permalink | Post a comment

0 comments

Comments (0)

Q&A with SHARI SOLANIS: "The goal isn't pornography"
What we're trying to do this weekend
Coming soon to Philly: Two cockamamie movie promotion schemes
SEXY TIME Q&A: I've never had an orgasm during sex with a man — and I'm 30!
ICE CUBE: In Memoriam: Joe Tartaglia
Q&A with Tony Goldwyn: "Life is gray, and relationships are, too"
CONCERT REVIEW: Primus (3D & quadraphonic sound) @ The Tower 10/17
PHILLY LOVE NOTES: An ode to Spruce Street
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: The Archbishop meets the Geator, the Mayor goes suit shopping, Le Bec Fin fin.
CONCERT REVIEW & PHOTOS: James Blake @ TLA 5/11

About this blog

Featuring everything from event roundups to concert reviews and sex talk, City Paper's Critical Mass is a space for off-the-wall coverage of Philly's A&E scene.

Follow Critical Mass editors Patrick Rapa and Emily Guendelsberger on Twitter:

@mission2denmark | @emilygee

Search this blog:

Topics:

Blog archives:

May
April
March

February
January

Past Archives: