• ITAL TEK: Midnight Colour (Planet Mu)

    Ital Tek - Midnight Colour

    Reviewed by themilkman Source: (The Milk Factory)

    Ital Tek - Midnight Colour

    Dubstep and garage may have originated from London, but both genres have long since expended outside the boundaries of the British capital to be re-interpreted by music producers across the land and beyond. One such artist is Brighton-based Alan Myson, who, under the Ital Tek banner, has been refining a particular form of dubstep through various EPs and a debut album, Cyclical, released primarily on Planet Mu.

    Two years on from Cyclical, Midnight Colour
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  • Oriol Night & Day

    Oriol - Night And Day

    Reviewed by Rory Gibb Source: (Drowned in Sound)

    Oriol - Night And Day

    Nostalgia’s never had any shortage of critical currency, especially in the world of pop music. I mean, you’ve only got a take a cursory glance at the acts that regularly blaze to the top of the charts to see the past in full force. It’s a process of renewal, as each successive generation of musicians manages to handily forget (or perhaps repress) the memory of quite how uncool their influences used to be. And so the cycle of kitsch continues. That said, there
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  • Terror Danjah POWER GRID

    Terror Danjah - Power Grid E.P.

    Reviewed by Robin Howells Source: (The Quietus)

    Terror Danjah - Power Grid E.P.

    What must a life in grime entail? One constant, it would seem, is the struggle for any artist to find a long-term, profitable niche. We've seen some speculate on a foothold in the charts; for a few, like Boy Better Know MC Skepta, the real answer is to knuckle down into the role of plucky entrepreneur.

    Among grime producers, as opposed to vocalists, there are murmurs that now is the time independently to find a way forward. DJs such as Rinse FM's Elijah and
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  • Oriol Night & Day Review

    Oriol - Night And Day

    Reviewed by David Stubbs Source: (BBC Music)

    Oriol - Night And Day

    The latest signing to Mike Paradinas’s Planet Mu label expands the mould of that imprint. Like his sometime CDR label contemporaries Floating Points, there isn't an abrasive bone in Oriol’s musical body. Clocking in at a good old-fashioned sub-45 minute mark, Night & Day is smooth to the last, while always smartly swerving well clear of blandness. It’s a reimagining of a halcyon, colourful era of jazz and funk grooves, an era the Spanish-Trinidadian,
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