Since first discovering Ital Tek (known to some as Alan) within the vast vaults of London’s Scala at spin off The Synergy Project’s hidden treasure night Future Music, the arena of dubstep and advanced electronic music has never looked the same. Immediately nestled within the ethereal plane of sound that washed over me, I was transformed beyond all measure of expectation, gently resonating with the inner workings of a fantastical musical structure. Then, in a surprisingly immediate and direct contrast to this world, entered the reality of surgical sword precision-like drums and an underworld of flowing, throbbing bass, effortlessly balancing the entirity of the track into a poignant internal dance music.

This was eighteen months ago, and since that moment I have saught after and followed everything that was to follow and sure enough late last month I found the latest release that I’d been yearning for. The EP titled Mako, surely recognised by some as the industrialised energy source in Final Fantasy VII’s Midgar, is another step forward for the Brighton(!) based producer.

The Mako EP containing four tracks is his first release on the Atom River label, and they’re all nothing short of his unique ultrasound that I have come to expect from his talent. The first song, carrying the same title as that of the EP, is a sweet reintroduction to a more electronic and climactic production stance, where as before he has quite comfortably kept an arrangement of captivating, highly rhythmic and dark atmospheric dubstep sound. Short and sweet, the highly complex layers of harmonising melodic energy are highly addictive and feature his trademark sweeping and diverse range of drum patterns. With mastery, Ital Tek continues to create other-worldly electronic music, that thankfully represents within a genre of underground popular music, too easily tainted with brutal, jaw shattering bass. Let us hope that he continues to take up the Buster Sword for a while longer!

The Mako EP featuers three other songs, entitled Chemical Temple, Manhatten and Topaz and can be purchased here.

Ital Tek’s debut album ’Cyclical’ was released on Planet Mu records in May 2008.