Smooth As Silk: An Interview With Ital
07.02.12
As of late, DJs across the board have started digging deep into the history of house for dancefloor ammunition, and producers from all around the globe have started using the genre as a jump-off point for their own music. In reckoning to the UK dubstep diaspora, chief among them has been the collective surrounding LA's 100% Silk label. A sister imprint to the much-hyped Not Not Fun, the last twelve months have found its ouput careering through a wide selection of (mostly retrogazing) house, techno and disco variations with infectious turn over. Foremost among them has been Daniel Martin-McCormick, whose music as Ital has been among the label's more interesting and exploratory, willing to push further outside of established boundaries than most of his contemporaries.
When Not Not Fun announced the founding of Silk at the onset of 2011, there was already a significant crossover region opening up between dance music and the dubby, muddy-fidelity pop and noise the label was known for. The prospect of a label dedicated to more fully exploring that space was an exciting one. For the most part that hasn't completely happened - much of Silk's more recent output, while a great deal of fun to dance to, has been determinedly backward-looking, drawing from a whole range of eighties and nineties club music (from Inner City to Thomas Bangalter). As a result it's attracted suspicion from certain areas, and 'hipster house' has been regularly thrown around as something of a pejorative.
Source: The Quietus