Brighton, England’s Alan Myson (a.k.a. Ital Tek) has come a long way since his early days of injecting Arnold Schwarzenegger samples into electronic music that sounded strikingly similar to Aphex Twin's. His 2011 Gonga EP is a back-to-basics take on club-friendly dubstep. Using a less-is-more production approach, the title track opens with twitchy beats blasting under what sounds like layered bongos being gradually pitch-shifted up to create a phasing effect. Minimal synthesizer parts seep in, sounding like distant jet engines, before “Pixel Haze” follows with more ambient accoutrements. Here, Myson’s keyboards are more present, flowing with fluttering rhythms that at time recall Vangelis’ 1981 score for Chariots of Fire until deep bursts of bass take over the tune. The more atmospheric “Cobalt” moves with herky-jerky spasms of tightly edited rhythm, where a myriad of vintage-sounding tones (mostly unaffected 808 drum machine sequences) work together like primary parts of a vintage combustion engine. The closing µ-Ziq remix of “Gonga” gets into some complex polyrhythmic patterns and delightfully dated R&B samples.