Emulsion

A child of the ’80s video game generation, Nathan Koch, aka Emulsion, brings his
love of eight-bit sound to his debut lo-fi electro outing. Reminiscent of a glitched
out Doctor Who soundtrack set on electro-styled broken beat, Blue Sky Objective
thrives on digital artifacts and slightly skewed synth melodies. A little
experimental at times, Koch’s sound drifts loosely between industrial and ambient
glitch, and within his tweaked out and slightly out of tune sonic data stream;
tracks such as “Smeared Bus Window” and the more up-tempo “All Robots On
Sale” still carry a strong melodic thread. While all the video game effects and
characteristic eight-bit sounds do invariably imbue it with a retro feel, the
juxtaposition of sounds and space harvested from Koch’s lo-fi palette also renders
it with a quirky futuristic flavour. - Romina Wendell